Trust’s Objective
The overall objective of the Trust is to enhance the quality of life and opportunities available to communities in the six southern wards of the London Borough of Hillingdon, by strengthening the voluntary sector and contributing to educational, recreational, environmental, and other community focused projects.
Strategy
The Trust’s strategy to achieve its objective is to -
- Use its grant programme to secure maximum impact.
- Address social need and deprivation.
- Strengthen voluntary and community groups so as to enable the maximum impact to be achieved from grants.
- Increase the flow of grant money from national and regional sources both by part-funding projects and by helping voluntary organisations obtain external funding.
- Facilitate the involvement of business in the local community through pursuing opportunities for joint resourcing of projects.
- Work in partnership with others where appropriate.
Within this strategy some other principles have been developed –
- Concentrating on projects rather than core funding.
- Ensuring that grant applicants find the Trust easy to access and use. The grant process has been made as simple as possible, consistent with safeguarding the assets of the Trust, and the Trust is flexible on timing of decisions and willingness to vary grant amounts and conditions in the light of circumstances.
- The Trust is willing to take risks by providing funding for groups which are not well- established or for projects which may not have 100% chance of success. Its local focus means that it can take such risks without being unduly exposed to fraud or wasting resources.
- The Trust will not substitute for state funding, and generally does not fund social welfare and employment generation projects.
- The Trust seeks to learn from its grant making experience and the projects it funds to improve its own policies and procedures and to help the community and its target area.
- The need to communicate effectively with local community and voluntary groups and to a wider audience.
The full text of the Trust’s strategic plan can be downloaded from our downloads page. |
