Global Charity Fund
The Scott Bader Global Charity Fund aims to annually provide grants to charitable organisations around the world whose purposes support our charitable objects e.g. to help young or disadvantaged people, especially anyone suffering deprivation and discrimination, such as poor, homeless and vulnerable women and children, minority communities, particularly where people are affected by: poverty, a lack of education, malnutrition and disease. Our Global Charity Fund is divided into two categories.
Local Funds
Funds are made available to all the companies in the Scott Bader Group (proportionate to the number of people employed at each location) for them to submit applications to the Charity Trustees for charities they wish to support. Usually this will be to support the work of charities situated near to or associated with each company i.e. in Northamptonshire in the UK, Co. Meath in Eire, Amiens in France, Falkenberg in Sweden, Barcelona in Spain, Liberec in the Czech Republic, Zagreb in Croatia, Dubai, Cape Town in South Africa, Ohio in the USA or Shanghai in China.
Central Fund
The central fund annually supports two large, community based, environmental or educational projects to the value of £25,000 each. These can be located anywhere in the world. If you have an education or environmental project that benefits young or disadvantaged people or a particular community project that you would like us to consider, please download and read the attached document.
Application & Selection for the Central Fund only
The process for large applications for consideration in 2012 is as follows:
- Stage 1 - All applications for 2012 must be received by: 27 January 2012.
- Stage 2 - Week commencing 5th March 2012, short-listed charities invited to present their projects.
- Stage 3 - At the AGM in May 2012, Commonwealth Members will vote to decide the two projects from four to receive funding.
- Stage 4 - June 2012, money will be made available to the two selected charity projects.
Click on the link for details about the two successful charities for 2011 and other charities we have supported from the Central Fund
Small International Fund
There is £5,000 in this fund to provide small grants of £500-£2,000 to support international projects that do not fit the criteria of the local or central fund described above.
Click on the link to find out more about our Assessment Criteria
Click on the link to complete our Application form. This form is applicable for all grant requests
Applications accepted by e-mail: commonwealth_office@scottbader.com
or by post to:
Scott Bader Commonwealth Limited
Wollaston Hall, Wollaston
Wellingborough, Northants, NN29 7RL
Telephone: 01933 666755
DUE TO LIMITED FUNDS WE REGRET WE ARE NOT ABLE TO SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING:
- Animal Charities
- Individual Sponsorships
- Travel or Adventure schemes
- Arts Projects
- Construction/renovation/maintenance of buildings in the UK
- Any form of advertising
- Medical research and Equipment
- Sports Club
- General charitable appeals