The High Sheriffs' Trust
The High Sheriffs’ Trust was founded in 2000 and its sole purpose is to support Isle of Wight charities and community groups with small grants. It is simple to apply and has made a vital difference for the organisations that have applied to us in the past, so we encourage you to have a go for your group.
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The charitable objectives of the Trust are:
To promote for the public benefit, and particularly for the young and the elderly, a safer and improved quality of life, through the prevention of crime and the protection of people and their property from criminal acts.
To secure for the public benefit, the advancement of education amongst those between the ages of 5 and 25 years old in all matters relating to the prevention of crime and the prevention of alcohol, drug and solvent abuse.
Smaller independent Island charities and community groups rely on your generosity to survive and this has never been so important. In our first quarter century, we have supported almost one hundred community organisations.
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Your support of the High Sheriffs’ Trust is vital as it allows us to help more of them, but don’t listen to us on this, hear what the beneficiaries say…
IW Story Festival
“Thank you so much for the supporting this, without the funding this event would not have possible, we successfully ran 3 sessions… There were about 50 children and adults attending each session, all of which got involved and embraced a creative and educational workshop…We are hoping this can be the catalyst to be able to do a few more creative/educational workshops to help the local community in the coming future…Cheers!”
Brading Community Partnership
“We set out to engage with young people who are either hard to reach or do not enjoy the traditional youth club activities, by providing different types of activities on our Meadow. With the help of a volunteer carpenter, the young people have built a bird hide and carried out repairs on the barn…The feedback forms the young people (gave us)has been wonderful…Some days have been wet and cold on the meadow, but they have stayed engaged and not wanted to leave.”
Youth Justice Service
The Youth Justice Service, who used a grant to provide a range of activities and experiences that offered life skills including cookery lessons, as well as fun, and ensured a safe space for young people during school holidays. One of those taking part said, “It was fascinating learning about things that wouldn’t I expect to be learning about; football, fishing and cricket.”