Thank you to Our supporters

A huge thank you to every single one of our supporters. We can only give vital funding to hundreds of life-changing small charities across Somerset thanks to your generosity. And a very big thank you to our volunteer Trustees and panel members who generously lend their time and expertise to support our work.

Our Charitable Funds

  • A & H Fund
  • Access Foundation Growth Fund
  • Anne Dodgson Memorial Fund
  • Beacon Fund
  • Bernie’s Vision
  • Bishop Fox’s Educational Foundation
  • Burnham and Weston Energy Fund
  • C & JP Fund
  • The Charlie Bigham’s Fund
  • Cheeke and Stodgell Foundation
  • Christopher Tanner Memorial Fund
  • Churchstanton Community Fund
  • Community Food Resilience Fund
  • Crowcombe Chest Grants Fund
  • Discovery Community Fund
  • Dyke Exhibition Fund
  • Eagle House Grants Fund
  • Elliot’s Touch
  • Exmoor Community Trust Fund
  • Field House Trust
  • Get Set Go! Fund
  • Graham Burrough Charitable Trust
  • Grave Family Fund
  • Growing and Cooking Grants
  • High Sheriff of Somerset Charitable Trust
  • Hinton St George Charitable Trust
  • Hobhouse Memorial Fund
  • Horseshoes and Handprints Trust
  • Hunt’s Food Group Community Fund
  • John Nowes Exhibition Foundation
  • King James Exhibition Fund
  • Lucy Nelson Fund
  • Mary’s Beat
  • McGreevy Charitable Trust
  • Medlock Fund
  • Mendip Hills Fund
  • Michael Samuel Charitable Trust
  • Millennium Fund
  • Norah Cooke-Hurle Fund
  • Oake Sunshine Fund
  • Perry’s Recycling Fund
  • Peter Wyman Fund
  • Pilkington Fund
  • Rebecca’s Hope
  • Re-imagining the Levels
  • Sir John Wills Memorial Trust
  • Somerset Social Enterprise Fund
  • Somerset Community Partnership Fund
  • Somerset Fund for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
  • Cavern Charm
  • Somerset Giving Fund
  • Somerset Lord-Lieutenants Fund for Youth
  • Somerset Masonic Fund
  • Surviving Winter Appeal
  • T & PJ (Milborne Port) Fund
  • The Aequitas Fund
  • The Burford Fund
  • The Chris & Heather Virgin Fund
  • The Clarke Willmott Fund
  • The Corton Hill Trust
  • The Courage Family Fund
  • The David Quinton Trust
  • The Early Help Fund
  • The Fairview Fund
  • The Gamble Fund
  • The Glemsford Fund
  • The Good Stuff Fund
  • The Hamstones Fund
  • The Hector Tanner Memorial Fund
  • The John and Dorothy Ball Fund
  • The Mulberry Somerset Community Fund
  • The Old Mill Fund
  • The Philip and Melanie Gibbs Fund
  • The Pinniger Fund
  • The Preventing Victims Fund
  • The Richard Huish Foundation Fund
  • The Somerset Fund
  • The South West Enterprise Fund
  • The Summerfield Force for Good Fund
  • The Waste Not Somerset Fund
  • The Welkin Fund
  • The Wessex Water Fund
  • WCS Pickford Trust
  • West Somerset Relief Fund
  • Young Carers Fund

Our Collective Giving Funds

The Somerset Arts Fund

No donors at present

The Somerset Environment Fund

No donors at present

The Somerset Forever Fund

Founding Donors:

  • Elizabeth Brie
  • Michael and Rosalie Fiennes
  • Angela Yeoman

The Somerset Older People’s Fund

Founding Donors:

  • Donald Lake
  • The Ringham Fund

Donors:

  • The Wilton Trust

The Somerset Wellbeing Fund

Founding Donors:

  • David Price
  • Team Somerset 500 Club

The Somerset Youth Fund

Founding Donors:

  • Maureen Whitmore 

Donors:

  • Cornwall Glass 
  • Dillington Farms 
  • Ewen Cameron Charitable Trust 
  • The Ringham Fund

The Somerset Fund

Thanks to Somerset Council for partnering to provide 50% matched funding for every donation, which means our supporters make an even bigger impact in our communities. Huge thanks also to the many other wonderful individual donors not listed here.

  • Benefact Group
  • Bristol & West Endowment Fund
  • Curry Rivel Tennis Tournament
  • David Salisbury Joinery
  • Finger On The Pulse Research
  • Host Somerset
  • James and Jacky Lambert
  • Kingston St. Mary Relief in Need
  • Lindmardon Trust
  • McCrone Charitable Trust
  • Mr and Mrs Virgin
  • North Curry Committee Coffee Shop
  • Pioneer Law
  • RK Bell
  • Roberts Group
  • Sir John & Lady Amory’s Charitable Trust
  • Somerset Council
  • Summerfield Developments
  • Wessex Water
  • Willie Gething

Somerset Philanthropy Network

We’re very thankful to each and every member of Somerset Philanthropy Network, a community of passionate people who want to change the world on their doorstep and who provide vital support for the work of the Foundation.

  • Nicholas and Diana Barber
  • Chris Bishop
  • Nigel and Emma Clark
  • Christopher Courage
  • Edward Bayntun-Coward
  • Stephen Dawson OBE
  • Lady Amanda Ellingworth
  • Philip and Melanie Gibbs
  • Venetia Hoare & Hamish Leng
  • Richard Lloyd
  • Lucy & James Nelson
  • Lady Louise Patten
  • Chris and Jane Powell
  • Kate and Nick Robinson
  • Martin Stanley
  • Kate Turner
  • Kevin Whitmarsh
  • Maureen Whitmore
  • Peter Wyman CBE

Core Funders

We’re particularly grateful to the following organisations, who provide vital funding to support our core work alongside many other wonderful Friends of the Foundation.

  • Bhere Ltd
  • Deepest Books
  • The Dickinson Family Charitable Trust
  • The Tudor Donor Foundation Donor Advised Fund