Over the last year Miss Lawrence Trust has awarded £184,239 in community grants to support 74 charitable organisations via funding and fundraising platform The Good Exchange, over double the amount awarded the previous year.
The Trust uses The Good Exchange’s not-for-profit funding and fundraising platform to find and give grants to charitable, community and voluntary organisations in West Berkshire, north Hampshire and the wider UK and has supported several successful match funding appeals over the years of their partnership with The Good Exchange. This includes the current Surviving to Thriving Mental Health appeal where Greenham Trust, owner of The Good Exchange, is trying to raise an additional £100K (West Berkshire Council and Greenham Trust have given £100K each to the pot and have so far awarded £60k).
The Trust has supported several successful Greenham Trust match funding appeals over the last 12 months, such as their Emergency Coronavirus Appeal (£10,000), Surviving to Thriving Mental Health Appeal (£10,000) which has received £100,000 of funding from Greenham Trust and West Berkshire Council and awarded £60,000 to mental health charities as well as its Laptops for Lockdown Learning Appeal (£5,000). Thanks to match funding from Sir Ian McKellen via The Good Exchange, Miss Lawrence Trust has also seen its support for The Theatrical Guild, an appeal to help front of house and backstage theatre workers during the Covid-19 pandemic doubled.
Miss Lawrence Trust trustee Jonathan Bastable said: “The Good Exchange continues to be the best way for Miss Lawrence Trust to source eligible projects in its area of giving and finding opportunities to collaborate with funding partners so we can all work together, alongside the public, to ensure local projects are funded and people in need can get supported quickly. Over what has been the most challenging 12 months, Miss Lawrence Trust was more than happy to support innovative match funding initiatives via the platform such as Greenham Trust’s Emergency Coronavirus Appeal. We look forward to continuing working with Greenham Trust and our fellow funding partners through The Good Exchange to tackle the most urgent issues in our communities. This is a great opportunity for new funders and corporates in the area to come on board and get the most out of the matched funding available through the partnership with The Good Exchange.”
