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Cumbria Community Foundation Dovenby Hall, Dovenby, , CA13 0PN Fax: 01900 826527 Tel: 01900 825760 • Email: [email protected] Website: www.cumbriafoundation.org • Limited Company No 3713328 Registered Charity No 1075120 HOORAY! 1999

HOORAY! 2009 10TH ANNIVERSARY REVIEW & REPORT HOORAY! HOORAY! 2009

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS SUPPORTING CUMBRIA’SCUMBRIA’S COMMUNITIES HOORAY! KEY HOORAY! ACHIEVEMENTS HOORAY!

In 10 years the Foundation has • Given out over £11.5m in grant aid • Awarded 4,505 grants to 2,500 groups • Awarded 2,458 grants to individuals • Built our long term funds to £5m • Established 57 Funds We are supported by • 51 Fund holders • 155 Corporate & challenge members • 154 Individual & family members • 51 Voluntary sector members

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Growing Well Ltd., Low Sizergh Farm - a social enterprise for adults with mental health problems 2 HOORAY! HOW 2009 WE DO IT CONTENTS HOORAY! We do it by 4 Chairman’s report • Raising money from individuals, • businesses, charitable trusts and 1999 5 View from the director • public bodies 6 Foundation milestones • Distributing that money in the form 10 Connecting people who care • of grants to local charities, • community groups and individuals 10 with causes that matter • Managing grant making funds on 14 Barrow Community Trust • behalf of donors CELEBRATING 14 Cumbria ProHelp & team • Promoting giving in the county 10 volunteering 15 Grassroots Challenge update 15 New funds 10 YEARS 15 Environmental projects CONNECTING PEOPLE WHO CARE 16 Corporate membership 2009 SUPPORTING 18 Grant making 2009 WITH CAUSES 20 Giving and membership THAT MATTER 21 Trustees and staff CUMBRIA’SCUMBRIAS 22 Financial statement 2009 ’ 23 Acknowledgements

COMMUNITIES Front cover photo: Eden Mencap celebrate the Foundation’s COMMUNITIES 10th Anniversary with a street party (Photo courtesy F.C. Wilson and The & Westmorland Herald)

Back cover photo: Foundation Trustees Shirley Williams (left) and Elaine Woodburn (2nd right) with Monkwray School’s Learning mentor Anne Banks (centre) and Breakfast Club pupils and friends (Photo courtesy Cumbrian Newspapers)

3 CHAIRMAN’S REPORT FIRST 1999 GRANT HOORAY! 2009 STORY

I am pleased to introduce the Community Foundation's Annual Review for Abbeytown Pre-School the first time. received £400 in 2000 towards the refurbishment of three portacabins The Foundation has been very successful in a challenging year for all charities. that would become their new Community needs have been rising, whilst sources of income, such as donations purpose-built building. They have and investment returns, have struggled to keep pace during the recession. since become a highly successful, We are very fortunate in Cumbria that so many groups and individuals committee-run Pre-school. continue to work so hard to put something back into their communities. Manager Linda Morrison told us The Foundation's 10th Anniversary events have been good opportunities to ‘The Pre-school is very important in the recognise the vital work of volunteers and the outstanding contributions of village and the children just love past and present trustees, staff and supporters. Special thanks go to my coming here. They walk through the predecessors, John Fryer-Spedding and Peter Hensman, and to our Director, door smiling.’ Andy Beeforth. We continue to look for and attract new funds to extend our help to Cumbria's varied communities. Cumbrians have responded very well to the Grassroots Endowment Challenge appeal but we have a lot more to do to meet the target of £1m by March 2011. We are extremely grateful to the nuclear industry for their trust in the Foundation to manage sizeable new funds, particularly Nuclear Management Partners for the £2.5m Community Fund and British Nuclear Fuels for the £500,000 Live the Dream Fund. Thanks also go to the trustees of the Mary Grave Trust who have entrusted us with the stewardship of that Trust. I look forward to the Foundation's next ten years being at least as successful as the first ten years and thank you all for your support.

Bob Mather

The refurbished portacabin at Abbeytown Pre-School

WE CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR AND ATTRACT NEW FUNDS TO EXTEND OUR HELP TO CUMBRIA’S VARIED COMMUNITIES. 4 VIEW FROM THE DIRECTOR FIRST CONNECTING PEOPLE WHO CARE GRANT WITH CAUSES THAT MATTER STORY HOORAY!

In the summer of 1999 I was offered the position of Director at the not yet Cumbria Action for Thyroid Sufferers launched Cumbria Community Foundation. I was hesitant about accepting now known as the Cumbria Advisory the job. I wasn’t entirely sure it was something that would work in Cumbria, Thyroid Service (CATS), was started but it seemed like a great idea and potentially a really good thing for the in Windermere by June Kasavan and county. Moyra Marshall. Since receiving a £400 grant in 2000 to help the group The vision of the founding trustees was to create a new grant making charity in its start-up phase, CATS has grown that would enable people and businesses to help strengthen their communities and gained a national reputation, by providing them with a means of ‘giving back.’ They were particularly becoming a registered charity in 2004, keen to see the creation of a growing invested or long term fund that the year June sadly passed away. would be a sustainable source of grant making income. The group will receive the Queen’s What has been hugely gratifying is that people have chosen to give through Award for Voluntary Service this the Foundation. We have built our long term funds to over £5m and in our year which is a fantastic achievement. ten years invested over £11.5m supporting local charities and people in need. CATS co-founder Moyra told us What is most important is that our donors’ money has made a difference to ‘When we first started we were told the lives of people who really need it. This review tells the story of the people support groups were ten-a-penny and who have given and the people who have received. that we wouldn’t receive community support, but we’re still going strong!’ We have been fortunate to have the chance to play a part in the life of Cumbria’s communities and to touch the lives of people in genuine distress. I sincerely hope that in reading the Review you consider how you might make a difference to people in need in our communities.

Andy Beeforth

WE HAVE BUILT OUR LONG TERM FUNDS TO Founding CATS member June Kasavan (centre) OVER £5M AND INVESTED OVER £11.5M with original members SUPPORTING LOCAL PEOPLE IN NEED. 5 FOUNDATION MILESTONES: THE JOURNEY SO FAR...

1999 2000 2001

December 1997: August 1999: January 2000: May 2000: April 2001: First meeting at Mirehouse Foundation launched First grant awarded West Cumbria and Furness Foot and Mouth convened by John Fryer-Spedding with a founding pledge of £1m from to Steps Grief Support for children Key Fund launched Recovery Fund launched to discuss the idea of creating a BNFL and contributions from all and young people in Furness. Our first major grant programme. Cumbria experiences more than Community Foundation for Cumbria. seven local councils towards initial West Cumbria secures European 40% of the UK’s Foot and Mouth running costs. February 2000: funding but there is no mechanism cases. The Foundation responds by First legacy received for community groups to access it. raising £2.14m to help individuals George Kipling Local partners contribute £150,000 and communities affected by the A £125,000 donation from the estate to match £150,000 of European crisis. The Cumbria Community of George Kipling is used to create funding and the Key Fund is created. Recovery Fund makes its first grant the Kipling Funds, two long term on the 11 April, just 7 days after the funds benefiting the elderly and appeal is launched. In total, the children and young people. Fund makes 1077 hardship grants to individuals and families, 313 grants March 2000: to community groups and awards First Corporate Fund £150,000 to support longer term Founding Fathers: John Fryer-Spedding (centre) and The Cumbrian Newspapers Group projects. Arthur Sanderson (left) with Foundation Director Andy Brian Watson, Head of Site, BNFL Sellafield, hands donates £100k to set up the CN Beeforth the founding donation to James Cropper, John Fryer-Spedding (right) and Andy Beeforth (left) Group fund. August 2001: (Photo courtesy Cumbrian Newspapers) Community Fund launched The Foundation establishes its first November 1999: local authority fund in partnership Francis C Scott with Allerdale Borough Council Charitable Trust Challenge which has since distributed over HOORAY! The Trust pledges to donate Launch of the Key Fund with Lord Inglewood (front) £500,000. £250,000 provided the Foundation raises a further £500,000 in 18 months to build long term funds. The challenge is met in February 2001. HOORAY!

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April 2002: September 2003: November 2004: January 2005: ‘Your Foundation has been a lifeline The Coalfields Regeneration Trust Allerdale Youth Bank launched Partnership agreement signed Flood Recovery Fund launched for many displaced and troubled establishes the West Cumbria The Foundation starts to develop a with Mary Grave Trust for victims of storms and floods families, individuals and small Coalfields Community Chest. new generation of philanthropists. The Foundation begins to provide A second emergency appeal, this businesses who would have struggled Young people design and run their services to the Trustees of the Mary time in response to the storms and without your support.’ resident May 2002: own grant programme and have so Grave Trust, administering travel floods which hit Cumbria in January Individual and Corporate far made 81 awards totalling bursaries for young people from 2005. The Cumbria Flood Recovery Membership Schemes launched £32,000 for a range of activities. low income families in West Cumbria. Fund raised £805,000, helped 475 Local people and businesses join the households and gave grants to 26 Foundation as members, supporting projects. its work and participating in its governance. June 2002: HOORAY! UK Charity Awards The Foundation wins the prestigious ‘Fundraising Campaign of the Year’ Award for the Cumbria Community Recovery Fund launched in response to Foot and Mouth.

September 2002: Elderly people hit by the floods (Photo courtesy Cumbrian Newspapers) Business Buddies Scheme launched Business volunteers are recruited to ‘It’s only £10, it is all I can manage… assist community groups with their Grants Officer David Andrews accepts a donation but send it with my heartfelt from the Storm Team to the Flood Recovery Fund professional skills. Rebranded sympathy for all who have suffered ProHelp, the scheme has now helped in this catastrophe.’ An elderly donor over 200 organisations.

December 2002: Youth Bank planning residential Barrow Community Trust launched Barrow’s own Trust Fund is launched by the Mayor of Barrow in the dry dock at the Dock Museum.

7 FOUNDATION MILESTONES: CONTINUED...

2008 2006 2007

‘The difference the grant will make February 2005: September 2006: March 2007: May 2008: to our life is fantastic. It gives us Partnership agreement signed Environment Fund launched Foundation hosts International £10 million distributed faith in the human race after how with Holehird Trust A donation of shares from an Conference on Disaster Response in grant aid! much we lost.’ Flood victim The Foundation begins its ongoing anonymous donor establishes a new Dovenby Hall hosts delegates from relationship administering grant fund aimed at raising awareness of Europe and North America to August 2008: ‘One of the best features of the making for the Holehird Trust in the the effects of climate change and develop the first toolkit for Nought to Nineteen (n2n) Foundation is that people find that former county of Westmorland. addressing environmental issues by Community Foundations wishing to Fund launched they are not alone or forgotten by supporting grassroots organisations. respond to disasters in their A new Cumbria County Council the community at large and that June & July 2005: communities. funded grant programme worth gives real measure of comfort.’ Charity Finance and £540,000 over the next 3 years. Keswick resident. UK Charity Awards September 2008: The Foundation’s Flood Recovery Cumbria Grassroots Endowment Fund wins the top UK award for Challenge launched grant making in the UK Charity The Foundation is challenged to Finance Awards and ‘Fundraising raise £1 million by March 2011 to Campaign of the Year’ in the UK claim £500,000 government match Charity Times Awards agains tough funding for Cumbria. competition from national charities.

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Emergency services help flood victims in Carlisle Trustee Susan Aglionby (centre) and Vice President (Photo courtesy Cumbrian Newspapers) Arthur Sanderson (right) accept the UK Charity Award

8 20 09 HOORAY! 2009 09 19 99 November 2008: March 2009: Nuclear Management Partners Foundation exceeds £2.5 million new fund first year Grassroots target The new management consortium and to date the Foundation has at Sellafield choose the Foundation raised a total of £344,781 towards to host a major new £2.5m its £1 million target by March 2011. Community Fund for West Cumbria, our largest corporate fund to date. June 2009 10th Anniversary Celebration Foundation trustees, staff, supporters and friends celebrate the Foundation's 10th Anniversary together at a CELEBRATING special event hosted by founder John Fryer-Spedding at the Foundation's birthplace, Mirehouse. 10 YEARS

Andy Beeforth with NMP Chair Tom Zarges (Photo courtesy Cumbrian Newspapers) SUPPORTING

(l to r) Foundation Vice Presidents Arthur Sanderson CUMBRIA’SCUMBRIA’S and John Fryer-Spedding cut the Foundation’s 10th Anniversary cake with President James Cropper’s Lord Lieutenant’s sword! COMMUNITIES

9 HIGHLIGHTS FROM CONNECTING PEOPLE WHO CARE... 10 YEARS OF GIVING AND GRANT MAKING WE CARE I CARE WE MATTER

THE JANETTA ‘TOPSY’ BRAMPTON COMMUNITY THE SELLAFIELD SITE FUND: LAIDLAW FUND: ASSOCIATION: A Corporate Fund A Legacy GRANTED £300 The Sellafield Site Fund was created Topsy Laidlaw was an occupational Dementia awareness in 2006 with donations from 1999 health specialist who worked for the and community support Sellafield Ltd., the Nuclear Cumbria Health Authority. It was The grant supported a series of Decommissioning Authority and the her wish that money from her estate lunchtime events during Dementia UK Atomic Energy Authority. The be used to help elderly people in Awareness Week and an Early main purpose of the fund was to Carlisle. The purpose of the fund is Diagnosis event in February 2009. focus resources into grassroots local to provide comfort, support and The sessions enabled people to share organisations in Allerdale, Copeland equipment to enable elderly people experiences, access relevant, helpful and Barrow. The fund favoured 2009 to stay in their chosen environment, information and have now provided projects which contribute to whether at home or elsewhere. The the kernel for a new support group regeneration and addressed issues Trust made its first grant in February for Brampton. The success of the such as health and substance misuse, 2008. project has led to the Government homelessness and crime prevention. funding a 3 year pilot project in the The fund also favoured projects The fund was set up by Topsy’s sister Brampton area as a part of the supporting the elderly and disabled Eleanor who heard about the National Dementia Strategy, Living and schemes which helped Foundation through her solicitor. Well with Dementia. disadvantaged communities through She decided to give through the art, music and sport. Foundation because of its ability to Mike Godridge, Chair of Brampton carry out the specific wishes of her Community Association and Carlisle ‘We created the Sellafield Site Fund to sister for whom the fund was Alzheimer’s Society said ‘The grant ensure we could reach right down into created. She is very happy with her helped lay a foundation of understanding the smallest local groups. The Foundation experiences working with the of living with dementia in the local truly reaches the parts other organisations Foundation, feels kept informed of community which has enabled us to can’t reach.’ John Sidney, Former what is happening and always feels Janetta ‘Topsy’ Laidlaw (top) create positive self-support opportunities Supply Chain Ombudsman, able to contact the Foundation if Mike Godridge, Chair of Brampton Community for people using community facilities.’ Sellafield Site. she has a question. Association and Carlisle Alzheimer’s Society (photo courtesy Cumbrian Newspapers)

10 ...WITH CAUSES THAT MATTER

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THE RISING SUN TRUST, THE KIPLING FUNDS: MORESBY OVER 60s CLUB: : A Legacy GRANTED £800 GRANTED £9,500 George Kipling lived and farmed at Funding for hall heaters and Over Support for drug and alcohol users Burgh by Sands. He was a man who 60s Christmas party and their families really cared about his community Moresby Over 60s Club provides The Rising Sun Trust also celebrate and rural life and in particular had a much needed social opportunities their 10th Anniversary this year. concern for the welfare of children for the community's elderly residents, Established in 1999 by Dave Smith and older people. As he was a many of whom suffer from restricted following the death of his 18 year widower with no children, he mobility due to their age leading to old son Ryan from drug misuse, the decided to leave the majority of his increased social isolation. The grant Trust was set up to support drug estate to charity. The executors of enabled the purchase and installation and alcohol users and their families his will agreed the best way to fulfil of two new convector heaters for the in their battle against addiction. A his wishes was to establish two funds meeting hall used by the club. It also £5,000 grant in 2007 helped set up a at the Foundation, one benefiting provided a Christmas lunch party at the new drop-in centre and activities children and young people and the Sunny Hill Hotel for over 30 elderly programme, enabling clients to other the elderly throughout Cumbria. people, including transport and a develop skills they didn’t realise Christmas bonus each in their Christmas ‘As a professional adviser I knew that they had. A grant of £4,500 in 2008 cards. the Community Foundation would be meant the Trust’s secondary school able to meet George’s wishes... I think Club Secretary Margaret Horricks education programme The Know George would be very pleased if he said ‘Without the grant we wouldn’t could be extended into primary could see the difference that he is making have been able to have the Christmas schools, enabling drug and alcohol to the lives of people in Cumbria and to lunch and without the new heaters most education to start at an earlier age. know that his gift will go on making a of the members would have stopped Trust Director and Founder Dave difference for a very long time to come.’ coming because the hall was just too Smith said ‘The Foundation has helped Ian Brown, Accountant, Dodd & Co. cold in the winter.’ Sellafield Site (top) us tremendously over the past 10 years, George Kipling (top) Dave Smith, Founder and Director of the Rising Sun not just with financial support but also Moresby Over 60s Club Members enjoy Christmas Lunch Trust (photo courtesy Cumbrian Newspapers) by giving advice and direction towards other ideas for fundraising. The staff have always been very helpful and professional and we can only thank them for their help and support.’

11 HIGHLIGHTS FROM CONNECTING PEOPLE WHO CARE... 10 YEARS OF GIVING AND GRANT MAKING WE CARE I CARE WE MATTER

ROSELANDS TRUST: SOUTH LAKES SOCIETY HIGH SHERIFF’S Anonymous Private Donor FOR THE BLIND: CRIMEBEAT FUND: The Roselands Trust supports people GRANTED £1,000 Themed Fund facing disadvantage in Cumbria, Hydrotherapy for The High Sheriff’s Crimebeat Fund 1999 particularly the elderly or those the visually impaired was established in 2006 by Adam with learning difficulties. The fund The Roselands grant enabled SLSB Naylor during his tenure as High was established in February 2006 by to provide fortnightly swimming Sheriff. A founding donation came a successful businessman whose sessions for visually impaired people from the Cumbria Crimebeat Fund company is based outside Cumbria in the South Lakes. One of the that had been dormant for a number but who now lives here. Originally participants, Neil Sindale from of years. Since then, the fund has considering setting up his own Bowness, had a stroke two years continued to receive donations from 2009 charitable trust, the donor was ago causing him to lose much of his fundraising activities organised by concerned about making sure the vision and some of his mobility. He the current High Sheriff. The next most deserving groups benefit. He has found the swimming group High Sheriff, Robin Burgess, a was also anxious not to attract ‘absolutely excellent.’ The regular Foundation Trustee, helped raise personal attention as he prefers to exercise has improved his health and £10,000 for the Crimebeat fund by give anonymously. He decided to set well-being and the regular social spending a night in Carlisle’s police up a fund with the Foundation contact with other visually impaired cells. because ‘the time needed to properly people has helped him combat manage a grant programme was going isolation and ‘adjust and adapt to to be too much for me as an individual, living with sight loss.’ and that the Foundation had both the capacity to do it and the knowledge to meet my requirements.’

SLSB swimmer, Neil Sindale

12 ...WITH CAUSES THAT MATTER

WE MATTER WE MATTER

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PITSTOP PROJECT, BARROW: MARY GRAVE TRUST: THE McSORLEY SISTERS: GRANTED £2,000 Charitable Trust GRANTED £3,568 IT equipment for young people The Mary Grave Trust was established Katy (20), Zoe (17 ), The High Sheriff's Crimebeat Fund in the 1970s to help young people Emily (15) & Lucy (15) made its first grant to Barrow charity from low income families in West Alison McSorley is proud of her four Pitstop. The £2,000 grant provided Cumbria travel abroad. It was set up daughters’ sense of adventure. All additional IT equipment needed by a local businessman in memory four have travelled abroad with the due to the project expanding into a of his mother who lived in . help of the Mary Grave Trust. Twin new building. Pitstop is now a well- The family had strong connections sisters Emily and Lucy took part in a established social enterprise providing with West Cumbria and a real school skiing trip to Italy and eldest a link between education and commitment to its people. Former daughter Katy, now 20, travelled to employment for young people who Chair of the Trust, Pat Black, explains Eastern Siberia with the Guides. may have been excluded from ‘We are really keen to help young Sister Zoe used her grant to take school, referred by a pupil referral people take part in journeys that part in a school History of Art trip to unit or youth offending team. broaden their horizons, develop their prepare for her AS exam. ‘Going to skills and might even change their lives.’ Rome was the first time I’d ever left the ‘We're able to offer a different type of country or been on a plane without my education, with the emphasis on The Foundation has helped manage family, meaning I had to be independent vocational and hands-on experiences. the Mary Grave Trust since April and look after myself, my belongings Our students may be failing in the 2005 and in February 2009 this and be aware of my own safety... I’ll normal school environment due to partnership was cemented with the remember the trip for a long time.’ learning difficulty, family break-up or Foundation becoming sole trustee Mum Alison said ‘Without the Mary disaffection with school. In a lot of cases and former Mary Grave Trust Grave Trust, the girls wouldn’t have had the problems are only temporary... Trustees represented on the the opportunities and experiences they Once we know the problems behind Foundation’s own Board to oversee gained from these trips. Thanks so the resulting behaviour we're able to grant making. much to you all.’ Robin Burgess behind bars for a good cause (top) take the necessary steps’ Richard Pat Black, former Chair of The Mary Grave Trust (top) (Photo courtesy of Cumbrian Newspapers) Johnston, Project Manager, Pitstop The McSorley sisters with mum Pitstop ‘a different type of education’

13 GIVING TIME INSTEAD OF MONEY BARROW COMMUNITY TRUST PROHELP TEAM VOLUNTEERING

Launched in 2002 at the Dock Salvana’s restaurant in February and PROHELP Museum in Barrow, the Trust’s aim is its sixth Annual Charity Ball at Abbey Cumbria ProHelp matches individual professional volunteers with groups to build a better Barrow and address House Hotel in March, supported by needing advice in areas such as finance, surveying, IT and business planning. the issues which make it one of the over 100 guests. Local businesses and Originally set up in 2002 as Business Buddies, the scheme merged with Business most deprived boroughs in the county. individuals helped the Trust raise in the Community’s ProHelp in 2005 and since last year is again our own To date, the Trust has given out nearly £3,000 at the auction bidding scheme, currently funded by Nuclear Management Partners. Working in nearly £800,000 in grant aid to for glider flights, rally car rides, partnership with Cumbria Council for Voluntary Service (CCVS), the scheme voluntary and community groups in holiday cottages and a tour of BAE’s has helped hundreds of community groups to develop through the assistance the borough. The Trust has also Astute submarine. of professional volunteers. It has also contributed to the corporate social raised over £25,000 towards the July saw the official launch of the responsibility targets of many businesses and the professional volunteers countywide Grassroots Challenge Trust’s new DVD at a drinks reception themselves have derived a great sense of personal satisfaction from which the borough will benefit at the Town Hall hosted by Cllr contributing to their local community. from directly. Dorothy Dawes, Mayor of Barrow-in- Furness. The evening was attended TEAM VOLUNTEERING by local businesses, individual As well as individual volunteering, the Foundation is also able to match supporters and members and a teams of volunteers, such as a group of employees, with suitable community selection of groups who had projects. Team volunteering not only brings fast and substantial results to benefited from the Trust’s funding. the community group concerned but also brings benefits to the business in The DVD features documentary the form of increased staff morale, improved teamworking and communication footage and interviews with skills. Shepley Engineers, who recently set up a new Grassroots fund with the voluntary and community groups Foundation, have also introduced social awareness to their apprenticeship who have received grant aid and training. They were looking for a suitable project and the Foundation who would have struggled to survive matched them with the Centre for Complementary Care at Muncaster, a without the Trust’s support. respite and therapeutic facility used by disabled people and those suffering from ill health and terminal illness. Shepley’s apprentices have now created a Committee Members 2009 new wheelchair path through the garden, much to the delight of Centre Corporate Fundholders Nuvia Ltd. try staff team Barrow Community Trust Committee at the launch • Rob Cairns (Chairman) volunteering (top) Director Gretchen Stevens who told us ‘Shepley are simply wonderful! The of the Grassroots Challenge for Barrow (left to right) • Lyndsay Aspin apprentices are just delightful... hard working and sweet. They eat a lot of lunch Shepley apprentices ‘like fairy godfathers!’ John Green, Rob Cairns (Chairman), June Chapman, • June Chapman Joe Sides, Andy Beeforth, Ann Hayes, Lyndsay Aspin (pies, mostly) and get through a lot of work… They are like fairy godfathers!’ and Sarah Gardner • Cllr Dorothy Dawes (Photo courtesy Cumbrian Newspapers) • John Green • Ann Hayes 2009 has been a busy year for the • Derek Lyon Trust with the launch of the • David Maguire Grassroots Challenge for Barrow at • Joe Sides a special Spaghetti Evening at • Cllr Ken Williams 14 GRASSROOTS NEW! ENDOWMENT A GOOD YEAR SEVEN NEW FOR NEW ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGE... UPDATE GRASSROOTS FUNDS FUNDS PROJECTS

The government has challenged the Foundation to raise £1 million in new In addition to the seven new A GOOD YEAR FOR endowed funds by March 2011 to claim another £500,000 of match funding Grassroots funds, the Foundation is ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS for Cumbria. For new donors this means the added incentive of a 50% delighted to report several other Our ability to support environmental government top-up on their donations including gift aid. We are the only new or renewed funds:- projects has increased with four new charity in the county able to offer this incentive to donors. (For further Nuclear Management Partners Ltd community benefit funds linked to information, please see Ways of Giving on page 20). set up a £2.5 million 5 year fund wind farms totalling £60,000 in As we go to press, the Foundation has exceeded its 15 month review target that will support communities and grant aid per annum for at least the raising £344,781, one of the best results nationally, which includes seven individuals in West Cumbria, our next 10 years. In addition a donation new Grassroots funds... largest corporate fund to date. from the Crofton Trust has increased our long term funds by £60,000. The CORPORATE GRASSROOTS FUNDS BNFL our founding donor 10 years ago Community Foundation’s Environment continued their support by leaving a • Thomas Graham Grassroots Grants Fund Created with a donation of £25,000 from Thomas Graham Ltd., the Carlisle Fund also awarded its first grants half a million pound legacy to West based steel stockists. Managing Director Roger Smith said ‘I look forward to building this fund over time.’ this year supporting a wide variety Cumbria. With a donation of over of projects from a wind turbine to • Shepley Group Grassroots Grants Fund The Shepley Group Fund has pledged £25,000 to create a new named fund. £500,000 they established Live the farm visits for school children, Paul Scott, Managing Director of Shepley Group said ‘We are committed to our corporate social responsibilities.’ Dream, a bursary fund to support helping them learn about the links individual excellence. • Westmorland Grassroots Grants Fund Local business Westmorland Limited, which owns the Rheged Visitor Centre between food, health, farming, and Tebay Motorway Services has pledged £50,000 which will enable grants to be made in and around the places Cumbria County Council established environment and community. where their employees live. the Nought to Nineteen (n2n) fund that runs until March 2011. This was PRIVATE GRASSROOTS FUNDS in recognition of the important • Ullswater Trust Grassroots Grants Fund An Ullswater couple have pledged £38,400 to create a fund supporting contribution made to the lives of children and young people’s projects in Cumbria with a preference for . children and young people by the Local Network Fund which ceased in • Quarry Hill Grassroots Grants Fund An anonymous couple made an initial donation of £12,800 which has since been March 2008. topped up by a donation of £64,000 from friends outside Cumbria. The fund will make awards to benefit children and young people throughout Cumbria. Having experienced the Foundation’s expertise for a number of years, the • Wing Cdr. H. Thompson MBE & Rev. J. L. Green Grassroots Grants Fund A couple with close ties to Barrow-in-Furness Mary Grave Trust formally transferred committed £25,000 to create a fund supporting the personal development of young people through trusteeship of an endowed fund involvement in community and environmental initiatives in the borough. worth £1,087,000 to the Foundation. • The Evening Hill Fund An anonymous couple made a donation of £25,000 to create a fund benefiting 16 - 25 year The Foundation’s Environment Fund awarded The Foundation also successfully olds and improving elderly people’s quality of life, particularly in rural areas. Copeland Suckler Cow Group £1,000 towards the renewed funding programmes from costs of educational farm trips for local school children

Shepley MD Paul Scott celebrates their new fund with Andy Beeforth the European Social Fund, Coalfields Regeneration Trust and Comic Relief. 15 CORPORATE & CHALLENGE MEMBERS... CORPORATE SOCIAL THANK THANK THANK RESPONSIBILITY YOU! YOU! YOU!

An easy and simple way for businesses Corporate Challenge Members • Windermere Marina Village • Cumberland and Westmorland Herald to ‘put something back’ and show • Academy for Chief Executives • Cumberland Pencil Company support for their community is to • Amey Infrastructure Services Ltd Corporate Members • Cumbria Chamber of Commerce and Industry join the Foundation as a Corporate • Armstrong Watson • Abbey House Hotel • Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency Ltd Member. • B I Properties Ltd • AHC and Partners Ltd • Cumbrian Seafoods Ltd • BAE Systems plc • Amec Nuclear • David Allen and Co In 2007 we introduced an enhanced • Baines Wilson LLP • AMW Contractors Ltd • Day Cummins Architects level of Corporate Membership, • Bay Radio • Architects Plus (UK) Limited • Design Promotion and Marketing Ltd known as Challenge Membership, • Border Asset Management • Associated British Ports • Dickinson Dees for those businesses wishing to give • Burnetts Solicitors • Bank of • Dixon Printing Company Ltd more to the Foundation. Our current • Carrs Billington Agriculture (Sales) Ltd • Bendles • Doosan Babcock Energy Ltd standard Corporate Membership • Carrs Flour Mills Ltd • Billerud Beetham Ltd • Eastman Chemical Workington Ltd subscription is £150 or £350 for • Carrs Milling Industries plc • Birchwood Farms Ltd • Eden Bridge Enterprises Ltd larger businesses with over 50 • Coordination Group Publications • Birse Nuclear • Edwin Thompson employees. Challenge Membership • Cumbrian Homes Ltd • Blue Pole Design • English Lakes Hotels Ltd is £650 or £1,350 for larger businesses. • Dodd & Co (Carlisle) • Bookends (The Carlisle Bookshop) • Fastness Data Services Ltd We would like to thank our 35 • EH Booth and Co Ltd • Boulting Group plc • Firpress Group Ltd Challenge Members and 120 Corporate • Fluor Ltd • Bowness HR Ltd • Florence Madden Associates Members for their ongoing support • Furness Building Society • Brewin Dolphin • Furness Newspapers Ltd during difficult financial times. • H & H Group Plc • Briery Homes Ltd • GenII • Invest in Cumbria • Capita Symonds Ltd • Gibbons and Company Many businesses choose to benefit • James Cropper Plc • Carlisle Diocese (Church of England) • Gilbert Gilkes and Gordon from the Foundation’s expertise in • JN Murray Ltd • Carlisle Glass Ltd • Hanson Contracting local need and outsource the • Lake District Estates Co Ltd • Carlisle Refrigeration Ltd • Herbert Smith LLP adminstration of their charitable • Lamont Pridmore • Carter Jonas LLP • Hertel (UK) Ltd giving by setting up a fund with the • M-Sport Ltd • Castellum Ltd • Holmgate Farms Ltd Foundation (see page 15). New • Northern Security Ltd • Castle Green Hotel • Houghton Parkhouse Ltd corporate funds also currently benefit • Organico Wines Ltd • Castlegate House Gallery • HSBC Bank Plc from a 50% government top-up • Robert Hughes Ltd • Cavaghan and Gray Group plc • Ibis Hotel Carlisle through the Grassroots Endowment • S.D.S. 06 Ltd • Centrica Energy HRL • Indorama Polymers (Workington) Ltd scheme. Businesses wishing to explore • System Group Information Technology Ltd • Cinnamon Creative Events • Innovia Films Ltd this option are asked to contact the • Thomas Graham and Sons Ltd • CN Group Ltd • Jacobs Engineering UK Ltd Foundation’s Development Director, • Washington Division of URS Corporation • Co-operative and Mutual Soluntions Ltd • James Walker and Co Ltd Elaine Wise on 01900 820822 or email • Westmorland Limited • Cowens Ltd • JL Winder and Co [email protected]. • Windermere Lake Cruises Ltd • Cranstons Ltd • K Village Outlet Shopping

16 ...OCTOBER 2009 THANK THANK YOU! YOU!

• Karen Rhodes Catering • Robert Meacock and Company • Kier Construction Ltd • Russell Armer Ltd • Kimberly Clark Ltd • Salvana's Ristorante • KPMG • Sarah Nelson's Grasmere Gingerbread Shop • L & W Wilson (Endmoor) Ltd • Sellafield Ltd • Laboratory Impex Systems Limited • Serco Assurance • Laings Charitable Trust • Shepley Engineers Limited • McVities • Smiths Gore • Mike Hughes Kitchen & Bedrooms Ltd • Smurfit Kappa Composites • Miller Waite Ltd • Spedding Dental Clinic • Mitchells Auction Company Ltd • Stollers Furniture World • Multi-Design Consultants Ltd • Telford Hart Associates • National Farmers Union (North Cumbria) • Ullswater Navigation and Transit Co Ltd • NB Lancaster and Co • Warwick Mill Business Centre • Netcentrix Ltd • WCF Ltd (Brampton) • Northeastern and Cumbrian Co-op • West Cumbria Business Cluster Ltd • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) • West Lakes Renaissance • Nuclear Management Partners Ltd • Westmorland Marquee Hire • Nuvia Ltd • Oil States MCS Ltd Nuclear Management Partners’ Charlie Anderson (left) and Chairman Tom Zarges join Monkwray Breakfast Club pupils for the • Open University in the North launch of their community fund for West Cumbria • Paradigm Partnership Ltd (Photo courtesy Cumbrian Newspapers) • Peill and Co • Penrillian • PFD (Carlisle) Ltd • Pirelli Ltd • Poole Townsend • Poppi Red Ltd • Powered Access Certification Ltd • PricewaterhouseCoopers • Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Co Ltd • Rayrigg Estates Ltd • RG Parkins and Partners Ltd • Risedale at Abbey Meadow • RM Consultants Ltd

17 FIRST CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION... GRANT STORY Cumbria Community Foundation Funds Total Amount Awarded £ No. of Grants AIM Foundation Fund 10,000 2 Allerdale Community Fund 48,858 53 Allerdale Youth Bank 3,079 8 Grisedale Community Garden Alston Moor Community Fund 500 1 Awarded £450 in 2000 towards the Barrow Community Trust 5,700 6 start-up costs of creating a new Bridging the Gap 114,229 16 community garden in Alston Moor CN Group Fund 3,000 2 on land leased from the County Cumberland and Westmorland Herald Fund 1,650 4 Council. The grant paid for earth works and the buying of new Cumbria Communities Fund 13,787 18 plants. The local community are Cumbria Community Grants 40,132 4 involved with the upkeep of the Cumbria Community Foundation Trust 13,302 3 garden with local Brownies helping Cumbria Cultural Fund 1,750 2 with weeding and those doing Dora Beeforth Memorial Fund 662 2 community service assisting with Environment Fund 27,128 10 other tasks. Fluor Cumbria Fund 35,312 28 Head gardener Ray Macro describes Foundation Grants 42,429 23 the garden as ‘a very peaceful place.’ Gibb Charitable Trust Fund 600 2 Glamis Holiday Fund 2,470 2 Grassroots Grants 217,792 106 High Pow Community Fund 5,000 1 High Sheriff’s Crimebeat Fund 1,000 2 HSBC Fund 1,300 3 Janetta ‘Topsy’ Laidlaw Fund 300 1 Kipling Fund for Older People 800 1 Kipling Fund for Younger People 1,368 3 n2n Fund 144,000 29 n2n Fund (Children’s Fund) 54,000 15 Nuvia Fund 500 1 Russell Armer Fund 1,500 2 Sellafield Site Fund 53,783 26 Sport Relief Fund 12,770 6 Violet Laidlaw Trust Fund 425 1 Winscales Community Fund 13,399 2 Grisedale Community Garden ‘A very peaceful place.’ Youth Aid Work Fund 10,000 2 Total 882,525 387

18 ...GRANT MAKING 2009 CONNECTING PEOPLE WHO CARE WITH CAUSES THAT MATTER Grant making managed by Cumbria Community Foundation Total Amount Awarded £ No. of Grants

Cumberland Educational Foundation 43,000 3 Edmond Castle Educational Trust 5,130 13 Holehird Trust 40,179 40 Joyce Wilkinson Trust 21,545 19 Mary Grave Trust 54,067 78 Total 163,921 153

Total grant making through the Foundation 1,046,446 540

Parton Village celebrate the Foundation’s 10th Anniversary

2008/09 Grant Making by Strategic Aim In 2008-09 our grant making of

Children & young people: £435,009 £882,525 Hidden & emerging need: £71,930 supported the work of Rural community regeneration: £140,947 Urban deprivation: £140,204 5,064 VOLUNTEERS Mental health: £29,771 Other aims: £64,664 which in turn benefited 129,719 PEOPLE

2008/09 Grant Making by Area This was possible by making

Allerdale: £289,240 540 GRANTS IN TOTAL : £94,575 with voluntary and community groups awarded County-wide: £61,307 Copeland: £201,220 Eden: £106,320 435 GRANTS Barrow: £49,830 and individuals awarded Carlisle: £80,033 105 GRANTS 19 MEMBERSHIP AND WAYS OF GIVING LEAVE A DONATION FORM LEGACY MAKE A Name(s) DONATION INTRODUCE A Address BECOME A ESTABLISH Postcode A FUND FRIEND I WOULD LIKE TO: MEMBER Make a one-off donation of £ and enclose a cheque payable to ‘Cumbria Community Foundation (Grassroots Challenge).’ I wish to donate regularly and have completed the Banker’s Order Form below. BECOME A MEMBER Acorn Fund: (£15,000 +) their will. Executors and beneficiaries Whether you’re an individual, a family, An Acorn Fund can be built up over can also set up Legacy Funds I would like to find out more about creating my own fund at the Foundation. an employee, a business owner or a 10 years (for less than £100/month retrospectively by Deed of Variation, I wish to become an individual member(£25) / family member (£50) and have completed the voluntary/community sector plus gift aid plus Grassroots top up). which provide a fitting memorial of Banker’s Order form below. organisation, becoming a member You can choose a name for your a loved one. I wish to become a Corporate Member (£150 or £350 for businesses over 50 employees) or a makes a real difference to us. Fund, but grants are not made in Challenge Member (£650 or £1,350 for businesses over 50 employees) and have completed INTRODUCE A FRIEND the name of the fund until it the Banker’s Order form below. MAKE A DONATION The best form of advertising is reaches maturity. I wish to become a voluntary & community sector member (£15) and have completed the The Foundation welcomes donations personal recommendation. If you Banker’s Order form below. of all sizes. If you are a UK taxpayer, Named Fund: (£25,000 +) like what we do, then please tell I would like to become a ProHelp volunteer or get involved in team volunteering. for every £1 you give we receive an As with the Acorn Fund, you can someone about us. extra 28 pence back from Revenue name the fund, perhaps a family BANKER’S ORDER: For regular donations and membership subscriptions GRASSROOTS SCHEME & Customs. What’s more, thanks to name or in memory of a loved one. All donations to long term capital To The Manager ………………………………………………………………………………...... Bank Plc the current Grassroots Endowment In addition you can choose a broad Bank Address ………………………………………………………………………………………………...... funds, including legacy funds, may scheme, we can also claim an extra theme and geographical area of …………………………………………………………………Post Code……………………………………….. be eligible for a 50% top-up through 50% top up from the government. benefit. Please pay the sum of £………………. on the ……./……../……...... the Grassroots scheme provided they and the same sum on the same day each year/quarter/month* (*delete as appropriate) That means for every £1 you give, Donor-advised Fund: (£50,000 +) are made before 31 March 2011. EITHER Until further notice OR for ……….. months/years starting today. the Foundation receives £1.92, In addition to the above benefits Payable to: Cumbria Community Foundation, HSBC Bank plc, Carlisle City Office, Cumbria. nearly double the value. All you have you have the ability to actively (Account No: 32152967 Sort Code: 40-16-22 Charity number: 1075120) to do is fill in the attached gift aid select which specific projects and declaration, enclose it with a cheque Signed: ……………………………………………………. A/c No: …………………………………..... organisations benefit from your and we’ll do the rest. Name: …………………………………...... (BLOCK CAPITALS) Date: ...... /……../………… fund if you so wish. ESTABLISH A FUND GIFT AID DECLARATION: (for individual UK tax payers, i.e. not companies) The above tariff relates to our For more substantial charitable gifts, Charities are able to reclaim tax on all donations where the donor has completed a Gift Aid form. invested, long term capital funds. you may prefer to set up a fund which A single Declaration may cover more than one donation. Cumbria Community Foundation is to Some people prefer to donate an treat as Gift Aid Donations: is an easier and more cost-effective amount annually for immediate alternative to setting up a charitable 1 the enclosed donation of £……………………...... grant making. We call these funds 2 all donations I make from the date of this declaration until further notice. trust, particularly now with the 50% ‘flow through’ funds. The normal Grassroots top-up. Donors can set up minimum sum for a named and Dated: ...... /……../…………...... Signature: …………………………………………………...... a fund by either donating cash or donor advised flow through fund is perhaps making a gift of shares, land Notes: You can cancel this declaration at any time by notifying Cumbria Community Foundation. £10,000 pa. You must be paying an amount of income tax and or capital gains tax at least equivalent to the or property. Whatever form the tax that the charity reclaims on your donation in the tax year. If you are unsure whether your donation takes, there is a range of LEAVE A LEGACY donations qualify for Gift Aid relief please ring us or ask your local tax office for Gift Aid leaflet IR113. Please notify the Foundation if your circumstances change in the future. different types of fund to choose from Some people prefer to make a President James Cropper cuts the cake with Trustee depending on your requirements: charitable gift by leaving a legacy in Peter Hensman at Hill Top Please return your form free to: Cumbria Community Foundation, FREEPOST, NWW7333A 20 FOUNDATION TRUSTEES 08/09 STAFF AND SUPPORT

THANK HOORAY! HOORAY! HOORAY! YOU!

PATRON TRUSTEES CONT: TRUSTEES CONT: FOUNDATION STAFF PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT Viscountess Whitelaw • Susan Aglionby DL • Peter Hensman DL FCA Director Solicitors PRESIDENT Guider, D of E Award Assessor and Farmer Director, Lake District Estates Co. Ltd. Andrew Beeforth Thomson Wilson Pattinson James Cropper FCA • Catherine Alexander • Heike Horsburgh Accountant/Grants Officer Honorary Accountants HM Lord-Lieutenant of Cumbria (appointed 3 December 2008) Chief Executive, Young Cumbria Jane Allen Dodd & Co. VICE PRESIDENTS Chief Executive, Castle Green Hotel • Christine Hughes MA Grants Development Officer Auditors The Lord (Melvyn) Bragg of DL • Eric Apperley Solicitor (appointed 12 March 2009) Roger Hart Armstrong Watson The Right Reverend Graham Dow (appointed 25 September 2008) • Derek Lyon Grants Development Officer Honorary Land Agents Lord Bishop of Carlisle (retired) Former Trustee, Mary Grave Trust (appointed 3 December 2008) Deb Muscat Edwin Thompson, Chartered John Fryer-Spedding CBE DL • Robin Burgess OBE DL Former Solicitor and Town Clerk, Barrow Surveyors Grants Officer/ProHelp Co-ordinator Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Cumbria Chief Executive, CN Group • Dick Raaz David Andrews Bankers The Lord (Richard) Inglewood DL • Rob Cairns DL (appointed 9 April 2008) HSBC, Carlisle Development Director Chief Executive, Furness Building Society Managing Director, LLWR Ltd. Furness Building Society, Arthur Sanderson OBE DL Elaine Wise Barrow-in-Furness • Mike Casson • Richard Simpson Fund Development Officer (Barrow) TRUSTEES: (appointed 3 December 2008) (retired 13 November 2008) Investment Managers Sarah Gardner IFA, Helm Godfrey Project Leader, Barnardos Citigroup Quilter Chair Finance Officer (until April 2009) Bob Mather CPFA • June Chapman • Peter Stybelski Liz Wilson Former Deputy Chief Executive, Businesswoman (appointed 13 November 2008), Former Cumbria County Council Chief Executive, Cumbria County Council Finance Officer (June - August 2009) • Chris Coombes Jan Smith Vice-Chair Locality Manager, Cumbria Council for • Shirley Williams Ian Brown FCA Voluntary Services Head of Public Affairs, Sellafield Ltd. Administrative Assistant (appointed 3 December 2008) Glenys Kett • Sarah Dunning • Elaine Woodburn Honorary Treasurer Chief Executive, Westmorland Limited Leader, Copeland Borough Council Administrative Assistant/Assistant James Carr DL Grants Officer • Captain John Green • Charles Woodhouse CVO DL Former Chairman, Cumberland Building Lynn Postlethwaite (retired 13 November 2008) (retired 13 November 2008) Society Port Manager & Harbourmaster, Former Chair, Rural Regeneration Company Secretary Associated British Ports, Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria (now Cumbria Vision) David Brown • Trevor Hebdon • Stewart Young Former Solicitor, Latimer Hinks Former Chief Executive, H&H Group plc Labour Leader, Cumbria County Council Staff Day Out at the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway 21 FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND HOW WE USED IT YEAR ENDING WHAT 31 MARCH 2009 CAME IN

Cumbria Community Foundation The following information is drawn from the audited accounts of the Foundation for the year ended 31 March 2009. Year ended 31 March 2009 The accounts received an unqualified audit report from our auditors Armstrong Watson and are available from the Summarised financial information Community Foundation.

Incoming resources £ Donations and legacies 1,278,070 Grant programmes 863,747 What came in... Investment income 139,426 Events 17,854 Donations and events 39.6% Management fees 24,739 Grant making and ProHelp 38.2% Total 2,323,836 Grassroots Endowment Challenge 13.1% Membership 3% Resources expended £ Investment income 6.1% Grants 882,525 Fundraising, publicity and events 184,348 Grant support costs 178,747 Governance 19,493 Total 1,265,113 ...and how we used it Funds at 31 March 2009 £

Long term capital funds 3,128,339 Additions to long term funds 44.7% Grant programmes 267,566 Grants awarded 38.5% Endowment funds 371,013 Support costs 7.8% Core funds 166,747 Investment management 0.4% Total 3,933,665 Governance costs 0.9% Fundraising and development 7.7% Cumberland Educational Foundation 536,475 Mary Grave Trust 1,086,717

22 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THANK FIRST OUR YOU! GRANT SPONSORS STORY

The Foundation wishes to express its gratitude to all those individuals and organisations who have chosen to entrust Special Needs on Alston Moor the Foundation with their funds and to thank our individual and corporate members for their ongoing support. SNAM organises activity programmes for young people with special needs which also provides respite for their families during the school summer BEAULEA’S CAKE STUDIO, BOWNESS We would also like to thank the holidays. Club Leader Hazel Hanley for providing our wonderful 10th following organisations who have says the £250 funding from the Anniversary cakes. supported administration and other SPONSOR OF Foundation in 2000 was ‘really helpful THE YEAR • www.beauleascakestudio.com projects at the Foundation... at the beginning because it was • Francis C Scott Trust straightforward’ and was used to pay • Northern Rock Foundation experienced play leaders. for sponsoring a DVD which has • In particular, we would like to thank • M-Sport Ltd The group is now able to provide helped promote the Grassroots Nuclear Management Partners, our • who host the Foundation’s office twice weekly activities during the Endowment Challenge for Cumbria Sponsor of the Year, who have also • Furness Building Society summer holidays giving special established a new community fund • who host the Barrow office needs children and young people at the Foundation worth £2.5 million • Big Lottery Fund the opportunity to experience new over the next 5 years. for sponsoring the publication of our For grant making, we would also activities, take part in events and We would also like to thank the new Professional Advisers’ Guide. like to thank... socialise with their peers. following people and organisations... AIM Foundation, Allerdale Borough HOME GROUP Council, Coalfields Regeneration for sponsoring the publication of Trust, Cumbria County Council, DESIGN our general leaflet. Cumberland and Westmorland Caryn Gough, Dada Design for her Herald, Cumberland Educational talent and generosity designing this Foundation, Edmond Castle publication. for sponsoring a DVD promoting the Educational Trust, European Social • [email protected] Grassroots Endowment Challenge. Fund Cumbria Community Grants, Westmorland Fluor Ltd., Holehird Trust, Joyce Limited Wilkinson Trust, Mary Grave Trust, Stacy Hurley, Cinnamon Creative for providing the venue for this Office of the Third Sector, Sellafield for helping to co-ordinate and add year’s AGM. Ltd, Sport Relief and Youth Bank UK. the finishing touches to our 10th Finally, a big thank you to Cumbrian SNAM participants canoeing at Bendrigg Lodge Anniversary events this year. for sponsoring the development of Newspapers, The Cumberland & • www.cinnamonltd.com the Communities that Work strategy. Westmorland Herald and F.C. Wilson, for their photographs. 23