Rowley Trust

Overview

In 1979 the Trust was registered by the Charity Commission as "the Rowley Hall Trust" and made Rowley Hall, Stafford available as a community home for girls. When in 1981 the Hall closed it was sold and in 1986 the present trust was constituted with the intention of spending its income for the benefit of women and girls, generally within Staffordshire.

The Trustees have adopted a broad interpretation of the objects.

Objects of the Trust:

The Trustees shall apply the income of the Charity for the benefit of women and girls in one or more of the following ways:

• in promoting the rehabilitation of women and girls who are in need of physical, mental or moral care;
• in relieving need, hardship or distress among women and girls;
• in promoting the education, including social and physical training, of women and girls;
• in promoting or assisting in the provision for women and girls of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation in the interests of social welfare with the object of improving their conditions of life;
• in making grants or donations to charitable institutions or organisations having for their object the benefit of women and girls.

The Trust has helped nationally known organisations as well as smaller local ones, including battered women's refuges, counselling and advice centres, educational groups, health research and the provision of social worker assistance to the deprived.

The trust will provide cash grants (or sometimes loans) toward or to satisfy your need. For example it has paid salaries of employees, paid overheads such as telephone bills or rent, paid for repairs or improvement to premises and made grants to start up new ventures. The help has sometimes been in one payment and sometimes by several payments over a number of years.

Grants have ranged from under £100 at one time to £30,000 over three years. It is expected that the majority of grants would be for low hundreds as this is a small trust.

The Trust is flexible. Including men in the project does not bar you, if you can show either that your particular project is to help women, or that the project significantly helps women in which case the Trust will possibly consider a proportional grant.

You may be asked to go to a Trust meeting. The Trust will want to meet you to look into your application and may want you to appoint one of its trustees to your organisation. (This may not extend to Northern Ireland applicants). The Trust is unlikely to want to become your permanent main support.

How to Apply

A simple application form is available from the contact. Unlikely to fund in Northern Ireland