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Basic Needs: model farm run by self-help
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Founded in February 1965 as the Phyllis Trust, the charity was later renamed in 2004 as Andrews Charitable Trust.
It is the principal shareholder of the Andrews & Partners estate
agency business whose profits and staff continue to support it to this day.
Below are messages from the Chair and Director of ACT as well as details of former partner's experience of working with us over a number of years.
Welcome from the Chairman of the Trustees
 "Hello
and welcome to the Andrews Charitable Trust website. We
thank you for taking the time to find out more about us and
our work.
With our unique heritage, the ACT Trustees want to make social
change happen by working with individuals and organisations
to deliver services which are innovative, replicable and sustainable,
alleviate poverty and/or promote the Christian faith.
The work of ACT is made possible by the endeavours of the
staff team of more than 500 Andrews & Partners staff which
generates the profits that we are thereafter able to distribute
to support social entrepreneurs. We want to recognise and
thank them for their input.
God Bless."
- Andrew Radford, Trust Chairman
Message from Director, Siân Edwards
 "Welcome
to our site. We have chosen to put all information about ACT on this website and
do not have additional policies, criteria or materials. The website also
specifies what we don’t do. On the other hand, the funding criteria that we are
using are changing and thus the information on this site may not be quite up to
date.
Before working on any formal application to us, it is always best to read this
site and then to contact me first. I would not want you to put time and effort
into preparing a proposal, if I did not think you had a chance of it being
seriously considered by the Trustees.
During the period 2009-2011 we are supporting a pilot programme, based in
Bristol, to investigate how better family and parenting support can help to
tackle homelessness repeating itself across the generations. We are interested
to hear from any voluntary sector organisation – no matter where based in the UK
– that feels that they have something to contribute to this field.
Furthermore, in line with our traditional grant-making interests of supporting
innovative ideas and in growing new organisations, we would be interested to
hear from inspirational individuals who believe that they are addressing a
significant problem in a new way that has the potential to be innovative,
replicable and sustainable.
Examples of work that we have funded in the past are available on this site,
along with some news about the current work that we are supporting. Please take
time to read what's on this site and then, if you have any queries, call me
directly or send a brief e-mail and I will get back to you.
We seek to maximise the impact of our funds, and are able to support only a
handful of ventures each year.
Best wishes.."
- Siân Edwards, Director
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