Grant Programmes

Due to the size and nature of the CB & HH Taylor Trust the grants which are awarded are limited to certain defined areas of benefit. Please ensure that you have read the notes below along with the Trust’s Grant Giving Policy before applying to ensure that you are not wasting your valuable resources on an inappropriate application.

Areas of support

1. Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

A substantial proportion of the grants awarded by the CB & HH Taylor Trust are given for the work and concerns of the Religious Society of Friends. Projects with a defined link to Quaker work or supported by Friends will be considered regardless of location. Please enter the country you work in on the application form in the Location box.

2. Birmingham & West Midlands County

 

NB: This guidance changed in June 2022

The CB & HH Taylor Trust provides support to charitable organisations serving the West Midlands county (Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull & Walsall). Please enter one of these locations on the application form in the Location box. If you work across the West Midlands, you can enter this in the Location box. Please be mindful that priority is given to applications from small charities which are locally run and led or specific local projects of national charities in areas where there is no local charity offering similar support. Trustees would like to support schemes intending to solve local problems and improve the quality of life within communities. Trustees are particularly interested in funding specific projects, rather than general running costs. Examples of the types of work supported can be found below:

Social welfare

  • Children and young people;

  • Older people;

  • People with disabilities;

  • Homelessness;

  • Women-led initiatives;

  • Counselling and mediation; and

  • Hospice and bereavement services.

Education

  • Adult literacy schemes;

  • Employment training;

  • Youth work; and

  • Mental health education.

Penal Affairs

  • Work with offenders and ex-offenders to reduce re-offending and help reintegration;

  • Support for families of offenders;

  • Police backed initiatives; and

  • Youth projects.

3. Overseas NB: This guidance changed in March 2024

  • Trustees are focussed on supporting charities based in Africa and the South Asia. Please enter the country you work in on the application form in the Location box;

  • Trustees are not able to support charities unless they are registered with the Charity Commission in the UK. If you are a charity registered outside the UK we will not consider your application.

  • Trustees prefer to support small, local area initiatives, as opposed to large organisations working in multiple locations;

  • Trustees have a keen interest in social, ecological and agriculture initiatives;

  • Trustees will not consider charities applying through the Overseas strand which have an income over £1m per annum;

  • Please share any social media so Trustees can see the great work you are doing!

4. Additional Areas

  • Aid for humanitarian emergencies is always considered. Please enter the country the emergency is in on the application form in the Location box.

  • Donations may be made to charities which do not fall into the above categories but which are known particularly to a trustee.

Reflecting on the source of our endowment.

While the CB and HH Taylor Trust wasn’t established until the 1960s, some of the money used to endow it originally came from Cadbury Brothers, which, alongside other chocolate manufacturers, profited from slavery on Portuguese cocoa plantations.

On discovering the use of forced labour, William Cadbury, Hannah Taylor’s father, tried to use the purchasing power of British chocolate makers to improve conditions and, after those efforts failed, instigated a boycott which began in 1909.

It is evident that before that time money was made on the back of unimaginable suffering for those forced to work far away from their homes and families in appalling conditions. Many died.

Trustees apologise unreservedly for the association with this historic injustice and commit to funding work to combat inequality, promote racial justice and foster opportunity and understanding across racial, cultural and faith divides.