Foundation announces "significant" grants and support for top UK charities

A LEADING foundation announced significant grants and collaborative support for three top UK charities on Thursday (8).

CareTech Foundation, the care sector’s first independent grant-making corporate charitable foundation, will be providing grants for Barnados and the British Asian Trust. Each will deliver £1million partnerships, thanks to the Foundation’s support.

The foundation also unveiled funding for Skills for Care, an organisation which supports adult social care workforce in England, to help attract more talented people with the right values to work in the sector.

The grants will mean the charities will be able to develop their resources to help with the causes they support.

The announcement was made at a Houses of Parliament event hosted by Labour MP Seema Malhotra. Celebrity ambassadors, including KISS FM DJ Neev Spencer actress and celebrity cake-baker Jane Asher, were on hand to show their support.

Haroon Sheikh, Chairman of the Foundation, and Jonathan Freeman, CEO, said that partnering with these three high-profile and sector-leading charities underlines the Foundation’s commitment to supporting people with a diverse range of needs.

“We are very excited about working with Barnardo’s, the British Asian Trust and Skills for Care and helping them to deliver these very important projects,” Sheikh said.

Barnardo’s CEO, Javed Khan, said the charity were “extremely excited” about the partnership. The funds used will help develop a new app that will help care leavers transition to the challenges of adult life without family support.

“Barnardo’s hopes to design an app that will enable young people to access immediate helpful information in a way that truly works for them,” Khan confirmed.

The CareTech Foundation initially launched last December and has already made a number of small grants nominated by CareTech staff.