Wales

ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

Although the funding priorities for TWF are the Environment and World Development, the original founders of the Foundation live and work in Wales. To support our local community, we have allocated funding to three important issues: Caring Wales, Working Wales and Reducing Reoffending in Wales.

Why we want to help:
It is estimated that 1 in 10 people in Wales are providing unpaid care for a family member, a total of some 340,000 people. Of these, 7,000 are likely to be children aged 5 – 15 (source: National Office of Statistics). There are an estimated 90,000 people providing more than 50 hours per week unpaid care for family members. 

What we will support:
The Caring Wales funding programme is open to applications from organisations working to support long-term carers, especially young carers, or carers of people with the conditions prioritised in our Child Development research fund. The strongest applications to this fund have been from organisations that:

• provide a range of carer-centred support services,
• demonstrate strong links with other projects, interventions, organisations and services to ensure a holistic family support approach.
• reach a substantial number of individuals, whilst
• proactively identifying and working with the most isolated and vulnerable carers,
• offer sufficient levels of support,
• proactively monitor and evaluate their work to improve services and demonstrate impact, and
• promote participation of service users in shaping their services.

Click here for projects supported under Caring Wales

Why we want to help:
When the UK economy was expanding, Wales continued to be the least prosperous region of the UK, with economic activity lower than the UK average.  On top of this, the Welsh labour market has been affected slightly more by the recession than the rest of the UK, experiencing relatively large falls in its employment rate during the first third quarter of 2008 and second and third quarters of 2009 (source: The Welsh Labour Market Following the Great Recession, WISERD).

At the same time, any cushioning effect from the high level of public sector employment in Wales is rapidly diminishing due to central budget cuts with recent figures suggesting the loss of 10,000 jobs as a result.

We therefore provide funding to a small number of targeted initiatives that help people set up businesses or gain permanent paid employment. Please note that we are not currently accepting unsolicited applications to this fund. For information on alternative funding sources please see our applications page here.

Click here for projects supported under Working Wales.

Why we want to help:
The cost of re-offending to the economy in England and Wales is estimated to be around £11billion per year (Source: National Audit Office, “Managing Offenders on Short Custodial Sentences, 2010). Around 60% of prisoners who are sentenced for less than 12 months, will go on to re-offend within a year of release (Source: Ministry of Justice, Compendium of Re-offending Statistics and Analysis, 2011). These short-term prisoners, sentenced for theft or minor crimes, receive little or no rehabilitation during their time in prison, and are released with no statutory probationary support.

We therefore provide funding to a small number of targeted initiatives that aim to break the cycle of repeat offending behaviour and reduce this burden on the Welsh economy. Please note that we are not currently accepting unsolicited applications to this fund. For information on alternative funding sources please see our applications page here.

Click here for projects supported under Reducing Reoffending in Wales

OTHER INFORMATION/ADVICE

Applicants should note that the funding priorities for the Foundation are World Development and the Environment.

Applications from project/organisations in Wales that fall within the other areas of the Foundation’s interests, particularly people in poorer countries or climate-change related issues, should be made, in the first case to the World Development fund and in the latter, to the Environment Fund.

Although there is no upper or lower limit to our support, awards made under the Caring Wales programme typically range from £5,000 - £20,000.

Applications from organisations whose primary activity is in the following areas are not eligible:

• the arts
• animal welfare
• heritage
• general health
• groups with specific agendas (political, religious).