WHO WE ARE

 

John Moores Foundation is a registered charity, established in 1964, that gives money to charitable community organisations. Though a national trust, we currently focus on funding projects based in Merseyside (including Skelmersdale, Halton, and Ellesmere Port) and Northern Ireland.

We aim to enable people who are marginalised, as a result of social, educational, physical, economic, cultural, geographical or other disadvantage, to improve their social conditions and quality of life.  We do this by making grants towards projects run by charitable community groups whose aims fall within our areas of interest.

We prefer to assist small, grass-roots and volunteer driven organisations and new rather than long-established groups. We are particularly interested in supporting those groups that find it more than usually difficult to raise money.

In line with our commitment to equal opportunities, we support projects which aim to counter racism, sexism or discrimination of any kind. Projects which particularly focus on such anti-discrimination would be expected to have substantial input from the discriminated groups concerned.

We support projects which aim to break down barriers. To encourage co-operation and joint working between different community and voluntary groups, grants may be given for work involving local trust-building initiatives. We also support non-black community groups who are developing and implementing culturally sensitive policies. In general, projects which address the 'causes' are a priority whilst less emphasis will be given to the 'symptoms'.

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We are an enabling funder and would like to help groups achieve their targets and outcomes in their own way. Groups can be given advice with setting up monitoring and evaluation systems that best meet their needs, capacity etc.

In Merseyside, a Community Groups Development worker is available to assist small groups with new initiatives. Groups needing support will be identified by us.

 

WEBSITE LAST UPDATED APRIL 2008