E F Bulmer Trust is a place-based charitable trust focused on relieving hardship, need, and distress in Herefordshire, with a special legacy commitment to former employees of H P Bulmer Holdings PLC and their dependants. It gives both small emergency grants to individuals through referring agencies and larger grants to local organizations that support vulnerable people, social care, welfare, and community-based relief services. The trust appears especially interested in practical, immediate support for people facing crisis rather than broad, long-term programmatic funding.
Mixed grantmaker: small one-off individual grants under £500 handled through third-party referrals, plus organizational grants to Herefordshire-based causes three times a year. Individual and former-employee support can be requested at any time, while organizational applications are reviewed on a fixed cycle with decisions likely geared toward local, practical impact.
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For organizational funding, apply by the trust’s three annual deadlines (1 April, 1 August, 1 December) and make clear how the project directly relieves hardship, need, or distress for people in Herefordshire. Individual grants are not self-applied for; they must be submitted by a third-party agency, and former employees should contact the trust directly for support.
Current and upcoming funding from E F Bulmer Trust that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Applicants must read the Trust's criteria, standard grant conditions and FAQs. Grants must benefit people living in Herefordshire. Schools, NHS bodies, CICs and social enterprises may apply if project outcomes meet the Trust's objectives; statutory duties are not funded.
Deadline: 1st April, 1st August and 1st December each year.
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