The Norton Foundation

A local foundation is calling for bids from organisations undertaking capital projects to help rehabilitate children and young people in the fight against the triple threat of inequality, poverty and maltreatment

The Norton Foundation is inviting proposals from local organisations in Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire, who are planning capital projects to help young people aged up to 25. The successful organisation will be given a £100,000 contribution for their prospective project.

In a bid to improve the personal development of young people, through creating opportunities within the region, bids must be in-line with the Foundation’s objectives: to help those ‘who are in need of care or rehabilitation or aid of any kind, particularly as a result of delinquency, maltreatment or neglect, or who are in danger of lapsing or relapsing into delinquency’. The announcement comes at the height of a nationwide child poverty crisis caused by rising unemployment.

The Foundation is offering a further £100,000 gift on behalf of The Depot (South Warwickshire) Charity for a project facilitating recreational and leisure time occupation activities for young people in the Stratford-on-Avon district, with the object of improving their conditions of life, in order that they may develop emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually so that they can make a positive contribution to their community and wider world."

Graham Suggett, Chairman of the Foundation comments:
“This is the third such capital grant we have made and we have high hopes that the 2010 gift will achieve the same high level of permanent provision for young people as have the previous two.”

Submissions should include; an overview of the organisation, details of the proposed project and its benefits, an estimation of the total cost, and how the name of either, The Norton Foundation or The Depot Charity will be commemorated. Submissions should be limited to one typed side of A4 and received by post by 14th February 2010 to The Correspondent, The Norton Foundation, PO Box 10282, Redditch, Worcestershire, B97 9ZA. For further details, see our website www.nortonfoundation.org.

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