Local Charity awarded a £50,000 Bursary from the Freemasons’ Grand Charity

Back row: Rowley Saunders, Dave Grainger, Phil Gardner,
Front Row: Scott Umpleby, Joyce Saunders, Kath Gardner, Godfrey Owen.

Brathay Hall Trust has received a generous Bursary of £50,000 to support the charity’s work with disadvantaged young people. Brathay will use this grant over the next two years to help fund personal and social development training programmes for around 1000 disadvantaged young people from across England and Wales.

Brathay adapts their training to meet the development needs of each young person. Examples of such needs are to increase their self confidence and/or their self esteem, teamworking and/or communication skills; and making positive behavioural choices.

The Freemasons’ Grand Charity is central to all of the Freemasons’ charitable activity in England and Wales and carries a long tradition of support. Local Freemasons from the Furness & South Lakeland Group of the West Lancashire Province also support Brathay’s events programme and have played a major role in their annual Brathay Windermere Marathon

Godfrey Owen, Brathay’s Chief Executive, said “We greatly appreciate this ongoing support from Freemasons’ Grand Charity and their local Province ” For information about this and other Brathay activities please call their Fundraising Office on: 015394 39777
	Dave Grainger Group Charity Steward, Godfrey Owen CEO Brathay, Phil Gardner APGM, Scott Umpleby Manager of Fund Raising at Brathay, Rowley Saunders Group Chairman Furness & South Lakeland Group of Freemasons

• Established in 1946 Brathay Hall Trust has an enviable track record in supporting disadvantaged young people nationwide.

• Working flexibly with a huge number of charity partners, Brathay has established landmark development programmes to improve outcomes for tens of thousands of children and young people. For example, Brathay has worked with Lambeth to set up the award winning Brixton X-it project (http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/Gang-Project-Praised)

• Brathay Hall Trust’s target group of beneficiaries includes young people under the age of 25 who are most disadvantaged or vulnerable, and who have suffered abuse or neglect, social exclusion or who are outside employment, education and training.

• Brathay Hall Trust`s vision is of a society where all young people have access to formal and informal education to enable them to fulfil their potential.

• As a recipient of grants from trusts, foundations and statutory sources Brathay Hall Trust brings lifelong change to the lives of the young people they help. They provide opportunities for the generous grants from donors to be translated into direct positive social impact.