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Who We Can Help

The Trustees objectives for the William Wates Memorial Trust are as follows:
  1. To keep Will’s memory alive
  2. to help the most disadvantaged young people keep away from a life of crime and violence, and to fulfill their potential
  3. To target sport, art and education for children aged between 5 years and 19 years old
  4. To support charities that benefit individuals and take them on an intensive journey to enable them back into the system
  5. To support charities that train the trainer so that a ‘ripple effect’ of positive change can happen far beyond our grant
  6. To ensure that all our projects have sustainable outcomes
  7. To encourage causes recommended by donors/ supporters
  8. To target charities in London and the South East
To support these aims the Trustees have agreed that we will take on two or three large projects a year and have a total cap of £75,000 per annum set aside for these.

We also agreed to set aside £25,000 a year for smaller projects that we felt were particularly relevant to us.

The focus remains on Sports, Arts and Education and the structure we have agreed on will allow us to engage with the Charities we support in a meaningful way.

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