WELSH CHARITIES FEEL THE STRAIN IN 2018 Garfield Weston Foundation launches major new support package to help Welsh charities plan for the future Welsh charities are expecting to help more people with less income according to research by the Weston Charity Awards. Day to day pressures are stopping Welsh charity leaders from planning for the future. The Garfield Weston Foundation is launching the Weston Charity Awards in Wales today offering ambitious Welsh charities a year-long package of free leadership coaching…

UK children’s charity Family Fund has announced an additional £100,000 of funding for grants for families on low incomes raising disabled or seriously ill children in Wales. Families will be able to apply for grants for essential items that help meet the needs of their children, such as washing machines or other white goods, or household items such as beds. The £100,000 has been generously provided by charitable trust the Garfield Weston Foundation to support Family Fund to make grants…

The first of 40 young people to receive Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries – paid vocational training placements in arts organisations around the UK – will be announced today, Tuesday 16 June 2015, by Jerwood Charitable Foundation. The Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme is developing talent and diversity in the arts by committing £430,000 directly to young people from lower income backgrounds. The programme is run by Jerwood Charitable Foundation with the support of Garfield Weston Foundation, Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation…