Berks and Bucks Wildlife Trust manages 88 nature reserves across 3 Counties. They received a grant of £1000 from Brendan Kissane from the Quality Heating Named Fund.
Professional Advisers
If you are a solicitor, accountant or financial advisor this section should be useful in advising your clients on charitable giving.
Many people are seeing Philanthropy as an important part of their investment portfolio and have a desire to put something back into the communities in which they have lived and worked. Buckinghamshire Community Foundation is the professional service provider for philanthropically minded people in Buckinghamshire. Unlike other charities, we have the flexibility to help people support a wide range of good causes from children to the elderly, from the arts to the environment.
Key Points for your clients
- Buckinghamshire Community Foundation offers a flexible, quick and easy alternative to setting up a charitable trust
- A Named Fund can be set up in a one hour meeting
- We award grants in the donors' name
- We arrange publicity if desired
- We target money to charitable groups by issue or geographic area
- A Fund at Buckinghamshire Community Foundation is ideal for people who want to support local causes
- We provide a service managing existing charitable grant making trusts by recreating them as Fund within Buckinghamshire Community Foundation Trust Transfers
- We can help your business clients achieve their Corporate Social Responsibilities by establishing a corporate giving Fund
- We deal with all aspects of administration and investment management
- Giving through Buckinghamshire Community Foundation is more enjoyable and rewarding.
- Your clients can see how their gift makes a difference. You'll find lots of useful ideas in the Manifesto for Community Philanthropy Manifesto final for website Sep14.pdf
For more information on how to set up a Fund visit How To Get Involved or call 01296 330134. All information discussed is treated in the strictest confidence.
