Supporting the Community & Environmental Projects

The Glastonbury Trust is registered as a national charity, but our size and location means that most of our support is directed towards projects local to Somerset. We will, nonetheless, consider applications from further afield. For further information on applying for a grant see our applications page.

We aim to support  projects which have community cohesion and inclusion as a major theme. We also wish  to help individuals and organisations which offer projects that might realise sustainable environmental benefits for our local community. To this end the Glastonbury Trust decided to add two new charitable objects to its mandate in 2009.

The new objects are:

'The Advancement of Citizenship and the Community'

'The Advancement of Environmental Protection or Improvement'.

The changes were approved by The Charity Commission in 2009.

The aim of increasing our objects was to give us greater flexibility  in terms of supporting small projects which we consider to be of benefit to the local and wider community, without needing to demonstrate an 'educational' or 'religious' purpose.

Our particular interest in this area is to support small projects with 'seed funding' that have a good chance of becoming self-sustaining in the medium term. We also support 'one-off' projects, such as community festivals or artistic productions where a benefit for the wider community can be demonstrated. We are particularly keen on projects which pull together different elements of the community, such as projects that reach across the generational divide or involve whole families.