Clark Foundation

Dear Town and Parish Councils and associated community groups,

Many of you will be familiar with the Clark Foundation and have had grants from us in the past. To others, we may be completely ‘new’.

The Clark Foundation is a charity that was founded in 1959 to support community projects in places where significant numbers of Clarks employees, former employees and their families live and work.

We give amounts from £100 to £100,000* to support good works in the fields of leisure, health, recreation, well-being, the arts, education, sport and local amenity. In general, we will offer awards totally around £400,000 in any given year. We mainly support capital projects and the purchase of equipment, rather than on-going running costs. Applications for up to £1,000 can be submitted at any time and are usually determined within a week or so. Larger applications go to a grants committee that meets every quarter. The grants committee is meeting in early December. If you’d like to apply for a grant, and can get your application to us by 15 November 2022, we will be able to consider your application at the December meeting (provided that it meets our funding criteria).

If you have a suitable project, do please get in touch or submit an application. I’m on leave until 2 November, but will be able to answer any queries you may have on my return.

Best regards,

Susie.

In general grants that go to committee will be for amounts of between £1,500 and £25,000. If you have a project that you’d like us to consider for an award of a higher amount, do please get in touch with me prior to submitting an application.

Susie Mercer
Trust Manager

My usual working days are Thursday & Friday
Clark Foundation – WS Clark 1908 Settlement – C&J Clark Ltd 1922 Employees Trust
Tel: 0117 240 5583 (07530 501845 – out of hours)
E: susie.mercer@clarks.com
40 High Sreet, Street, BA16 0EQ

20th October 2022