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est: 2000
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From 2014 onwards grants made by the Cheddar Youth Trust in the area of sporting achievement are awarded in the memory of Dick Edmonds a lifelong Cricketer and local sportsman. Click here for more information
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What is the Cheddar Youth Trust?
Cheddar Youth Trust is the new name of the the Cheddar Young People's Millennium Trust, a charity that was established in 2000 to mark the new millennium.
The Trust's purpose is to help and encourage the young people of Cheddar to take great pride in their community and their own endeavours, to:
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Spread the word and help Cheddar Youth Trust
Sainsbury’s have offered to sponsor a Cheddar charity for a whole year and Cheddar Youth Trust is in with a chance of being that charity.
To help the trust, which raises funds and makes financial grants to help young Cheddar people, you just need to vote for it.
From Monday 13 June 2016, for just two or three weeks, Sainsbury’s in Cheddar will be asking customers which of three local charities should receive sponsorship from them.
You’ll be offered a token to put in a voting box.
So, whenever you visit Sainsbury’s, PLEASE vote for Cheddar Youth Trust. And could you also encourage everyone you can think of to do the same?
If Cheddar Youth Trust is selected it means we’ll be able to help more people, so please vote early and vote often.
With your votes we can help young Cheddar people who need funds to develop their talents, their education or to give service to others here or abroad.
Thank you for your support.
Keith Herring
Chairman, Cheddar Youth Trust
Assist young people in their educational, professional or vocational training.
Encourage young people to engage in service to the local community.
Support young people to engage in worthwhile activities in other parts of the United
Kingdom and overseas.
Support the development or formation of any club or organisation catering for young
people's needs.
Help young people where real need can be demonstrated.
Why is the trust needed?
Unlike some towns and villages, Cheddar does not have any substantial inherited
trust funds available for distribution to such causes. It is therefore the Cheddar Youth Trust's aim to raise a sum of money large enough so as to be able to make meaningful annual awards to the young people of Cheddar for perpetuity.
The initial target was £100,000 but it was realised that in the long term a figure of around £300,000 will need to be reached, depending interest generated, if if the trust is to allocate grants each year of £5,000 or more. At present the trust is allocating around £4,000 a year to the young people of the Cheddar parish.
The Trust has raised over £116,000 as of May 1st 2015 and provided grants of over £25,000 to 187 young people.
Grant allocations exceed £25,000
Typically the Cheddar Youth Trust makes grants of over £4,000 per annum to around 30 applicants, helping them across a wide range of areas.
In sport, in education and training in vocational and in academic subjects, in encouraging their service to communities here and abroad, to help where they are acting as representatives and to help those with courage in their disabilities.
For instance, the trust has assisted Ben and Toby Attwood in competing at national level in judo, Alice, Isaac, Jacob and Eleanor Coton with their music studies and Sophie Green as she becomes a junior associate of the Royal Ballet.
We supported other applicants with football and taekwondo courses, helped others with worthwhile projects to India, Mexico and Zambia and assisted another with books for university.
And in 2013 for the first time we helped two groups working with young people. Kate Lynch, whose Cheddar Valley Voices have sung at our events, and the Cheddar Valley Instrument Support Group, which is backing the Ann Higgs, who has taught brass here for more than 30 years.
Target £300,000
In the 2 years up to the end of 2014 the Trust’s capital has grown by around £18,000 hence the Chairman's aim to reach a target of £100,000 in his lifetime has been achieved as there is £115,000 in the base capital fund as of May 1st 2015. The plan is eventually over the next 50 years to establish a capital fund of £300,000 and thus be able to provide grants to Cheddar Young People of at least £5,000 each year to help them in their education, training and community service.
Keith Herring
Chairman of the Trustees -
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