The Livery Newsletter and Gazette Issue 27 Summer 2017 | Page 11

Figure 3 Proportion of Benevolent Fund total donation
amount budgeted for each cause in 2018
The Trustees have agreed Grant Giving Guidelines
with the Court which include the following
provisions:
• All new Grants should fulfil some overriding
criteria, namely, that our support should ideally be
City based and be to a Charity where our support is
not dwarfed by much larger donors. Additionally,
our resources should be deployed where it will
do the most for the least advantaged in the
community. The purpose being to ensure that every
Grant will be seen to make a difference and will
consequently help to raise the profile of the Livery
Company.
• It follows therefore that the preference of the
Trustees is no