After a very busy Sunday sifting through applications, I have produced a list of the 62 nominated charities for 2024. If you have nominated a charity and cannot see it here, please let us know. We expect to be donating c£25-30k this year and retaining a balance of about £25k in reserves.
Nominated Charities
- The Cure Parkinson’s Trust
- Theatr Clwyd
- Bala Children’s Centre, Kenya
- The Seed Sowing Network, Kenya
- New Life Nyambene, Kenya
- Path to Prosper, Kenya
- Turbo Ghana
- Ghana School Aid
- Let the Children Hear, Kenya
- East Africa Children’s Project, Kenya
- Village by Village, Kenya
- Reach the Children UK, Uganda
- SchoolGambia
- HomesVitality, Liverpool
- Project Lighthouse
- Evergreen Africa
- S.H.E UK, Nottinghamshire
- Harlech & Ardudwy Leisure, Gwynedd
- Diane Oxberry Trust
- Soho FC
- Become Charity
- The Dipex Charity
- CLIP
- Long Covid Kids
- Adventure Aid
- YCG Trust
- KIM Inspire
- MYTIME Young Carers
- Irish Community Services
- High Weald Swifts
- Headway Derby
- Door 84
- 1st Holgate Scouts York
- Hillingdon Womens Centre
- Sophie’s Legacy
- Tiyeni
- The Liberty Church
- Cancer Research
- LawCare
- The EGA Hospital Charity
- Hemat Gryffe
- Out of Sight
- Refugees at Home
- Inspire Futures Foundation
- Eat or Heat
- Pl84u Al Suffa
- My Life, My Choice
- Wild East
- Access Sport
- Boys in Mind
- SARSAS
- Black South West Network
- West Area Project
- CASBA Advocacy
- Dogs4Wildlife
- Wivenhoe Youth Hub
- Diversified
- Active Therapy Foundation
- Harlesden Ummah Charity
- Paul Sartori Foundation
- Victoria’s Promise
- Reprieve
- Off the Streets
Next Steps
The three trustees of The Ten Percent Foundation are due to meet on the 9th May 2024. We match all charities against our selection criteria and then publish the results. Some of the detail has already been checked against the criteria, but we will consider each charity in full.
Here is the Ten Percent Foundation Funding Criteria:
- The charity deals with a range of work that appeals to us.
- The charity has no ulterior motive – eg religious teachings or political leanings.
- The charity appears to do some good, does not hoard money or spend it frivolously.
- The charity pays its staff a reasonable and not excessive level of remuneration. For us the level is £75,000 as an absolute maximum. We would only ever expect to see 1 or 2 members of staff on salaries of more than £60,000 in very large charities.
The trustees of The Ten-Percent Foundation are particularly interested in the following types of charity or worthy cause:
- Charities that support small tangible projects in Africa.
- Charities that deal with poverty and the effects of poverty in the UK.
- Specific support for the education of children in Africa.
- Support for stammering and in particular children affected by speech impediments.
- Support for people who have Parkinsons.
- Support for people who have had a stroke.
- Charities working with ex-offenders.
- Charities with links to the legal profession (we work in the legal sector).
- Charities dealing with victims (and perpetrators of) domestic violence.
- Charities dealing with youth work in areas particularly affected by poverty.
- Animal conservation – in particular third world conservation.
- Charities saving the rainforest by purchasing it.
- Local sports clubs and organisations.
