Stratford Town Trust | Stratford Town Trust

What we do

Create a vibrant and connected community

We've been at the heart of our community for 500 years.

Our grants provide around £1million of support to local schools, charities and community groups every year

Our Impact

Our grants help thousands of people who choose to live, work or study in our town. We support vital counselling and hospice services, activities for young people, social groups helping to combat loneliness and isolation and give annual grants to our local college and schools.

Our green spaces provide an opportunity to grow produce at our allotments and get closer to nature at Rowley Fields and The Lench Meadows.

We provide a summer programme of free bandstand concerts and there's lots going on for the local community at our Community Hub At the Playhouse we're proud to subsidise a packed programme of community activities for every generation.

Supporting our community

Providing a Lifeline

We awarded funding to VASA to help them undertake a strategic review. Within Stratford town, VASA works with almost 100 volunteer drivers who help to transport people to medical appointments and social inclusion groups.

Providing a Lifeline

Helping a Network to Grow

In 2022, our funding enabled Stratford-upon-Avon Friends of the Earth to invite the keynote speaker Mark Cocker, a multi-award-winning author and naturalist who is well-known to ornithologists and readers of his 'Country Diary' column, to give a talk as part of their programme of events.

Helping a Network to Grow

Time4Hope

Funding was awarded to for the TIme2Connect project to support 35 Stratford town families and carers of children and young people with complex and profound additional needs. Counselling offers a safe, impartial and confidential environment to explore the complex feelings and challenges that raising a child/young person with additional needs can bring day to day.

Time4Hope

Like I Care

We provided funding for The RSC's Like I Care project - inspired by the themes of care within the RSC production of My Neighbour Totoro, they worked in partnership with Stratford Young Carers to deliver an ambitious digital engagement project highlighting the lived experiences of young carers.

Like I Care

Hardship grants

Stratford Town Trust hardship grants

We provide hardship grants for individuals through Citizens Advice South Warwickshire, (CASW). These grants can be used to pay for small, one-off items such as bedding, furniture, clothing, heating appliances and white goods such as microwaves and fridges and can make a huge difference to people who find themselves in challenging financial situations due to difficult circumstances.

Training and skills programmes for those aged 16 to 24

When New Meaning Training chose to set up in Stratford-upon-Avon, it brought new opportunities for young people who aren’t necessarily ‘school-shaped’