The Barbara Ward Children's Foundation has recently had a double celebration with its 8th anniversary coinciding with the passing of the milestone of having made grants totalling more than £3.5 million.

The charity was founded with a generous donation from Barbara Ward and, on 13th December 2001, was granted charity status by the Charity Commission for England and Wales.

The BWCF is a small grant-making body that helps the smaller non-religious charities to serve severely disadvantaged children anywhere in the world where our grants are likely to make a real difference. To do this the BWCF focuses its support on financially healthy children’s charities where funding is not forthcoming from statutory bodies, where incomes and fund balances are constantly put to good use and where administration overheads are kept to a minimum. We welcome all applications that fit these simple criteria.

The Foundation's Chairman of Trustees is Barbara herself, with support from five further trustees Chris Banks, Brian Walters, Ken Parker, Alan Gardner and David Bailey.