The Barbara Ward Children's Foundation was proud to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its registration by the Charity Commission on 13th December 2021. Since making the first grant in June 2002 the Trustees have reviewed over 5700 grant applications and approved almost 670 grants totalling in excess of £9.4 million to more than 375 organisations. The charity has made grants to support charitable activities throughout the United Kingdom, but also around the world, helping children in Barbados, Belarus, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Kosovo, Malawi, Nepal, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine and Zambia.
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 six further trustees: Chris Banks, Brian Walters, Ken Parker, Chris Brown, Mark Waight and David Bailey.