The Northwood Charitable Trust

What we fund

The Trust provides financial support to help enhance people’s lives through a wide range of charitable organisations. Its main funding themes are:

Arts, Heritage & Culture

The Trust aims to fund initiatives that engage, enrich and connect communities through art, creativity and design and support organisations that safeguard and strengthen the rich and diverse heritage and culture where we live.
Education

The Trust awards grants to charitable organisations that make a positive contribution to education and research and to initiatives that provide learning and training opportunities to individuals and groups from all ages and backgrounds.
Health & Wellbeing

Supporting charities and charitable initiatives that work to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities is a key objective of the Trust. Working in partnership with grant recipients, funding will enhance the work of healthcare and support services to improve the life outcomes of many individuals, families and groups.
Poverty, Deprivation & Inequality

The Trust is committed to funding charities and initiatives that work to break the cycle of poverty and hardship that many individuals and families experience. The Trust supports activities that will tackle and address social and economic inequalities.

V&A Dundee

Opening in 2018, the V&A Dundee is Scotland’s first dedicated design museum.

The Northwood Charitable Trust are proud supporters of the museum and the impact it continues to make on the city, it’s people and communities.

Northwood have recently agreed to continue their financial support for a further four years.
Dundee Museum of Transport

Dundee Museum of Transport is an independent museum which preserves the transport heritage of Dundee.

Plans are now underway to convert the former Maryfield Tram Depot in Dundee into a new home for the museum and an improved visitor attraction for the city.

The Northwood Charitable Trust are pleased to support the project with a donation of £250,000.
Eden Project Dundee

The Northwood Charitable Trust are key supporters of the Eden Project Dundee – which will see the city’s former gasworks on the banks of the Tay transformed into an new ecological attraction.

The project is expected to create 200 new jobs, a further 300 indirect roles, and contribute £27m each year to the regional economy.

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