an INSPIRING youth charity

Advent Charitable Trust

A Cheltenham Trust that occasionally surprises us with a cheque.

Cheltenham Borough Council – various funds.

Local Councillors often visit and join in with whatever’s going on.  In 2021 Mayor Councillor Steve Harvey paid a visit to TNT, enthusiastically cheering on a game of handball, and answering questions  from young people.

Active Gloucestershire

Supports our sports groups to ensure we can keep our membership fees down.

Co-Op bank Community Fund

Supports Children’s cooking club.

Garfield Weston Foundation

Generous supporters over several years – they contribute to general funds.

Gloucestershire County Council

Has various funds available depending on immediate priorities.  

Henry Smith Charity

We received a grant from their County Fund towards Equip over a period of 3 years.

Honourable Company of Gloucestershire

Supported Activate 2021

Jerusalem Trust

Have supported Children’s cooking club and Covid relief.

Julia and Hans Rausing Trust

Rebuild 2021.

Mercers Company

One of our Trustees is an Honourable member and has supported various applications.  Funds have been received for TNT and Young Leaders work.

National Lottery

Originally their ‘Awards for All’ fund supported the Community Café.  Now their ‘Community fund’ supports the Children’s Cooking club.

Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner

Wonderful supporters of Scoot and Skate.

Southall Trust

Supports Archery club.

Sylvanus Lysons

Funding the Activity Development Worker role for three years.

Arnold Clark Community Fund

Helping groups continue their important work, particularly in deprived areas, throughout Covid.  They made a limited amount of grants and we’re delighted they consider our work ‘important’.

Bishop Radford Trust

Supported Equip

Cheltenham Rotary Club

Have supported us for some while – and we were their ‘Charity of the Year’ in 2019.

Edward Gostling Foundation

Supports Equip

Gloucestershire Community Foundation

Various grants over the years – they are a ‘hub’ for many small funds, doing the administration of grants on their behalf.  They’ve supported Community Café, Space 51, TNT, helped with Covid relief work, our transition back to ‘normal’, and the re-opening of evening groups when Covid restrictions permitted.

Goodnews Evangelical Misson

Project Rebuild.

Joanies Fund, through Hereford & Worcester Community Foundation

Supported the Bicycle Maintenance course and Spokes Bike workshop.

Langtree Trust

Covid 19 relief

Lennox Hannay

Contributed to general funds.

Notgrove Trust

Our friends at Notgrove support activities in Gloucestershire and every now and again they send us a cheque.  This is always much appreciated.

Sportivate

Like to sponsor sports sessions – especially the more inclusive activities.

St Matthew’s Church, Cheltenham

Identified @ The Rock for their Christmas collection in 2018.

Tesco Community Grants

We’ve had funding from ‘Bags of Help’, which has now become Tesco Community Grants.  They focus on activities supporting children and families.  They’ve supported our holiday project Activate and helped with Covid relief activities.  Our local Community Co-ordinator, Marisa, is also a volunteer @ The Rock.

St Mark’s Church, Cheltenham

Have been regularly contributing to @ The Rock through their Mission team.

The Rank Foundation – Pebble grants

Pebble grants support holiday clubs and we achieved funding for Activate.

Zurich Community Trust

Likes to support activities close to their offices.  We’ve welcomed visitors from them several times.  They’ve supported our Healthy Eating and Bike Maintenance projects.

Allchurches Trust

Contributed to our early intervention project back in 2015.  Their ‘Build Back Better’ fund supported our post-covid work with those seriously impacted by the pandemic.

Charities Aid Foundation

Covid Relief work.

Churches for Cheltenham

Regularly contribute to various activities.

Ford Britain Trust

Thanks to some ‘Friends of The Rock’ who have connections with Ford Britain we were granted funds to update our IT systems.

Gloucestershire Diocese

Leases St Peter’s Church and Hall to us.  Various funds will contribute to activities depending on priorities.

Hedley Foundation

Young Leaders Residential

High Sheriff's Fund

Originally supported us to buy additional, slightly smaller, mountain bikes for our fleet and have since funded the various trips made to the Forest of Dean by keen young riders.

Jane Cook Educational Foundation

Support for Young Leaders attending a Residential. The young leaders complete their form and we provide support information.

Magic Little Grants

Archery club

Mid-Counties Co-Operative funding

Contributed some funding to our Children’s cooking club.  The educational and food-related aspects of this club meet their priorities.

Rank Foundation

Supported Activate 2019

St James Place

Have funded Equip workshops to help young people gain Bicycle maintenance qualifications.  Funded Archery club in 2020, and Activate in 2021.

Summerfield Charitable Trust

Have supported the Equip bicycle workshops and Rebuild.

Woodroffe Benton

TNT

St Peter’s and The Moors Big Local

Commissioned the Community Café from us some years back, which has now become the Children’s cooking club.  Team members regularly visit this session to connect with families.  Will support events we run, and invite us to their events.  When asked, by young people, will often fund their specific activities – such as the Young Leaders Residential.