Charity of the Year
Charity of the Year
The Charity of the Year is nominated by Waddesdon Manor staff and volunteers and is not an open application programme.
Charity of the Year offers Waddesdon Manor staff and volunteers the opportunity to support a charitable cause in the local community. The successful charity is awarded a grant by the Rothschild Foundation with staff and volunteers joining events or volunteering opportunities across the year to ‘unlock’ the funding.
Staff and volunteers nominate charities which are;
- Within 30 miles of Waddesdon estate
- Provide benefit to the local community
- Work in the key areas of interest to the Rothschild Foundation and Waddesdon: arts and heritage, education, environment, or social welfare
- Support people as primary beneficiaries (rather than animals)
Charity of the Year 2024 – Aylesbury Women’s Aid
Aylesbury Women’s Aid (AWA) is a registered charity working in the Aylesbury Vale District of Buckinghamshire and have been working with and on behalf of women and children since 1986, who are or have lived with domestic violence. You can find out more about their history here. Their purpose is “To exist for the benefit of all women and their children who are or have experienced physical, mental, emotional, financial or sexual abuse in their relationships and to offer support, information, advice, access to temporary safe accommodation and aftercare”.
They offer a range of services from a purpose-built refuge rented from a housing association as well as a smaller owned property with the capacity to hold 14 families/single women. AWA also offer outreach, Independent Domestic Violence Advocate (IDVA) and counselling services from an office in Aylesbury Town Centre that clients can visit. This also includes the Freedom Programme, helping women who experienced domestic violence make sense of and understand what has happened to them, as well a range of support services for children and young people, who have been affected by domestic violence.
AWA work from a feminist perspective and are committed to the principle of self-help, encouraging women to determine their own futures, making information available in an accessible way, and supporting women to make their own choices.
As part of our offering we will be supporting their next fundraising event taking place in Waddesdon Village Hall on 17th of September. Further details to follow here.
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2023 – Chiltern Music Therapy
2022 – Vana Trust Organic Farm
2021 – Hector’s House
2020 – Lindengate
2019 – Florence Nightingale Hospice
2018 – Bucks Young Carers
