Our Principles 

ENABLING EDUCATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH SPORT AND THE COUNTRYSIDE

What We Support 

Social Inclusion

Helping individuals integrate into society and bringing communities together are at the core of how we like to support our principles. 

Education

Promoting education is key to making a lasting difference. Helping individuals and communities understand the countryside, and giving them the knowledge to live healthy, active lifestyles are highly viewed by the trustees. This is closely to linked to the following...

Helping People and Charities to Help Themselves

Any causes focused on helping people to help themselves, or charities just starting out with the intention to become self-funding in the future are positively considered by the Foundation. We think supporting causes or charities like these are the most effective ways to allocate our funds. 

 

 
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How We Support Them

Countryside

Causes that promote the countryside, countryside values, and the rural industry were close to Henry's heart, and the trustees highly value any applications that help spread the joy of the countryside. 

Sport and Healthy Recreation

Henry lived an active lifestyle, playing cricket, rugby and squash during his life. Causes or projects that bring sport to new players or encourage active lifestyles are ones that we would love to get behind. 

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Trustees' Grant Making Principles

HENRY SALE FOUNDATION PRINCIPLES GOVERNING FUNDING DECISIONS

Core Principles

1. The charitable causes supported shall at all times be ones that Henry Sale would have supported, and which reflect his spheres of interest.

At all times guidance on this shall be sought from Jane Sale and the secondary family trustee member of the Henry Sale Foundation (“the Foundation”)

2. The charitable organisations supported shall be based in the United Kingdom, but this should not preclude support for projects overseas

3. The Trustees shall hold a separate sum of money to use at their discretion for the purpose of providing sponsorship or financial support for small projects where the sum involved will not be in excess of £250 per project and where a quick decision is appropriate

4. The following areas of interest have been identified:

  • Those which encourage better management of the countryside and its way of life, and the rural economy

  • Those which promote social inclusion

  • Those which provide an educational resource not otherwise available

  • Those which enable greater participation in sport and healthy recreation

  • Those which provide accessibility, mobility and recreation to disabled people, including those who are victims of a traumatic event

Selection Criteria

Preference shall be given to projects which can demonstrate some or all of the following:

  • Those which enable an existing organisation or project to achieve a higher degree of self-sufficiency and reduced dependence on outside agencies

  • Those that are new projects, where assistance from the Foundation provides seed corn enabling that organisation to attract further and more substantial support

  • In the case where an organisation has identified an individual for support, the support should assist that individual to help him or herself achieve a greater level of self-sufficiency. The Foundation will normally provide financial support to an organisation, albeit recognizing that it may be directed for the benefit of an individual within that organisation

  • In the case of educational support being offered, the intention should be that the beneficiary gains an opportunity for further or higher education which would not otherwise have been available

  • Those which enable volunteers to employ their time and talent for the good of the project or organisation supported; this may be in the form of providing training, or transport, or logistical support

Mechanisms for fund-raising

  1. At their sole discretion the Partners of Fisher German LLP shall annually allocate such sum as they think fit tor the use of the Foundation

  2. The Trustees shall from time to time promote or organise fund-raising events for the Foundation

  3. Employees and members of Fisher German shall be encouraged to fund-raise for the Foundation, either:

    • Providing funds for the Foundation to use at the discretion of the Trustees, or

    • For a particular cause close to the heart of the individual or group in the firm. In this instance it shall be a pre-requisite that the Trustees shall have approved this cause in advance of fund-raising and that it shall meet the core principles above

Participation by Fisher German employees

The Trustees shall actively encourage employees and members to offer their own time and talent in supporting projects and to provide resource as shall be reasonably required

January 2017

The Henry Sale Foundation, charity number 1167903, 40 High Street, Market Harborough LE16 7NX