Twenty-eight named partnerships across the district. Some have lasted a year, some have lasted seventy. We list them all here, with the kind of relationship we hold with each.
Parish church · partner since 1984
The founding parish. Our offices stand on land originally leased from the parish in 1953 for one peppercorn a year. Rev Julia Curtis sits as an ex officio trustee. We use the parish hall for our Winter Lunch each December.
Family trust · partner since 1971
Established by the family of our founding chair, this small grant-making trust funds our small parish grant programme (small reserve / year ring-fenced) and our annual independent evaluation.
Endowment · 1953
The bequest left to us by an early benefactor in 1953 — £4,200 (worth roughly £142,000 today) and the freehold of Hockerills. Held under a separate trust with co-trustees from the donor family.
Referrals & co-ordination
Two-way referrals through the parish 'Live Well' platform. Quarterly co-ordination meetings with the Council's hardship grants team. No financial relationship; no data shared without beneficiary consent.
Social prescribing pathway
Two local primary care networks (Eastham & District PCN; Tenbury & Eastham PCN) refer roughly forty patients a year to the Trust through their social prescribing teams.
Onward referral · Quiet Visits
Onward referrals from the Quiet Visits programme to Tenbury Mind's structured talking therapies — typically inside two weeks. We pay £14 per session for the first eight sessions when a referral is made.
Casework training partner
Trains and quarterly supervises our caseworkers. Holds our complex tribunal cases at no charge to the beneficiary, under a long-standing reciprocal arrangement.
Hosts our Heritage Walking Tour at no charge and refers leaseholder maintenance hardship cases to us.
Home of the Practical Recovery Aid programme, the Carer gathering and the autumn cookery classes. £1 a year peppercorn rent.
Joint sponsor of the Spring Seed Swap and historic photography in our annual reports.
Cross-referral partnership for households needing more support than the Practical Recovery Aid programme can offer.
Free use of the Hayloft Café private room for Carer Relief weekends and bereavement walks.
Apprenticeship-placement partner for the Mobility & Equipment fund programme. Quarterly 'open workshop' day for bursary applicants.
Provides our Winter Lunch choir; their head teacher sat on our Mobility & Equipment fund advisory panel.
Provides bulbs, allotment cuttings, and the head gardener's quarterly visit to our allotment plot.
Provides a small annual community grant (£8,000) and twice-yearly pro-bono actuarial advice for our reserves policy.
Fits our radiators and replacement boilers at cost price for Heating & Warmth Aid grant recipients. Same-week call-outs.
Honey for the Practical Recovery Aid programme shelves at wholesale; the parish garden's apple-pressing demonstrations.
Daily surplus food for the Practical Recovery Aid programme under a tri-partite agreement with the Trust and FareShare.
Our independent examiner since 2008. Fixed-fee five-year agreement; the firm holds no other relationship with the Trust.
Pro-bono legal advice on the Trust's governance, three half-days a year, in continuity of the original 1984 founding relationship.
We sit down with potential partners over a kettle of tea. We do not enter formal partnership agreements lightly — but we are open, every Wednesday afternoon, to a first conversation about what a useful working relationship might look like.
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