Funds provided by trusts enable us to plan and implement innovative new projects as well as supporting our core activities. The Big Lottery Fund supported the start up costs of Be My Parent Online, our web-based family finding service that went live in May 2007, and our Fostering Education project is being funded by the KPMG Foundation, the SHINE Trust, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Clore Duffield Foundation. This project will develop a training programme for foster carers that focuses on supporting primary school-age children in care to achieve their full potential at school. In our core work, there is an ongoing need for funding of advice, support, information and campaigning work. BAAF's Health Programme for children in care, for example, is currently supported by the Freemason's Grand Charity, The Steel Charitable Trust, the D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Welton Foundation and the Childwick Trust . These grants are supporting our ongoing work devising best practice and providing specialist health care advice and support for children in care. With thanks to the members of the Council of the Grand Charity and the Trustees of the respective trusts for their support.

Could your trust help?

If you are a trustee or a representative of a trust and would like to know more about BAAF's work, please contact Audrey Cornelius on 020 7421 2629 or email audrey.cornelius@baaf.org.uk.

Our thanks

BAAF would like to thank all the charitable trusts and foundations that have contributed in 2008-09:

Baron Davenport's Charity
Charles S French Charitable Trust
David S Cohen
Fox Memorial Trust
Hickinbotham Charitable Trust
Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund
PF Charitable Trust
Stanely Smith General Charitable Trust
The Astor Foundation
The Astor of Hever Trust
The Coutts Charitable Trust
The Dischma Charitable Trust
The Douglas Turner Trust
The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
The Dulverton Trust
The E H Smith Charitable Trust
The Eveson Charitable Trust
The George A Moore Foundation
The George Henry Collins Charitable Trust
The Grimmitt Trust
The Harry Payne Trust
The Hobson Charity
The Hospital Saturday Fund
The Hull & East Riding Charitable Trust
The I Vassiliou Charitable Trust
The J Vassiliou Charitable Trust
The John Coates Charitable Trust
The Joicey Trust
The Matthews Wrightson Charitable Trust
The Maud Elkington Charitable Trust
The N T Vassiliou Charitable Trust
The Norman Family Charitable Trust
The Sobell Foundation
The Sydney Black Charitable Trust
The Thomas Sivewright Catto Charitable Settlement
The W E D Charitable Trust
The Woolf Charitable Trust