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 2006-07:

The Association of London Government
The Big Lottery Fund
The City Bridge Trust
The Roger Brooke Charitable Trust
The Arnold James Burton Charitable Trust
The Calleva Foundation
The Clabon Charitable Trust
John Coates Charitable Trust
George Henry Collins Charity
Baron Davenport's Charity
Clore Duffield Foundation
The John Ellerman Foundation
The Eveson Charitable Trust
The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
The Freemasons' Grand Charity
The N & P Hartley Memorial Trust
The Hedley Foundation
The H J Heinz Company Charitable Trust
Hickinbotham Charitable Trust
R G Hills Charitable Trust
Lady Hind Trust
The Hobson Charity
The William & Katherine Longman Charitable Trust
The Mercers' Company
George A Moore Foundation
The Norman Family Charitable Trust
Northumberland Village Homes
The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund
The Marit and Hans Rausing Foundation
The Rank Foundation
Rothschild Foundation
Sharegift (The Orr Mackintosh Foundation)
The Sobell Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation