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Welcome to the Pearson's Holiday Fund website. Please feel free to look around - we hope you will find our work interesting and inspiring. If you have any questions about any of our activities, please do not hesitate to get in touch. If you would like to contribute to our work, please click here. We would particularly encourage you to look at our news page to discover the latest developments in our activities and ways that you can help. What is Pearson's Holiday Fund? Pearson's Holiday Fund makes grants that financially assist disadvantaged children and young people living in the United Kingdom to have holidays or take part in respite activities in the United Kingdom away from their normal environment which would otherwise not be possible without some external financial support.
The Fund is almost entirely dependent on donations received from individuals, companies and firms, and grant-making trusts. No income is received from central or local government, or the National Lottery. After deduction of administration and fund-raising expenses, monies received in one calendar year are used to provide grants for the benefit of disadvantaged children and young people in the following year. There are no buildings or offices to maintain. Those closely involved in the detailed work of the Fund operate from their own homes. Administration costs are therefore kept to a minimum. Who is eligible for a grant? Grants are awarded for the benefit of children and young people aged between 4 and 16 (inclusive) who, regardless of race, colour, creed or sex, meet the Fund's criteria of being disadvantaged. The consideration of applications is made with regard to criteria set out in the Guidance Notes re Applications for Grants, which can be downloaded here.
Most of the applications for grants relating to individual children/young people are submitted by Social Workers, Health Visitors, Young carers' organisations, Teachers, Ministers of Religion, etc. Group-related applications are received in connection with School educational/activity trips, Student youth projects for the benefit of deprived children, Youth club outings and holidays, etc. We do not accept direct applications from families, who are advised that they should ask a relevant third party referring agency to submit an application to us on their behalf. Why is it called Pearson's Holiday Fund? The fund was founded by Cyril Arthur Pearson in 1892 as 'The Fresh Air Fund'. In 1910 the Fund was registered under the Companies Act with trustees who were then all connected with the newspaper trade: Cyril Arthur Pearson was then the founder and owner of the Daily Express. In 1981 the name was changed to its present form.
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