PenCare's Grant Making Policy

Following the sale of Penylan House to Linc-Cymru Housing Association Limited, the Trustees of PenCare decided that there was room for development of other services, including domiciliary care, the continued provision of kosher food and accommodation to those in need within the community.

The requirement for these services has been explored further and the trustees of PenCare will now consider projects for the support of beneficiaries more widely and will engage with local synagogues, care homes, home-care providers and others to establish a network of referrers through which they can more readily determine how and where assistance can be provided to those in need of care from the Jewish Community.

PenCare is empowered to make grants in furtherance of its objects and have drawn up this grant making policy to establish criteria by which any applications for grants might be considered – always subject to discretion of trustees – and set out the terms on which the grants might be given. All grants are subject to the limitations of PenCare's objects as set out in PenCare’s constitution. A copy of these objects are set in in the addendum to this document.

However, the Trustees will focus on a more lateral interpretation of its objects (e.g. by considering alternative types of 'assistance' (which need not itself be care), provided that assistance is directed at those in need of care, insofar as 'care' is defined in the constitution). Such assistance might go to benefit more people than the beneficiaries as defined in the constitution and assistance need not be limited to those who cannot afford care, the need identified in the objects is the need of care itself as the objects are not limited to those in poverty.