# Charitable trust distributed £1.5 million last year

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/05/16/charitable-trust-distributed-15-million-last-year/
- Published: 2008-05-16T09:38:32+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Northern Ireland’s largest independent charitable trust, Ulster Garden Villages,
gave grants worth over £1.5 million last year, according to its latest annual report.

UGV is a general grant giver with particular interests in disabled people, health,
community, research, culture and education. In the last year grants ranged from 
£150,000 to several thousand, although some of the bigger grants were part of multi-
year commitments totalling £450,000. In the past UGV has made grants up to £1 million.

Examples of bigger grants include £150,000 to Barnardos, £150,000 to the Royal Victoria
Hospital/University of Ulster (one of three similar grants) and £150,000 to the 
National Trust. UGV reported that it had made commitments of £3.5 million up to 
2010.

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The trust also makes loans and currently has nearly £26 million in assets.

www.ulstergardenvillages.co.uk

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