Charitable Fund

At the NGSU Conference 2005 delegates voted for the Union to set up and maintain a Charitable Fund. The Fund allows the Union to make charitable donations recognising our wider responsibility to the national and international community.

Requests for charitiable donations are considered and authorised by the National Executive Committee (NEC). The Fund operates under the following principles:

The recipient must be a registered charity
Charity to be nationally recognised (possibly with the exception of charities local to NGSU Head Office).
Donations should be used for the benefit of people within a community or group, or part of a disaster campaign.

For more information please call Bill Blumsom, NGSU President (2008/2009), on 01295 710767.

Previous donations include:

2005 - Tsuami Disaster
2008- Swindon MS Therapy Centre which provides help and support to Multiple Sclerosis sufferers and their carers in and around Swindon. They are currently undertaking to buy larger premises to cope with increased demand for their services and our donation will contribute to the successful conclusion of that project.

2008 - TUC's Justice for Columbia campaign which supports Trade Unionists in Columbia and their families. In Columbia members of Unions are persecuted and activists are imprisoned and even murdered so it's important that we do what we can to help those in countries where the simple freedoms we take for granted are denied.