Eight Salisbury partners
We work with eight organisations by name, and we choose them carefully.
A small endowment cannot be many things. The trustees have a long tradition of working with a small number of carefully chosen partners in Salisbury. Each partnership has a named contact, a written referral arrangement, and a quiet annual review.
How the partnerships work
Trinity Hospital, Salisbury — named in our 1701 governing scheme as a continuing recipient. We pay a quarterly stipend of £1,000, CPI-linked. Capital grants for the building are made occasionally, by separate vote. Trinity is registered charity number 202110.
St Martin's, Salisbury — parish in which our registered office sits and our trustees meet. We part-fund the Vestry Pantry. We refer households between us, with consent. Team rector: Revd Jenny Marchant.
St Edmund's Arts Centre — the former St Edmund's church on Bedwin Street, repurposed as an arts and community centre. We co-fund the Cathedral Close Listening Walks where they need to meet indoors in poor weather. Director: Roo Hadi.
Salisbury Citizens Advice — our single largest referrer. 51 First Frost referrals last winter alone. We meet their adviser team once a year for a long lunch. Lead caseworker for referrals: Margaret Crewe.
Salisbury Foodbank — a referral partner for our Quiet Quarter Fund. We have a written agreement, reviewed annually. Operations manager: Tom Bayliss.
Wiltshire Community Foundation — the regional grant-maker. They host our 'cold weather pool' partnership: £2,000 a year toward First Frost. They also receive our onward referrals for households outside our area. Programme manager: Sara Whitley.
Alabaré, Salisbury — homelessness charity, with whom we share occasional Quiet Quarter cases. Salisbury day-centre manager: Joel Bramble.
Salisbury District Hospital social prescribing team — referrers for the Cathedral Close Listening Walks. Lead social prescriber: Dr Nikhita Ranganath.
What we look for in a partner
We look for organisations that work locally; that are themselves well-governed; that have a named human being who answers their email; that respect the slowness of our process; and that do not ask us to fund things we have already explained we cannot fund. We are slow to enter into new partnerships and slow to end existing ones. We have not ended a named partnership since 2011.
If you run an organisation in the city that you believe matches the above and where a partnership might serve a household in our two parishes, please write to us. We expect to add at most one new partnership in 2026, in connection with a small project around early-years welfare in the parishes that has been in conversation for eighteen months.
A partnership enquiry
Tell us about your organisation. Ten working days for a reply.
One of the five trustees will read your enquiry personally. We are not a rapid commissioner. If we say yes, we tend to be with you a long time.
If you have a single grant referral, you don't need a partnership.
Send it through our contact form and the Clerk will route it to the right doorway.