More about MACT
Malmesbury Area Community Trust (MACT) is a registered charity no. 1018458, which aims to help people in the Malmesbury Community Area. Applications for grants are considered throughout the year. The trustees who administer MACT all live in the local area and usually our meetings are held quarterly at Malmesbury Town Hall, though currently (2021) we are holding online meetings, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
MACT Trustees
(left to right ) Mrs. Jan Hainsworth, Mrs. Ellen Blacker, Mr. William Sykes, Former Trustee Cllr. John Thomson, Wiltshire Council, Mrs. Carole Soden, Mr. Phil Rice, Mrs. Alice Langtree, Mrs. Alison Cooke, Mrs. Helen Mobley, Mrs. Kim Power.
Please note Cllr. Roger Berry of Wiltshire Council has now joined the Trustees.
(left to right ) Mrs. Jan Hainsworth, Mrs. Ellen Blacker, Mr. William Sykes, Former Trustee Cllr. John Thomson, Wiltshire Council, Mrs. Carole Soden, Mr. Phil Rice, Mrs. Alice Langtree, Mrs. Alison Cooke, Mrs. Helen Mobley, Mrs. Kim Power.
Please note Cllr. Roger Berry of Wiltshire Council has now joined the Trustees.
If you would like to find out more information about our charity, then you will find us on the Charity Commission website or please contact our MACT Clerk, Tony Moore whose details are on our Contact Us page.
Our historyA few years ago it was recognised that there were two local charities in Malmesbury with broadly the same aims of helping local people in need. These were Malmesbury Community Trust and Elizabeth Hodges Charity - Malmesbury.
The main difference is that Elizabeth Hodges Charity concentrates on providing assistance to Malmesbury people to further their education, whilst the Malmesbury Community Trust main aims were to support the elderly and vulnerable throughout the Malmesbury Community Area. The two charities started to meet and work together very successfully and the trustees decided to combine under the one charity Malmesbury Community Trust, now renamed Malmesbury Area Community Trust. The Elizabeth Hodges Charity has not been closed as it is an historic part of Malmesbury's heritage. The charity was originally established when Elizabeth Hodges bequeathed funds to help local people, in her will of 1723. Here are details of the two original charities:
Former MCT
The aims of original Malmesbury Community Trust (registered charity no: 1018458) were to allocate sums of money from the charity to those in need in Malmesbury and the surrounding villages. Mr. C.H.Barnes who died in 1978 was the original benefactor and funds were intended, primarily, to benefit the elderly according to the following priorities:
Priority one - A life-threatening emergency. In such case the clerk and two trustees can agree an immediate grant up to £500. Priority two - The elderly and other vulnerable individuals. Priority three - Institutions for the elderly. Priority four - Deserving projects within the community. Elizabeth Hodges Charity (Malmesbury)
This Charity, (registered charity no: 309334) exists primarily to provide grants for the furtherance of education. If you or your family are on low or restricted income and you require some financial support to help with educational needs - then we may be able to help. Whilst most of our grants have been made to support children and young people, there is no age restriction on who can apply.
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Trustees would consider grant requests from anyone who lives in and around Malmesbury or who goes to a school in the Malmesbury catchment area and cannot from their own means make most use of educational opportunities needed.
Elizabeth Hodges Charity funds are limited but have been augmented by some fund raising in recent years. (The trustees are the same as for MACT). For grant applications or any other information, please contact the Clerk Mr. Tony Moore, full details are on the Contact Us page. A BRIEF HISTORY
In 1723 Elizabeth Hodges of Shipton Moyne made her will. Appreciating the value of education, she left £30 per annum (raised from land in Gloucestershire) to be used to provide a school for boys in Malmesbury. At that time education was a luxury for the rich; there was no state provision of education and charitable gifts were the main source of schooling for those unable to pay for tutors or send their children away to boarding schools. In 1730 a Charter enabled Elizabeth Hodges Charity money to be used for the provision of a “Poor School” in Malmesbury. In the nineteenth century it funded a school at 40 Gloucester Road, opposite the Abbey. Jeremiah Webb, a carpenter, and Henry Onesimus Moyse, a schoolmaster designed and refurbished the house so that it could become a school for “fifteen poor but respectable boys, the children of respectable parents”. The boys would have learned reading writing and arithmetic; they may also have learned carpentry from Jeremiah Webb in his workshop below the house. The charity lay dormant for many years until Malmesbury Town Council found some old records in a bank in Malmesbury leading to the charity’s revival in the early 1990’s. |
Malmesbury Area Community Trust - Registered Charity No.1018458 www.mact.org.uk
For more information or to make an application please email Tony Moore using the email form on the Contact Us page or email tony.moore49@outlook.com Better still, please telephone Tony on 07973 646869 for more information about our grants and if required, for advice as to how to complete the form.
For more information or to make an application please email Tony Moore using the email form on the Contact Us page or email tony.moore49@outlook.com Better still, please telephone Tony on 07973 646869 for more information about our grants and if required, for advice as to how to complete the form.