RJB
Fund

A very special ‘Living Legacy’ endowment fund set up as the result of the donor themselves receiving a legacy.

As a committed volunteer who already has a strong understanding and appreciation of the need in their local community, the main focus for setting up the fund in partnership with Suffolk Community Foundation was to support and deepen that understanding – crucially to make sure that their giving would reach the best possible projects and really have an impact on the greatest local need during their lifetime, also as a legacy for Suffolk long into the future.

Being able to support projects with complete personal anonymity is important to the donor, but by working in partnership with Suffolk Community Foundation they have still been able to be fully involved in the decision making of where money is spent. They’ve also visited many of the projects that they have funded or may wish to fund in the future.

With a particular focus on supporting young people who have not had the easiest start in life, in addition to traditional grant making on this subject twice a year, the donor is now also supporting research into the reasons for the increasing incidents of Knife Crime in Suffolk and a creative education project that will take these findings and turn them into a performance based education project to be delivered to children in local primary schools.

These are some groups that have been funded by The RJB Fund’s grants panel: