Staverton Village

Staverton Relief in Need Charity

Four old bequests with one purpose: helping anyone in the parish who has fallen on hard times. They are the charities of Miss Anne Goodman, Thomas Grooby and Charles Wildgoose, and the land known as the Poor's Land.

In the 1970s the Charity Commission asked small charities like these to account for themselves, and because all four did the same job they were brought together as the Staverton Relief in Need Charity, registered on 5 December 1975.

Staverton Educational Foundation

Known in the village as the Baker Burbidge Charity, after the two elderly residents who founded it in the mid-eighteenth century to buy books for those who could not afford to study.

Today it makes regular grants to Staverton Church of England Primary School, and gives grants to young people from the parish towards the costs of education and training: equipment, trips, travel, and the step from school into further education, work or an apprenticeship.

For anyone under 25 who lives in the parish (or whose parent does) and has at some point attended Staverton's primary school.

Staverton Reading Room Trust

An educational charity set up by and for the people of Staverton. It began as a room set aside for Bible teaching, first for villagers and later for the navvies building the Great Central Railway along the parish boundary. When the owner of the property died, part of the proceeds was placed in trust, and the income has gone to the village ever since. Its first recorded minutes are dated 23 October 1913.

The trust makes grants towards community projects and activities in the parish that are not otherwise funded.

Staverton Village Hall

The hall was built in 1935 on land donated for the purpose of a community hall, and a charity has looked after it ever since. Its trustees are the village hall committee, who run the building and the events held in it.