Support Us

The Eve Brook Scholarship Fund is a registered charity and is funded purely on the basis of private and charitable donations and fundraising events.

3rd Decade

What We Raise and Spend

Currently we raise around £30,000 each year and spend it in supporting young care leavers to access and succeed in higher education.

We are proud to say  that 95% of what we raise is spent on young people. What we raise is spent on:

  • providing the extras that parents would provide for undergraduate students and helping out for those who – for whatever reason – are not entitled to full loans or grants;
  • supporting undergraduate students for travel, childcare and other regular costs;
  • supporting young asylum seekers where mainstream funding is not available; and
  • funding successful care leavers going on to postgraduate study who need help to pay their fees for a Masters degree through our Postgraduate Bursary.

 

Trusts and Foundations

Over the years we have built up a portfolio of Trusts and Foundations who make regular and generous donations to support EBSF. In 2022-3 we raised £21,000 from this source.

For any Trust and Foundation wanting to find out more about EBSF and our work, please email us  at evebrookfund@gmail.com.

 

Individual donations

51.5% of our donations come from individuals. There are various ways to make individual donations:

  • Take out a monthly standing order. This is extremely helpful to us, as the income is regular and predictable.   Download a Standing Order Form, and a Gift Aid Form to set up your regular donation.
  • Make a one-off, individual donation via Just our Giving page at https://www.justgiving.com/evebrookscholarship. It’s helpful for us if you can specify whether the gift is a donation or a payment (for instance, for Christmas cards);
  • Donate by sending a cheque to us at 48 Clarence Rd, Birmingham B13 9UH. We can also provide our bank details, available from evebrookfund@gmail.com;
  • For City of Birmingham or Birmingham Children’s Trust employees, donating directly by completing a Payroll_Giving_Form, giving the Fund’s name, address, charity number and amount to be deducted.

 

Individual support

As well as making donations individuals can support us and get involved in a number of different ways, including:

  • Undertaking an EBSF sponsored activity – in our 2018 our 20/20 challenge supporters undertook a triathlon and the Three Peaks challenge, walked the Pennine Way, ran the Race to the Stones from the Chilterns to the North Wessex Downs and did a parachute jump. Overall, the Fund raised £38,120 in 2018, our 20th anniversary year;
  • Buying our Christmas cards - purchases help to finance the cards we send to supporters and our annual Newsletter, helping to keep the amount we give to young people at 95%; and
  • Attending our on-going programme of fundraising events.
Fundraising Events