George Cadbury Trust (Edward Cadbury Section)

The George Cadbury Trust (Edward Cadbury Section) is a longstanding charitable trust embodying Cadbury family philanthropy to advance Quakerism through the Religious Society of Friends, centering spiritual life, social action, and practical witness. Core values of simplicity, equality, justice, peace, and environmental stewardship drive funding decisions, prioritizing faith-led transformation, ethical practice, and cultivation of inclusive, peaceful communities. They believe enduring change arises from empowering Quaker-rooted organizations via trust-based partnerships, long-term support for core costs and projects, and relational grantmaking that amplifies grassroots Quaker testimony in society.

They fund Quaker-aligned activities spanning spiritual nurturing through contemplative practices and faith communities fostering mental health wellbeing and emotional resilience, education initiatives including Quaker schools, youth work, mentoring, and skills training for young people building ethical leadership and social responsibility, social welfare programs addressing poverty relief, food insecurity, family support, and advocacy for social justice and inclusion of marginalized individuals, peace-building efforts via advocacy, conflict resolution training, peace centres, and campaigns against violence and war, environmental care through stewardship projects, conservation advocacy, and sustainable community development promoting green spaces and climate justice, community development schemes enhancing social cohesion, peer support groups, befriending for isolated elderly, and holistic services for vulnerable populations rooted in Quaker testimonies. Supported interventions emphasize preventative community-led approaches, person-centred spiritual guidance, trauma-informed peace practices, therapeutic faith-based counselling, and inclusive outreach tackling root causes like inequality, isolation, and ecological harm.

Exclusions encompass non-Quaker aligned work, secular organizations lacking Religious Society of Friends ethos, and activities incompatible with simplicity, peace, or justice principles. Distinctive priorities target Quaker meetings, faith-influenced charities serving beneficiaries including families in poverty, youth pursuing peace activism, isolated individuals seeking spiritual mental health support, ethnic minorities advocating justice, and environmentally conscious communities. Unwavering Quaker identity demands deep values alignment, favouring grassroots faith-led groups, low-bureaucracy relational support, and transformative impact through ethical, testimony-driven social change over scale.