£12,000 has been committed over 3 years to the Comboni Missionary Sisters to finance staff in a Technical School in Uganda.
£2,000 has been donated to provide a school library in Uganda.
£1,500 donated to CAFOD for disaster relief in Angola.
£1,000 has been donated to Rev. Allesandro Sanchi, a Xaverian Priest for an orphanage in South America.
The Trustees have made a commitment to support the upbringing and education of five orphans at a school run by Salvatorian Sisters in Albania.
A group of Albanian orphans playing.
The Trust and the Trustees independently sponsor seminarians in England, the Slovak republic and in India.
The following are some of the Roman Catholic organisations the Trust supports:
Aid to the Church in Need, CHAS, Education Desk for the Children (India), Medical Missionaries of Mary, Missionaries of Don Bosco, The Little Way Association, Tyburn Convent, London.
Other organisations we have supported include:
ActionAid, Bristol Child Poverty Action Group, International Refugee Trust, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Mind, Sight Savers International, World Emergency Relief, and others.
£10,000 donated to CAFOD for emergency relief in Africa.
I have just been informed of the Grant Bradley Charitable Trust's very generous donation of £10,000 towards CAFOD's Africa emergency appeal. I would like to express our sincere thanks for the Grant Bradley Charitable Trust's support."
Julian Filochowski, Director
Charitable Donations and Sponsorship of Religious Artwork
A painting of a Triptych of the Eucharist, £5,000 donation was made to sponsor the artist in the production of this painting which was given to St Patrick's Church, Redfield, Bristol in October 2000.
Painting of the ceiling of St Patrick's Church, Redfield, Bristol. Donations to the sum of £15,000 were made to sponsor the artists, Dumitru Pascari and his son, Paul, for their 8 months work to decorate the entire length of the church ceiling in the Byzantine style in 2000.
18 arm cut glass chandelier - £3,000 donation made to pay for the purchase and restoration of this 1930's German chandelier. The piece resides in the entrance to St Patrick's Church.
Donation of 14 'Stations of the Cross' plates made of glass cameo and 2 holy water stoops from lead crystal glass to celebrate the opening of St Patrick's new Church.
£4,000 donated to St Patrick's in 1997 by a Trustee for the production and installation of a large circular stained glass window housed in the Rear Wall of St Patrick's Church.
£1,100 donation in 1996 and £900 donation in 2001 to St Patrick's Church, made by a Trustee to sponsor the cost of a church pews and chairs.
Donations by a Trustee to cover the cost of a number of the stained glass windows saved from the old Bristol Pro-Cathedral residing within St Patrick's Church since its opening in 1995.
The Trustees have a personal interest in promoting and sponsoring the work of artists that will enhance local communities.
A NEW ARTHUR FLIESCHMANN GALLERY IN BEDMINSTER, BRISTOL
The gallery will house a substantial collection of the works of the internationally renowned artist Arthur Fleischmann. His widow, Mrs Joy Fleischmann, has agreed with the Trustees of the Grant Bradley Charitable Trust, that the gallery will exhibit a wide range of Fleischmann's work on permanent loan from the Arthur Fleischmann Foundation.
£1,000 donated to the Sisters of St. Joseph in Burma.
It is really very kind and generous of you and the other trustees to respond to my request by sending financial aid, in order to help me in my work of educating the poor.
Sister Ann Shwe.
£500 donated to Fr. Lubo Frakas, Solvakia.
I thank you for the gift you have sent me, I was very surprised and for the moment I couldn't belive my eyes
I need a PC for my study, but it was inpossible for me to buy it. But now, when you help me, I acn buy it in a near future. Thank you once more.
Fr. Lubo Frakas.
