Stone Ashdown Trust
Stone Ashdown Trust (U.K.) (1968–2010)
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Background
- Total Giving: £50,000,000[1]
- Prominent Grants: Primarily to support Jewish causes, including establishing the London School of Jewish Studies. Also worked on humanitarian causes, such as providing internet connections and satellite phones in Cambodia.
- Summary: Sir Joseph Ellis Stone was an officer in the British army and a medical doctor, most notably to Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Upon his death in 1986, the Lord Stone Trust was founded. This was merged with the Lord Ashdown Charitable Settlement to form the Stone Ashdown Trust. The Trust primarily supported Jewish causes, including funding efforts to build partnerships between the Jewish and Muslim communities in Britain. In 2009 the Trust was closed following a structured five-year spend-down period.[2]
In 2005 the Trust provided support services for Alif-Aleph UK including providing its contact email address.[3]
Alif Aleph
According to Stone Ashdown in 2006:
- Stone Ashdown has supported the development of Alif-Aleph (AAUK) through grants and strategic planning and fundraising. The website contains a calendar of events, you can download reports and publications and sign up for newsletters and membership. The newsletter is produced fortnightly, includes articles of interest to membership, with updates on activities of AAUK and of affiliate organisations and individuals.[4]
- Muslim Youth Helpline (MYH) Stone Ashdown was able to support the Muslim Youth Helpline (MYH) through the provision of office accommodation until recently. MYH is a confidential telephone (freephone 0808 808 2008) and email counselling service for young people. All volunteers are aged between 18-25 to build trust and deal effectively with the social pressure that young people from the Muslim community have never before been able to reveal.
Resources
Notes
- ↑ http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/61315/meet-communitys-%C2%A350-million-benefactor
- ↑ https://cspcs.sanford.duke.edu/cspcs-publication/stone-ashdown-trust-u-k-1968-2010/
- ↑ A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews By Fiona Hurst and Mohammed Nisar (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan (Second stage) Supervised by Dilwar Hussain and Dr Keith Kahn-Harris Edited by Rebecca Sharkey Commissioned and published by The Uniting Britain Trust July 2005.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20091109063525/http://www.stoneashdown.org/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=17&Itemid=37
