Professional Advisors
Whether you are a solicitor, accountant, financial advisor or wealth manager, Two Ridings can help you give the right advice to your private and corporate clients about philanthropy, social investment and charitable giving in Yorkshire.
We have 20 years’ experience as philanthropy advisors, helping donors change the world right on their doorstep.
We can advise you specifically, or work directly with your clients. Either way, our conversations always start around your clients’ interests and how they want to make a difference.
Clients are often interested in the financial return on their giving, the impact it has on local people, issues close to their hearts like rural isolation or children’s wellbeing, and the Yorkshire places they love.
Offering advice on philanthropic planning and local giving aligns your services with your clients’ core values and interests, and sets you apart from your competitors.
Let us help you. This is what Two Ridings is all about.
Cost effective, tax efficient solutions
Through our knowledge and understanding of local needs in communities across Yorkshire, we provide a tailored and cost-effective solution for your client, giving them the flexibility to choose how, when and where they give.
We make giving easy and enjoyable.
We proactively seek out the charities and projects that are making a real impact in the region and report back to your client on the difference their giving has had.
Your clients can visit community organisations to see the impact their giving has or can remain completely anonymous, discretely enjoying their philanthropy from afar.
Investing in a way that works for you
They are many different ways your clients can invest locally:
- Creating their own fund
Let us manage the investment, correspondence, compliance & governance. Your client chooses the places and issues that matter to them. - Adding to an existing fund
Collective giving into an already established fund on an issue they care about enables grants awarded to be larger and more meaningful.
- Transferring a Trust
Let us revitalise an existing Charitable Trust, releasing the responsibility from Trustees and working closely with the Charity Commission. - Leaving a legacy
Enable your clients to leave a positive lasting memory for their loved ones. - Maximising unclaimed client accounts
Use unclaimed client funds to directly fund local charities and community groups alongside their charitable objectives
Women in Business Giving Circle
A fund for women, funded by women
The Women in Business Giving Circle is an opportunity for professional women in North Yorkshire to join other women in a collective fund to invest in projects that directly affect women, addressing issues like domestic abuse, inequality and the menopause.
See your support in action
Meet quarterly for networking, make funding decisions by sitting on the funding panels and see your support in action through visits to the projects and groups funded.
Contact Celia McKeon to discuss your giving.
Philanthropic solutions in Yorkshire
YORKSHIRE FORCES FAMILY AND VETERANS FUND
Modernising an inherited fund
What do you do when you have inherited an old charitable trust called 'Relief in cases of need of widows and orphans of officers in the Diocese of Ripon who lost their lives in active service' and don't know what to do with it?
Contact Two Ridings! We modernised it to the Yorkshire Forces Family and Veterans Fund and now it is used to support veterans and their families all over Yorkshire
RICHARD WEARE ENDOWMENT FUND
Honouring the legalities of a Founder
"In broad measure I believe in supporting young people to help them fulfil their potential. Too often young people were prevented from an opportunity because they were from a one parent family who could not afford to help one sibling at the expense of another" Richard Weare
Richard Weare was a Jeweller in Harrogate who set up a charitable trust in 1999. With government match funding, when it came to be managed by Two Ridings it was worth over £1million. On taking over the fund, the trustees of the Charitable Trust were invited to stay involved thus ensuring Richard's original wishes were honoured. The Fund has helped hundreds of small community groups with projects supporting Richard's original vision.
Women and Girls Fund
Revitalising outdated funds
When an old charitable trust is all about 'helping fallen women', it can be a dilemma to know what to do. Two Ridings are perfectly placed to offer advice on revitalising outdated funds so they can benefit people and communities all over the region.
Two Ridings transformed the York Moral Welfare Trust into the Women and Girls Fund which now regularly funds positive support for grassroots organisations supporting women all over the city.
Contact our Chief Executive
Contact Celia to talk through your clients’ philanthropy and charitable giving needs in Yorkshire.
Call Celia on 07519 485103
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