As Truck Festival prepares to kick off next month, local Oxfordshire charities and organisations are being urged to apply for Truck Trust grants. READ ABOUT TRUCK’S 2023 LINE-UP HERE
Since 2014, Truck Festival has raised over £500k for local causes and last year 26 organisations benefitted including Be Free Young Carers, Oxfordshire Wildlife Rescue, Aspire Oxford, GroW Families, OFS, Maggie’s Oxford, Bass Therapy, Didcot Barramundi Swimming Club, An Angel of Gracie Charity, BYHP, Style Acre, Life Education Wessex & Thames Valley, One-Eighty, Steventon Darby & Joan Club, Orchard Counselling, Hagbourne and Wallingford Young Pianists.
Further grants were given to APCAM, OYAP Trust, Abingdon Music Centre Trust, Play2Give, NSPCC, Parkinsons.me, Yellow Submarine Holidays, My Life My Choice, Abingdon Youth FC U15 Girls, and the Oxfordshire Elite Girls Football Team.
Born from Truck Festivals’ desire to give back to the local area all year-round, the Truck Trust sits at the heart of everything that makes Truck Festival such a unique and beloved institution.
Awarding grants to a range of different projects and bodies, the Truck Trust is open to all – with a select range chosen to be supporting initiatives at the show this year.
From the Stevenage festival’s famed Feel Good Food Hall (run by volunteers from the local Faringdon + District Rotary Club), to a vast array of initiatives that incorporate Tickets For Good, UN Women’s Safer Spaces Now and more – Truck Festival is not only an unmissable date in the summer festival diary, but aims to be a make a positive impact on the area it calls home.
Organisations are encouraged to apply now with applications open for this year’s Truck Trust until Monday July 3 2023, with full details at: https://truckfestival.com/truck-in-the-community/truck-trust/
TRUCK FESTIVAL runs from July 20-23. For more details go to https://truckfestival.com
