[3] The trust specialises in providing small annual grants to charities across a wide range of charitable activities to pay for running costs.
These partners recommend a shortlist of worthy award winners, but the final decision lies with a judging panel, ensuring independence.
This category of awards recognises individuals and groups who through their volunteering, fundraising and general ongoing support have improved the quality of many people's lives across the UK.
The award winners are volunteers and professionals conducting a range of activities, from working in education in museums and galleries and helping to keep them open to the public, to artists creating new pieces of art and conservationists protecting existing ones.
The winners of these awards are volunteers, historians, historical scientists, and crafts people who work to protect the UK's national heritage and build and uphold local communities and social networks.