The trust has derived its funding principally from donations from employers and trade unions. Initially, many of these had been clients of David Wainwright before his death. There were also, and still are, many individual supporters as well.

Occasionally, specific activities are sponsored by organizations. The work on the Equal Value Training Manual was entirely funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the publication was undertaken jointly with the Trades Union Congress. The Cement Roof was printed by Midland Bank plc and the private sector research for the report on Decentralisation and Devolution was partly funded by British Gas plc. The second annual lecture Equality at Work: an ethical investment?, given by Baroness Amos, was partly sponsored by the Co-operative Bank.

The trust currently has money invested in a fund devised especially for charities, M&G's Charibond Common Investment Bond.

The trustees have now reached a situation where they must raise further finance before any major project can be undertaken. Otherwise, reserves will be reduced to a level which might not allow the trust to continue even its basic activities.

Donations, therefore, are very welcome. These may be made by cheque, payable to the Wainwright Trust. If you pay UK income tax, the trust will be able to recover basic rate tax: please complete a Gift Aid form which you can download by clicking here — Acrobat Reader required. This adds 28% to your gift without costing you anything. If you pay higher rate tax you yourself can recover this additional tax by including the donation on your self-assessment form.

You can also make make a credit or debit card donation tax-efficiently through the Charities Aid Foundation. Click on the button below. Please note that if you make a donation in this way, the Trust will not receive it until the Charities Aid Foundation has recovered the tax. As a result, the Trust will not be aware of your donation for several weeks.

Alternatively, you can make a donation with a Charities Aid Foundation cheque or with a CAF CharityCard. Click on the symbol below to find out about CharityCard. If you already have a CharityCard click here for secure online giving.

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Make Everyclick your default search engine and generate a payment to the Wainwright Trust at no cost to yourself every time you search the web. Everyclick gives half its revenue to charity in proportion to the number of clicks for each charity. It is powered by Ask.com.

Click "Search" above and then click on the home symbol in the top right corner to make Everyclick your home page, or click on the heart symbol to put it in your favourites list.

With some browsers, such as Internet Explorer 7 or Mozilla Firefox, you can make Everyclick your default search engine in the tooolbar. Click on the drop down menu by the search box and follow the instructions.

Have you received a self-assessment tax return? If so, you will see that you can give some or all of any tax rebate due to you to a charity. The Revenue will add 28% to any rebate you pass to charity. Please consider giving it to the Wainwright Trust.

Here is what you have to do. Tick box 19A.1 and complete box 19A.2 if appropriate. Enter our code, which is F A J 46 Y G, in box 19A.3 and tick box 19A.4. If you want the Revenue to tell us who you are, tick box 19A.5 as well. If you pay higher rate tax, keep a note of all this. You can claim the higher rate tax back on your next tax return in a year's time.