About Fair Share Trust

In this section, you can find a wide range of information to help familiarise yourself with the Fair Share Trust. These pages provide insight into who we are, where we have come from, what we are doing and what we are moving towards.

The story so far

This section explains what the Fair Share Trust is and offers an overview of how it works. It also looks at where the Fair Share Trust works and how it came to be working there. Read the full story

Our history

This section is a record of the Big Lottery Fund’s thinking behind the Fair Share Trust and explains the context within which the FST programme was initially developed.

It details the partners involved and the roles they played in the development and delivery of this unique grass-roots funding model. Find out more

Publications

These publications will give you a more detailed picture of what the Fair Share Trust aims to do, how it is going about doing this, and the successes and learning so far.

The People's Priorities is a short document highlighting the work in three Fair Share Trust Areas. It was commissioned by Community Foundation Network in 2006. Download publication