A small Trust does not stand alone. The Pershore Nashdom and Elmore Trust works in close partnership with a small handful of institutions in Salisbury, in the four counties of our pilgrim history, and across the Anglican Benedictine family worldwide.
An independent ecumenical Christian study centre within the Salisbury Cathedral Close. Sarum offers the community its hospitality — bed, refectory, chapel, library — in exchange for the brothers' presence and a modest agreed rent paid by the Trust. The College also hosts the Dom Gregory Dix scholars and the Compline at Eight congregation.
Partnership since 2010 · sarum.ac.uk
The Trust's Prior is a Six Preacher of the Cathedral; the Gregory Dix Memorial Lecture is held in the Cathedral's Chapter House each autumn; on the Feast of Saint Benedict our brothers process from the Close to the Cathedral for Solemn Evensong. The Cathedral's choristers occasionally sing Compline with us.
Companionship since 2010 · salisburycathedral.org.uk
Mrs Penelope Wace, Bishop's Adviser for Religious Communities, sits as the fifth trustee of the Trust by virtue of her diocesan office. The Diocese also helps administer DBS checks for our Sunday Doors volunteers, free of charge.
Diocesan link since 2010 · salisbury.anglican.org
Partner since 2021 in the five-year digitisation of the Nashdom manuscript archive. The University holds the master images; the Trust retains intellectual ownership. Two doctoral students in Birmingham are working on Nashdom-related theses.
Partnership since 2021 · birmingham.ac.uk
Founded by monks of Nashdom in 1935, independent since 1969. We hold a sister-house concordat: novices may transfer between houses, the bursars exchange notes on investment, and on the Feast of St Gregory we keep silence for one another.
An Anglican contemplative community in Oxford. We share a Rule, a chant tradition, and an annual joint retreat each Eastertide. The Sisters' Prioress preaches at our Patronal Mass every third year.
The umbrella body for Anglican religious orders, of which we are members. Through ARC we participate in the triennial gathering of religious in the Communion and in shared safeguarding standards.
A small list — not the full forty-seven — of frontline charities with whom we have worked over multiple grant cycles. We list them because they are doing the harder work; the Trust's gifts are small flickers beside their steady fires.
Largest annual partner since 2019. £8,400 received over six years. Run by a small parish team out of the United Reformed Church hall.
Receives a yearly grant toward emergency clothing and a small library of children's books. Five years of partnership.
Three years of grants toward the night-shelter laundry rota. Founded in 1996; we joined in 2022.
Originally founded by the brothers in 1989 from Elmore. Still running. £180 last year for jam. Some things stay small on purpose.
Six years of small grants toward respite-stay overnight bag kits. We do not fund hospice salaries; we fund the bag with the toothbrush.
Co-funder, with the Trust, of the Sunday Doors county-wide co-ordinator post. Six years of partnership; a strategic friend.
Since 2022, partner in the refugee-retreats stream of the Pershore Hospitality Fellowship. 40 retreats hosted in 2025.
Three years of small grants toward a parents' overnight room. We do not fund building works; we fund the kettle in the room.
A friendly local-history society. We co-host an annual Pershore Pilgrimage Day in May, remembering the 1914 founding.
We do not run open calls for institutional partnerships, but if your charity works with the very poor in Worcestershire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, or Wiltshire, you are welcome to apply for a Cloister & Common Bread grant — or simply write to the Bursar and tell us what you are doing. We read every letter.
