A long table at a partner meeting — several mugs, an agenda, a typed letter, an empty seat for the absent one.
In quiet company with

Those whose work we share.

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.

Our four landlords & closest neighbours

The Salisbury circle.

In residence with us since 2010

Sarum College

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

Cathedral of our diocese

Salisbury Cathedral

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

Our bishop & her advisor

The Diocese of Salisbury

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

For the library

The University of Birmingham, Department of Theology & Religion

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

Brothers and sisters in the Rule

The Anglican Benedictine family.

Our daughter, since 1969

St Gregory's Abbey, Three Rivers, Michigan

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.

The English Benedictine sisters

The Sisters of the Love of God, Fairacres

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.

Our wider network

The Anglican Religious Communities

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.

At work in the four counties

Frontline partners we fund and learn from.

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.

Worcestershire

Pershore Foodbank

Largest annual partner since 2019. £8,400 received over six years. Run by a small parish team out of the United Reformed Church hall.

Worcestershire

Vale of Evesham Family Refuge

Receives a yearly grant toward emergency clothing and a small library of children's books. Five years of partnership.

Buckinghamshire

Wycombe Homeless Connection

Three years of grants toward the night-shelter laundry rota. Founded in 1996; we joined in 2022.

Berkshire

Speen Parish Lunch Club

Originally founded by the brothers in 1989 from Elmore. Still running. £180 last year for jam. Some things stay small on purpose.

Berkshire

Sue Ryder Duchess of Kent Hospice

Six years of small grants toward respite-stay overnight bag kits. We do not fund hospice salaries; we fund the bag with the toothbrush.

Wiltshire

Wiltshire Older Persons Alliance

Co-funder, with the Trust, of the Sunday Doors county-wide co-ordinator post. Six years of partnership; a strategic friend.

Wiltshire

Salisbury Welcomes (refugee resettlement)

Since 2022, partner in the refugee-retreats stream of the Pershore Hospitality Fellowship. 40 retreats hosted in 2025.

Wiltshire

Naomi House Children's Hospice

Three years of small grants toward a parents' overnight room. We do not fund building works; we fund the kettle in the room.

Worcestershire

Pershore Heritage Trust

A friendly local-history society. We co-host an annual Pershore Pilgrimage Day in May, remembering the 1914 founding.

If you would like to become a partner

We work slowly and write back.

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.