The Polonia Aid Foundation Trust (PALF) offers financial assistance to support education, culture and historical research with a Polish focus. This includes supporting publications, exhibitions and symposia. There is a particular emphasis on Polish history since 1914 and the emigre movement.
Although the charitable objects of the Polonia Aid Foundation Trust embrace all Poles throughout the world and in principle do not limit the Trust's activities to special groups or causes, its long established and agreed practice is to give precedence in granting donations to the following:
Providing financial assistance for the charitable purposes of the Federation of Poles in Great Britain, the Polish Society of Arts and Sciences Abroad, the Polish Cultural Foundation, the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, the Polish Library, and similar institutions.
- Assisting the education of Poles abroad by financing the publication of books, magazines, etc. and by giving financial assistance to appropriate educational and youth organisations.
- Benefiting Polish communities by giving financial assistance to Polish theatre groups, etc. and to congresses, exhibitions, symposia, etc on Polish themes, and
- Advancing education by providing financial assistance with the publication of books and research papers of historical or scientific value, with particular emphasis on Polish history since 1914, the political, military and social aspects of the emigracja niepodleglosciowa (free Polish emigre movements) of 1939-1990, and the post Second World War Polish settlement abroad.
The trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.
Please note that the Trust does not have a website. Further information is, however, available on the Charity Commission website.
Applications may be made at any time in writing. The Trustees meet four times a year, where the list of donations for that quarter is agreed.