
Welcome to Sunrise
What we do
Sunrise was established to raise funds, evaluate and consider applications from organisations working with disadvantaged individuals and grant financial assistance to selected charities and individuals to help deliver vital services in the community.
How we help
Donations will be made to the organisations or individuals who present evidence of their identified need within their community and a well considered plan of how they will deliver their services to meet that need in an inclusive and non discriminatory way, wherever possible using a local workforce.

Our history
The founding Trustee of the Sunrise Foundation enjoyed a long career in education in Bristol until a visit to Perú in 2007 led to her embarking upon a series of volunteer programmes in Peru and Bolivia. She became involved in one particular community in the Cusco region of Peru, regularly visiting to help in a special school run by a UK charity and slowly learning Spanish. She spent many months helping in classrooms, leading aerobics sessions, teaching crafts and generally supporting the team in their work with children affected by a range of conditions including cerebral palsy, Down’s syndrome, autism, deafness and other conditions affecting mobility, speech and mental faculties.
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Eventually, she took over the running of the charity for a year and learned much more about the needs within the community and the problems facing those trying to address those needs. With these years of experience and the benefit of travel and research it was very clear that whilst language and culture may vary, problems relating to disability are all too similar around the world and in many communities, the problems for the affected families are exacerbated by poverty and lack of basic health or social care. So, this experience and the fact that she had engaged in fundraising activities for a number of charities in the UK over many years, she began to see a way of inviting applications for funding to support therapy, equipment transport and education, to help improve lives. She could see a way to help to get a good job done. All of this inspired the creation of Sunrise. Almost 10 years after the start of this journey, in 2017, with 3 friends who became trustees, Sunrise was born.
Sunrise Trustees

Maggie Glastonbury
Sunrise CIO Founder

Bryan Glastonbury
Sunrise Trustee

Paul Salmons
Sunrise Trustee/Accountant

Richard Barnes
Sunrise Trustee

Sophie Brooke
Sunrise Trustee