Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent, endowed, charitable foundation. The Trust is the largest of the several dozen Cadbury family foundations.

Their history goes back more than 100 years. The Trust has had a focus on social justice and equality issues from the beginning. Their founders, Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury worked throughout their lives for greater social justice and they carry on in that tradition today in their commitment to bringing about a more just and equal society. Building on their Quaker roots they seek long-term solutions by looking at root causes of inequality.

The problems they address are complex so they often work in partnership and collaboration; with grant-holders, other trusts and foundations, local and national government, to identify solutions.

They focus on a small number of distinct policy areas and try to influence them by building an evidence base, advocating for change and ensuring the voices of people affected by social injustices are heard in the debate.

Much of their work is directed towards change at the national level but where they work locally this is almost always in the Birmingham area.