THE C T THOMAS TRUST
Generally small grants under £5,000 are available for registered charities for a wide range of charitable projects across the United Kingdom.
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o Application deadline: none – applications may be made at any time in writing.
o Funder: The C J Thomas Trust (founded 1994. Charity number 1036285. Total value of all grants awarded during the year ended 31 March 2024: £95,250 (2023: £55,743)).
o Who can apply: UK registered charities.
o Key words: General Charitable Purposes, Unpopular Causes, Citizenship, Community Development, Education, Environment, Health, Saving of Lives, Human Rights, Equality, Diversity, Religion, Arts, Culture, Heritage, Science, Relief of Poverty, Children and Young People, Disability/Disabled, Disadvantage, Armed Forces, United Kingdom.
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The C T Thomas Trust is a discretionary grant-making charity that supports a wide variety of charitable projects and organisations across the UK. The Trust considers itself to be a broad, generalist and predominantly reactive grant maker, with a policy of selecting the best projects from applications received in order to achieve the maximum possible beneficial social impact.
In particular, the Trust’s grant-making seeks to alleviate need and distress, and help people lead more fulfilling lives. To ensure a good level of social impact, the Trust prefers to fund organisations which experience real difficulty in obtaining funding from elsewhere and which demonstrate evidence of effective work meeting a compelling need. For this reason, many of the grants are aimed at funding smaller organisations and those without public appeal.
During the year ended 31st March 2024, the Trust awarded grants totalling £95,250.
Grants, which are generally for under £5,000, were awarded against the following headings:
o Gifts for the benefit of a particular locality: £0 (2023: £3,250).
o The advancement of citizenship or community development: £4,500 (2023: £9,493).
o The advancement of education: £1,500 (2023: £3,000).
o The advancement of health or saving of lives: £51,250 (2023: £21,500).
o The advancement of human rights, equality and diversity: £10,000 (2023: £0).
o The advancement of religion: £ (2023: £3,000).
o The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science: £10,000. (2023: £4,000).
o The prevention or relief of poverty: £7,500 (2023: £0).
o The protection of the environment: £2,500 (2023: £0).
o The relief of those in need by reason of youth, disability or other disadvantage: £6,000 (2023: £10,500), and
o The support of the armed forces of the Crown: £2,000 (2023: £1,000).
The Trust does not have a website, nor does it provide a list of grant recipients in its annual accounts. Further information is, however, available on the Charity Commission website.
Applications may be made at any time in writing, addressed to:
The Trustees
The C T Thomas Trust
C/o Dyke Ruscoe & Hayes Ltd
Chartered Certified Accountants
38 Teme Street
Tenbury Wells
Worcestershire
WR15 8AA
(The Trust does not advertise an email address.)