The Tresanton Trust’s principal source of funding is its investment income from the charity's interest in freehold property held by the Hatton Garden Trust.

The Trust focuses its grant-making on the following areas:

o Children’s welfare.
o Medical research.
o Social justice and issues impacting on the poor, and
o Wildlife & the Environment.

The Trust provides grant funding over extended periods and for this reason has specifically adopted a strategy of providing multi-year funding to selected beneficiaries.

Grants awarded during the year ended 30 November 2020 totalled £268,116 (2019: £1,002,488). A number of these were repeat grants, in line with the trust’s policy of providing multi-year funding. However, awards were also made to new applicants.

Grants awarded ranged from under £10,000 to £50,000 (to Nyumbani UK, which provides education to orphaned and vulnerable children affected by HIV in Kenya).

Grants were awarded against the following headings:

o Children and youth welfare: £ 103,600 (2019: £448,105).
o Medical research: £40,000 (2019: £131,833).
o Social justice & poverty: £60,000 (2019: £284,000), and
o Wildlife & environmental: £25,294 (2019: £96,694).

All principal grant recipients are listed on page 17 of the Trust’s annual report.

Please note that the Trust does not maintain a website. Further information is, however, available on the Charity Commission website.

Day to day management of the Trust is carried out its two principal trustees, Shelley Lawson and Jerry Lawson, who meet regularly to discuss and approve grant expenditure.

Applications may be made at any time in writing, addressed to:

Shelley Lawson and Jerry Lawson
The Tresanton Trust
Birch Hall
Church Road
Windlesham
Surrey
GU20 6BN
Email: info(at)tresantontrust.com
(The Trust does not advertise a 'phone number.)