Bristol-based family grant-making charity, the Banister Charitable Trust is an environmentally focussed grant-making charity which regularly awards grants exceeding £1 million in total each year.

UK registered charities may apply for a grant for projects that conserve, improve, promote and protect the physical and natural environment in the UK. Grants are normally awarded for capital projects. The Trust is a regular supporter of RSPBs, Wildlife Trusts and River Trusts.

The Trust’s objects are to:

o Promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment in the United Kingdom, and
o Further such other purpose or purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales in such manner as the Trustees may in their absolute discretion think fit.

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.

Contact details for the Trust, as provided in its Charity Commission entry, are:

The Banister Charitable Trust
Ludlow Trust Co Ltd
Tower Wharf
Cheese Lane
BRISTOL
BS2 0JJ
Tel: 0117 313 8200
Email: charitabletrusts(at)ludlowtrust.com