THE GILCHRIST EDUCATIONAL TRUST: GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS
Grants, usually for between £500 and £4,000, are available to UK registered charities and UK registered companies working in the UK and/or overseas to fill an educational gap or make a particular aspect of education or learning more widely available.
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o Application deadline: SATURDAY 28th FEBRUARY 2026.
o Funder: The Gilchrist Educational Trust (founded 1840. Charity number 313877. Total charitable expenditure during the year ended 28 February 2025: £104,508 (2024: £104,650)).
o Who can apply: UK registered charities or UK registered companies working in the UK and/or overseas.
o Key words: Education, Learning, Furniture, Equipment, Overseas, United Kingdom.
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The Gilchrist Educational Trust makes grants to:
1. Organisations seeking to fill academic educational gaps in the UK and/or overseas.
2. Individuals who are either within the sight of the end of a self-financed degree or higher education course and who are facing unexpected financial difficulty, or are required, as part of a university course, to study abroad, and
3. Expeditions proposing to carry out scientific research.
The Trust’s Grants to Organisations programme is currently open to applications with a deadline of the end of February 2026.
Grants, generally for between £500 and £4,000, are available for UK charities that are carrying out educational projects which fill an educational gap or make a particular aspect of education or learning more widely available.
Applications should meet the following criteria:
o The project should be capable of benefiting a number of people.
o The funds sought will be used for a particular academic educational project, or for a specific purpose such as furniture or equipment, and not as an addition to the general funds of the applicant. Funds are not available for social educational projects.
o If the project is overseas the application must come from an organisation in the UK.
o The proposal should not duplicate work already being done by another organisation or by the Gilchrist Educational Trust, and
o The applying organisation must be either registered as a charity in the UK or as a company in the UK.
Funding is not available for:
o Primary or Secondary Schools.
o Organisations or groups seeking funds to be used exclusively to build or renovate buildings.
o Organisations or groups which show evidence of party political bias.
o Organisations or groups formed for medical purposes, unless there is a significant educational element in the proposal for which funds are sought.
o Organisations or groups seeking funds to help meet administrative or running costs, or
o Organisations or groups seeking such a large sum that any contribution from this Trust would be a mere “drop in the ocean.
Applications from organisations are considered by the Trustees in April or May each year and must be submitted by the end of February at the latest. Applications are unlikely to be considered for funding in consecutive years.
Application forms can be obtained by e-mail from the Secretary, Isabel Turner, at secretary@gilchristgrants.org.
The deadline for applications is Saturday 28th February 2026.
Contact details for the Trust are:
Isabel Turner
Secretary
The Gilchrist Educational Trust
43 Fern Road
Storrington
Pulborough
West Sussex
RH20 4LW
Email: secretary@