Evelyn Trust
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The Evelyn Trust, a Cambridgeshire-based grant-making charity established from the 1920 Evelyn Hospital legacy and reinvested since its 2003 sale, focuses on relieving sickness, protecting health, and advancing medical research and education for Cambridge and surrounding areas. Rooted in family-founded healthcare stewardship, it uniquely bridges high-impact medical science—prioritizing pilot and demonstration projects with transformational potential—and frontline interventions addressing public health, mental health, rural isolation, health inequalities, and needs of marginalized groups like the elderly and immigrants. It supports cutting-edge research at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin, alongside community wellbeing initiatives, innovative care delivery, outreach expansion, and small capital projects for local voluntary organizations.
Eligible applicants include UK-registered charities, community groups, and academic institutions demonstrating significant Cambridgeshire impact and organizational capacity to deliver change; no income thresholds apply, spanning grassroots to major hospitals. National entities must prove clear local benefits; individuals and unrestricted core funding are ineligible.
Grants range from £4,000–£10,000 (small health and wellbeing, rolling with cut-offs 13 March, 11 July, 7 November 2025), £10,000–£120,000 (large health and wellbeing over two years), to £250,000 (medical research over three years), with £500,000–£1.5 million disbursed annually. Unsolicited applications via online Flexigrant portal; contact the Charity Director first for large/research proposals, decided quarterly (large/research deadline: 14 November 2025, outcomes by July 2026). What distinguishes Evelyn is its catalytic role in seed-funding unproven interventions, fostering both scientific breakthroughs and practical local health gains across 400+ grants totaling over £25 million.
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Evelyn Trust typically provides grants ranging from £4,000 - £250,000.
Where does Evelyn Trust fund charities?
Evelyn Trust funds charities operating in Cambridgeshire, Cambridge.
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