Rest-Harrow Trust

The Rest-Harrow Trust is a long-established discretionary grant-making charity, registered in 1965, dedicated to supporting a broad spectrum of charitable activities across England and Wales through flexible micro-grants. Its enduring mission focuses on relieving hardship and advancing wellbeing for vulnerable groups, embodying a compassionate, voluntary ethos of practical philanthropy without bureaucracy. As a true generalist funder, it prioritizes disability support, education and training, health and life-saving efforts, overseas aid and famine relief, poverty alleviation, and general charitable purposes, benefiting children and young people, elderly individuals, people with disabilities, those of particular ethnic or racial origins, and other charities or voluntary bodies.

It funds diverse revenue grants, including project work, core costs, and emergency relief, typically unrestricted to enable targeted community impact. Eligible applicants are UK-registered charities of all sizes, with a preference for small and grassroots organizations; there are no strict income thresholds, geographic base restrictions, or religious limitations, allowing support throughout the UK and occasionally overseas.

Grants range from £100 to £200, occasionally up to £2,000, awarded on a rolling basis via simple written letters sent by post—no online forms, preliminary enquiries, or fixed deadlines required. Trustees review applications as received, emphasizing prompt, discretionary decisions. Distinctively, the Trust avoids thematic restrictions or rigid criteria, setting it apart by empowering modest, people-focused projects inaccessible to larger funders, fostering cross-sectoral, inclusive giving for enduring community-level change.