Simon & Elizabeth Batey Charitable Trust

The trust supports a wide range of charitable activities across England and Wales, with a particular focus on relieving poverty, sickness and distress, advancing education, and other purposes for public benefit. It funds general charitable purposes, including core costs, unrestricted support, and occasionally capital needs. Past grants have supported health, social care, and education, but the trust has no thematic or sectoral restrictions, allowing it to respond flexibly to a variety of needs. Its broad objects mean it can support work across many fields, from hardship alleviation to healthcare and educational initiatives.

The trust only supports UK-registered charities operating in England and Wales. It prefers established medium-to-larger organisations rather than grassroots groups, though there are no formal income thresholds. The trust does not prioritise specific beneficiary groups; its focus is on public benefit across its charitable objects. There is no religious restriction on applicants. The trust does not accept unsolicited applications; charities are considered through the trustees' networks.

The trust does not fund direct individual aid or project-specific grants. It avoids open calls for applications, instead making grants at the trustees' discretion through their networks. There are no thematic or sectoral restrictions on the causes it supports.

The trust offers flexible, unrestricted grants, including core costs and occasionally capital needs. Grants are awarded at the trustees' discretion through their networks; the trust does not accept unsolicited applications. It does not have a published application process.