Strangward Trust
Could Strangward Trust fund your project? Check fit free. Draft if yes — or shortlist better matches.
- Typical grants
- £2,000 – £10,000
- Where they fund
- East Anglia, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire
- Applications
- Accepted
- How to apply
- Email application
- Decisions
- Bi annually
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register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.ukAbout Strangward Trust
The Strangward Trust has an enduring mission to enhance quality of life through care, treatment, and support for people with physical or mental disabilities. Guided by values of direct beneficiary wellbeing, independence, and practical, evidence-based impact, the Trust favours person-centred approaches that enable charities to deliver essential services, equipment, and therapies fostering autonomy and resilience. The Trust is distinctive for its decades-long, singular focus on East Anglia’s disability needs, interpreting its founding purpose broadly and inclusively to encompass diverse needs. Its philosophy prioritises substantial, measurable benefits over innovation or systemic change.
What Strangward Trust funds
The Trust funds disability support covering physical disabilities, mental health challenges, learning disabilities, and complex health needs. It supports children, adults, and families in local communities across East Anglia, particularly in underserved rural and regional areas. Activities funded include therapeutic counselling, arts-based social enterprises, creative activities, disease-specific support, specialist therapies, independence equipment, and children’s mental health interventions. Interventions focus on direct care, day services, respite-like equipment, holistic therapies, and core costs that enable ongoing service delivery. The geographic priority is East Anglia, specifically Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, and Bedfordshire.
Who can apply
The Strangward Trust welcomes applications from registered charities and social enterprises working directly with people with physical or mental disabilities. Priority is given to organisations rooted in East Anglia, particularly those serving underserved rural and regional communities. Beneficiaries include children, adults, and families facing physical disabilities, mental health challenges, learning disabilities, or complex health needs. The Trust values person-centred approaches and evidence of direct, tangible impact on beneficiaries’ quality of life. There is no religious restriction.
What Strangward Trust doesn't fund
The Trust does not fund capacity building, emergency relief, unrestricted funding, or property provision. Its focus is exclusively on direct benefits for physically or mentally disabled people, rather than indirect or national-scale efforts. This means it supports only interventions that have a tangible, person-centred impact.
How they like to fund
The Trust funds both project costs and core costs that enable ongoing service delivery. It welcomes unsolicited applications from eligible organisations. Funding is directed towards direct care, equipment, therapies, and day services that foster independence and resilience. The Trust favours person-centred approaches and evidence of practical, measurable benefits.
How much does Strangward Trust give?
Typical published range. What your charity could realistically get — and whether you would clear their rules on income, location and legal structure — is the free fit check.
When to apply, and how long their decisions take.
Income, location, legal structure and exactly who they fund — matched to your charity.
Good to know
How to apply to Strangward Trust
Strangward Trust takes applications via email application.
- Decisions are typically bi annually.
- Check whether your charity is in scope before you spend time on a full bid.
How it works
- 1Describe your project. Once — used for this funder and others.
- 2See if this could be a fit. Honest check on cause, place, size, and rules.
- 3Draft if yes. From your real data — or move on if not.
See if Strangward Trust could be a fit. Draft if yes.
Strangward Trust on the charity register
Registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales as THE STRANGWARD TRUST, charity number 1036494.
Frequently asked questions
How much funding does Strangward Trust provide?
Strangward Trust typically provides grants of £2,000 - £10,000.
Where does Strangward Trust fund charities?
Strangward Trust funds charities operating in East Anglia, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire.
Does Strangward Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Strangward Trust accepts unsolicited applications from eligible organisations. Current programme status is on this page — do not assume a round is open.
How do I apply for funding from Strangward Trust?
Strangward Trust takes applications via email application. Decisions are typically bi annually.
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