Tabeel Trust

Tabeel Trust is a UK-registered charity established on 29 January 1974, dedicated to supporting evangelical Christian activities through grants to organisations, projects, and initiatives where trustees hold established personal interests and connections. Its mission centres on promoting Christian belief, teaching, worship, and outreach, guided by a trustee-driven ethos that prioritises relational discernment over formal strategies, ensuring continuity in faith-based engagement without adapting to broader secular trends.

The Trust funds church-based activities, missionary work, religious education, and faith-linked community initiatives, targeting small-to-medium evangelical organisations such as churches, mission societies, and grassroots groups within trustee networks. Interventions emphasise direct spiritual advancement, with project and core support provided to beneficiaries advancing evangelical values.

Eligible entities include UK-registered evangelical Christian charities of any size, though preference leans toward smaller, local-level groups; there are no strict income thresholds, geographic restrictions (funding spans the UK and occasionally internationally), or formal entity requirements beyond alignment with trustees' interests. Unsolicited applications are not accepted—funding is strictly invite-only, with rolling trustee decisions and no deadlines, public forms, or guidance.

Typical grants are modest, likely in the low thousands of pounds, based on annual reports. Distinctively, Tabeel excludes secular, non-evangelical, or unrelated causes, operating via a highly personalised, relationship-led model that differentiates it from open-process funders, making it ideal for trustee-connected evangelical networks but inaccessible to others.