Thomas Sivewright Catto Charitable Settlement

The Thomas Sivewright Catto Charitable Settlement is an independent grant-making trust with a mission to advance charitable purposes across the UK through trustee-led discretionary giving, emphasizing flexibility, broad impact, and support for established charities delivering essential services. Core values include trustee autonomy in fostering welfare, health, and cultural enrichment, believing sustainable change arises from empowering recognized organizations with unrestricted or core funding to sustain frontline activities, medical research, and community wellbeing without rigid strategies or thematic constraints.

It supports diverse interventions addressing cancer care and support via Macmillan Cancer Support, motor neurone disease research and services, kidney patient welfare through British Kidney Patient Association, Alzheimer's care, children with learning disabilities and developmental conditions via bibic, family carer support through Carers Trust, brain condition services for children via Cerebra, Crohn's disease research in childhood, STEM education via Engineering Development Trust, stroke support via InterAct, spinal cord injury research, disabled children and families via KIDS, meningitis awareness and support, disability rehabilitation via Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People, older people welfare via Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association, hospice care via Salisbury Hospice Charity, ex-forces welfare via Special Boat Service Association, ovarian cancer support, pregnancy and baby loss services via Tommy’s, arts and heritage preservation via Academy of Ancient Music, leukodystrophy family support, and mobility aids for events. Funded activities encompass medical research, patient support groups, respite care, therapeutic rehabilitation, educational programs, peer support, advocacy, day services, residential care, and cultural access, prioritizing person-centred care, preventative health measures, and holistic family support for those with complex health needs, physical disabilities, neurological conditions, and chronic illnesses.

Distinctive for its enduring generalist remit and preference for well-established national UK charities over niche innovators, it excludes non-UK entities and non-charitable purposes, focusing on mainstream beneficiaries like families caring for disabled children, isolated older people, carers facing exhaustion, children with brain conditions or learning disabilities, veterans with mobility challenges, and patients with cancers, dementias, or rare diseases, valuing evidence-based welfare, unrestricted flexibility, and trustee-driven alignment with broad charitable impact.