S G Charitable Trust

S G Charitable Trust is a longstanding independent grant-making trust established on 14 July 1994 and registered with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) under number SC022808. Based primarily in London, it advances education, religion, and health through a traditional, trustee-directed approach, supporting institutions and individuals to foster improvement and opportunity in these core areas. With no published mission statement or strategic plan, its ethos emphasizes broad charitable benefit via discretionary grants to aligned registered charities, reflecting sustained annual expenditures of £750,000 to over £1 million.

The trust funds activities advancing education (e.g., schools, training), religion (e.g., faith-based initiatives), and health (e.g., healthcare improvements), including project costs, core funding, and general charitable work. It takes a generalist stance within these pillars, backing established organisations delivering public benefit without narrow thematic priorities, exclusions by subgroup, or innovative pilots.

Eligible applicants are strictly UK-registered charities based in the UK with activities primarily outside Scotland; no income thresholds or size restrictions apply, favouring varied-scale entities. It does not accept unsolicited applications—grants are trustee-selected with no public process, forms, deadlines, or meeting schedules.

Distinctive for its low-profile, donor-driven model and consistent high spend, the trust avoids issue-specific or experimental funding, prioritising conventional outcomes in education, religion, and health across the UK (ex-Scotland). Charities closely aligned with these purposes via public benefit activities are ideal fits.