Taurus Foundation

The Taurus Foundation is a small, highly selective UK-based charitable trust, established by trust deed on 12 January 2009 and registered as charity number 1128441. Administered by a board of twelve autonomous trustees, it advances impactful charitable work aligned with English law, guided by core values of stewardship, inclusion, wellbeing, and cultural heritage. Distinctively, it maintains a low public profile with hands-on governance, rejecting bureaucracy and favouring direct trustee-led research, site visits, and interviews to identify grantees, rather than open calls.

It prioritises six themes: biodiversity and species conservation (with environmental focus), arts, welfare of disadvantaged and marginalised groups, mental health, domestic animal welfare, and projects with Jewish connections. Funding supports diverse activities like environmental sustainability, social inclusion, wellbeing initiatives, cultural engagement, and Jewish heritage protection—exemplified by grants to organisations such as Fine Cell Work for prisoner rehabilitation through arts. Beneficiaries are UK charities demonstrating strong mission alignment, receiving flexible, typically unrestricted grants for core costs, operations, or projects, often renewable to foster long-term partnerships.

Eligible entities are strictly UK-registered charities with no income size thresholds, operating UK-wide across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland; geography is not restrictive beyond a UK base. Trustees support small, medium, and larger organisations based on thematic fit. Grants typically range from £10,000 to £50,000, with annual expenditure near £500,000. There is no application process—unsolicited enquiries are ignored—and funding occurs on a rolling basis via periodic trustee meetings, with no deadlines or published guidelines. This trustee-proactive, flexible approach sets Taurus apart in the UK funding landscape.