The Trust makes a limited number of grant awards each year (5 in its last audited financial year) to registered charities such as hospices in England which specialise in providing care to children suffering with serve disabilities, with a special focus on those with profound and multiple learning difficulties. Individuals may also be awarded a grant.
The objective of the Marian Elizabeth Trust is to promote such charitable causes and purposes for the public benefit as the Trustees think fit, in particular: “to promote the physical and mental welfare of people who suffer from mental illness, incapacity or disability, arrested or incomplete development of mind, psychopathic disorder or any other disorder of the mind”.
The Trust can support hospices over a number of years. Its trustees have stated that they have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate reserves to continue in operational existence for a period of at least the next 12 months.
Please note that the Trust does not have a website. Further information is, however, available on the Charity Commission website.
Because the Trust makes very few grants, which can be over a 3-or-4-year period, the prospect of securing grant support is considered to be slight. However, hospices that may want to submit a letter of application can do so.