Small, medium and large capital grants, sometimes over several years, are available to UK registered charities that are working in the areas of conservation and the protection and improvement of the UK’s physical and natural environment.
Bristol-based family grant-making charity, the Banister Charitable Trust is an environmentally focussed grant-making charity which regularly awards grants exceeding £1 million in total each year. The Trust is a regular supporter of RSPBs, Wildlife Trusts and River Trusts.
The Trust’s objects are to:
- Promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment in the United Kingdom, and
- Further such other purpose or purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales in such manner as the Trustees may in their absolute discretion think fit.
Previously, awards have been made for:
- Bird boxes for churches and village halls.
- Education centre gardens and wildlife areas.
- Habitat restoration, and
- Purchasing land.
Applications must be made in writing setting out the project details and either the budgeted cost or the amount being requested.
Please note that the Trust does not have its own website. Further information is, however, available on the Charity Commission website and on the Ludlow Trust Grants Portal (please note that newcomers to the site will be required to create an account).