Grants, usually for between £500 and £4,000, are available to UK registered charities and UK registered companies working in the UK and/or overseas to fill an educational gap or make a particular aspect of education or learning more widely available.
The Gilchrist Educational Trust makes grants to:
- Organisations seeking to fill academic educational gaps in the UK and/or overseas.
- Individuals who are either within the sight of the end of a self-financed degree or higher education course and who are facing unexpected financial difficulty, or are required, as part of a university course, to study abroad, and
- Expeditions proposing to carry out scientific research.
The Trust’s Grants to Organisations programme is currently open to applications with a deadline of the end of February 2026.
Grants, generally for between £500 and £4,000, are available for UK charities that are carrying out educational projects which fill an educational gap or make a particular aspect of education or learning more widely available.
Applications should meet the following criteria:
- The project should be capable of benefiting a number of people.
- The funds sought will be used for a particular academic educational project, or for a specific purpose such as furniture or equipment, and not as an addition to the general funds of the applicant. Funds are not available for social educational projects.
- If the project is overseas the application must come from an organisation in the UK.
- The proposal should not duplicate work already being done by another organisation or by the Gilchrist Educational Trust, and
- The applying organisation must be either registered as a charity in the UK or as a company in the UK.
Applications from organisations are considered by the Trustees in April or May each year and must be submitted by the end of February at the latest. Applications are unlikely to be considered for funding in consecutive years.
Application forms can be obtained by e-mailing the Secretary. Completed forms should be returned by e-mail to the same address and a hard signed copy, together with any required enclosures, by post.
The deadline for applications is 28 February 2026.