This Trust, also known as Paul's Trust, makes a limited number of awards to registered charities - and occasionally Community Interest Companies – in England and Wales working in the areas of equality and diversity, support for the LGBTQI community, health, cancer (particularly Angiosarcoma) and the relief of poverty. Charities based in England and Wales but working overseas are also supported.
The charitable objectives of the Paul Cottingham Trust are:
- The promotion of equality and diversity on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, through the awarding of grants to organisations (including charitable organisations) within England and Wales who are:
- Working to eliminate discrimination and inequality on the basis of an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity;
- advancing education and raising awareness of issues relating to sexual orientation or gender identity, and discrimination in connection thereof;
- Promoting activities to foster an understanding in relation to issues surrounding sexual orientation or gender identity;
- conducting or commissioning research on equality or diversity in relation to issues surrounding sexual orientation or gender identity, and publishing the results to the public; and
- Cultivating a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity in relation to persons who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex
- The advancement of health and the saving of person's lives, through the awarding of grants to organisations (including charitable organisations) within England and Wales who are conducting or commissioning research into the treatment and eradication of cancers, including (but not limited to) Angiosarcoma (Angiosarcoma is cancer that forms in the lining of blood vessels and lymph vessels), and
- The relief of poverty, through the awarding of grants to persons (and organisations, including charitable organisations, working with such persons) within England and Wales who themselves (or whose families) are facing financial or other hardship during their treatment resulting from a diagnosis of cancer, including (but not limited to) angiosarcoma.
Please note that the rust does not have a website. Further information is, however, available on the Charity Commission website.
Applications may be made at any time in writing.