The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making charitable trust which supports organisations working across the UK. We do not focus our funding on specific themes or programmes. Instead we want to fund a wide range of people and organisations working to achieve lasting change in their communities. Our role is to support and enable their visions, trusting the groups we fund to do the work that is needed.

Tudor aims to support work which addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people at the margins of our society. We are interested in how organisations tackle these needs, and their root causes. We want to encourage growth, progression and development, not just keeping things as they are.

Although we still make grants across our established funding areas (youth, older people, community, relationships, housing, mental health, substance misuse, learning, financial security and criminal justice) we are also open to hearing about work in areas we have not funded before. Click here to find out more about the key characteristics we look for in the organisations we support.

We receive many more applications than we will ever be able to fund, so we have introduced a two-stage application process. This is designed to reduce the time, effort and resources organisations spend on their first approach to us. All applicants are therefore asked to complete a brief first-stage proposal for initial assessment.

There are some types of organisation and work which we will not consider for funding. Click here for more information about what Tudor doesn’t fund.

Download Tudor Trust Annual Report 2009-2010