Beta Charitable Trust

Beta Charitable Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1198269).

Beta Charitable Trust was set up to build girls' schools in India and Pakistan, and its objects now cover the advancement of education, the preservation of health and the relief of sickness, the prevention or relief of poverty and distress, and the conservation and improvement of the natural environment, all by making grants. In the most recent year on the Charity Commission register it made £1,471,678 in grants to institutions. Its website says its work with partners centres on education, health and nourishment, including food parcels and access to clean water.

Priority Areas

Grants are only made to other charities that demonstrate public benefit. The Trust describes its wider work with partners as supporting vulnerable communities through education, health and nourishment. It works with partners to deliver medication and treatment to people without easy access to healthcare, and provides food parcels as short-term disaster relief or longer-term humanitarian aid. It also identifies clean water, sanitation, food, medical care and education as basic human rights. The website says its projects operate both locally and internationally, with most work in the UK, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Themes

• Education
• Health and medical care
• Food and nutrition
• Water and sanitation
• Environmental conservation
• Housing for poor widows

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Who can apply:

• Grants are only made to other chartities that demonstrate public benefit.

What the charity says:

• It makes grants only to other charities that demonstrate public benefit.