Downside Abbey General Trust

• The Trust describes its purpose as supporting a monastic community and Catholic, Benedictine life, and its recorded institutional grants include rent support for a school using its buildings, so work outside that religious or educational setting may fit poorly with its stated themes.
• Its annual giving is about £1,290,000, but the grant range is not stated and the sources give no typical grant size, so any request should be modest and clearly costed.
• No geographic focus is stated, although the annual report shows grants mainly in Somerset, which describes where its money has gone rather than who may apply.
• No application process is published in the annual report, its register entry or its website, so any first approach would have to be made without a published route.

The largest grants to organisations in this funder’s latest annual report:

• Downside School
  £1,175,000year to 30 September 2025
• Belmont Abbey
  £115,000year to 30 September 2025

Grant examples taken from the funder’s filed accounts. Not included above: 1 grant to individuals.

• Grants paid, year to 30 September 2021; year to 30 September 2022; year to 30 September 2023; year to 30 September 2024: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).
• Grants paid, year to 30 September 2025: the accounts do not say whether this is grants awarded or paid.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.

• Annual report (year to 30 September 2025)

This profile draws on the funder’s own website as well as its filed accounts.

Sources last checked on 30 October 2026.