Midhurst Pensions Trust
At a glance
Key takeaways
- Midhurst Pensions Trust's primary objectives are limited to hardship relief for people employed by the Settlor's father or mother, by a family company, or on the Cowdray Estate, and for their families, so a small charity whose beneficiaries have no link to those employers or the Estate is unlikely to fit.
- Its wider charitable purposes are broader, and it regularly considers appeals from other charities, so a registered charity can make an appeal for the trustees to weigh.
- No typical grant size or grant range is stated, so ask the Trust before setting a figure rather than assuming one from its total awards of £990,000 in the latest year reported in the annual report.
- Applications are rolling, but nothing says how quickly appeals are considered or how competitive they are, so a short, clear written appeal that shows how your work connects with hardship relief is a sensible first step.
Overview
Midhurst Pensions Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 245230).
Midhurst Pensions Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 245230). It provides for people in necessitous or straitened circumstances connected with employment on the Cowdray Estate or related employment, and for charitable purposes generally. It makes distributions to charitable individuals and regularly considers appeals from other charities. During the year it made grants totalling £1,006,519, and it continues to make grants to charitable organisations on a one-off and recurring basis.
What they fund
Profile based on the charity's Charity Commission register entry and annual report (year to 5 April 2025) only: no website or other web source for the charity was found. Every statement is checked against them. Sources read on 30 October 2026.
Priority Areas
The Trust's primary objectives are to provide for persons in necessitous or straitened circumstances who have been, are, or shall be employed by the Settlor's father or mother, by a family company, or on the Cowdray Estate, and for the parents, wives, widowers, children or more remote issue of those persons. It also has charitable purposes generally. The trustees make distributions to charitable individuals within those definitions and regularly consider appeals from other charities, making policy and funding decisions. It makes grants to charitable organisations on both a one-off and recurring basis.
Themes
- Hardship relief
How to apply
Other charities make appeals for the trustees to consider; the trustees regularly consider those appeals and make policy and funding decisions.
Where they fund
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Grants
The largest grants to organisations in this funder’s latest annual report:
- Cowdray Heritage Trust£990,000year to 5 April 2025
Grant examples taken from the funder’s filed accounts. Not included above: 1 line covering other, unnamed recipients (£16,519).
Five years of accounts
| Financial year | Income | Expenditure | Grants paid | Accounts document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year to 5 April 2021 | £54,541 | £56,501 | — | Accounts for year to 5 April 2021 |
| year to 5 April 2022 | £49,668 | £53,495 | — | Accounts for year to 5 April 2022 |
| year to 5 April 2023 | £61,511 | £56,022 | — | Accounts for year to 5 April 2023 |
| year to 5 April 2024 | £110,889 | £57,936 | — | Accounts for year to 5 April 2024 |
| year to 5 April 2025 | £121,257 | £1,054,733 | £990,000 | Accounts for year to 5 April 2025 |
- Grants paid, year to 5 April 2025: grants awarded in the year, as reported in the accounts.
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.
Sources
Registers and filings
- Annual report (year to 5 April 2025)
This profile rests on the charity’s filed accounts and register entry only, so check with the funder directly before applying.
Sources last checked on 30 October 2026.
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