St. Saviour’s Medical Charity

Registered charity 295886 · since 1987stsavioursmedicalcharity.org.uk·Folkestone and Hythe·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

St. Saviour's Medical Charity fits best if you are a person in the Folkestone & Hythe Local Authority area who needs a surgical or medical procedure sooner than the NHS can provide, or an institution providing medical care that wants equipment or services.
Do not apply if you have received a grant from the charity in the previous 5 years, unless exceptional circumstances exist, or if you need counselling, physiotherapy, psychiatry or 'alternative medicines'.
No typical or range of grant amounts is stated, so contact the charity before settling on a figure.
Individuals should obtain a clinic letter from a private consultation at a private hospital that gives details of the procedure, while organisations should contact the charity directly because no application process for them is published.
No deadlines or competition levels are stated.

Overview

St. Saviour’s Medical Charity is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 295886).

St. Saviour's Medical Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales (charity number 295886). Its objectives are to make grants for surgical or medical procedures for people in need who live in the Folkestone & Hythe District, or in a wider area the Committee considers appropriate to its increased resources. Its main activities fall into two categories: grants to eligible people for in-patient treatment, and one-off grants to other local, worthy medical causes. With the best efforts of the trustees, 59 patients were assisted.

What they fund

Priority Areas

St. Saviour’s Medical Charity provides full or partial, non-repayable grants to people in need in the Folkestone & Hythe District and surrounding areas, enabling them to obtain rapid private treatment when NHS waiting lists cause loss of quality of life. Individual grants support surgical or medical procedures, with medical necessity and financial hardship used to assess applications. The charity also makes grants to institutions that provide medical care, enabling them to purchase equipment and services to improve their work. It describes these as one-off grants for local, worthy medical causes.

Themes

Private healthcare
Medical equipment and services

Geographic Focus

Folkestone & Hythe Local Authority area.

What they don't fund

Information about grants to individuals only: No grant can be made if the applicant has already received a grant in the previous 5 years, unless exceptional circumstances exist; Grants are not made for counselling, physiotherapy, psychiatry or treatments using ‘alternative medicines’

How to apply

The charity makes grants to institutions providing medical care to help them purchase equipment and services, but publishes no application instructions for these organisational grants.

What to send:

A clinic letter resulting from a private consultation at a private hospital, giving details of the required procedure.

Applying again: No grant can be made if the applicant has already received a grant in the previous 5 years, unless exceptional circumstances exist.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Folkestone and Hythe

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to St. Saviour’s Medical Charity.

The Faversham Municipal Charities 2010RollingGave £3,534 United St Saviour's CharityMixed deadlinesGave £1.4M The Philip and Connie Phillips FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £328k Bungay Medical Centre Charitable Trust/ Scott CharityNo public processGave £40,135 The Elaine and Angus Lloyd Charitable TrustRollingGave £115k St George the Martyr CharityNo public processGave £1,500 William Heather Will TrustRollingGave £49,219 St Peter’s CharityNo public processGave £67,154 St. Bartholomew's Hospital Charitable FundRollingGave £930k Colchester Catalyst CharityRollingGave £258k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2022	£355,689	£523,738	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£507,906	£402,531	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£507,906	£402,531	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£492,208	£418,402	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025
year to 31 March 2026	£430,938	£508,809	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2026

— No grants figure for those years.

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.