The Box Moor Trust

Registered charity 206142 · since 1962boxmoortrust.org.uk·Bovingdon, Hemel Hempstead·Updated 30 October 2026

Key takeaways

If your organisation is not-for-profit and based in or serving Hemel Hempstead or Bovingdon, and you need a one-off capital purchase for a community project, this funder's community grant fund fits your work.
The stated maximum for that fund is £2,500, so a request at or below that amount is the one the funder has named.
No application process is published in the annual report or on its website, so contact the Trust first to ask how to proceed and whether a fund is open.
Grants are made from surplus funds when they allow, so availability is not guaranteed.
Organisations outside the area, organisations that are not not-for-profit, and requests for anything other than one-off capital purchases fall outside what the Trust funds.

Overview

The Box Moor Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 206142).

The Box Moor Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales (charity number 206142). Its general purpose is the benefit of the inhabitants of Hemel Hempstead and Bovingdon, and it manages 487 acres of moors, commons, woodland and grassland, providing environmental education facilities for local residents and young people. It distributes surplus funds from these activities as grants for capital projects to local charities and other not-for-profit organisations. Its community grant fund offers sums of up to £2,500 for one-off capital purchases associated with community projects.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The Box Moor Trust makes grants to eligible not-for-profit organisations within its Area of Benefit, broadly Hemel Hempstead and Bovingdon, when surplus funds allow. Its community grant fund is for one-off capital purchases associated with community projects. The Trust describes these awards as capital-project grants for local charities and other not-for-profit organisations, distributed from surplus funds generated by its activities. Alongside this grant-making, it supports people in need because of youth, age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, through occasional grants and opportunities to participate in its activities. Its wider work provides community access to land and opportunities for environmental awareness and enjoyment of the local environment.

Themes

Community projects

Geographic Focus

Hemel Hempstead; Bovingdon.

What they don't fund

Grants are for one-off capital purchases associated with community projects
Organisations must be not-for-profit and within its Area of Benefit (broadly Hemel Hempstead and Bovingdon)

How to apply

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.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Bovingdon
Hemel Hempstead

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Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 30 September 2021	£735,920	£845,736	—	Accounts for year to 30 September 2021
year to 30 September 2022	£945,797	£822,461	—	Accounts for year to 30 September 2022
year to 30 September 2023	£1,009,811	£983,569	—	Accounts for year to 30 September 2023
year to 30 September 2024	£1,053,061	£1,135,763	—	Accounts for year to 30 September 2024
year to 30 September 2025	£2,685,517	£2,668,428	—	Accounts for year to 30 September 2025

— 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.