The Harwood Charitable Trust

Registered charity 1197285 · since 2021harwoodcharitabletrust.org·United Kingdom·Updated 29 October 2026

At a glance

£176k

Annual giving, year to 31 March 2025

From filed accounts

Key takeaways

The Trust's stated themes are medical education, young people, primary and secondary education and environmental causes, so the work fits best if it is in one of those areas, though most of its published giving goes to individual students.
Only UK registered charities are named as eligible, so an organisation that is not one should not apply.
No grant range is stated, and its annual giving of £175,511 is modest, so a small, carefully costed request is more realistic than a large one.
No application process is published, so the sensible first step is to use the contact shown on its website or in its annual report to ask whether it is open to approaches before writing a full proposal.
Neither the annual report nor its website says how competitive the Trust is or how it chooses grants, so do not read that gap as a sign either way.

Overview

The Harwood Charitable Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1197285).

The Harwood Charitable Trust is a registered charity whose objective is to make donations for charitable purposes. Its best-documented work is sponsoring students: it has given scholarships to 70 students from developing countries studying various disciplines in medicine, and to 9 UK students in primary and secondary education, and it sponsors students through Learna's programmes. Its donations also include grants to charities assisting young people and environmental causes. Its annual giving was £175,511.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The Trust describes its scholarship programme as providing higher education opportunities to students devoted to practising medicine, and says it aims to extend its reach into developing countries. It also sponsors UK students in primary and secondary education. Its donations include grants to charities assisting young people and environmental causes. The Trust has partnered with an online and distance-learning provider and reports scholarships for students from developing countries studying medical disciplines, alongside support for UK pupils. Its giving therefore combines medical education scholarships and donations to organisations working with young people and environmental causes.

Themes

Medical education
Young people
Environmental causes
Primary and secondary education

Geographic Focus

UK.

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.

Who can apply:

UK registered charities

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

United Kingdom

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3 years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2023	£103,961	£99,780	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£198,460	£192,972	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£364,210	£378,705	£175,511	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

Grants paid, year to 31 March 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.