The Paula Carr Diabetes Trust

Registered charity 801596 · since 1989paulacarrdiabetestrust.co.uk·Kent, Medway·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

The Trust's work fits best where it reaches people with diabetes in Kent or Medway, through patient support, education, support groups, children's services or technology trials for healthcare professionals.
Organisations outside Kent should not apply, because the Trust says it operates only in the Kent area.
Neither its annual giving nor its grant range is stated, so a realistic request size cannot be judged from what is published, and it is worth asking the Trust what it would consider before setting an amount.
Requests for individual patient support are usually referred by the patient's healthcare team, and no other application process is published, so the first step is to contact the Trust to ask how to proceed.
Nothing published shows how competitive the Trust is or when it considers requests, so allow time for a reply.

Overview

The Paula Carr Diabetes Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 801596).

The Paula Carr Diabetes Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, and its principal aim is to support patients living with diabetes. It was started in memory of its founder. Since it began, it has spent over £3 million supporting people living with diabetes in Kent and Medway. It supports Year 6 children with a structured education programme to help them manage diabetes in a secondary school environment.

What they fund

Priority Areas

It supports people living with diabetes in Kent and Medway, with its principal aim focused on patients. It provides educational resources to help patients manage diabetes and usually receives requests for patient support through their healthcare team. It also funds healthcare professionals to trial technologies that may improve patient care. Its activities include support for young children and parents during the move to secondary education, diabetes patient support groups, and paediatric diabetes services, including improvements to clinical areas. In this way, it combines patient education and practical support with funding for diabetes services and care improvements.

Themes

Diabetes patient support
Diabetes education
Diabetes technology trials

Geographic Focus

Kent; Medway.

What they don't fund

The charity operates only in the Kent area
The main objective of the charity is to relieve the sickness of diabetic patients living in Kent or for such other charitable purpose as the trustees in their absolute discretion determine

How to apply

Requests for individual patient support are usually referred to the Trust by the patient’s healthcare team.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to The Paula Carr Diabetes Trust.

The Chartwell Cancer TrustRolling Involve KentNo public process The Philip and Connie Phillips FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £328k Kent TennisRollingGave £1,800 Involving Medway (Kent Community Foundation)Rolling Kent Community FoundationRollingGave £2.9M J & C Findlay Charitable FoundationInvitation onlyGave £55,628 Whitehead Monckton Charitable FoundationFixed deadlines Red Hill Charitable TrustFixed deadlinesGave £106k The David Pickford Charitable FoundationInvitation onlyGave £136k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£214,733	£757,650	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£127,426	£189,059	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£18,472	£463,059	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£182,288	£129,877	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£41,112	£270,830	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

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.