The Sue Thomson Foundation

The Sue Thomson Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 298808).

The Sue Thomson Foundation, a charity registered in England and Wales, aims to improve opportunity and quality of life for people in need. It was endowed by its founder, who set it up mainly to give financial support to Christ's Hospital by presenting children in need for its academic and boarding education. In its latest reported year it paid £115,325 in grants, not counting £33,920 given to individuals, and its themes are education and welfare. It continues to work with Christ's Hospital, although it was not presenting any new children for a period, when its position would be reviewed.

Priority Areas

The Foundation’s overarching aim is to improve opportunity and quality of life for people in need. It awards grants to charities working in education and/or welfare. It values charities whose work is familiar or well known to trustees and which impress them through their aims, achievements, social inclusion and relevance to current social needs. Its work also supports children in need who can benefit from academic and boarding education, and it provides practical support to the children it assists. Those children come from diverse cultural and social backgrounds in the UK, invariably from low-income families and with another compelling need for boarding education that would otherwise be unavailable to them.

Themes

• Education
• Welfare

Geographic Focus

National.

For potential STF presentees, parents or guardians may contact the Foundation directly, but must still apply through Christ’s Hospital.

What the charity says:

• The Foundation favours charities familiar to, or well known by, the trustees whose work impresses through its aims, achievements, social inclusion and relevance to current social needs.