The Turing Trust

Registered charity 1156687 · since 2014turingtrust.co.uk·Malawi, United Kingdom·Updated 29 October 2026

At a glance

£33,562

Annual giving, year to 31 December 2025

From the Charity Commission register

Key takeaways

This route suits a charity or public body, such as a school, that needs IT equipment for a project with a clear educational purpose, and requests must be for at least 20 devices.
Organisations asking for fewer than 20 devices should not apply, and nor should projects outside Malawi that do not go through Computers for Enhanced Education, since shipping costs are not covered and eligibility also depends on the UK or the country criteria stated.
The grant range is not stated, so frame the request around the number of devices and whether the typical specification can meet your educational goals rather than a sum of money.
Submit the online application form, which the Trust aims to review within 10 business days; its website does not say how competitive the route is, so a clear, specific case is the best preparation.

Overview

The Turing Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1156687).

The Turing Trust exists to empower disadvantaged communities through information technology enabled learning. It was set up to enable IT-supported learning by reusing computers in classrooms in the UK and globally. It has supplied over 790 schools and organisations with refurbished IT equipment, and over 350,000 students have gained access to digital learning through the computers it has provided. Its activities stem from its base in Edinburgh, where it teaches trainees how to refurbish IT equipment.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The Turing Trust's public request route is for IT equipment: it refurbishes computers, installs educational software and provides devices for learning. Its primary focus is providing computers to secondary schools in Malawi, working with Computers for Enhanced Education; its wider work includes schools and partner organisations internationally, and UK-based skills development through equipment refurbishment. Representatives of charities or equivalent public bodies, such as schools, may apply for equipment for projects that demonstrate educational impact. Applicants must request at least 20 devices, meet the stated geographic criteria and use equipment compatible with their educational goals; Malawi projects apply through the Trust's Malawian partners. The Trust also describes teacher training and ongoing school IT maintenance as part of its educational support.

Themes

Technology-enabled education
IT equipment reuse
Teacher training

Geographic Focus

The UK; Malawi.

What they don't fund

IT Equipment only:
- applications not submitted by a representative of a charity or a public body with a similar mission, such as a school
- projects that cannot clearly demonstrate how the donated IT devices will contribute to educational outcomes
- applicants that do not agree to adhere to the terms and conditions for equipment use
- projects that are not based in the UK, not located in one of the lowest 50 countries on the UN Human Development Index (HDI), and not in a country that the UK Government considers to be of high or moderate fragility
- projects outside Malawi that apply other than directly via the Malawian partners, Computers for Enhanced Education
- applications requesting fewer than 20 devices
- projects that cannot meet their educational goals using a device that meets the typical specification for IT equipment listed on the page
- any shipping costs

How to apply

For IT equipment, representatives of eligible organisations submit the online application form with project details; the Trust aims to review submissions within 10 business days.

Who can apply:

IT equipment
- Your application must be submitted by a representative of a charity or a public body with a similar mission, such as a school.
- You must be able to clearly demonstrate how the donated IT devices will contribute to educational outcomes via your project.
- You must agree to adhere to our terms and conditions for equipment use.
- Your project must be based in the UK, or be located in one of the lowest 50 countries on the UN Human Development Index (HDI), or in a country that the UK Government considers to be of high or moderate fragility.
- Applications must request a minimum of 20 devices.
- You will be able to meet your educational goals using a device that meets our typical* specification for IT equipment listed below.

What to send:

IT equipment: Your budget (in GBP) for the shipping of any potential computers.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

For IT equipment requests, applicants must show how donated devices will contribute to educational outcomes.
For IT equipment requests, the project must be able to meet its educational goals using equipment that meets the Trust's typical specifications.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Malawi
United Kingdom

Similar funders

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Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2021	£663,542	£398,590	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£1,005,015	£611,149	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£963,338	£745,729	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£649,498	£662,800	£70,626	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024
year to 31 December 2025	£783,216	£598,501	£33,562	Accounts for year to 31 December 2025

Income vs grants paid

IncomeGrants paid

Total value each financial year

YE 2024

£70,626 grants

YE 2025

£33,562 grants

Grants paid stayed within income across the 2 years shown.

Grants paid, year to 31 December 2024; year to 31 December 2025: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).

— 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.