Traid

Registered charity 297489 · since 1987traid.org.uk·International·Updated 29 October 2026

At a glance

£532k

Annual giving, year to 31 December 2024

From filed accounts

£65,963

Typical grant (median)

4 published grants

Key takeaways

Traid's work fits best if your project is international development within the textile supply chain, such as garment worker rights, child labour prevention, or cotton farming and pesticides, since these are the themes its annual report and website set out.
Its published eligibility names external charity partners as the organisations that can apply, so check that your organisation fits that description before you write.
Its annual giving is £532,258 and no grant range is stated, so there is no typical request size to aim for, and a modest request tied to a specific project is a sensible starting point.
No application process is published, so the practical route is to use the contact shown on its website to ask how to proceed before you send anything.
Because the process is not published, it is hard to judge how competitive it is, and a first conversation is the best way to learn that.

Overview

Traid is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 297489).

TRAID is an environmental and poverty relief charity that reduces landfill through textile recycling facilities, charity shops and upcycled clothing, and supports environmental and textile related international development projects and education programmes. Its grants support carefully considered international development programmes delivered by external charity partners. It has committed £8 million, supporting 90 projects in over 30 countries around the world.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Traid funds good causes through work with charities and NGOs around the world, supporting and empowering the people who make clothes. Its international development programmes focus on the textile supply chain and on building a fairer fashion industry across farms, factories and schools. The work includes improving garment workers’ working conditions and access to rights, preventing child labour in global supply chains, and supporting cotton farmers to stop using hazardous pesticides. The foundation makes grants to external charity partners to deliver carefully considered programmes.

Themes

Garment worker rights
Child labour prevention
Cotton farming and pesticides

Geographic Focus

Priority: Globally.

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:

External charity partners

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

International

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Traid.

Transform TradeNo public process Phillipps Charitable TrustRollingGave £619k The Nature Recovery ProjectInvitation onlyGave £197k Jephcott Charitable TrustRollingGave £166k The Claude and Sofia Marion FoundationInvitation onlyGave £2.2M Charities Advisory TrustNo public processGave £117k The Trust FoundationRollingGave £2.9M Unicef UkNo public processGave £59.7M Greenpeace Environmental TrustRollingGave £10.8M The Belu FoundationNo public process

Grants

4 published grants analysed · median £65,963

The largest grants to organisations in this funder’s latest annual report:

Pan UK
£374,687year to 31 December 2024
Nagorik
£71,925year to 31 December 2024
Goodweaves
£60,000year to 31 December 2024
Grambangla
£25,646year to 31 December 2024

Grant examples taken from the funder’s filed accounts.

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2020	£5,303,317	£5,691,592	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2020
year to 31 December 2021	£6,500,151	£5,744,445	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£8,657,587	£6,949,735	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£9,075,370	£7,981,424	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£9,324,811	£9,429,787	£532,258	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024

Grants paid, year to 31 December 2024: the accounts do not say whether this is grants awarded or paid.

— 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.