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Swire Charitable Trust

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Grants are available across four funding programmes:

  • Opportunity – improving life chances, realising potential
  • Environment – connecting people to the environment/supporting the UK’s biodiversity
  • Heritage – regeneration through restoration/safeguarding endangered skills
  • Covid-19 recovery – for charities providing a critical response to the crisis or facing severe short-term funding pressures.

Across all programmes priority is given to charities that operate in some of the most disadvantaged parts of the UK and try to engage the most marginalised and vulnerable in their work.

Up to £25,000 (considered at monthly meetings)/£25,000+ (considered quarterly). Registered charities.

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