GrantRadar

The Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable Trust

The Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable Trust Grants

Core funding or project/capital grants for registered charities doing specific charitable work in Birmingham, the four Black Country boroughs, Worcestershire and Herefordshire. The Trust funds six themes: adults in need, young people in need, hospices, mental health support, poverty, and environment and heritage. Most grants are between £2,000 and £5,000; larger grants may be considered for regular beneficiaries and capital projects. Applications are emailed in at any time and decided at three trustees' meetings a year.

Apply on the funder’s site
You could get
£2,000 – £5,000
no fixed round
Deadline
Rolling
apply any time
Effort
Light
short form, little evidence needed

Who can apply

  • Registered charities only, that can demonstrate specific charitable work and public benefit in Birmingham, the 4 boroughs of the Black Country (Walsall, Sandwell, Wolverhampton and Dudley), Worcestershire and Herefordshire, in one of the six themes
  • Charities are normally based in the beneficial area
  • National charities are now only considered if they have a registered or headquarters address in the beneficial area, or have received at least one grant from the Trust in the last two calendar years; their grants are restricted to the Trust's area
  • Charities must have been fully operational for at least 3 years
  • One application per calendar year; unsuccessful applicants can reapply the following calendar year
  • The FAQ says applications are unlikely to succeed from charities with large investment portfolios or excessive reserves, large defined-benefit pension deficits, relatively high fundraising or overhead costs, or governance issues such as late or incorrect accounts, or that do not send recent accounts

What it funds

  • The core costs of running a charity
  • A project or capital application
  • Work in one of six thematic areas:
  • Adults in need: people with special needs or disabilities; dementia support; other serious health conditions; other activities particularly for the disadvantaged; music and arts for those with special needs or disabilities
  • Young people in need: young people with special needs or disabilities; young people with serious health conditions; youth organisations; outdoor activity centres for young people; work experience for the young; other activities particularly for the disadvantaged; music and arts for those with special needs or disabilities
  • Hospices for end of life care and terminal illness
  • Mental health support, including bereavement support and emotional mental health support and wellbeing including counselling and befriending
  • Poverty: day centres for the homeless; supported housing to prevent homelessness; foodbanks, food redistribution and baby banks; poverty more widely including welfare benefits advice
  • Environment and heritage: environmental conservation; heritage

the Trust occasionally fully funds a project, but prefers charities to use several funders and make an internal contribution towards a project.

What it will not fund

  • Multi-year grants
  • Retrospective grants
  • Matched funded grants
  • Core costs for community hubs, community centres or village halls
  • Core costs for charities focused on the arts
  • Individuals and non-registered charities
  • Charities that are primarily grant paying
  • Community Interest Companies
  • Social enterprises and other not-for-profit organisations
  • New charities that have not been fully operational for at least 3 years
  • Charities that are not involved in one of the six themes
  • Charities that cannot demonstrate specific work in the beneficial area
  • NHS charities
  • Emergency service organisations
  • Animal welfare charities
  • Charities funding high levels of scientific or medical research
  • Charities focused on restricted ethnicity or religious groups
  • National charities without a registered or headquarters address in the beneficial area (unless funded by the Trust in the last two calendar years)

How to apply

  1. Read the FAQ and the Standard Grant Conditions on the website
  2. Download the application form that fits your request: Core funding, or Project or Capital costs (Word or PDF, July 2026 versions)
  3. Complete the form (no more than 3 pages); if using the Word version, save it as a PDF
  4. Email the form with a supporting letter and the required documents to grants@turnertrust.co.uk before 6pm on the deadline date
  5. Successful applicants are told within two weeks of the trustees' meeting

2026 deadlines were 13 Feb, 12 Jun and 23 Oct (for the 13 Nov 2026 meeting). Applications arriving after 6pm on a deadline are carried forward to the following meeting, and earlier submission is encouraged.

postal applications are no longer accepted. There is no appeals process and the trustees do not give reasons for declining an application.

Have ready

  • Completed application form (core funding, or project or capital costs)
  • Supporting letter, generally no longer than 2 pages, giving details of your charity and your application
  • Annual accounts no older than 18 months
  • Confirmation of bank details: a scanned Bank Giro Credit (paying-in slip), cheque book or bank statement (a transaction listing is not suitable)
  • A short explanation of any reportable incidents in the past 10 years, if any

documents are preferred in PDF format. Previous grant holders also give a short impact report (400 characters on the form, or attached). As the FAQ's example puts it, accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 can only be used for applications submitted before 30 September 2026.

More like this

Other grants open to organisations like yours.