Tolkien Trust
Archived
Age
Aged 60+
Animal Welfare
Children (0-12)
Community and neighbourhood development
Education and learning
environment
Health promotion
Health, wellbeing and sport
Healthcare services
Housing and homelessness
Human rights and equality
Medical conditions
Medical research
Multiculturalism
Natural environment and climate
Overseas aid and development
Peace and reconciliation
Poverty and deprivation
Refugees and asylum seekers
Rescue and emergency
School, College and University
Social welfare and poverty
Sustainable development
Young people (13-25)
Africa
Antrim & Newtownabbey
Ards & North Down
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon
Belfast City
Causeway Coast and Glens
Derry City and Strabane
England
Europe and Russia
Fermanagh and Omagh
Great Britain
International
Lisburn and Castlereagh
Mid and East Antrim
Mid Ulster
Newry, Mourne and Down
North America
Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Large (over £60,000)
Medium (up to £60,000)
Micro (up to £1,000)
Small (up to £10,000)
Overview
The Trust is wholly discretionary, which means that its constitution does not impose any limitations on the charities it may benefit; the trustees are therefore free to select those causes of interest to them.
The Trust does not publish any guidelines concerning the charities of interest to them but the accounts filed by the Trust with the Charity Commission give an indication of the nature and number of causes benefited in recent years. Many of the chosen charities are benefited on an annual basis, and a large number have received support from the Trust for many years.
The Trust has traditionally supported a wide spectrum of charitable causes throughout the world including:
- emergency and disaster relief
- overseas aid and development
- the homeless and refugees
- healthcare charities, especially those focusing on illnesses of childhood and old age, the needs of disadvantaged communities and medical research
- religious causes promoting peace and reconciliation and work with impoverished communities
- environmental causes
- education and the arts.