Hinchley Charitable Trust is a Christian grant-making trust which seeks through its grants to forward the transformative Kingdom of God, especially within the UK.

Our focus is on developing strong and strategic partnerships with beneficiaries

About The Trust

The trust was established in 1973 by the late R. H. Stanley of Purley, Surrey, as a tax-efficient way of managing his charitable donations. During Mr Stanley's lifetime, the trust was a small family trust which mainly made grants to Christian organisations.

When Mr and Mrs Stanley passed away in 2000, their estate was left to Hinchley, growing the trust considerably. Hinchley Charitable Trust was reconstituted as a Charitable Company in 2005. It retains close links to the Stanley family, but is now more broadly-based.

The primary focus is still supporting Christian charities, the trust looks to support activities and initiatives which have the potential to transform communities.

Grant Making Areas

Grants are given to support charitable causes in the UK. We do not support individuals and we require grant recipients to be registered as a charity in the UK or Ireland.

Hinchley supports strategic grants in one or more of the following areas:
 
1. Equipping Christian leaders
Enabling Christian leaders to serve God more effectively
 
2. Holistic Christian mission in communities
Enabling Christians to promote transformation in their localities
 
3. Christian youth organisations
Supporting imaginative activities and resources to reach young people for Christ
 
4. Christian influence in the public sphere
Amplifying the Christian voice in public life

Examples of projects that have received grants

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion/ Faraday Churches

https://www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/churches

Faraday Churches encourages and equips church leaders and their congregations to engage with science in confident and fruitful ways.

Artificial Intelligence continues to capture the public imagination, as its capabilities grow rapidly and new applications are developed. Understanding how to engage well with the technology and address the ethical challenges it raises is as important as ever for churches. Hinchley is supporting the Faraday Churches Engagement Programme to provide resources, expertise and training about engagement with Artificial Intelligence in UK Churches.

Youthscape

www.youthscape.co.uk
 
Youthscape is a national Christian charity, founded by churches and community groups in 1993, that works with young people to support their emotional, social, and spiritual well-being. 
 
Hinchley has supported a number of Youthscape initiatives including their National Youthwork Ministry Weekend, an event where hundreds of youthworkers are equipped to make a real difference in young people's lives.

 

Parish Nursing Ministries UK

www.parishnursing.org.uk
 
Parish nurses promote health through health education, advice and spiritual care, to people of all faiths or none. Parish nurses serves as an additional layer of support for individuals and communities, offering holistic care that encompasses physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. 
 
Hinchey has funded core salary costs to enable Parish Nursing Regional Co-ordinators to strategically grow the work.
 
 

A Rocha UK

www.arocha.org.uk
 
A Rocha UK is a Christian charity working to protect and restore the natural world and committed to equipping Christians and churches in the UK to care for the environment.
 
Hinchley is supporting the Strengthening Christian Environmental Leadership programme. This project aims to accelerate UK action on the ecological crisis, especially climate change and biodiversity loss, by accelerating the considerable potential contribution of Christians and Churches. It will achieve this through establishing, equipping and linking up a broad cohort of Christian environmental leaders, to drive relevant actions at local, denominational and national level.

How We Fund Projects

This site is to inform you of the work of Hinchley Charitable Trust. Our Trustees proactively seek charitable organisations to partner with that align with our strategic priorities and therefore we do not accept unsolicited applications.

 

Contact Details

Registered in England: 5353283, Registered Charity No. 1108412
 
For more information, find Hinchley Charitable Trust on the Charity Commission