The Vinehill Trust grants
The Vinehill Trust is a grant-making charity working throughout England and Wales, typically awarding one-off grants of £10,000 to £100,000 for specific projects.
Guidance last checked 16 July 2026· from the funder’s own website
Overview
The Vinehill Trust typically awards one-off grants of £10,000 to £100,000, and funds specific initiatives and projects rather than providing unrestricted funding. It names three funding areas. The first is built heritage, including projects that involve training in heritage craft skills. The second is projects that address acute conditions, plus temporary focus areas that change each year. The third is projects involving children and young people that further the choral and/or organ traditions. It will not consider applications for more than 75% of the project cost, calculated excluding VAT, so you will need funding from elsewhere.
What they fund
The Charity Commission register records this charity under general charitable purposes. Its own website is narrower, describing three funding areas, so read those before applying.
Who and where
The register records that The Vinehill Trust works throughout England and Wales, for the general public.
Who they help
Where they fund
What The Vinehill Trust says in its own guidance
Quoted directly from the funder’s own website, with a link to the page each quote came from. Always the most current word is theirs — check the source before you apply.
What they say they're looking for
“Built heritage, including projects that involve training in heritage craft skills”
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“Projects that address acute conditions, plus temporary focus areas that change each year”
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“Including projects involving children and young people that further the choral and/or organ traditions”
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What they say they won't fund
“we do not consider applications: outside our three funding areas”
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“for capital appeals for construction projects”
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“for more than 75% of the project cost, calculated excluding VAT”
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“for core running costs”
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“for retrospective funding”
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“for feasibility studies”
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“for emergency appeals”
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“from organisations which have applied and been rejected within the last twelve months from organisations which have already received a grant unless a year has elapsed from the end of the grant period”
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Grant sizes they mention
“We typically award one-off grants of £10,000-£100,000”
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How they say to apply
“We fund specific initiatives and projects rather than providing unrestricted funding”
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Their charitable objects
As registered with the Charity Commission (their formal purposes):
The object of the CIO is to advance such exclusively charitable purposes for the public benefit as the charity trustees from time to time in their absolute discretion think fit and (save for purposes incidental and ancillary to that object), no other purposes.
How to approach them
Start with the official sources — they’re always more current than any directory, including this one.
Common questions
How much does The Vinehill Trust give?
Its website says it typically awards one-off grants of £10,000-£100,000. It also says it will not consider applications for more than 75% of the project cost, calculated excluding VAT, so you will need funding from elsewhere. We do not have a typical (median) award figure for this funder.
What does The Vinehill Trust fund?
It names three funding areas. The first is built heritage, including projects that involve training in heritage craft skills. The second is projects that address acute conditions, plus temporary focus areas that change each year. The third is projects involving children and young people that further the choral and/or organ traditions. It funds specific initiatives and projects rather than providing unrestricted funding.
What won't The Vinehill Trust fund?
Its website says it does not consider applications outside its three funding areas, for capital appeals for construction projects, for more than 75% of the project cost calculated excluding VAT, for core running costs, for retrospective funding, for feasibility studies, or for emergency appeals. It also does not consider applications from organisations which have applied and been rejected within the last twelve months, or which have already received a grant unless a year has elapsed from the end of the grant period.
How do I apply?
We do not have a sourced description of its application process, so we cannot set out the steps here. Check the funder's own website (vinehilltrust.uk) and its Charity Commission entry (charity number 1185978) for current guidance, as processes can change.
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Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and grants data from 360Giving used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Figures are derived (filtered and summarised by TrusteeMeetings), not republished unchanged. About the data · Terms of use. This page is a starting point for your own research, not a promise of funding, and is not endorsed by or affiliated with The Vinehill Trust.