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The Vinehill Trust
Created: 30/06/2025The Vinehill Trust makes grants to charitable, educational, and ecclesiastical organisations across the United Kingdom in three areas of special interest: music, heritage, and health.
Music: The Vinehill Trust will consider applications that support and build the UK's choral and organ traditions, whether in the context of school, church, cathedral, or the wider community. In addition, the Trust will consider applications to support the repair and restoration of historically or musically valuable organs in churches, cathedrals, civic buildings, or concert venues.
Heritage: They help fund historic building restoration projects that provide employment and training in traditional building crafts, including niche crafts such as carving, marbling, graining, stucco and scagliola work, mural and fresco work, leadwork, thatching, gilding, stained glass conservation and encaustic tiling and tile restoration. The term ‘historic building’ includes twentieth century buildings of architectural interest.
Health: The Vinehill Trust provides funding to address underfunded and overlooked health issues, focusing on projects that directly benefit individuals and communities, especially those that are marginalised or under-served.
Funding available
They typically award one-off grants of £10,000 - £100,000, though exceptionally they will offer up to £100,000 per annum for a maximum of three years. They assess the size of grants relative to the applicants’ overall turnover and to their available resources.
The Vinehill Trust is lean and focused, applying maximum resources to charitable purposes, and they expect the same of grant recipients. They want to see that funded organisations are well governed and managed, that they have good finance and risk management systems and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver their objectives.
They consider applications for emergency funding only exceptionally and where they are satisfied that robust management structures are in place to ensure that their funding generates long-term value.
They fund specific initiatives and projects rather than providing unrestricted funding.
When to apply
Apply at any time. You will receive a response usually within 3 months.
How to apply
Click here for funding and application information.
For advice and information, please e-mail [email protected]