Complete our eligibility quiz to determine if you are eligible to apply. If not, you will be notified immediately. If you are eligible, you will be invited to complete a Foundation Grant application
The Bishop Radford Trust is a Christian grantmaker which supports Christian charities and churches in the UK and internationally. It awards funds to a wide range of needs and has given out 740+ grants amounting to over £9.5 million since it was founded in 2006.
The Bishop Radford Trust works to a defined list of core values that guide how we aspire to operate. Our donation and investment strategies have evolved accordingly.
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Our Trustee meetings are held on the following dates and applications will re-open after the Trustee meetings.
We allocate £75K each quarter to foundation-level grants. Applications close when we have received grant requests of £80K, meaning that we generally have a high approval rate.
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Our entry-level grants that you are able to apply for without invitation. These are one-off grants that rarely exceed £2000.
Prison Strategy: We are passionate about helping churches increase engagement with their local prison, to bring hope to the most marginalised in society
Complete our eligibility quiz to determine if you are eligible to apply. If not, you will be notified immediately. If you are eligible, you will be invited to complete a Foundation Grant application
Applications that meet our eligibility criteria will go through a review process.
If approved, you will be notified and asked to complete a grant agreement form, and provide your safeguarding policy. If refused, you will also be notified and referred where possible.
By invitation only
We intentionally make grants through networks that we consider will strengthen the capacity of the global church. These grants vary in size.
By invitation only
We want to work with other funders to learn and share ideas and approaches. If there is a project that involves a funding group with funders + charities + churches working together we are interested to know more.
By invitation only
£20,000 per year with the opportunity for multiyear funding
Trustees identify a dozen or so organisations that become grantee partners – these partners will have received a Foundation grant already.
Partner organisations are typically small (under £1M income) charities where the impact of the funds and partner opportunity is felt to have high potential impact. Partners will have a clear vision with a project which sparks interest and passion, that would benefit from partnership level support for 3-5 years. We ask for feedback from our partners on our processes.
Below is a summary of grant making analysis for the tax year ending 31 March 2026
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At The Bishop Radford Trust we are working to bring not only our donation strategy but also our investment strategy into alignment with our charitable objectives.
All our activities are carried out through a Christian lens.
Through two agencies we engage in thematic, ESG investing, alongside purpose-driven, impact investments aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Impact investments are investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return…
The Bishop Radford Trust
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to