About our grants
St Aidans Community Group, Houghton-le-Spring, is just one of many organisations who have received a grant from Sir James Knott Trust. Children from the group enjoyed adventure activities paid for by the Trust during the summer. You can find links to more examples of our grants on the right of this page.
Grants are normally made to charities that can demonstrate that their aims have identifiable public benefit and that they operate in, or for the benefit of Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and County Durham including Hartlepool. The Trust’s area of benefit does not include Darlington, Stockton on Tees, Middlesbrough, Redcar or Cleveland.
Special consideration is given to charitable activities known to have been of particular interest to Sir James Knott. They include: military and maritime organisations, youth clubs, projects to help the elderly, education and training.
The Trustees have wide discretion on the distribution of funds and meet to consider grant applications three times a year. Grants totaling about £1million a year are made, funded from investment income.
