Swire Charitable Trust

The Swire Charitable Trust For over 45 years the Swire Charitable Trust has supported the work of charitable organisations in the UK and in 2022 we awarded over £3.9million in grants to over 150 charities. We are funded by John Swire & Sons Ltd, the London-headquartered parent company of the Swire Group. Founded in Liverpool in 1816, this is now a diverse business group employing over 120,000 people worldwide. The Trust has three main grant-making programmes – Opportunity, Heritage, and Environment – and we have specific aims underpinning each one of these, as well as overarching priorities to help guide us in our grant making. Details of these can be found here. The Swire Charitable Trust is governed by a board of six trustees who meet regularly to consider eligible funding requests and award grants. We are based in John Swire & Sons Ltd’s offices in London, where a small staff team look after all the UK-based Swire trusts and foundations.