NFU Mutual Charitable Trust

• Value: Up to £75,000
• Application deadline: 09/10/2026
• Summary: Funding can support running costs for charitable projects and services, particularly larger initiatives with a significant impact on rural communities. Priority areas include education, poverty relief, social welfare, rural development, agriculture and research.

Who can apply:

Charitable organisations based and working within the UK seeking funding for charitable initiatives in the areas of education, research, social welfare and poverty relief can apply.

To be eligible, applicants must:

• Deliver services across a large region, nationally, or throughout the UK. (Priority is given to funding larger initiatives with significant rural impact.)
• Have been delivering services for at least one year and are currently delivering these services.
• Be compliant with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
• Have an up-to-date safeguarding policy in place.
• Have a designated Safeguarding Lead/Officer (DSL/O).
• Hold valid public liability insurance.

It is not necessary to be a registered charity to apply as long as the funding is for charitable purposes.

The Trustees generally provide support to organisations that have strong farming and insurance backgrounds.

Eligible Expenditure:

The funding will support the running costs of various projects and services, particularly those larger initiatives, which would have a significant impact on the rural community.

The Trust offers grants to charitable organisations working in agriculture, rural development and insurance in the UK.

Currently, the Trust’s main objectives are to:

• Advance the education of the public by means of research and dissemination of information in relation to agriculture.
• Advance the education of young people within rural areas.
• Relieve poverty within rural areas.
• Promote the benefit and social welfare of inhabitants of rural communities by associating together with the inhabitants and local authorities, voluntary and other organisations to advance education and leisure.
• Advance the education of the public by means of research and dissemination of information in relation to agriculture.
• Promote research into agricultural associated activities.
• Advance the education of the public by means of research and dissemination of information in relation to insurance.

Priority will be given to larger initiatives that would have a significant impact on rural communities, as well as initiatives in the areas of education of young people in rural areas and relief of poverty within rural areas.