The Trust Company acts as Trustee for a number of charitable trusts where we have a level of discretion in allocating the funds.

General Funding Round

The Trust Company adopted an Engaged Philanthropy model for distributions from our broad discretionary charitable trusts in 2011.

In our evolution from an online funding process for one-off annual grants, we inaugurated 17 multi-year strategic partnerships in 2011, and added an additional 12 strategic partnerships in 2012. We hold biannual symposiums with all our Strategic Partners at Melbourne Business School given our engagement with their Asia-Pacific Social Impact Leadership Centre. The Trust Company Fellow, Liz Gillies, is providing our model and our Strategic Partners advice and support around the social impact assessment of the model, and facilitating collaboration between them.

Our program areas for our Engaged Philanthropy model are:

• Socially Inclusive Education - organisations that promote the development of leadership, learning and skills within disadvantaged and marginalised communities (Australia and Papua New Guinea)
• Positive Ageing - organisations that promote the health & wellbeing of seniors in Australia
• Living with Disability - organisations that support people with disability to achieve their full potential and to participate fully in society in Australia

From a social sector-wide perspective, we are also interested in organisations that promote enterprise, capacity building and innovation (‘R&D Fund’).

For a list of the inaugural 17 multi-year Strategic Partners click here. To read about the recent addition of 12 Strategic Partners in 2012 click here. Our recently published Social Impact Report 2012 documents our journey to date, to read click here

2013 Funding Round

In 2013, we will be requesting particular organisations to make an application for funding. Given our more specific funding requirements and a lower level of uncommitted funding, the Philanthropy & Community Board Sub-Committee have approved the 2013 year granting round to be by invitation only. We thank you for your interest in applying to The Trust Company for funding.

For any enquiries, or further information, please contact us by email on philanthropy@thetrustcompany.com.au or call on 1800 622 812

Funding from other Discretionary Trusts, Scholarships and Awards

Organisations seeking funding outside of the Engaged Philanthropy program areas may wish to apply directly to one of the following charitable trusts also administered by The Trust Company.

For the above discretionary trusts (other than Ian Rollo Currie Trust) that run annual funding rounds click here for the online application form.

*The Ian Rollo Currie Trust applications will be assessed twice a year with closing dates of 30 April and 31 October annually at 5pm EST and must be submitted on or be considered for that round.

To apply for the Ian Rollo Currie Grant please click here.

To apply for the Ian Rollo Currie Pledge please click here.

The trustees of the Ian Rollo Currie Estate Foundation are Mr. John Etherington and The Trust Company.

For more information on above trust click on the above links. For any enquiries email philanthropy@thetrustcompany.com.au.