Our grant giving and policy

Our Annual Reports detail our past grants for each year and the organisations we have supported, as well as information about our policies and priorities.   They are available to be downloaded by visiting the Our Finances section of this web site.  Our current Grant Giving Policy Statement, which gives a framework for our giving, can be downloaded by clicking here, click here.

Although our roots go back more than a century, 2008 was our first full year as an independent, incorporated charity. We are proud to say between 2008 and 2018 we have donated £8.6 million to some 110 different charitable organisations throughout the UK. This includes:

• payments of £354,000 to the widows of deceased CSIS policyholders,
• just over £3.4 million to the two main charities supporting civil servants (the Charity for Civil Servant and the Civil Service Retirement Fellowship);
• £2 million to charities supporting post and telecoms workers (whose pensioners were civil servants when the were working);
• just over £333,000 to support prison and probation officers throughout the UK;
• just over £496,000 to charities supporting workers in the NHS, emergency and care services; and
• just over £833,000 to children's and adult hospices in areas of the UK where large numbers of civil and public servants live and work. .

Individual highlights within the £8.6 million which illustrate the breadth of our grant giving, are:

• £2,735,762 to the Charity for Civil Servants;
• £674,870 to the Civil Service Retirement Fellowship;
• £613,000 to the BT Benevolent Fund;
• £439,700 to the Rowland Hill Fund and POOBI to support serving and retired postal workers;
• £295,000 to the Railway Benefit Fund;
• £250,000 to the MOD Family Activity Breaks (FAB) holiday project for bereaved service families;
• £210,000 to the Education Support Partnership, helping teachers in schools, further and higher education;
• £143,000 to support serving and retired prison officers in Northern Ireland;
• £154,000 to the NHS Retirement Fellowship;
• £100,000 to the Ambulance Service Charity (TASC)
• £90,000 to the Cavell Nurses Trust
• £60,000 to the Care Workers' Charity
• £40,000 to the Social Workers Benevolent Fund
• £50,000 to the Police Treatment Centres to help rehabilitate injured police officers
• £20,000 to the Fire Fighters Charity;
• £60,000 to support disabled sportsmen and women through the CSSC and HASSRA; and
• £105,000 to support the Canterbury Oast Trust a Kent based charity which provides training opportunities for people with learning disabilities;
• £20,000 to the Chilterns MS Centre which provides a range of services to sufferers of MS in an area where large numbers of civil servants and armed forces live and work; and
• £11,000 to support concerts by Music in Hospitals in care homes for ex-service personnel.

Our Grant Giving 2008 to 2018 (£ Cash paid out in the relevant year)