Supporting local communities across the UK
Boots Charitable Trust is an independent registered charity wholly funded by Boots UK Limited. Our purpose is clear: to support people, customers, and communities wherever we can make the greatest positive impact.
In 2025, we reviewed our funding strategy to focus support on our home county of Nottinghamshire, but remain accessible to impactful projects across the UK that closely align with our funding priorities. The Trust funds charities and voluntary organisations working in the areas of health, lifelong learning, community development and social care, and encourages applications from organisations where our grants of up to £10,000 can make the biggest impact.
Update on the Boots Charitable Trust application process – From February 2026
Boots Product Donations
If you are seeking support in the form of Boots products for raffles or to support your work, please complete a Donation Request Form, and one of our team will get in touch.
Applying for help
Applications for funding will open to projects supporting communities in Nottinghamshire on Friday 20 February 2026, via our portal.
If planning for future applications, or re-visiting an application you’ve previously made, please see the below guidance:
Please ensure you review either the Nottinghamshire Application Guidance or National Application Guidance before beginning an application, depending on where your project will support.
To access an application you’ve already made, click here.
While we look at nominations from all different charities, our main focus is on the following areas that are very close to our hearts and heritage:
- Health: improving wellbeing and access to care
- Lifelong learning: opening opportunities through education and skills
- Community development (for projects supporting within Nottinghamshire only): Helping groups to organise and respond to problems and needs in their communities or networks.
- Social care: Personal, social or community activities or schemes.
Additionally, a particular focus within each of these priorities is how the projects demonstrate a commitment to improving diversity, equality and inclusion within the community.
Non-funded projects
Here is some guidance on those projects we do not supply funding for:
- Individuals
- Organisations that are not registered charities and which have income or expenditure of more than £5,000 per year
- Charities seeking funds to redistribute to other charities
- Projects for which there is a legal statutory obligation
- Capital projects, large building or construction
- Projects with ongoing maintenance costs that would be dependent on Boots Charitable Trust funding for delivery to continue.
Deadlines for processing applications
Nominations are reviewed quarterly by a board of Trustees.
The Q3 application window will open to projects supporting the community of Nottinghamshire on Friday 20 February 2026 and close midday on Friday 6 March 2026. The Trustee board meeting will take place in April 2026.
Who are our Trustees?
Kyle Rowe – Managing Director Boots Opticians
Beneeta Shah – Director of Pharmacy Stores
Jennifer Moffat – Financial Controller
Michael Benford – Director of Finance – Operations
Adam Wiles - Senior Dispute Resolution, Investigations & Healthcare Lawyer
Jenny Rose - Director of Stores (Wales & West)
Rebecca Hitchings - General Merchandise Business Unit Director, Boots UK & ROI