# St Charles Medical Foundation UK

- Type: Trust / foundation
- Charity number: 1214474 (https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/1214474)
- Website: https://www.stcharlesmedicalfoundation.org
- What it funds: Education / training, Health / saving of lives, Prevention or relief of poverty
- Who it helps: Children / young people, Older people, People with disabilities
- How it gives: Makes grants to organisations, Provides services
- Area of operation: Throughout England and Wales, Cameroon
- Trustees: 4
- Last verified: 2026-11-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Canonical URL: https://opengrant.co.uk/funders/st-charles-medical-foundation-uk

1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN CAMEROON WITH A FOCUS ON THOSE AFFECTED BY DISPLACEMENT DUE TO CIVIL ARMED CONFLICTS.2. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO ST CHARLES MEDICAL FOUNDATION AND ST. CHARLES CLINIC IN CAMEROON.3. ACCESS TO FREE OR SUBSIDISED HEALTHCARE SERVICES.4. DISTRIBUTING MOBILITY AIDS

## Open and forthcoming schemes (0)

None in OpenGrant's sources right now.

## Charitable objects

> 1) To advance the education of children in Cameroon, with a focus on those affected by displacement due to civil armed conflicts and/or poverty/financial hardship through assisting in the provision of grants for school supplies, including uniforms, books and education materials and to ensure consistent access to education.2) To relieve sickness and to promote and protect good health among individuals in need, with a particular focus on women, children under the age of five, and internally displaced populations in Cameroon, primarily but not exclusively by providing grants to St Charles Medical Foundation and St. Charles Clinic in Cameroon to assist with the provision of:(a) access to free or subsidised healthcare services, including essential surgical interventions; (b) offering preventative healthcare programs, such as screening for diabetes, breast cancer and cervical cancer; (c) distributing mobility aids to individuals with physical disabilities, enabling greater independence and improving quality of life; (d) delivering nutritional support to patients in need during medical treatment; (e) organising free antenatal healthcare campaigns to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates.3) To relieve financial hardship and to promote and protect good health for the public benefit among vulnerable people in the United Kingdom, with particular (but not exclusive) regard to homeless individuals, people with physical disabilities and the elderly, in particular but not exclusively…

## What it funds

St Charles Medical Foundation UK is registered under the Charity Commission purposes education / training, health / saving of lives and prevention or relief of poverty for children / young people, older people and people with disabilities; the register records that it makes grants to organisations and provides services.

The Charity Commission register lists its area of operation as England and Wales and Cameroon.

## How to apply

OpenGrant has not found an open scheme from St Charles Medical Foundation UK in its sources (last checked 5 Nov 2026). Its website (stcharlesmedicalfoundation.org) may list programmes that are not yet open or are by invitation only. OpenGrant does not take applications; always check the funder's own guidance.

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