Charles Plater Trust

We are an independent Catholic grant-making charity that exists to enable those who are serving the common good to make an even greater difference. We do this because we want to use our resources to build social justice in the UK.

We achieve this by funding organisations that work with people to reduce poverty, exclusion and social and economic injustices and to empower people of faith to exercise leadership in their communities. We also fund research to improve public policy.

This work is deeply informed by Catholic Social Teaching, the Church’s teaching on how the way in which we all live and work can become more fully human in the light of the Gospel.

Bishop Richard Moth, who leads the Catholic Church’s social justice department, is the current Chair of the Charles Plater Trust having replaced Cardinal Vincent Nichols in Jan 2022.”