What is The Prospero World Charitable Trust?

The Prospero World Charitable Trust (formerly known as The Trickledown Trust) is a UK grant-making trust (registered charity 1125731). Working together with Prospero World, The Prospero World Charitable Trust specialises in supporting small, inspirational charities which are successful in their field but which need investment.

The Prospero World Charitable Trust helps these charities to access the funds they need by making grants and, in partnership with Prospero, recommending their work to a growing network of individual philanthropists and other funders.

Making a donation to The Prospero World Charitable Trust is a simple way to give with confidence to interesting projects which have been hand-picked for their success and sustainability.


How can The Prospero World Charitable Trust help you?

Donors:

  • If you want to support international charitable work but do not have the time or expertise to decide where to put your money, you can make a tax-efficient donation to The Prospero World Charitable Trust and know that the Trustees, with Prospero's expert help, will choose interesting and appropriate projects to support.
  • You can specify an area of work or country which you are interested in supporting or leave it entirely to the Trustees, either way we will keep you informed about projects so that you are able to see the results of your investment.
  • You can benefit from the tax relief available for giving to a UK charity. The Prospero World Charitable Trust itself can make grants to charities anywhere in the world.
  • You can remain anonymous if you wish
  • If you only want to make a small donation, your money can be bundled up with other donations to have a bigger impact.

Please contact us for further details.

Other charitable trusts
We are glad to share information about our projects and to assist administrators and trustees of other charitable trusts to apply their funds to our portfolio of projects. We are also happy to help direct funds from trusts which are winding up. Please contact us for further information.

Charities
The Prospero World Charitable Trust may be able to help you. The trustees are currently interested in supporting small, international charities which carry out specific projects. We proactively choose charities to support, but if you feel your work may fit, you can express an interest by downloading our Questionnaire here to complete and return to us.


Who are The Prospero World Charitable Trust's Trustees?

The Trustees choose the projects which The Prospero World Charitable Trust supports. They have a wide knowledge of the business and legal worlds as well as the charitable sector. They do not receive any payment.

Murray Shanks was a barrister for 25 years and has recently been appointed a circuit judge; he has been a volunteer in a small free legal advice centre in West London for 20 years and was for a long time the chairman of its board of trustees; he is also a trustee of Crisis, the national charity for the single homeless.

Sian Hansen is the Managing Director of Policy Exchange, an educational charity and the UK's leading centre-right think tank. She is a director of The Women's Refugee Commission (USA) and Ludgate Environmental Fund. Sian was formerly Head of Sales for Asian equities at Société Générale. Prior to this she was an equity analyst and broker with Enskilda Securities in Europe.

Nicholas Hornby is a founding partner of Cerno Capital Partners LLP. He has 18 years investment experience. He was previously a director of the Geneva based wealth management firm IWM Independent Wealth Management S.A. Prior to this he worked for Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia (CLSA) and in the Hong Kong and Singapore offices of Cazenove & Co.