Mr. and Mrs. Spalding founded this trust in the early twentieth century when the study of great religions was neither well-established nor fashionable.

Today, the Trust continues to make grants for the study of the great religions. A small part of the Trust is allocated as the Ellen Rebe Memorial Fund
Trustees make grants from the main fund - often up to £2,000 for any one grant - to encourage the comparative study of the great religions of the world. In practice, some grants have enabled graduate students to study comparative religion at academic institutions. Others have been for travel either to conferences or to study a religion in the country where is is practised. A few grants have been to buy books for libraries.

Please use the links on the left for further information about the trust

The vision for this Trust and the Trust’s history is recorded in:

Edward Hulmes, The Spalding Trust and the Union for the Study of the Great Religions (Memoir Club, 2002). ISBN 1 84104 040 1.
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