The principle activities of the fund are the provision of grants for the maintenance and repair of church buildings throughout Scotland with priority to churches in the west and south west of Scotland. Support is also given for new initiatives and projects in Christian Mission. It continues to make grants towards funding university fees particularly on post graduate courses which could assist candidates for the ministry, and grants are also made to Schools and Sunday Schools in Irvine to assist in purchase of books and equipment for imparting religious education.

The Trust is committed to supporting: the provision of adequate shelter for those in need; encouraging Jewish family innovation; developing community and civil society in Glasgow and Scotland; seed funding creative ideas to solve challenges facing the Jewish community and society in general.

The trust favours organisations involved with the performing arts, particularly if children and young people are involved and also if the disabled are involved. They also favour organisations set up to further the visual arts and museums. They support small medical charities and environmental charities including support of the built environment. Funding is given under the main headings of health, education, youth work, religion and relief of poverty.

The trust objects are widely drawn and include: religion, education, training, instruction and culture; the promotion of the spiritual, moral, intellectual, social and physical wellbeing; the relief or prevention of poverty, misery, neglect, suffering, disease, sickness, infirmity, age, distress, physical and mental disabilities. The funder gives priority to applications from the West of Scotland but also funds national organisations.

To give grant assistance with the publication of works of sound Christian doctrine and evangelical purpose. Applications will be considered from individual authors, organisations and publishers. Assistance may be given to computer software, music CDs etc, fulfilling the Trust's purposes.

Supports charitable projects that promote human dignity and social justice through its grant giving programme in England, Wales and Scotland. Their strategic themes are education, society, faith and care, as well as in the field of economic development and climate change.

The MEB Charitable Trust supports a wide range of charitable activities. The Trust seeks to support Christian organisations; aid in the relief of suffering occasioned by war or natural disaster; and bodies undertaking scientific or medical research. Their 2017/18 accounts show they gave under the headings of age, animals and birds, blind, deaf, children, medical research, welfare, cultural and social, armed services , youth organisations, religion and special appeals.

Social investors can provide the required up-front funding for new interventions and services delivered by charities and social enterprises, knowing their returns will only be made if the intervention achieves specific improved social outcomes. Examples of such programmes are: working with vulnerable children to improve educational attainment, and providing family therapy to avoid vulnerable adolescents being taken into local authority care.

Beneficiaries include all or anyone or more of:- (a) The Church of Scotland General Trustees; (b) The National Trust for Scotland; (c) The Old People's Welfare Committee of the Dundee Council of Social Service, or any charitable institution concerned with the welfare of the citizens of Dundee; (d) The University Court of the University of Edinburgh; (e) The University of Southampton; (f) The University of Dundee; (g) The Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, or any other charitable institution connected with work for the blind; (h) any other charitable institution or charitable institutions selected from time to time by the Trustees.

The Trust’s objects are to promote: excellence in education, and in the care of those who are learning disabled or otherwise at risk. It promotes religious tolerance and understanding in an international context; research into the regeneration of the ecosystem of the Scottish Highland with a view to establishing sustainable long term benefits to the environment and rural community; public education and learning by research into social sciences and economic policies and publication of such research. The Trust supports the work of national and local charities whose aims are similar to its own, and donations are made with the intention of building long term relationships.