The Foundation supports a wide range of charities, mostly in Scotland, and principally working in the fields of medical facilities and research, the relief of poverty and assistance to the aged and infirm, education and learning, encouragement of personal development and training of young people and the provision of better opportunities for the less privileged and the vulnerable and the encouragement of music and the arts. They also fund under the headings conservation and environment, disadvantaged and disabled, elderly, homeless and hospices, music, theatre and visual arts, religion and youth.

The objectives of the Trust are widely drawn. The trustees will employ their discretion in order to determine which charitable initiatives they support. In the year to April 2018 they made donations under the heading of adult and child welfare, medical research and support and arts. All awards were for the amount of £2,000.

This grant is available towards the initiation of research into learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities), including autism so that it can progress to the point at which there is sufficient data to support an application to one of the major funding bodies.

The Trustees can make grants for any charitable purpose, but their present policy is to focus grant-making in the areas of horticulture and plant sciences, as well as fine art and art history.

Football Aid was created as a unique way of raising money for charity and voluntary organisations. Through the parent charity, Field of Dreams' multi-beneficiary grant award scheme, the funds raised from the Football Aid events are distributed to diabetes research, education, community and management projects plus charities nominated for funding by the Clubs that take part.

The trust funds organisations working to advance health and health education, and relieve sickness, and provides funding for medical research.

The Trust funds a wide range of charitable purposes including the advancement of health, the arts, heritage, culture or science, the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. They also support Christian churches, hospitals and infirmaries, Scottish architecture and history, refugees, scientific or medical research.

Grants are given to a wide variety of organisations (generally in Scotland, particularly Tayside) including cancer research and other medical charities, youth organisations and arts and music.

The Foundation advances the education of the public both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the arts and in particular the performing arts of music drama and the theatre in all their forms. It does this by making grants to schools' core costs and assisting the disadvantaged; funding the relief of poverty and those in hardship or distress; promoting and developing theatrical, musical and dramatic arts; funding medical research and the relief of sickness generally; providing grants to environmental projects aimed at the conservation, protection and enhancement of nature; and funding community based projects where often a relatively small grant can make a big impact to many people both immediately and into the future.

Grants will advance educational opportunity and social well-being across the UK and will improve the design and operation of social policy, especially in education, welfare and justice. They prioritise rigorous and impartial research, development, and analysis projects that: identify and explain the social and economic determinants of early childhood adversity, transitions from adolescence to young adulthood, and social and economic well-being in adulthood and later life; improve well-being for society as a whole, while ameliorating negative distributional outcomes and the greatest harms; support the development of workable evidence-based solutions for policy and practice over the medium term.