The Trust supports hospitals, charitable institutions and societies within the UK and overseas whose work is likely to benefit the community.

This is a general charitable trust with stated interests in the promotion of the Christian faith in Scotland and throughout the world, as well as the alleviation of poverty, suffering, disease and famine throughout the world and the provision of education, medical services and facilities and welfare, particularly in Third World countries or in other areas of need. Support of the work of organisations involved in the alleviation of poverty, famine and suffering in the developing world is an important focus for the trustees.

The trust funds organisations working both in Scotland and overseas in education, health, and agriculture, also organisations concerned with conservation and wildlife matters, and the arts.

This trust concentrates on medical research and the welfare and education of children. It funds a wide range of charitable activities and beneficiaries including Christian charities and the benefit of sailors/lifeboatmen, the aged, the poor and people with disabilities. Usually half of the available funds is distributed to one organisation, approximately 8 organisations receive grants of between £1,500 and £3,000 and a number of organisations receive smaller grants.

The trust supports initiatives that make a direct difference to people's lives. It does this through collective participation and by sponsoring a wide range of Social, Education, Environmental, Arts and Sports projects which focus the creative skills of young people. These projects are often modest in scale but always big on ambition. They tackle challenges that reflect key global imperatives, and help to energise lives at a local level.

The Foundation is the main vehicle for giving of Martin Currie Investment Ltd. It has awarded funds in areas such as health, welfare, international aid, the environment, education, community and culture. The Rob Roy Challenge is the foundation’s flagship fundraising event and each year it chooses award partners to support from the proceeds. Through their Community Investment Fund they support requests for funding in the areas of social welfare, health, children's welfare and children's heath. They give mostly to national and local charities with a few international charities supported.

SSPCK's purpose is to encourage the promotion of Christian knowledge in Scotland and overseas. The objective of the Home Fund is for re-sourcing mission within Scotland, principally in the Highlands and Islands.

They want to support people to create a world in which power is more equally shared, and in which powerful institutions are responsive and accountable to wider society and aligned with the long-term public interest. Their funding priorities are : Strengthening corporate accountability, Strengthening democratic accountability, Encouraging responsible media.

Patagonia funds only environmental work and are most interested in making grants to organizations that identify and work on the root causes of problems and that approach issues with a commitment to long-term change. They support small, grassroots, activist organizations with provocative direct-action agendas, working on multi-pronged campaigns to preserve and protect our environment. They help local groups working to protect local habitat, and think the individual battles to protect a specific stand of forest, stretch of river or indigenous wild species are the most effective in raising more complicated issues – particularly those of biodiversity and ecosystem protection – in the public mind.

The Foundation supports a wide range of charities both in the UK and abroad. Areas of particular interest to the Trustees include: promotion of the evangelical Christian faith; education, with a particular interest in the promotion of science and engineering, and youth development; medical research, with a particular emphasis on dementia and stroke; social/medical welfare projects, particularly those benefitting elderly and disabled people; preservation of cultural/environmental heritage and improving access to the arts for young people and the disabled (projects of national importance only); overseas development projects.