The Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence. They make grants across the UK to organisations in the following categories: Arts; Education; Youth; Health; Community; Museums and Heritage; Environment; Religion and Welfare.

People’s Postcode Trust funds new projects, or significant expansions of existing projects, in Great Britain. These projects can be up to 12 months in length. They provide funding under the themes: Promoting human rights, combatting discrimination, and preventing poverty.

Postcode Community Trust provides funding under the themes: Improving community health and wellbeing, increasing participation in arts and physical recreation, and reducing isolation.

Grants are given to help educate and inform people about financial literacy, consumer or debt issues. There is a different themed round each year. The Life Changing Transitions round focuses on building financial capability skills and assisting groups who support bereavement, redundancy, retirement, relationship breakdown, homelessness, offenders and resettlement.

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.

The Community Tourism Programme is available for projects across Europe that welcome tourism in new ways to strengthen communities, empower citizens, and preserve and promote local culture. They will support projects that focus on one or more of : Placemaking - imagining and reinventing public spaces to build community for locals and visitors alike; Innovation - reinventing the tourism and travel space by sparking entrepreneurship and strengthening local economies: Festivals and events - preserving or celebrating local festivals and events while introducing them to a broader, appreciative audience.

The Listed Places of Worship (LPW) Grant Scheme gives grants that cover the VAT incurred in making repairs to listed buildings in use as places of worship. The scheme covers repairs to the fabric of the building, along with associated professional fees, plus repairs to turret clocks, pews, bells and pipe organs. All faiths and areas of the UK are equally able to make use of scheme. It is run by the Department for Media and Sport and administered by Topmark.

The Foundation aims to make a positive difference to people living in England, Scotland and Wales with special consideration for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. Donations are made in two ways: by match funding the money raised by Morrison's colleagues for charities (match funding programme - up to £1000 per request); and by awarding grants to charities which help improve peoples lives. The principle funding sources are the sale of plastic carrier bags and a proportion of income from clothing banks, Morrison's Charity Scratch cards and car park fines.

This funding provides support in a variety of ways and to organisations linked to deaf young people. The Trust gives grants to organisations and individuals to advance the education of children and young people with a hearing impairment. The young people will be up to an age in their mid-twenties resident in the UK. They can provide assistance with the purchase of specialist hearing equipment or other aids which will benefit an individual or organisation. They will also support the provision of funding for special courses or individual tuition or speech therapy, professional assessments and advice or support, appeals against, local authorities and the financial support of another charity for hearing impaired.

The Trust makes grants to charities and voluntary organisations in Scotland and the UK. They fund a wide range of organisations with a preference for countryside, health, art and young people. Previous grant recipients have included Butterfly Conservation Trust, Scottish Ballet, Teapot Trust, Freedom from Torture, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh World Heritage.