About the Gas Safety Trust
The Gas Safety Trust was operating under name of The CORGI Trust until March 2010. Our charity registration number remains as 1110624.
The Gas Safety Trust, established in 2005 as a registered charitable body, has become the UK’s leading gas safety charity with the key objectives of further improving gas/fossil fuel safety for the public and industry throughout the United Kingdom and reducing the incidents of death and serious injury from carbon monoxide exposure.
We take the governance of the charity seriously and ensure that effective and measurable systems are in place to monitor, evaluate and audit its funding and partnership support. Trustees have a commitment to ensure that information provided by The Gas Safety Trust is totally reliable and that the charity is transparent and accessible.
We provide grant funding, advice and support and to any organisation, business, statutory and voluntary bodies and charitable/not for profit organisations to support the following key areas relating to gas safety:
- Gas/fossil fuel safety training and education
- Equipment donations (e.g. provide audible CO alarms and personal detectors)
- Gas/fossil fuel safety research
- Gas/fossil fuel safety evidence gathering
- Advocacy
We have awarded in excess of £800,000 to a variety of programmes and projects relating to gas/fossil fuel safety and carbon monoxide.
