UK Trusts and Foundations
Founded in 1912 by Queen Alexandra as a practical way of marking the fiftieth anniversary of her arrival in the UK from Denmark. Grants are made to charities that participate in "flag days" - and in particular to those smaller, usually very local, charities that do not have the national profile or manpower to achieve significant fund raising on their own.
The heritage and work of Andrews Charitable Trust has grown from the vision of the founder, Cecil Jackson-Cole, who wanted to link the worlds of charity and business to ensure innovation, replication and sustainability of charitable ventures that offer solutions to a range of world problems affecting disadvantaged people.
Antigone is a grant-making trust founded by Martha Lane Fox. The trust offers a partnership with organisations that address the needs of people currently being failed by frontline services, and people working to improve them in the UK. They are actively looking for projects to support in three areas: healthcare, education and people disadvantaged by the criminal justice system. Each year the trust will outline its priorities and fund projects that meet these aims.
Established in 1980, the Foundation was set up for the advancement of science and education in Great Britain and the Arab states, for young people and adults studying subjects of relevance to the Arab states, and for any other charitable purposes for the benefit of the community. The Foundation participates in the education process by contributing financially to the support of many disadvantaged and academically deserving Arab postgraduate students whilst they are undertaking specialised studies and research at British universities.
The Ove Arup Foundation was established by Ove Arup Partnership in memory of its founder Sir Ove Arup who died in 1988, more than 40 years after creating the firm which bears his name. Its objectives of the Foundation are the advancement of education directed towards the promotion, furtherance and dissemination of knowledge of matters associated with the built environment with emphasis on the multidisciplinary nature of design in engineering and architecture.
The Laura Ashley Foundation tends to be a reactive grant giver, rather than proactive. Very few unsolicited applications receive funding. The main areas of activity are projects in mid-rural Wales - aiming to enhance the lives of rural families, rural regeneration, welfare in the community and adult education. Special bursaries have been set up through institutions of the trustees' choice - talented musicians, RCA, Chelsea College of Art, the Royal Opera House, Royal Academy of Music and the arts in London. The Foundation is constantly reviewing funding and does not fund individuals or provide further education grants (including individual business development, personal development, undergraduate or postgraduate courses).
The Asian Foundation for Philanthropy is a UK-based charity which helps British Asians who want to make a difference to social and economic development in India.
The Atlantic Philanthropies identify and support leaders, institutions, and organizations dedicated to learning, knowledge-building, and solving pressing social problems. It proactively funds programs and projects that value voluntary service, philanthropic giving, scholarship, and research.
Auriga is the Trading Company of Severn Trent Trust Fund formed in 2004 to offer a range of services to companies wishing to have funds administered for charitable purposes.
The Foundation was set up in 2005 by Westminster Health Care (UK) Ltd to invest in the wider communities of the people it serves. In October 2004 Barchester Healthcare purchased Westminster Health Care. The Foundation is a registered charity, which is committed to making a difference to the lives of older people and adults with a physical or mental disability.
The Baring Foundation supports local, national and international organisations which fall within its funding programmes, currently Strengthening the Voluntary Sector, Arts in Education and the Community, and International.
Barnwood House Trust is an independent and endowed registered charity able to meet special needs arising from serious physical or mental disabilities among the people of Gloucestershire. The term "mental disabilities" includes mental illness and learning disability. The Trust is empowered to provide accommodation, care services and grants and to support medical research into the causes and treatment of disabilities.
Every penny raised for BBC Children in Need is spent on those who need it most. Applications are welcomed from good quality projects which show a clear focus on improving children's lives. Applicants must be properly constituted not-for-profit groups working with disadvantaged children under 18 years and in the UK.Their disadvantages may include any kind of disability behavioural or psychological problems, living in poverty or situations of deprivation, illness, distress, abuse or neglect.
The BBC Wildlife Fund is a grant giving charity registered with the Charity Commission. It was set up to distribute money raised by donations to help support projects protecting the world's endangered wildlife.
The Bedford Charity, also known as the Harpur Trust, is a local charity, with three charitable objectives. The promotion of education, the relief of those who are sick or in need, hardship or distress, and the provision of recreational facilities with a social welfare purpose. The Trust also runs four independent schools. The area of benefit is restricted to the Borough of Bedford.
BFWG Charitable Foundation offers Foundation Grants to help women graduates with their living expenses (not fees) while registered for study or research at an approved institution of higher education in Great Britain. The criteria are the proven needs of the applicant and their academic calibre. Grants are not given for the first year of postgraduate study or research. They are not likely to exceed £2,500.
The Big Lottery Fund was created by the merger of the New Opportunities Fund and the Community Fund. It is a relatively new organisation that will administer half the money for good causes from the National Lottery. The Fund intends to run a range of different types of funding programmes. Some of these will be 'open' grant programmes whilst others are likely to concentrate on strategic partnerships working across different sectors.
Bishopsgate Institute is a Grade II* listed Arts and Crafts building in the City of London. Established in 1895, we offer a 'Courses for Adults' programme, regular cultural events and historic library. Bishopsgate Institute and Foundation also provide a grant award scheme which is open to local organisations who help people in need, hardship or distress.
A sports-focussed trust which aims to assist disabled and disadvantaged sportsmen, women and children.
BFSS grants provide vital support for a number of projects in the UK and overseas. Many current UK projects focus particularly on religious education and spiritual development, and all projects, both in the UK and abroad, provide support for children's education and teacher training.
BASSAC is a national network of multi-purpose community based organisations, committed to tackling the causes and effects of poverty, exclusion and discrimination. BASSAC is also one of a number of national charities that distributes Opportunities for Volunteering grants on behalf of the Department of Health.
The Trust aims to combat violations of human rights and help victims of torture, refugees from oppression and those who have been falsely imprisoned; to promote prison reform within the UK; and to oppose the extinction of the world's fauna and flora.
The Bryant Trust was set up in 1972 and is a medium-sized grant-making trust based in the West Midlands with a strong Birmingham connection.
The Bulldog Trust was established in 1983 by Richard Hoare and exists to generate notable support for other selected charities. Most of its grants, part from major projects, go towards educational projects, including a theatrical fund.
The Burdett Trust for Nursing is an independent charitable trust named after Sir Henry Burdett KCB, the founder of the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses (RNPFN). The Trust was set up in recognition of the foundation, philosophy and structure of the RNPFN and focuses its grant-making programme explicitly on improving care for patients through nursing and may include multi-professional or team-working interventions.
The Worshipful Company of Butchers is one of the oldest Livery Companies of the City of London. It has four charities: General Charities, Butchers' & Drovers' Charitable Institution, Fishmongers' and Poulters' Institute, and Education Charity.
The Trust was created by Frank Buttle, a social visionary who founded the National Adoption Society during World War 1. In 1937, he set up The Buttle Trust for the maintenance, education and advancement in life of adopted children whose adoptive parents had died or deserted them and for the support of illegitimate children. The Trust's work now falls into three areas focused on the welfare of children and young people.
The Noel Buxton Trust was established by Noel Edward Buxton (later the first Lord Noel Buxton) in 1919 to achieve social and economic progress in Britain and throughout the world. Grants are made to charities active in the following areas: welfare of children in disadvantaged families and of children in care; the prevention of crime – especially work with young people at risk of offending; education and development in Eastern and Southern Africa.
The Barrow Cadbury Trust was set up in 1920 as the Barrow & Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. In 1994 the Trust merged with the Paul S. Cadbury Trust. The Barrow Cadbury Trust aims to encourage a fair, equal, peaceful and democratic society.
Founded by William Adlington Cadbury in 1923, this trust funds organisations serving Birmingham and the West Midlands and Ireland, organisations whose work has a national significance, and UK based charities working overseas.
The Carnegie UK Trust was set up in 1913. It is one of over twenty foundations around the world established by Scots American Andrew Carnegie. The Trust had an initial focus upon building several hundred libraries and village halls. In more recent years the Trust has funded community arts, social action, community development and youth programmes across the UK and Ireland, together with establishing national inquires and commissions into areas of public concern. In 2005, the Trust closed its grants programmes and now focuses upon strategic change initiatives, action research and policy advocacy. Current areas include rural community development, strengthening democracy and civil society, youth empowerment and the promotion of progressive philanthropy. The Trust has offices in Scotland and London.
Grants are available for advanced research, at postdoctoral or equivalent level, in the fields of the humanities and the social sciences.
Christian Development Trust (CDT) is an ecumenial lending body working in southern Africa (but mainly in South Africa). Its primary objective is to provide low interest rate loans for churches and other Christian bodies and preference is given to schools, clinics and the like.
Manages a number of independent charitable trusts.
Guided by an independent group of experts nominated by other voluntary organisations, the CAF Grants Council responds to applications from charities looking to increase efficiency, to develop new initiatives or simply to survive when another source of funding dries up.
The charity derives from the wish of Sir Cyril Kleinwort and his descendants. The trust’s objectives are to promote and support a range of general purpose charitable activities; preference is given to national or west midlands charities.
The Church Urban Fund, set up by the Church of England, supports practical, locally inspired initiatives in the UK which enable people to overcome despair, turn ideas into action and bring new hope to their lives and the lives of their communities.
Part of the Corporation of London, City Bridge Trust makes grants for charitable projects which benefit the inhabitants of Greater London.
The City Parochial Foundation (CPF) aims to enable and empower the poor of London to tackle poverty and its root causes, and ensure that our funds reach those most in need.
Trust for London is an independent charitable trust supporting small, new and emerging voluntary organisations which have been established to improve the lives of people and communities in London.
The Clothworkers' Foundation and the Charitable Trusts it administers make charitable grants of about £4 million each year to varied projects for which adequate funding from recognised sources is not available.
The Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust makes grants to charities and churches in Kent and Suffolk aiming to improve quality of life, tackle poverty, social isolation or exclusion and protect the natural resources and heritage of the local areas for their inhabitants.
Comic Relief exists to tackle poverty and promote social justice in the UK and Africa.
An educational charity rooted in the conservation and management of the countryside in the best traditions
of the great estates of England
Funded by co-operative societies, the Foundation funds community, self-help and voluntary groups and community charities. To be considered projects must benefit a local community in which at least one of the Co-operative Group businesses trades; have a charitable purpose and be in line with co-operative values and principles.
The Co-operative Foundation is an independent charitable trust set up in 2000 and solely funded by United Co-operatives. The Foundation is keen to support community and voluntary sector activity through grants to local groups and organisations across its trading area. It is particular interested in locally led and run groups which can demonstrate evidence of co-operative values and principles: self-help, equality, democracy, concern for the community.
Cripplegate Foundation is a grant-making parochial charity, which only works in South Islington and parts of the City of London.
The Roald Dahl Foundation is a UK-based charity which offers a programme of grant-making to charities, hospitals and individuals in the UK only. The Foundation offers practical assistance to children and families in its three main areas of interest: neurology, haematology and literacy.
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund is an independent grant-giving charity established in September 1997 to continue the Princess's humanitarian work in the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is a world in which the rights of the disadvantaged are respected. By giving grants to organisations, championing charitable causes, advocacy, campaigning and awareness-raising, the Fund works to secure sustainable improvements in the lives of the most disadvantaged people in the UK
From its origins as a medieval guild, the Drapers’ Company today has wide ranging interests and responsibilities: it administers charitable trusts relating to relief of need, education and almshouses; it provides banqueting and catering services; and it fosters its heritage and traditions of good fellowship.
The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant-making charity. It was established by Deed in 1949 by the 1st Lord Dulverton to provide funds for such charitable institutions or purposes as the Trustees might from time to time determine. Support is given to a wide range of worthy causes, generally through national or regional charities operating in England, Scotland or Wales, together with a few organisations operating in East Africa which have a long association with the Trust.
The Eaga Charitable Trust (Eaga-CT) was founded by Eaga Partnership Ltd (EPL) in 1993. The Eaga Partnership Charitable Trust (Eaga-PCT) has now succeeded the Eaga-CT and Eaga is the Trust’s sole funder. Eaga-PCT funds action and research projects focused on the relief of fuel poverty and the preservation and protection of health by the promotion of the efficient use of energy.
EBCC is a small charity local to Ealing and Brentford which was established at the beginning of the last century for the purpose of helping people of limited means.
The John Ellerman Foundation aims to support a broad cross-section of charities doing work of national significance, in the following categories: Medical and Disability, Community Development and Social Welfare, Arts, Conservation, Overseas Aid (principally central and southern Africa. Only charities with a UK office will be considered).
EMF aims to raise an endowment fund of £100 million by enrolling 100,000 BME professionals, each of whom will be asked to donate £100 a year for ten years and volunteer, eg as a trustee of a BME voluntary organisation or a mentor for a young BME student.
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK. It makes grants in four areas: Social development, Environment, Education, and Arts and heritage.
The Fermanagh Trust is a registered charity, established in 1995, to promote any charitable purpose, and to support initiatives which will lead to social and community development to improve the conditions of life for the people in County Fermanagh and the immediate hinterland.
The Fidelity UK Foundation was established in 1988 by Edward C Johnson 3d, the Chairman of Fidelity Investments, to represent Fidelity's philanthropic interests in the communities where it does business. The focus of the Foundation's grant making is in the following sectors: community development, health, arts and culture and education.
The Trust makes grants in three areas: respite care and holidays; vocational guidance, relief of health disability at low unit cost. Grants for core, project and capital costs are made and the Trust seeks to develop a relationship with grantees to provide continued funding if the need exists. Smaller, community based charities are preferred. Applicants are encouraged to contact Trustee, Rob Carruthers, on 01453 844129 before applying.
The Foyle Foundation was formed to implement the terms of the will of the late Christina Foyle. She was the daughter of William Foyle who, with his brother, founded the family owned bookshop Foyles in Charing Cross Road, London, which she continued to manage after her father's death. The Foyle Foundation distributes grants to charitable organisations in the areas of learning, arts and health.
Set up in memory of Jill Franklin (1928-1998) the trustees give grants of £500 to £1000 to organisations working with refugees, self-help mental health groups, churches for restoration, holidays to give carers respite, and to prisoners for education anywhere in the UK.
The Foundation was established as part of the demutualisation of Friends' Provident Life Office in 2001 and the flotation of Friends Provident plc. The Foundation focuses its efforts on addressing financial exclusion.
As part of its contribution towards the National Strategy for Financial Capability, the FSA has established an innovation fund that aims to create a fund dedicated to financial capability and to finding out more about what works in delivering financial capability.
Founded by Dr John Borthwick Gilchrist who left the residue of his estate “for the benefit advancement and propagation of education and learning in every part of the world".
A Glimmer of Hope UK seeks to make a significant and lasting improvement to the lives of excluded young people in London. The trust only funds projects that: directly benefit young people under the age of 25; show an enterprising and innovative approach; focus on building self-esteem and skills of excluded youth.
Global Charities is a grant giving charity and awards grants within the local area where the funds are raised according to the legal objects of our charity below:
“To relieve poverty, hardship or distress, and to promote the physical or mental welfare of children in need of care and attention, and any such other object or purpose as is charitable under the law of England and Wales.”
Our mission is to make a real and lasting difference to the lives of those children, young people and adults who face disadvantage or who are most at risk.
There are three major and six minor charities, funding in three main areas: support of the goldsmiths' craft, education, and general charitable support.
The Freemasons' Grand Charity is a grant-making charity. Last year it gave grants totalling over £4.6 million to support people in need
GrantScape is a charity that is committed to enhancing the environment and strengthening local communities through its grant-making. It funds improvements to public amenities, such as sports and recreation facilities, parks, community/village halls and religious buildings that are available for use by their local communities. It also supports nature conservation and biodiversity projects.
The Hospital of God is an ancient charity, founded in 1273, dedicated to caring for those in need in the north east of England. Services are provided for all who fall within the purposes of the charity regardless of religion, gender, disability, race, sexual orientation or age. The charity provides a residential care home for older people and also makes grants to other voluntary organisations.
Ian Gregg (former chairman of Greggs plc) set the Trust up as a registered charity in 1987 with the aim of putting something back into the communities where customers and employees live. The Trust gives grants to organisations with charitable objectives in the North East of England. Divisional Charity Commitees based within the divisions of Greggs plc around the UK also make grants under these same guidelines.
Groundswell is a unique project, promoting and developing self-help initiatives with people who are homeless, landless or socially excluded. It includes a small grants scheme.
The UK branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (whose headquarters are in Lisbon) makes grants to organisations in the UK and Republic of Ireland. It has three programmes: Arts, Social Welfare and Education, and Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Relations.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation has four priority areas of funding – the arts, education, publishing and overseas projects, which are mainly concentrated in India. In all these areas Trustees’ emphasis is on helping to increase the opportunities available to people.
The Harborne Parish Lands Charity was founded in 1699 as an Almshouse and Grant Making charity. Today it provides sheltered housing for the elderly and makes grants to organisations and individuals within the charity's boundary, which includes Harborne in Birmingham and Smethwick in the West Midlands.
The Peter Harrison Foundation makes grants to people with disabilities and those that are disadvantaged. Priority will be given to organisations that work with or for such people in the field of sport, education and the support of children and young people.
Sir Charles Hayward used his personal fortune to establish and endow two charitable trusts, the Hayward Foundation and the Charles Hayward Trust. The two charities were combined on 1st January 2000, to become the Charles Hayward Foundation. The Foundation runs a number of grant making programmes, which include one for medical research, a community grants programme, and a programme for older people.
Help the Homeless was founded in 1975. The charity assists other voluntary organisations who work to re-establish the single homeless into mainstream society. It has a small and large grants programme for capital expenditure – but does not provide grants for running costs or individuals.
Provides a wide range of grants for hospices and their staff.
The Trustees have a continuing interest in the third world and in minorities, however defined, in the UK. Grants are not normally made for well-established causes or to individuals, and overseas grants concentrate on development aid in preference to disaster relief. Currently the trust is focusing on: homelessness, penal affairs, minorities, overseas.
The Hillingdon Community Trust was established in 2003 and makes grants for community projects such as the environment, public amenities, education and training, crime prevention and recreational facilities within the London Borough of Hillingdon.
Focussing on young people, the Foundation supports activities in education and health to relieve suffering and equip individuals. A large proportion of the Foundation’s income is generated through fundraising initiatives by Hilton Hotels.
Founded in 1976 by Mrs Carla Eddy Hinrichsen to ensure the continuation of the tradition established by the Hinrichsen family as the proprietors of Edition Peters the music publishers. The Foundation is a charity dedicated to the promotion of music.
The Holywood Trust, which takes its name from the Parish of Holywood on the outskirts of Dumfries, was founded and endowed by the late Sir John Keswick of Portrack and his daughter, the late Maggie Keswick Jencks. The Trust assists young people (15-25 year olds) resident in Dumfries and Galloway, in South West Scotland, particularly those experiencing mental, physical and social disadvantage.
HACT was set up in 1960 to raise and distribute charitable money to improve the quality of life for homeless people and people with housing and support needs. It is now one of the largest specialist grant-making charities in the United Kingdom, distributing over £1 million each year over the past ten years.
An independent grant-making foundation whose particular emphasis is on the support of projects and initiatives in disadvantaged communities.
Impetus Trust was set up in 2002 as the UK's first general venture philanthropy charitable fund.
The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists aims to bring the benefits of IT within reach of people disadvantaged for whatever reason. WCIT works with partner organisations to develop a growing range of IT based charitable projects - from computer networks in children's hospices to community-based cybercentres.
The Company is the Trustee of several grant-making trusts.
The trust is guided by its values: to benefit the greatest number of individuals with the available funds; to encourage spiritual awareness, self-reliance, individual responsibility and concern for the need of others; to benefit disadvantaged individuals and communities particularly children (the educators and leaders of tomorrow) and the earning capacity of young parents (to break the poverty trap). The trust does its own research on charities using freely available data. It has a policy on evaluation and screening against the trust's criteria. It does not accept requests for grants.
The Joint Educational Trust (JET) helps children who have suffered tragedy or trauma at home or are at risk in some way. JET enables these children to attend caring Independent Schools where they have a real chance of reaching their potential.
Established with the support of Kent Police, the Trust provides financial assistance, in the form of grants, to groups that are working to improve community safety and reduce crime in Kent.
King’s Fund is an independent charity which aims to improve the health and health care of Londoners by undertaking health policy research and analysis, promoting good practice in health and social care, supporting leadership development, and offering grants to London projects.
A registered charitable trust allocating grants to charitable causes working for the benefit of the population and environment of Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and County Durham.
The Trust exists to enable John Laing plc and its subsidiaries to make charitable donations and provide welfare support to existing and former employees. The work of the Trust is split into four distinct areas, including: welfare, charitable donations, staff applications and named funds.
The Foundation makes grants for work all over the United Kingdom but not overseas. Trustees give priority to work outside London and this means that grants are hardly ever made for work in Greater London. Apart from a small programme in the Republic of Ireland the Foundation does not make any grants overseas. The broad areas of work which are priorities for Trustees include the provision of advice, information and advocacy; community development; employment and training; mediation, conflict resolution and alternatives to violence; research and education aimed at changing public attitudes or policy; and social welfare
Formed from a merger between The Chase Charity and the Lankelly Foundation, the LankellyChase Foundation was created in 2004. The Foundation works to promote change which will improve the quality of people’s lives. It focuses particularly on areas of social need to help the most disadvantaged in society to fulfil their potential.
The Foundation supports individuals and organisations wishing to advance leadership skills by awarding scholarships, bursaries and similar awards.
The Leeds Building Society Charitable Foundation was established by the Society in 1999 to support the communities around its nationwide network of branches by making donations to charities working in those areas. Generally, the Foundation will consider applications for community based projects which aim to provide relief of suffering, hardship or poverty, or their direct consequences.
Supporting a wide range of innovative cultural and sporting activities for all, which celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and leave a lasting legacy in communities throughout the United Kingdom.
Established by the late Joseph Levy CBE BEM in 1965, the Foundation took on its present form in 1999 when it officially merged with the Lawrence Levy Charitable Trust. The objects of the Foundation are to support general charitable purposes. The Trustee Board, consisting primarily of children and grandchildren of the original benefactor, give grants only to officially registered charities and not to individuals.
Lloyds TSB Foundation for the Channel Islands supports and works in partnership with charitable organisations which help people, especially those who are disadvantaged or disabled, to play a fuller role in communities throughout the Channel Islands.
The Lloyds TSB Foundation is one of the UK's largest grant-making trusts. Its mission is to support and work in partnership with charitable organisations which help people, especially those who are disadvantaged or disabled, to play a fuller role in communities throughout England and Wales. The Foundation is particularly keen to support small community-based charities where small amounts of money can make a significant difference to local people's lives.
The Lloyds TSB Foundations are four independent grant-making trusts, covering England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. The Lloyds TSB Foundations are committed to supporting underfunded, grassroots charities that enable people, especially disabled and disadvantaged people, to play a fuller role in society.
The Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland is a grant-making trust distributing in excess of £7 million each year to registered charities throughout Scotland. The Foundation’s aim is to support and work in partnership with charities which are focused on improving quality of life and creating equality of opportunity for people in Scotland. In 2008 we distributed £7.5m in grants
London Catalyst was established in 1873 (as the Metropolitan Hospital-Sunday Fund) when the Lord Mayor of London invited religious and hospital leaders to a meeting at the Mansion House. Today, over 125 years on, the charity continues to act as a catalyst to enable the faith communities to bring immediate help and relief where it is needed.
The London Housing Foundation provides support to voluntary agencies tackling single homelessness in London. It provides grants and, through its IMPACT programme, training and organisational development support. Their website provides full details of its various programmes, as well as briefings on current issues relating to homelessness in London and links to other sites dealing with this topic.
The John Lyon's Trust gives grants to groups and organisations for the benefit of children and young adults who are resident in the London boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, The City of London and The City of Westminster.
Macquarie has been involved in community giving since 1969 and the Macquarie Group Foundation was formally established in 1984. Over this time, Macquarie has supported many hundreds of organisations working to support and improve the communities where the Group carries out its work. The Macquarie Group Foundation and Macquarie staff currently contribute about $16 million a year to more than 500 community organisations worldwide.
The Trust was established by Lady MacRobert in memory of her three sons who were all killed as aviators. The Trustees reconsider their policy and practice of grant giving every five years. The beneficial area is United Kingdom-wide but preference is given to organisations in Scotland. Grants are normally made only to a recognised Scottish Charity or a recognised charity outside Scotland.
The Trust's principal objectives are to advance knowledge of and research into representative democracy, its forms, functions and development and associated institutions.
The Charity's principal object is to make grants and donations for the benefit of a wide range of charitable purposes including welfare, education, the arts, heritage and religion. There are also programmes to support the Christian faith and heritage and a small arts budget.
Millfield House Foundation (MHF) aims to help reduce social and economic deprivation in Tyne and Wear (in the North East of England), primarily by helping voluntary organisations to contribute to public debate and the policy-making process. It does not make grants related to the needs of people in Tyne and Wear, to large well-established national charities, or in response to general appeals.
The Trust works to improve the quality of life of people living in the inner city Boroughs of South East London, especially Lambeth and Southwark. It gives grants to registered charities and community projects and organisations working with people of all ages in the areas of social welfare, health and the community.
The Montessori St Nicholas Charity aims to promote the Montessori method of education by providing support for Montessori schools, teachers and students. Grants may constitute scholarships, gifts, loans or partnerships. Grants are not normally made to other grant-making bodies or to general appeals. UK organisations and residents only.
John Moores Foundation (JMF) was set up in 1963 with the intention of providing funds for charitable purposes. It is a registered charity which gives money to charitable community organisations. Whilst it is a national trust, currently it concentrates on funding projects based in Merseyside (including Skelmersdale, Halton, and Ellesmere Port, but priority will be given to projects working within the area of the former county of Merseyside) and Northern Ireland.
Created in 2001 by businessman Steve Morgan, its purpose is to support charities across North Wales, Merseyside, West Cheshire and North Shropshire. The Foundation focuses mainly, though not exclusively on organisations working directly with children and families. Areas of support include physical and learning disability, physical and mental health, plus social challenge and deprivation.
Mott Foundation is a large, US-based grant-making foundation which funds in Central/Eastern Europe and Russia, South Africa and the US.
The Worshipful Company of Musicians is the only City livery company dedicated to the performing arts.
The Foundation makes charitable grants to UK based organisations whose aim is to improve the quality of life and the range of opportunities for those in need, promote social inclusion and achieve real and sustainable benefit to communities.
The main aims of Newby Trust are to promote medical welfare, training and education and the relief of poverty.
The Nominet Foundation is a charitable organisation that will fund education, research and development initiatives in the Internet industry.
The Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust is an independent charitable grant-making organisation whose aim is to create a more just and caring society by enabling people in positive action. The Trust will fund and support community development and will assist groups to tackle the causes and effects of inequality, poverty and disadvantage at a local and regional level.
Northern Rock Foundation aims to tackle disadvantage and improve quality of life in North East England and Cumbria. We invest money, time and expertise in charitable activities via grants, loans, training, research and demonstration projects. The Foundation was established when Northern Rock demutualised in 1997. Up to December 2007, the bank gave, by covenant, 5% of its annual pre-tax profits to the Foundation, totalling more than £190 million. The Foundation will receive a minimum of £15m a year in 2008, 2009 and 2010 from Northern Rock, as part of the arrangement under which the bank was taken into temporary public ownership. Maintaining this arrangement is a condition of any sale of the bank in that period. The Government has asked the bank’s board to identify a viable long-term future for the Foundation.
The Nuffield Foundation makes grants to support research and innovation in the fields of education, science and social research and innovation. The Foundation also has a Commonwealth programme.
The Paristamen Foundation is a small Yorkshire-based grant-making charitable trust. The Foundation's objects cover (a) the furtherance of education; (b) the advancement of the Christian faith and Christian missionary activity; (c) relief of poverty; (d) other charitable purposes not inconsistent with these.
The Harry Payne Trust is relatively small and grants are usually in the £100 to £1000 range. The Trust will consider financing specific projects or help for ongoing running costs (including salaries/personnel costs). Support is almost entirely restricted to Birmingham and the immediately surrounding areas of the West Midlands, including Wolverhampton and Coventry.
The Foundation supports youth projects (11-24 years) in East London and West Essex.
The Trust was established from the benefaction of the Bourne farmer and businessman, Thomas Leonard Pick and is for the general benefit of the inhabitants of the town of Bourne in Lincolnshire.
The Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation is a grant-giving trust. We support change in order to help promote peace and security, ecological sustainability, and to engender values that foster harmony and respect between people and planet. We do this by giving grants to small organisations with a radical agenda that are attempting to provide positive solutions.
Prisoners Abroad provides a number of grant assistance programmes for prisoners abroad and their families and friends.
The Pukaar Foundation was established to distribute donations from the Asian community to people in Yorkshire, whatever their colour, race or creed, and to help businesses put something back into their local communities.
Working within the limitations of small, frequently volunteer-led and local projects, the Quaker Housing Trust provides advice, support and financial assistance to local Quaker groups setting up or running housing projects.
The Ragdoll Foundation was set up to fund imaginative ideas which support children through the arts. Guidelines and application procedure are available from the site.
Established in 1953 by the late Lord and Lady Rank. The Foundation concentrates on the promotion of Christian principles through film and other media; the encouragement and development of leadership amongst young people; the support of disadvantaged young people; and the support of those who are frail or lonely due to age or disability.
Established in 1962 by Lord Rayne, the Foundation concentrates its support on projects in the UK in the following sectors: arts, education, health/medicine, social welfare and development. It particularly supports work of national importance which helps society’s most vulnerable or disadvantaged individuals, especially children, young people and the elderly.
The Trust is an educational charity which exists to help animals and the people who care for them by providing two key services to the veterinary profession: opportunities to develop practice through an educational grants programme and access to information and the evidence base for veterinary practice through the RCVS library and information service.
Founded in 1921 by Sir James Reckitt, who endowed the trust with shares in the family manufacturing business of Reckitt and Sons Limited. The trustees support a wide range of charitable causes, but give some priority to purposes connected with the Society of Friends (Quakers) and to purposes connected with the city of Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
A charitable foundation set up by Alec Reed. Funds go towards supporting charitable projects and one-off donations.
New Fund for Women in the UK
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust funds in the areas of poverty and economic justice, handling conflict & promoting peaceful alternatives, democratic process, racial justice, corporate responsibility, Quaker and other religious concerns, in the UK, Ireland and South Africa only.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an independent, non-political body which supports programmes of research and innovative development in the fields of housing, social care and social policy.
The Royal Wanstead Children’s Foundation is a registered charity helping vulnerable children of single parents (or other carers) whose scope for normal happy development is prejudiced by chronic problems in the home. We work with other charities to provide the funding to place these children in boarding schools on a weekly or termly basis.
The Rufford Foundation has a strong interest in nature conservation, the environment, and sustainable development, with approximately three quarters of the Foundation's funding going to these areas. Many other causes are supported, especially in the field of social welfare and HIV/AIDS in developing countries. There is a definite and conscious attempt to avoid replacing statutory funding. The Foundation does not give grants to individuals, only to registered charities. It tends to avoid making recurring grants on a long-term basis and usually does not provide funds for building costs or salaries. It does not make loans.
The Foundation was established in 2005. The objects of the charity are exclusively for charitable purposes and particularly focus on: providing financial assistance for education and welfare purposes; relieving poverty by alleviating homelessness; and assisting members of the Zoroastrian religious faith. Its areas of operation are mainly India and the UK.
St Katharine & Shadwell Trust is a charity working towards improving the quality of life for people living in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The Trust administers a variety of grants and runs projects to benefit the community.
The St Pancras Welfare Trust works exclusively for people who live in the area of the old Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras and who need help in times of need and sickness. This area covers some of the most densely populated and poorly served parts of the London Borough of Camden, including Somers Town, Camden Town and Kentish Town.
Santander Foundation (formerly Abbey Charitable Trust) was set up in 1990. The Trust is funded partly from annual grants from Santander and partly from income from endowment funds given by the company to the Trust. The Trustees are committed to supporting local communities, particularly in those areas where Santander has a significant presence, by supporting disadvantaged people.
Scott Bader Commonwealth Ltd funds assistance of distressed and needy persons of all nationalities through projects which respond to the needs of those most disadvantaged, underprivileged, poor or excluded, encourage the careful use and protection of natural resources, or promote peace-building and democratic participation.
The Francis C Scott Charitable Trust is a major grant-giving trust based in Kendal, Cumbria. Grants support charities addressing disadvantage in Cumbria and North Lancashire (first priority) and the remainder of Lancashire (second priority). The homepage links to the website of the Frieda Scott Charitable Trust, which gives grants to charities in the old County of Westmorland and the area covered by South Lakeland District Council.
The main purpose is to relieve poverty and distress in society, especially in deprived areas, concentrating grants on community projects, as well as those directed to special needs groups. The Trust’s geographical area of giving is the West Midlands with particular emphasis on: Birmingham City, Coventry City, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Wolverhampton and the County of Warwickshire.
Provides relief of need, hardship and distress grants in the north-east of England.
Fund arts development in the Borough of Elmbridge, Surrey.
SHINE: Support and Help in Education is a relatively new trust that aims to support additional educational initiatives which encourage children and young people to raise their achievement levels. The trust funds organisations working with underachieving 7-16 year olds from disadvantaged areas in London and Manchester.
The Skinners' Company is one of the "Great Twelve" livery companies with a history dating back some 700 years. The Company aims to foster education and training, to house the elderly, to assist people in need, and to support charitable causes.
Aims to assist disadvantaged people towards greater independence or a better quality of life. The Trust’s geographical area is registered charities whose beneficiaries are in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Surrey and London. Current funding priority areas are: mental health, learning disability, homelessness, family support.
The Henry Smith Charity was founded in 1628 with the objects of relieving and where possible releasing people from need and suffering. These objects continue in the grant-making policy today. The Henry Smith Charity makes grants totalling over £20 million per annum for a wide range of purposes across the UK, funded from investments.
The South West Foundation is a relatively new grant giving body in the South West Region. Launched in September 2001 it was set up by the South Western Co-operative Housing Society (SWCHS Ltd) to support charitable voluntary and community activity throughout the South West Region.
With origins in the fifteenth century, St Giles-in-the-Fields - and its associated charities - make grants to support individuals, projects, organisations and schools. The main areas of activity are the promotion of education and relieving need – within the area of benefit around Bloomsbury in central London.
Sir Walter St. John's Educational Charity makes grants to promote the education and training of children and young persons under the age of 25 who are resident in the London Boroughs of Wandsworth and Lambeth, and who are in need of financial assistance. Grants may be awarded both to local organisations and to individual students.
The St Monica Trust Community Fund was founded by the late Henry Herbert Wills and Dame Monica Wills of Bristol in 1919 and provides accommodation, care and support for older and disabled people. In addition, the Trust’s Community Support Scheme provides financial support for people living within the wider community of Bristol and the surrounding counties. Short-term grants and gifts are awarded to people who need help in a crisis, or a specific item which will improve their quality of life.
The STARS Foundation works to improve the lives of disadvantaged children around the world. It does so by supporting organisations which achieve excellence in the provision of health, education and protection services for children and by encouraging the replication of effective approaches and practices.
The Steel Charitable Trust is a grant-making trust supporting general charitable purposes. It is the policy of the Trustees to make grants to a wide range of charitable bodies, including those mentioned in the Deed of Settlement. It is the policy to distribute 30% of all grants in the Luton and Bedfordshire areas.
The Trust has a Christian basis and is concerned with the development of body, mind and spirit, a just environment, and international goodwill. To this end it supports projects in religious, social, educational and medical fields. It aims to promote and assist innovative research activities or developments with a view to making such work self-supporting, with an emphasis on prevention rather than alleviation of human suffering.
Founded by Leonard Laity Stoate in 1950 the Trust has a strong bias towards Methodism and the south west of England. Other categories of funding include medical and disability, youth and children, and community projects.
Stone Ashdown’s vision is of a society where all its citizens enjoy equality and human rights, where diversity is valued and there is dialogue between different races and faiths. Stone Ashdown will use its resources and expertise to support the development of projects that support our vision of an equal and just society, and will nurture, encourage and support projects that promote equality, human rights and dialogue.Stone Ashdown acts as: an umbrella body for trusts and projects; a development agency that encourages grass roots initiatives; and an infrastructure body that supports and builds the capacity of the black and minority ethnic voluntary and community sector.
In 1553 King Edward VI established two charities to benefit the people of Stratford-upon-Avon. This endowment of the Guild and College Estates is still providing funds for Stratford, administered by the Stratford-upon-Avon Town Trust.
The Stroke Association funds medical research across the UK covering stroke prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, as well as stroke support and service provision.
Peter Lampl OBE founded the Sutton Trust in 1997 with the aim of providing educational opportunities for able young people from non-privileged backgrounds.
Trafford Hall is the home of the National Communities Resource Centre, a registered charity, offering training and support to people living and working in disadvantaged communities in the UK, to develop their skills, confidence and capacity to tackle problems and reverse poor conditions.
In 1988 a group of travellers, civil liberty campaigners and solicitors came together and formally set up the Travellers Aid Trust as a registered charity. The two main objectives of the charity are: the relief of poverty, hardship, sickness and distress amongst travellers and the advancement of education among the children of travellers.
The Tubney Trust has a limited life and is gradually spending down its endowment over an expected eight to ten year period. The Trust's open grant-making programme focuses on conservation of the natural environment and the improvement of the welfare of farmed animals.
A grant-giving charitable organisation established in 2004. The Foundation makes grants, gifts or loans within its area of benefit - the relief of sickness.
Tudor is an independent grant-making trust which supports organisations working across the UK. The trust aims to support work which addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people at the margins of our society.
The Underwood Trust was created in 1973. The name derives from Underwood Lane, Paisley, Scotland, which was the childhood home of one of the founders. The Trust currently supports UK registered charities and other official charitable organisations which benefit society nationally and locally in Scotland and Wiltshire.
UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs - people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. This is achieved by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality.
Vana Trust was set up in June 2004 to provide funding for the relief of poverty, sickness and distress, the advancement of education and the preservation and protection of good health of children and young people in Africa. Vana Trust also fund raises to achieve these objectives for people in UK.
Funded by donations from Vodafone UK and from the Vodafone Group Foundation, Vodafone UK Foundation supports a wide range of national and local charities and voluntary organisations across the UK.
Volunteering England is an independent voluntary agency committed to supporting, enabling and celebrating volunteering in all its diversity. VE's work links research, policy innovation, good practice and grant making in the involvement of volunteers.
The Trust's primary object, apart from supporting the church of All Hallows by the Tower and the charity Toch H, is to assist such charitable purposes as will be most conducive to the development of Tower Hill and Trinity Square in London, EC3.
The Waterloo Foundation is a recently created independent grant-making foundation in the UK. The Foundation gives grants to organisations in both the UK and world-wide. It is particularly interested in projects that help globally particularly in the areas of the disparity of wealth and climate-related issues. The foundation wants to help both the global community and the local community in Wales.
The Foundation was set up in 1966 by three brothers, Norman, Ronald and Alan Wates, Directors of the well-known building firm. The Foundation is co-located with the Wates Group, but has no connection with their commercial interests. Its primary focus is on the young and disadvantaged in the London area and it aims to alleviate distress and improve the quality of life. In line with its origins, the Foundation has always had an interest in the built environment and its impact on society.
The Worshipful Company of Weavers is the oldest recorded Livery Company of the City of London. Its principal grant-making charity is The Weavers Company Benevolent Fund which supports projects working with young people who, for any reason, are in need or at risk, as well as the rehabilitation and resettlement of young prisoners and ex-prisoners.
The Wellcome Trust is an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health.
The Westhill Endowment was set up in 1912 and now offers grants for Christian education.
Wiltshire and Swindon Community Foundation is an independent registered charity, pooling funds from companies and individuals to give out in grants to small local voluntary groups, operating in Wiltshire.
The Trust’s geographical area is the West Midlands and London (within the boundaries of the M25). The Trustees’ interests lie with youth between the ages of 16-25 and the elderly. Grants are usually for equipment, furnishings, running costs, helplines, etc.
One of the chief interests of the Trust is helping to bring about the elimination of modern-day slavery. Currently, about 27 million children, women and men are enslaved. They are held by force or threat of force, and are unable to escape. This can range from girls and women being trafficked for forced prostitution to bonded labour where, from one generation to another, children are enslaved as a result of their parents' 'debts'.
The Yapp Charitable Trust makes small grants, for running costs and salaries, to small charities in England and Wales to help sustain their existing work. Grants are awarded to charities working with elderly people; children and young people aged 5-25; people with disabilities or mental health problems; people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, a history of offending. The trust also makes grants to sustain small charities' work in the fields of education and learning and some money is used to support scientific and medical research.
Yardley Great Trust is a registered charity that: Pays grants aimed at relieving poverty to individuals and organisations; Provides sheltered housing for independent older people; Provides residential care for frail older people at our residential care home in Shard End; and in partnership with Yardley Grange Care Services, provides nursing care at our nursing home in Yardley.
The Trust is funded by the business (Zurich UK) and donations from staff and supporters. The Trust supports issues which are often less popular and where it can make an impact. For example, breaking the cycle of generational drug abuse and support for the most vulnerable old people -such as those who are homeless or abused. The Trust also runs a programme in Southern India which combines long term funding and skill transfer of senior company managers.
