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Charitable activities Charities That specialise in Grant making

Discover 4,408 Charitable activities charities that specialise in Grant making. Use the search below to filter within these results.

4,408
Charities
£8,949,407,421
Total Income
£1,444,618
Avg Income
96.7%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

Southover Manor General Educational Trust Limited

Charitable activities

To make grants to advance for the public benefit the education of persons under the age of 25 years in any manner being exclusively charitable as the Governing Body of the Trust may from time to time determine.

Latest Income: £128,510
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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Ford Britain Trust

Charitable activities

The Ford Britain Trust makes donations to undertakings concerned with the advancement of education and other charitable purposes beneficial to the community. Preference is given to organisations located in and working in areas where Ford Motor Company Limited has its present activities and a long standing association with local communities in the UK.

Latest Income: £127,941
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Kirkley Poor's Lands

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Awards grants to people resident in the Ancient Parish of Kirkley who are in need, hardship or distress.Awards grants to organisations helping people resident in the Ancient Parish of Kirkley who are in need, hardship or distress.Awards grants to students resident in the Ancient Parish of Kirkley.

Latest Income: £124,324
Areas of Operation: Suffolk
Status: Registered
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Quaternary Research Association

Arts, Charitable activities

The objective of the Association is the advancement of education and research into the Quaternary period through a programme of events and activities (discussion and field meetings, outreach activities) and by series of publications that are of benefit to the public. It also provides grants and awards to individuals and groups to promote research and further understanding of the Quaternary period.

Latest Income: £124,262
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Friarsgate Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

To provide funds for the academic and general education of orphans and children (whether infant or adult) whose parents are in poor or reduced circumstances.To provide the mental, moral , physical, technical and social education of children, young persons and adults.

Latest Income: £123,335
Areas of Operation: West Sussex
Status: Registered
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Dunwich Town Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing

Awarding grants to institutions or individuals for purposes which benefit the community of Dunwich as a whole. A restricted fund awards grants to individuals in need within Dunwich (and occasionally in neighbouring parishes) and the elderly for a range of purposes from provision of care alarms to help with tertiary education expenses, emergency problems in the home and help with fuel costs.

Latest Income: £123,182
Areas of Operation: Suffolk
Status: Registered
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The Gibbons Family Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Leisure

The Gibbons Family Trust awards grants to children and young people up the age of 25 living in Devon (with preference for East Devon) and in the Isle of Thanet, Kent. Grants can be made for the education, training, recreation and general welfare of young people (but not private school fees). Registered charities, organisations, and individuals (references are required) are eligible to apply.

Latest Income: £123,089
Areas of Operation: Devon
Status: Registered
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The Worshipful Company Of Engineers Charitable Trust Fund

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The main objectives of the trust are: the acknowledgement of excellence in engineering, supporting engineering education and research, giving grants and - in exceptional circumstances - assisting in the support of hardship experienced by members of the Worshipful Company of Engineers and their dependants.

Latest Income: £119,824
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Nelson Thomlinson School

Charitable activities, Education

Makes grants to the Nelson Thomlinson School and its individual students for activities where other sources are either unavailable or inadequate and a need is perceived by the trustees.

Latest Income: £119,799
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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The League Of Friends Of The Leatherhead Hospital

Associations, Charitable activities, Health

The current activity of the charity is to support Leatherhead Hospital by the donation of equipment as required, also to provide funds to preserve and enhance the fabric of the buildings in which the hospital is housed.To provide funds to enable hospital staff to attend medical conferences etc.

Latest Income: £118,555
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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The Nottingham Operatic Society

Arts, Charitable activities, Leisure

To provide education and entertainment for members of the general public by giving a wide range of affordable, concessionary theatrical performances and concerts of music, drama and dance in the Nottingham area. To improve on performing or back stage skills for both amateur and professional members. Where possible to provide funds, time and performances to help charities.

Latest Income: £116,771
Areas of Operation: Nottingham City
Status: Registered
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Gilchrist Educational Trust

Charitable activities, Education, Research, Social welfare

THE TRUST MAKES GRANTS TO: 1) ORGANISATIONS SEEKING TO FILL ACADEMIC EDUCATIONAL GAPS.2) INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EITHER WITHIN SIGHT OF THE END OF SELF-FINANCED DEGREE OR HIGHER EDUCATION COURSE AND WHO ARE FACING UNEXPECTED FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OR (B) REQUIRED, AS PART OF A UNIVERSITY COURSE , TO STUDY ABROAD. 3)EXPEDITIONS PROPOSING TO CARRY OUT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Latest Income: £116,101
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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St Pancras Welfare Trust

Charitable activities, Education

During the year the Trust received around 500 applications from referral agencies on behalf of clients in need; most of these were supported. Project grants to Community Associations and Schools were also supported. Beneficiaries must live within the boundary of the former Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras.

Latest Income: £115,353
Areas of Operation: Camden
Status: Registered
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Michael Lowe's And Associated Charities

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The Charity can only make grants to or for the benefit of residents of the City of Lichfield.As well as fuel grants, grants may be made to individuals who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress or to organisations whose aims are to provide or pay for items which will benefit the recipient.

Latest Income: £113,702
Areas of Operation: Staffordshire
Status: Registered
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The Institution Of Structural Engineers Benevolent Fund

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The Benevolent Fund makes grants and affords assistance to necessitous persons who are members or former members, or dependants of members or former members, of the Institution of Structural Engineers.

Latest Income: £113,180
Areas of Operation: Australia
Status: Registered
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Hawkshead Grammar School Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Heritage

Educational Charity providing grants to young people from Hawkshead for further education or for entry into one of the professions. Also providing a museum experience based on the Old Grammar School Building showing how an Elizabethan Grammar school worked.

Latest Income: £110,997
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Headley Pitt Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Religion, Social care, Social welfare

The charity provides accommodation for the elderly in ten bungalows or flats. It also provides grants to organisations and individuals. These may be in respect of the Religious Society of Friends, or any charitable objects connected with the town of Ashford in Kent, or to meet expenses of education or or for the relief of poverty.

Latest Income: £104,042
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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The Co-Operative Clinical Cancer Therapy Trust Fund

Charitable activities, Health, Research

The Lymphoma Research Trust supports research into the treatment of lymphoma. It makes grants to medical researchers at the Lymphoma Trials Office who organise clinical trials to see which treatments are most effective.

Latest Income: £104,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Hastings Area Community Trust

Charitable activities, Economic and community development

The provision of accommodation for charities and other organisations and providing an administration service to other grant making bodies. Also making Grants to individuals in line with the Charity's objects.

Latest Income: £101,800
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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Farrer And Co Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

The main purpose of the Trust is to apply income for the benefit of such charitable bodies or for such other charitable purposes as the Trustees shall decide. The Trustees do not make grants to individuals.

Latest Income: £101,509
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Freshgate Trust Foundation

Arts, Charitable activities, Heritage, Leisure

A grant making charity established in 1941 by Harry Brearley, the discoverer of stainless steel.The Trustees policy is to meet the objectives whilst giving priority to organisations within South Yorkshire in the following spheres: Education (including Travel & Training);Heritage, Restoration & Environment; Music & The Arts; Recreation (including Holidays & Sport; Welfare, Health & Social Care.

Latest Income: £101,008
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Delius Trust

Arts, Charitable activities

Makes grants towards the performance and promotion of the music of Frederick Delius. Also makes grants to organisations with a general remit to promote the music of British composers born from 1860 onwards.

Latest Income: £96,851
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Provincial Grand Charity Of The Province Of Derbyshire

Associations, Charitable activities

Grants to local organisations and individuals, mainly within the county of Derbyshire but occasionally outside the county if the body serves the Derbyshire community.

Latest Income: £95,647
Areas of Operation: Derbyshire
Status: Registered
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Fund For Human Need

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing

Makes grants of up to £200 each to refugees, asylum seekers, the homeless and others suffering personal distress. Makes limited number of grants to projects working amongst the poorest communities from restricted funds received for those specific projects.

Latest Income: £94,417
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Lee Charity Of William Hatcliffe

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The payment of Grants to individuals and registered charities for the relief of persons resident in the London Borough of Lewisham who are in need, hardship or distress.

Latest Income: £94,341
Areas of Operation: Lewisham
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many Grant making charitable activities charities are there in the UK?

There are 4,408 registered Grant making charitable activities charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the Grant making charitable activities charities by income?

Wellcome Trust is the largest by latest reported annual income (£569.5m). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.

What is the combined annual income of Grant making charitable activities charities?

Grant making charitable activities charities reported a combined annual income of £8.9bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for Grant making charitable activities charities?

Across all Grant making charitable activities charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 96.7%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of Grant making charitable activities charities?

Grant making charitable activities charities have an average annual income of £1.4m. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.