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Charitable activities Charities That specialise in Grant making

Discover 4,202 Charitable activities charities that specialise in Grant making. Use the search below to filter within these results.

4,202
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.

Nicholson's Educational Foundation

Charitable activities

TO MAKE GRANTS OF AN EDUCATIONAL OR WELFARE NEED TO THE RESIDENTS OF BARFORD ST MARTIN

Latest Income: £3,752
Areas of Operation: Wiltshire
Status: Registered
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M And H Cadbury Trust

Charitable activities

Makes donations to charities and organisations..

Latest Income: £3,746
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Lodge Of Sympathy No 855 Masonic Charities Association

Associations, Charitable activities

To promote any purpose which is exclusively charitable in law and to do so by making grants toMasonic, local Charities and worthy causes.

Latest Income: £3,738
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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The Church Lands

Charitable activities, Religion

Making grants for the repair and decoration of St Mary's Church, Watford; also for the erection, repair, maintenance and improvement of any hall or building used for the religious and other charitable work of the Church of England in the Watford area.

Latest Income: £3,737
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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Sir John Plumb Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Education

Grants to young historians at Cambridge and other UK universities to assist in research or the publication of research.

Latest Income: £3,734
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Poor's Allotment Charity

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Grants to individuals in cases of hardship.

Latest Income: £3,726
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Lilly Hillman Will Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health, Social welfare

Uses investment income to make grants to individuals and organisations falling within the charity's objects - relief of poverty and distress by assistance to children inpatients or outpatients at the Royal Surrey County Hospital Guildford.

Latest Income: £3,720
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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Percy Lea Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Environment, Health, Social welfare

Small grants to charitable bodies e.g. nature & wildlife conservation,environmental protection, cancer & medical research, education and disadvantaged children

Latest Income: £3,714
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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William Lee

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The charity awards small grants to Royston residents in financial difficulty, including students needing help with fees and living-expenses. Applicants must be resident in the town, & a means test is applied. Application forms are available from the contact person, who is clerk to the trustees.

Latest Income: £3,713
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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Educational Charity Of Dr Curteis And Others

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The charity provides relief in need and educational grants to individuals living within the town and hundred of Tenterden.

Latest Income: £3,713
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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The Langford Charity

Charitable activities, Social welfare

In relieving either gernerally or individually persons resident in the area of benefit who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress, by making grants of money or providing or paying for such items, services or facilities calculated to reduce the need, hardship or distress of such persons

Latest Income: £3,712
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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The Betty And Charles Stilwell Fund

Charitable activities

Making grants for the relief of persons suffering from heart disease or for the furtherance of resarch into diseases of the heart or purchase of medical or other equipment for use in treatment of diseases of the heart.

Latest Income: £3,712
Areas of Operation: Northamptonshire
Status: Registered
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Edith Strain (nursing)

Charitable activities, Health

Grants to people with medical problems living in Wotton-under-Edge and to Organisations that support people living in Wotton-under-Edge

Latest Income: £3,703
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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The Turner Exhibition Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Religion

Grants to assist girls or women for education or training expenses after leaving primary school. Candidates must live in the Diocese of London, or the Diocese of Southwark within Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Wandsworth, a member of the Church of England, and a present or past pupil for not less than two years of a school wholly or partly maintained out of public funds.

Latest Income: £3,702
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Wheatley Women's Institute

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Education, Research

We make grants available to our member by way of Bursaries for educational purposes. We have a stall in the village Christmas Fayre selling Jams, chocolate tombola. This event enable us to raise money for the nominated charity for the current year .For our monthly meeting we hire very good speakers including craft, science and health Outings of educational interest are enjoyed throughout the year.

Latest Income: £3,700
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Peter S Winfield Foundation

Charitable activities

Grant making charity with wide general charitable purposes

Latest Income: £3,696
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Help In Need Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

Relief of poverty in the Parish of Bourton-on-the-Hill, by giving grants to individuals, with particular focus on the young and the elderly.

Latest Income: £3,695
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Richard Gaitskill And Sir Thomas Preston

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

Awards grants to young people, the elderly, people with disabilities and long term health problems and voluntary groups to aid with continuing education, the advancement of health, wellbeing and social care and the relief of financial hardship for those who reside within the Borough of Barrow in Furness.

Latest Income: £3,687
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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The Yardley Hastings Society

Charitable activities

The charity's objects are the maintenance, extension and improvement of public amenities within the parish of Yardley Hastings in Northamptonshire. These objects are mainly achieved by making grants to relevant organisations.

Latest Income: £3,683
Areas of Operation: Northamptonshire
Status: Registered
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St Benedicts Trust

Charitable activities

The main object is making grants to charitable bodies whose objects are the advancement of the christian religion or education

Latest Income: £3,676
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Flaxby Free School Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

Provides Grants for further education for children of both Flaxby and the children of the Parish of Goldsborough

Latest Income: £3,670
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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The Edgar Lee Foundation

Charitable activities

The Charity makes donations to local charities, national charities and projects across a broad spectrum of differing causes.

Latest Income: £3,660
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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International Biodeterioration Society

Charitable activities, Research

The holding of events and conferences covering the scientific areas of bioderioration, biodegration and industrial microbiology for educational purposes. We make occasional grants to students studying in these areas or provide financial support for them to attend events.

Latest Income: £3,653
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Friends Of Summerhill School Association

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Education

Fund Raising Events to provide funds for resources to further the education of the children at the school.

Latest Income: £3,653
Areas of Operation: Sefton
Status: Registered
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West Riding Artillery Trust

Armed forces, Associations, Charitable activities, Social welfare

WRAT supports former or existing members of 269 (West Riding) Battery RA who fall on hard times. It makes grants to 269 Battery in aid of Battery social activities. It publishes, from time to time, regimental histories of former artillery units in the West Riding of Yorkshire and donates copies of these to local libraries.

Latest Income: £3,645
Areas of Operation: Various
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 4,202 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.