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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.

Mayor's Fund For Necessitous Children

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

The trust makes grants to individuals to provide footwear and relieve poverty for school age children.

Latest Income: £1,618
Areas of Operation: Sunderland
Status: Registered
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The Fitzgerald Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Making charitable donations to other charities and donations to individuals for relief of poverty.

Latest Income: £1,607
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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Poor's Land

Charitable activities, Social welfare

As described under ClassificationThe charity currently makes grants for the relief of those experiencing financial hardship by the awarding of grants in response to specific application. Applicants must be over 18 and resident in the ecclesiastical group of parishes of which Oxwick and Pattersley are a part, currently the Upper Wensum Benefice, near Fakenham, Norfolk.

Latest Income: £1,606
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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South Wales Area Miners' Benevolent Fund

Charitable activities, Professions, Social welfare

The charity is a grant making and service providing charity which promotes the relief of poverty and hardship and the advancement of education and any other charitable purpose for the benefit of all employees and former employees of the coal mining industry in South Wales.

Latest Income: £1,602
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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Montagu Hospital Pension Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health

The charity awards grants to local pensioners on an annual basis.

Latest Income: £1,600
Areas of Operation: Northamptonshire
Status: Registered
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The Mijoda Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Social welfare

We give grants to individuals and organisations (normally between £250 and £500 with exceptional awards that can exceed £1,500) to alleviate poverty and help with education.Grants to individuals will normally only be made to people educated in the state education system.Grants may be awarded over multiple years but the trust will require evidence of continued need.

Latest Income: £1,600
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Thormanby United Charities

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Issues grants to residents of Thormanby when facing personal hardship. Provides a grocery gift voucher as a Christmas gift for all Thormanby residents over retirement age.

Latest Income: £1,599
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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The Barton Educational Foundation

Charitable activities

grants to students in higher and tertiary education who live in the historic parish of Barton, Cumbria

Latest Income: £1,597
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Poor's Allotment

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

Ingham, Norfolk. Makes grants to individuals within groups elderley/old people, those with disabilities. Relief of poverty.

Latest Income: £1,595
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Bicester Feoffee Charity

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The Charity's purpose is "to relieve ... 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 items, services or facilities." The area of benefit is the area of the Bicester Town Council, but exceptionally the Trustees may grant relief to persons resident immediately outside the area.

Latest Income: £1,595
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Fyfield United Charities

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Religion

Makes grants to elderly people and to disabled people in the village of Fyfield also provides yearly xmas boxes toSt Nicholas Church Fyfield and Fyfield Chapel.

Latest Income: £1,590
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Ward And Smyth Educational Foundation

Charitable activities, Education, Religion

Promoting the education and welfare of pupils attending Little Houghton Church of England (Aided) Primary School by making grants for specific purposes.

Latest Income: £1,587
Areas of Operation: Northamptonshire
Status: Registered
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The Cosens Institute

Charitable activities

Makes grants to organisations and individuals.

Latest Income: £1,585
Areas of Operation: Devon
Status: Registered
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Aston Welfare Trust

Associations, Charitable activities, Social welfare

GIVE GRANTS TO NEEDY PERSONS FOR HEALTH/SOCIAL ACTIVITIES (USUALLY AGE RELATED)

Latest Income: £1,585
Areas of Operation: Derbyshire
Status: Registered
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Dr Rogers' Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Grants to young people between the ages of 14 and 21 who are resident in Holton

Latest Income: £1,582
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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The Blanch Woollaston Walsall Charity

Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

To make small grants to disadvantaged individuals resident in the borough of Walsall in particular for school uniforms and small household items; the charity cannot use any part of its income to make cash payments directly to individuals in relief of taxes, public funds etc.

Latest Income: £1,578
Areas of Operation: Walsall
Status: Registered
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The Warren-Swettenham Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

Supporting a wide variety of charities in Uk and abroad by making grants of very small amounts of money

Latest Income: £1,575
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Alton Pancras Trust

Charitable activities, Environment, Heritage

Making grants for the benefit of individual inhabitants of the village of Alton Pancras, Dorset, and of the village as a whole.Recent examples of the latter include substantial contributions to the cost of: A wildlife habitat adjoining the village A Village Map for the information of residents and visitors A Village History project

Latest Income: £1,558
Areas of Operation: Dorset
Status: Registered
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Rosemary Hart Memorial Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Professions, Social welfare

Making grants for the purpose of relieving poverty and giving assistance to senior citizens.

Latest Income: £1,553
Areas of Operation: Bristol City
Status: Registered
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William Marnham The Elder, William Marnham The Younger And George Smith

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Heritage, Social welfare

The charity uses its income from investments to make grants to other local charities, or national charities, working in the historical parish of Greenford Magna, to assist them in their work with elderly people, and vulnerable adults and families. This can take the form of support for example of food banks and night shelters run by local churches.

Latest Income: £1,548
Areas of Operation: Ealing
Status: Registered
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The Poor's Land

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Providing grants to people in need in the village of Horningsea

Latest Income: £1,545
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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Ebbesbourne Wake - King's Charity

Charitable activities, Facilities, Social welfare

To receive investment income and to make grants to people in need

Latest Income: £1,543
Areas of Operation: Wiltshire
Status: Registered
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Winchester Charity School Educational Foundation

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Housing

To provide assistance by way of grants to children attending higher education in the Winchester area whose home and/or personal circumstances are such that financial support for the purchase of books and other learning material is very beneficial.

Latest Income: £1,541
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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The Amata Roberts Trust

Charitable activities

We apply the Trust's income to support those who seek to impart the Christian faith while actively engaged in the world, in particular, members of the Dominican Secular Institute in England, in all ways, including enabling such people to meet for the study of the Bible and instruction in the dissemination of the Christian faith and to make grants to such charitable bodies as Trustees decide.

Latest Income: £1,538
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Christopher Marlowe Lodge Benevolent Fund No 8014

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Grants to community charities

Latest Income: £1,534
Areas of Operation: Kent
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.