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Charitable activities Charities That specialise in Grant making

Discover 4,096 Charitable activities charities that specialise in Grant making. Use the search below to filter within these results.

4,096
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.

League Of Friends Of The Haslemere And District Hospital

Associations, Charitable activities, Health

To foster & encourage the public interest in the patients & the support of the work of the Hospital by means of voluntary service (& to assist in the recruitment of voluntary workers.) To provide funds for the resources of the Hospital service, either by supplementation or by putting such funds at the disposal of the Hospital Committee. To provide a link between the Hospital & the Community.

Latest Income: £44,352
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Thornbury Consolidated Charities

Charitable activities, Facilities, Housing

The trust owns almshouses in the form of four flats in Thornbury and makes grants in to those in need in the parish. This trust also owns a commercial property on Thornbury High Street, and allotments with over 140 plots. The rental income of the commercial property and allotments helps to finance the Almshouses and grants.

Latest Income: £44,274
Areas of Operation: South Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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The Ann Driver Trust

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

The Ann Driver Trust was founded in June 1989, in memory of Ann Driver MBE, musician and broadcaster. It supports the education of youth in the arts, with special emphasis on music, by giving grants to nominated schools and colleges.

Latest Income: £43,577
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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The Shepherd Street Trust

Charitable activities, Leisure, Social welfare

PROVISION OF GRANTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY ONE YEARS WHO RESIDE WITHIN A RADIUS OF FIFTY MILES OF PRESTON CITY CENTRE.GRANTS ARE PROVIDED FOR SPECIALIST MEDICAL ATTENTION AND EQUIPMENT, TO RELIEVE HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS, TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL TRAINING AND TO ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES.

Latest Income: £43,122
Areas of Operation: Lancashire
Status: Registered
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Southport Kidney Fund [patient Support And Research]

Charitable activities

GIVING HELP FINANCIAL AND OTHERWISE TO LOCAL KIDNEY PATIENTS IN ANY WAY WE CAN HELP AND ALSO BY GIVING GRANTS TO PATIENTS, HELPING WITH TRANSPORT COSTS ETC AND ALSO GIVING DONATIONS TO RESEARCH VIA VARIOUS KIDNEY RESEARCH CHARITIES.

Latest Income: £42,809
Areas of Operation: Sefton
Status: Registered
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Guild Of Freemen Of The City Of London's Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

The charity raises and applies funds to give aid to distressed past and present members of the Guild of Freemen of the City of London, their dependants and relatives. It also supports the educational needs of the disadvantaged at schools linked to the city of London, and it provides grants to benefit young people, the infirm, the aged and the needy, primarily in the Greater London Area

Latest Income: £42,772
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Keble Association Icw Oxford University

Charitable activities, Education

The Keble Association provides grants to students. The charity provides help at time of severe financial strain for study, travel, internships and other costs that would otherwise restrict access to a full student life at Keble

Latest Income: £42,698
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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League Of Friends Of The Macclesfield And Congleton Hospitals

Associations, Charitable activities, Health

Provide relief to patients of the two local hospitals and other individuals in our local community who are sick,convalescent,disabled, handicapped infirm or in need of assistance and to support the work of the two hospitals by the making of grants to various departments or individuals. It works within the framework outlined in its constitution adopted in May 1975 and amended in January 2004.

Latest Income: £42,593
Areas of Operation: Cheshire East
Status: Registered
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Leeds Diocese Charitable Society Trust

Charitable activities, Professions

The object of the charity is to apply the clear income in relieving the need among clergy, deaconesses and licensed lay workers who are resident in or have served in the Diocese of Leeds and among persons who are dependent relatives of any members of the clergy by making grants of money.

Latest Income: £41,764
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Earls Colne And Halstead Educational Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

The Earls Colne & Halstead Educational Charity assists people up to the age of 25 in any sphere of educational activity. Applicants to the charity must have attended school or have lived for at least one year within the charity's catchment area in North Essex. The charity also makes grants to schools and to voluntary organisations offering opportunities for young people in the same locality.

Latest Income: £41,358
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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Robert Windle Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

GRANTS TO YOUNG PEOPLE for educational support who live in the ancient Parish of Thornton-in Craven, North Yorkshire/ East Lancashire border - includes Thornton, Earby, Salterforth, Kelbrook & Hague.Grants to groups and schools working with young people in the Ancient Parish of Thornton in Craven

Latest Income: £41,337
Areas of Operation: Lancashire
Status: Registered
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The Charity For Licensed Ministers In The Diocese Of Chelmsford

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Professions, Social welfare

The prime purpose is to provide financial assistance to "poor clergy" throughout the Chelmsford Diocese. This includes those whose own parents are now among their dependants. Support extends into retirement and-after death-continues to provide grants for surviving spouses and dependant children.

Latest Income: £40,429
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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West Kirby Grammar School Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

THE PURPOSE OF THE SCHOOL FUND IS:TO PROVIDE ENHANCEMENT ACTIVITIES FOR THE STUDENTS AND SUPPORT FOR PARENTS IN FINANCIAL NEED. TO ENHANCE THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS BY DEVELOPING THE SCHOOL'S GROUNDS AND IMPROVING THE SCHOOL'S RESOURCES.THE FUND RECEIVES DONATIONS FROM PARENTS, PUPILS, STAFF AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.THE FUND MAKES DONATIONS TO CHOSEN CHARITIES.

Latest Income: £40,308
Areas of Operation: Wirral
Status: Registered
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James Bradford Almshouses Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing

The Trust owns the Almshouses in Haywards Heath, Sussex, a terrace of 6 small, attractive, self-contained cottages really only suitable for single occupancy. Their purpose is to provide low-cost accommodation for elderly persons of low income, preferably already living in the Haywards Heath area. The Trust, which is a charitable trust, does not make grants to other charities.

Latest Income: £39,640
Areas of Operation: West Sussex
Status: Registered
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The Sway Welfare Aid Group

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

Provides Grants to individuals and organizations for the relief of financial hardship or to assist the sick, disabled or aged.Provides services to assist with medical transport and a lunch club for elderly people living alone.The area of operation is restricted to the civil parish of Sway, Hampshire.

Latest Income: £39,446
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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Y-Notts

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

y-notts is an independent charity based in Nottingham and gives financial assistance in the form of grants to young people aged between 15 and 30 for the purpose of furthering their education, training and personal development, in a wide sense.

Latest Income: £38,643
Areas of Operation: Nottingham City
Status: Registered
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Ormskirk School Foundation Trust

Charitable activities, Childcare, Education

1. Charity makes grants to students attending the school who are taking part in a variety of out-of-school activities of adventure, experiance training etc and 2. For school projects-to help and enrich student learning and experience, not normally provided from the "education budget", and 3. Provides awards to students for achievement, endeavour and reliability.

Latest Income: £38,412
Areas of Operation: Lancashire
Status: Registered
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Gibraltar Naval Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The Gibraltar Naval Trust awards grants to provide maximum benefit to the welfare of uniformed service personnel - and their dependent family members - while they are serving under the Command of Commander British Forces Gibraltar.

Latest Income: £37,610
Areas of Operation: Gibraltar
Status: Registered
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The Saye And Sele Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Leisure

Provides grants for educational/life skills development and sport to children/young people under the age of 25. Provides building and recreation space in the community.

Latest Income: £36,927
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Knebworth Village Trust

Charitable activities

Charitable Trust for the benefit of organisations operating within the parish of Knebworth. The Knebworth Village Trust does not offer grants to national organisations unless they can prove that all the beneficiaries of a particular project reside within the parish of Knebworth (NB not the SG3 postcode area which is wider than the parish).

Latest Income: £36,725
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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Lucille Graham Trust Limited

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The charity makes grants to other bodies and institutions to promote, maintain and advance education, particularly musical education, and to encourage the arts of music, drama, dancing and singing. Grants have included contributions towards the cost of a children's concert, the adjudication costs of competitive music classes for amateur singers and music education classes for the general public.

Latest Income: £35,447
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Rycroft Children's Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

The charity makes grants to the classes shown in A8c for the benefit of children and young persons in need, hardship or distress for the purposes shown in A8a. Grants are made entirely at the discretion of the trustees. We do not make grants for computer equipment, education, overseas travel or individual holidays.

Latest Income: £35,107
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Strathspey Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Grants to organisations operating in areas of Poverty, in many countries of the world, either directly or usually through other charities (Countries shown below are countries within which the beneficiary charities are located, but frequently the grants are solely for their work in a particular country in Africa, South America or Asia)

Latest Income: £34,764
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Coventry Diocesan Guild Of Church Bellringers Bell Repair Fund

Arts, Charitable activities, Religion

To provide financial assistance by way of grants to churches in the Diocese of Coventry incurring expenditure on the provision, maintenance or improvement, including augmentation, of their bells and bell installations where the bells are to be hung for full circle ringing.

Latest Income: £34,270
Areas of Operation: Coventry City
Status: Registered
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The Philip Reckitt Educational Trust Fund

Charitable activities

The primary activity of the charity is the provision of grants to individuals and groups of individuals towards the costs of travel, residence and attendances at conferences, lectures and educational courses.

Latest Income: £33,877
Areas of Operation: East Riding Of Yorkshire
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 4,096 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.