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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.

Ferguson Memorial Institute

Charitable activities, Facilities

The charity makes grants to other organisations. It does not have any other activities in its own right.

Latest Income: £548
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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William Howard's Charity

Charitable activities, Religion

Grants to members of Quaker meetings who are undertaking futher education or training to equip them for work.

Latest Income: £547
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Charity Of Sir Henry Fermor

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Distribution of grants to 40 industrious poor people in the Parish of Sevenoaks annually

Latest Income: £547
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Ian Mitchell Trust

Charitable activities

to award discretionary grants to the under 25s, resident in Calderdale, seeking to pursue careers in the Arts.

Latest Income: £547
Areas of Operation: Calderdale
Status: Registered
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Scarning United Charities

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The object of the charity is the relief of poverty. The trustees seek to fulfil their obligations by making grants to those in need within the parish of Scarning, or to organisations within the parish whose functions are compatible with this object.

Latest Income: £545
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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Guy Howland Jackson Memorial

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Provide Grants or items to relieve poverty or ill health to those individuals residing in the parishes listed below. Grants will also be provided to charities or organisations working to alleviate poverty or ill health in the parishes listed belowThe charity only serves the Parishes of Talsarnau, Llandecwyn, Llan Ffestiniog,Trawsfynydd and Bronaber and Maentwrog in the county of Gwynedd

Latest Income: £543
Areas of Operation: Gwynedd
Status: Registered
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The Serve China Trust

Arts, Charitable activities

Provides Bibles, literature, and materials for Chinese (Mandarin) speaking people and co-operate with others in such work. We do not provide grants for people visiting China.

Latest Income: £543
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Fuel Allotment

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Religion

Annual individual small grants to elderly residents of Yaxham Parish. Annual grant to St. Peter's Anglican Church, Yaxham.

Latest Income: £542
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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Church And Bridge Lands

Charitable activities, Religion

Makes grants towards maintenance of fabric of Holy Trinity Church, Eckington.

Latest Income: £542
Areas of Operation: Worcestershire
Status: Registered
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Parish Allotment

Charitable activities

MAKES GRANTS TO VILLAGE ORGANISATIONS

Latest Income: £540
Areas of Operation: Leicestershire
Status: Registered
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Holcot Old School Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

Providing grants to assist young people up to 25 years old in educational activities. Applicants or their parents must be resident in the parish of Holcot, Northamptonshire

Latest Income: £540
Areas of Operation: Northamptonshire
Status: Registered
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The Friends Of Elstow Abbey

Associations, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Religion

Contributes towards the upkeep, maintenance and conservation of the structure & fabrics of the Abbey Church of St.Mary and St.Helena, Elstow. To this end, commissions work or goods, or makes grants to the Parochial Church Council, at their request. Raises funds via membership subscriptions, fund-raising events, donations & bequests, "Small Society" lotteries, trading activities and seeking grants.

Latest Income: £540
Areas of Operation: Bedford
Status: Registered
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Wrington Charities

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Grants to parishioners who are ill/elderly. Particularly at Christmas time.

Latest Income: £538
Areas of Operation: North Somerset
Status: Registered
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Educational Foundation Of Meredith Maddy

Charitable activities

We provide small grants to individuals and groups for educational purposes. Applicants must reside in the parish of Dorstone in Herefordshire in order to qualify for grant funding.

Latest Income: £532
Areas of Operation: Herefordshire
Status: Registered
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Kirkby Overblow Educational Foundation

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

Charity gives one off grants to young adults who live in the village of Kirkby Overblow who are starting university to help towards books or equipment needed for the course. It also gives grants to the local primary school to help children to go on educational trips.

Latest Income: £530
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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The Thomas Latimer Cleave Memorial Trust

Charitable activities, Education, Research

Advancement of education and in furtherance thereof to provide prizes, awards, scholarships and grants to students of food science subjects.

Latest Income: £526
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Barnsley Scholarship

Charitable activities, Education

Grants to students in the Barnsley area to assist further education in engineering and related fields

Latest Income: £522
Areas of Operation: Barnsley
Status: Registered
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Edward Wilde Foundation

Charitable activities

Modest donations to organisations known to trustees. Grants to individuals are rarely made. Program for donations is fully committed for several years ahead. Unsolicited applications cannot be acknowledged.

Latest Income: £521
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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St Paul's Stalybridge Relief In Need Charity

Charitable activities, Social welfare

TO RELEIVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUAL PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAUL STALYBRIDGE, WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR PROVIDING RELIEF BY PAYING FOR ITEMS OR PROVIDING SERVICES TO ASSIST.

Latest Income: £517
Areas of Operation: Tameside
Status: Registered
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Matthew Tyndall's Educational Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Educational grants to young people

Latest Income: £515
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Parish Estate Charity

Charitable activities

Makes grants to organisations

Latest Income: £514
Areas of Operation: City Of York
Status: Registered
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Fuel Allotment

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

Money is raised through the letting of land owned by the charity and used to provide grants to the elderly and poor of the parish for purchasing winter fuel.

Latest Income: £513
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Harwell, Chilton And Culham Welfare Fund

Charitable activities

Makes Grants to specific groups of individuals

Latest Income: £510
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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The League Of Friends Of Prudhoe Hospital (ferndene)

Associations, Charitable activities, Health

To provide funds to supplement the resources of the hospital service. To make submission on any matter of NHS or management policy within the hospital as so far as it affects the residents of the hospital. To support research into the causes, prevention and treatment of mental handicap

Latest Income: £510
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Edwin Henry Tutty Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

Provides grants to persons and charities as detailed in Classification

Latest Income: £510
Areas of Operation: Scotland
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.