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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.

The Margaret Dobson Further Education Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

Making financial grants to other charitable organisations that help adults with learning disabilities to lead more independent and fulfilled lives through training, particularly practical and educational skills.

Latest Income: £22,157
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Wing Community Centre

Associations, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Facilities

Community centre (village hall) in Wing, Rutland maintained for the Wing Community and used principally for village activities and events and for activities and events of third parties. The charity raises funds and hires the hall to provide funds for the maintenance and management of the village hall for the benefit of the Wing Community.

Latest Income: £22,093
Areas of Operation: Rutland
Status: Registered
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National Illumination Committee Of Great Britain

Charitable activities, Research

The advancement, for public benefit, of the science and art of lighting together with the advancement and publication of the related research, through making grants to appropriate organisations and individuals, providing advice and sponsorship or undertaking research.

Latest Income: £22,088
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Nicholson Memorial Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

The Fund makes grants to individual children and young people who live in Leicestershire who are delinquent, deprived, neglected or in need of care. The Fund also makes grants to organisations assisting such children and young people.

Latest Income: £21,664
Areas of Operation: Leicester City
Status: Registered
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The Windsor And Maidenhead Association For Social Work

Charitable activities, Social welfare

WMCT makes grants to voluntary organisations which promote moral education, or assist people suffering ill-health, poverty, mental or physical distress or who are in need of support in dealing with personal relationships. Beneficiaries must live within the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead.

Latest Income: £21,623
Areas of Operation: Windsor And Maidenhead
Status: Registered
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Anne Peirson Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

To provide grants to individuals including children and young people who live within the Parish of Hythe, Kent to assist with educational needs extra curricular activities and/or other specific needs arising from financial hardship and/or disability. To provide grants to local organisations, including schools whose beneficiaries are residents of the Parish of Hythe, Kent.

Latest Income: £21,486
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Friends Of The Potteries Museum And Art Gallery, Stoke On Trent

Arts, Associations, Charitable activities, Heritage

The Friends make grants available to the potteries museums and art gallery and Gladstone Industrial Museum to enable them to acquire objects and carry out activities which they would otherwise not be able to do. The friends therefore only indirectly help the classifications shown above.

Latest Income: £21,282
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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East Wickham And Welling War Memorial Trust

Charitable activities, Education, Facilities, Heritage

Grant giving charity and offering the following categories of grants to individuals or community based organisations within the boundaries of East Wickham and Welling: Capital Grants for Improvements to Premises, Grants Towards the Hire of Premises and Individual Grants for Character Building Courses or Expeditions. The Trustees also offer an academic bursary.

Latest Income: £21,133
Areas of Operation: Bexley
Status: Registered
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Catfield United Charities

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Administers its property in Catfield; farmland reed and sedge fens, two staithes and a boatyard. Applies the rental income and environmental grants to benefit the poor of the parish, mainly as an annual distribution to households who declare they are in financial need.

Latest Income: £21,071
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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Frome Society For Local Study

Charitable activities, Heritage

FSLS is concerned wth Environment/Conservation/Heritage and organises a series of educational walks around Frome during the summer.which are designed to help residents/other groups appreciate the economic and social history of the town and the fine selection of Frome's magnificent buildings.Helps Charities and other voluntary bodies,makes Grants to organisations, sponsors or undertakes research.

Latest Income: £21,025
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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The Arnside/silverdale Aonb Landscape Trust

Charitable activities, Heritage

To work for the public benefit in creating environmental awareness and in stimulation and encouraging an understanding of and active involvement in the protection, conservation, and practical improvement of features of general and public amenity or historical interest within the landscape,and in doing so provides grants to assist in the process.

Latest Income: £20,965
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Anthony Edmonds Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The charity provides grants for educational purposes for children and young adults, up to the age of 25, who live in the ancient parishes of Henbury, Westbury and Horfield.

Latest Income: £20,531
Areas of Operation: Bristol City
Status: Registered
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Church And Town Allotment Charities And Others

Charitable activities, Religion

Grant to Kettering Parish Church.Winter Fuel Grants to those over the statutory retirement age, who live alone in Kettering and Barton Seagrave.Grants towards education expenses to those over the age of 16 in Kettering and Barton Seagrave

Latest Income: £20,382
Areas of Operation: Northamptonshire
Status: Registered
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Leicestershire Chorale

Arts, Charitable activities

The Charity is a mixed chamber choir. Five to six choral concerts are performed annually. Every year the Charity makes grants to deserving young candidates following acceptance into the Choir as choral scholars.

Latest Income: £20,020
Areas of Operation: Leicestershire
Status: Registered
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Clfs Prizes Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

The purpose of the funds is to provide funds to assist children to study various subjects at school, and for some of the older funds, to aid school pupils who have gone on to university. Funds are also provided for prizes in various subjects.

Latest Income: £19,341
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Sussex County Association Of Change Ringers

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Heritage, Religion

Promoting the ringing of church bells to call people to worship. Providing grants for restoring, maintaining, improving or preserving church bells in Sussex for ringing in churches. Providing training and skill development grants to young people learning change ringing on tower or hand bells. Encouraging the recruitment and training of all ringers and advancing the art of change ringing.

Latest Income: £19,115
Areas of Operation: Brighton And Hove
Status: Registered
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The Macdougall Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The trust provides grants not normally exceeding ?300 to persons resident in Bournemouth and the County of Dorset who in the opinion of the trustees are in reduced and necessitous circumstances and the need is not provided for through state funding.

Latest Income: £18,911
Areas of Operation: Bournemouth
Status: Registered
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The Surrey Historic Buildings Trust Limited

Charitable activities, Facilities, Heritage

To preserve for the benefit of the public such of the historical architectural or constructional heritage as may exist in Surrey in the form of buildings, gardens, plant, machinery or monuments. The Trust may purchase, sell or restore buildings, make grants and provide advice to owners, work in conjunction with public or charitable bodies and foster interest by way of visits and lectures.

Latest Income: £18,841
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Rotary Club Of Wickford

Associations, Charitable activities, Education, Health

The Rotary Club of Wickford is part of the worldwide service organisation Rotary International. It supports all RI's projects. Locally it supports various voluntary organisations such as scouts, guides, local hospices and hospitals as well as schools. It also makes donations to deserving individuals. For more information please contact on 01268 765262

Latest Income: £18,351
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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The Milton Glee Club

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

We are a choir, and we sing. We perform 2 to 3 concerts a year at the Portsmouth Guildhall, and we perform a suitable work at a Church at Easter time. We also regularly perform charity concerts in aid of local charities such as the Fareham branch of the Parkinson's Society. We also give donations to local charities and grants to young people to attend a summer music school.

Latest Income: £18,234
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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Wensum Residents Association

Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Social welfare

Aleviate poverty and provide information, advice and support to those living in the Wesnum area of Norwich by raising funds and making grants. Helping, facilitating & supporting deprived & aged people in the area

Latest Income: £18,083
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Rotary Club Of Bradford On Avon Trust Fund

Associations, Charitable activities

Charitable Activities include Community service, International Service and Rotary Foundation. Financial contributions are made to a variety of individuals & organizations approved by Club Council.

Latest Income: £18,008
Areas of Operation: Wiltshire
Status: Registered
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Friends Of St Mary's School

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Religion

The charity is the parent-teacher association for St Mary's Church of England primary school. It makes grants to organisations to buy resources to enhance the children's school activities.

Latest Income: £18,000
Areas of Operation: Wandsworth
Status: Registered
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Derouet - Jameson Memorial Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

To advance the education of persons who are employed in the Wines & Spirits trade by providing awards to meet the expenses of further education. ward to the . In 2009 the Tim Derouet and Geoffrey Jameson Awards were amalgamated to enable the charity to focus on providing the top Wine & Spirit Education Diploma students with grants to further their studies to Master of Wine level.

Latest Income: £17,540
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Hampshire Archives Trust

Arts, Charitable activities

Promotes the conservation and preservation of Hampshire's archives and advances public education about archives. Administers Wessex Film and Sound Archive. Has a membership (newsletters, events). Makes grants.

Latest Income: £17,251
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
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.