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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.

Ptarmigan Trust

Charitable activities

Making Grants

Latest Income: £70,396
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Henry Robert Bull Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

Dealing with applications for aid received. Generally managing Bould Farm and applying the surplus income from this to make charitable grants.

Latest Income: £70,343
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Wakefield Trust

Charitable activities, Education

The Trust: (a) Makes grants for conservation/heritage/training purposes, mainly in Devon and exceptionally elsewhere. (b) Has links with the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Latest Income: £70,337
Areas of Operation: Devon
Status: Registered
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The Rowing Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Leisure

The Rowing Foundation generates and administers funds to support participation in water sports, especially rowing, by young people (i.e.those under 18 or under 23 if still in full time education) and the disabled of all ages by giving grants to enable clubs to adapt existing or purchase new equipment, eg boats and oars/sculls. It does not make grants to individuals, but to rowing clubs etc.

Latest Income: £70,187
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Colchester Children's Charity Appeal

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health

A GRANT GIVING BODY FOR THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DISABILITY FOR CHILDREN IN THE COLCHESTER AREA WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM SICKNESS, DISABILITY OR TERMINAL ILLNESS IN ANY SUCH WAY AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Latest Income: £70,154
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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Independent Christian Workers Trust

Charitable activities, Social welfare

We give grants to individuals carrying out Christian work to poor & needy worldwide. These individuals should meet with the approval of our trustees and provide their own sponsorship.

Latest Income: £69,908
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Edmund Arnold's Charity

Charitable activities

The Apprenticing and Education Branch has been amalgamated with Arnolds Educational Foundation. The Poors Branch - Income shall be applied for the benefit of deserving and necessitious persons resident in the parishes of Nether Heyford, Stony Stratford and St Giles Northampton by way of grants to the individual or to organisations for various specified purposes.

Latest Income: £69,841
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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The John Gilpin Trust

Charitable activities

The trust makes donations to charitable organisations and groups mainly in Cumbria Merseyside and East Suffolk

Latest Income: £69,756
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Ruth And Lionel Jacobson Charitable Trust (second Fund) No 2

Charitable activities, Social welfare

To assist in the relief of poverty and sickness, provide for education and advancement of knowledge for all ages together with the provision of monies for the advancement of medical research making grants to appropriate institutions.

Latest Income: £69,733
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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John Longwill's Agricultural Scheme

Charitable activities, Economic and community development

Provision of training/education by way of making grants to individuals and/or organisations.

Latest Income: £69,348
Areas of Operation: Leicestershire
Status: Registered
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Bradford On Avon Preservation Trust Limited

Charitable activities, Heritage

RESTORE, MAINTAIN AND OPEN HISTORIC BUILDINGS, MAKE GRANTS. MOUNT EXHIBITIONS AND LECTURES, MONITOR AND COMMENT ON PLANNING ACTIVITIES

Latest Income: £69,299
Areas of Operation: Wiltshire
Status: Registered
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Westleague Limited

Charitable activities

Make grants & donations in furtherance of our charitable objectives

Latest Income: £69,204
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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The Michael & Nicola Sacher Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

The Charity is a grant making trust applying funds to charitable causes at the trustees discretion.

Latest Income: £68,834
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Bunac Educational Scholarship Trust

Charitable activities, Education

The principal activity is the advancement of education by granting scholarships and grants to persons to pursue courses of approved study or research. Grants and Travel Awards have been made to people from Britain starting such courses in the USA and Canada.

Latest Income: £68,656
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Runton Dolphin Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Leisure

Grant Making to support young people's activity and sporting holidays.

Latest Income: £68,631
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Puebla Charitable Trust Limited

Charitable activities, Economic and community development

Grant giving to charities which assist the poorest sections of the population or are involved in community development work.

Latest Income: £68,483
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Bradshaw Gass Trust

Charitable activities

To provide annual income for specified charities, to approve grants to specified organisations and individuals for Works of Art and bursery awards connected with the profession of Architects and and discretionary grants approved by the Trustees.

Latest Income: £68,331
Areas of Operation: Bolton
Status: Registered
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The Dorus Trust

Charitable activities

The trust makes grants out of income towards charitable purposes, primarily through other charitable organisations.

Latest Income: £68,078
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Southam Community Church

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Religion, Social welfare

The charity exists for the advancement of the Christian Gospel, the worship and service of God as revealed in the bible, the care of Christian people and the relief of persons in hardship, distress, old age or sickness. The charity conducts Christian worship and bible study and makes grants to further Christian work in Asia and Africa.

Latest Income: £67,955
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Jaffe Family Relief Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

1. Grants to descendents of Daniel Jaffe and/or their wives, widows and widowers (world wide) in need. 2. UK charities to distribute to individuals in poverty, in the UK.

Latest Income: £67,944
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Achiezer Va'achisomoch Trust

Charitable activities

Making grants to those institutions and individuals falling within the charities objects.

Latest Income: £67,865
Areas of Operation: Israel
Status: Registered
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The Worshipful Company Of Chartered Secretaries And Administrators Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

The charity's priorities for grant giving include annual donations to the Charity of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Charity of the Master of the Livery Company, to certain affiliations of the Livery Company with schools and youth organisations. Prizes are given for excellence in Chartered Secretaries' exams. Only in exceptional circumstances are grants made to individuals.

Latest Income: £67,793
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Moulton Harrox Educational Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The Charity operates by making grants to Individuals and Organistations to help Children and Young People with Education and Training.

Latest Income: £67,641
Areas of Operation: Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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The Bacta Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Saving of lives, Social welfare

The Trust is established to help people in the United Kingdom in need, hardship or distress as a result of local, national or international disaster or by their social and economic circumstances. At their discretion, the trustees can make grants for any other charitable purposes for the general benefit of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom.

Latest Income: £67,380
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Joseph Brough Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Religion

The Trust provides grants to charitable organisations helping people in need in the historic counties of Northumberland and Durham. It gives priority to appeals linked to the Methodist Church as the settlor was an active Methodist.

Latest Income: £67,295
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.