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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
£8,234,488,247
Total Income
£1,476,244
Avg Income
100.0%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

The Slough Public Hall Trust

Charitable activities, Education, Facilities

To use the income from its Investments for the benefit of the people of Slough. This is done by giving grants to the Schools of Slough for the purchase of equipment.

Latest Income: £47,233
Areas of Operation: Slough
Status: Registered
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Unknown Donor

Charitable activities

This Charity makes grants to individuals or groups who reside in the Parish of Calverton Milton Keynes. In particular the Charity makes educational grants to students and apprentices up to the age of 21 years and for the residents of the Parish of Calverton over the age of 65 years of age who are in need of assistance.

Latest Income: £46,226
Areas of Operation: Milton Keynes
Status: Registered
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High Halstow Relief In Need Charity

Charitable activities, Social welfare

To provide relief either generally or individually to residents in the parish of High Halstow who are in conditions of need or hardship, by making grants of money or providing goods and services calculated to reduce the need.

Latest Income: £46,137
Areas of Operation: Medway
Status: Registered
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The Williams Church Music Trust

Arts, Charitable activities, Education, Religion

The provision of grants to assist the study, practice and improvement of instrumental music (including in particular organ music), and singing (in particular choral singing) especially in connection with the services of the Church of England and of Churches in communion with the Church of England.

Latest Income: £46,011
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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The Lowther School And Exhibition Endowment

Charitable activities, Education

Education and Training - helps with grant to maintain the school buildings.Provides grants to individuals going on to further education and vocational training.

Latest Income: £45,824
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Mendlesham Educational Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

Supports young people under 25 years of age, resident in Mendlesham with financial grants towards specific costs in further education. Assists Mendlesham voluntary youth organisations and grants to the Mendlesham CP School to enhance teaching arrangements.

Latest Income: £45,656
Areas of Operation: Suffolk
Status: Registered
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The Zachary Merton And George Woofindin Convalescent Trust

Charitable activities

The Trustees apply the income of the charity to organisations involved with persons who are sick, convalescent, disabled, handicapped or infirm. This is achieved by providing grants to purchase items, services or facilities calculated to alleviate the suffering or assist in the recovery of such persons.Preference is given to applications for persons in need of convalescence.

Latest Income: £45,646
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The John Lucy Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Religion

The trust manages its property which is situated in the parish of Hampton Lucy. From the net proceeds of income, the trust makes grants for the benefit of Hampton Lucy C of E Primary School, Hampton Lucy Parish Church and to promote the education of persons under the age of 25 who are, or whose parents are resident in the parish of Hampton Lucy, and who are in need of financial assistance.

Latest Income: £45,363
Areas of Operation: Warwickshire
Status: Registered
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Kitchings General Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

To provide eligible Southrey widows with a pensionTo provide grants to relieve hardship, generally or individually to people residing in the Parish of Bardney, Southrey, Tupholme or Bucknall. This by making grants of money or providing or paying for items, services or facilitiesAdvancement of Education, by making grants to Bardney & Bucknall towards the cost of provision for schools/pupils

Latest Income: £45,281
Areas of Operation: Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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John Colman Mann Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Economic and community development

Grant making activities concerned with the work of the Norfolk Agricultural Station, its successor bodies and similar institutions in the improvement of the agricultural industry.

Latest Income: £44,695
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Everest Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing, Social care

The object of the charity is the relief of persons in need who are elderly, sick, convalescent, disabled or infirm. The trustees relieve those eligible for assistance by making grants of money to enable or assist them to obtain accommodation, rest or respite which they could not otherwise afford. They also provide grants to carers of such people to enable or to assist them to obtain respite.

Latest Income: £44,658
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Mary Dean's School Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

The charity provides funding to Mary Dean's school to a budget set each year by the Trustees. Grants to former pupils of the school who are undertaking further/higher education or need sponsorship for a recognised activity to an amount set by the Trustees. All applications are discussed by the Trustees.

Latest Income: £44,297
Areas of Operation: Plymouth City
Status: Registered
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Woodton United Charities

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

Woodton United Charities is a trust that provides grants for people living in the village of Woodton in Norfolk (near Bungay), whose current circumstances would allow them to benefit from financial assistance. We are particularly interested in hearing from pensioners, disabled people (or their carers), and young people embarking on an apprenticeship or a course in further/higher education.

Latest Income: £44,098
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Norman Taylor Educational And Aid For The Elderly Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing

The charity provides accomodation and grants to elderly, infirm and retired persons in Northamptonshire. The charity works with East Midlands Housing Association to provide accomodation for such persons at Abington Lodge.

Latest Income: £43,979
Areas of Operation: Northamptonshire
Status: Registered
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Dame Anna Child’s Charity

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

Powys CC closed the school in 2015. The principle of promoting education is now discharged by the provision of grants to former pupils or those who reside in the local area (or have resided in the local area at the discretion of the Trustees). The building is now let to the Radnorshire Arts & Crafts Foundation to generate an income, maintain the property and benefit the local community.

Latest Income: £43,193
Areas of Operation: Powys
Status: Registered
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Wadham Lodge Sports Ground Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Facilities, Leisure

The charity provides football and indoor recreational facilities for residents within 20 miles of Waltham Forest Town Hall. The Charity also provides grants to support football training and other learning facilities for local young people from the borough of Redbridge

Latest Income: £42,144
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Eva Reckitt Trust Fund

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Provides grants Worldwide to movements who work for the education and betterment of the poor, undertake research into problems of the poor, provide relief of poverty and distress amongst persons who suffer as the result of international or industrial unrest, political or legal injustice, tyrany, oppression or persecution or who provide encouragement for the betterment and welfare of the poor.

Latest Income: £42,095
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The New Church Children's Society

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Religion, Social care, Social welfare

The Society offers grants to families to prevent or relieve poverty where children and young people are in need, hardship or distress - to enable those children to achieve their potential and have the prospect of becoming useful in the world. Priority is given to children with no active parent or a mother only. Preference is given to children with family connections to the New Church.

Latest Income: £42,052
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Katharine Lady Berkeley's School Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

Grants to the Academy, Katharine Lady Berkeley's School, are made from income generated by the Foundation's historic investment portfolio, to provide special benefits not normally afforded through the Academy's regular grant funding. Grants to pupils and past pupils are made where special need is demonstrated. Management of the investments forms a major part of the business of the Foundation.

Latest Income: £41,719
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Michael Robertson Scholarship Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

To further the education of children attending Sedbergh School. To award scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries for those who are attending Sedbergh School who are in need of financial assistance. To award grants to those who are attending Sedbergh School to enable them to travel (UK or abroad) in furtherance of their education. To otherwise further the education of such persons.

Latest Income: £41,572
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Northumberland Mark Benevolent Fund

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

To receive bequests and donations from Mark Lodges, Royal Ark Mariner Lodges and Brethren of the Province of Northumberland and from other Masonic organisations. To make grants to Mark Brethren, widows and children in need and donations to the Fund of Benevolence of Grand Mark Lodge & other Masonic and non Masonic charities.

Latest Income: £41,381
Areas of Operation: Northumberland
Status: Registered
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Hilgay United Charities (non-Ecclesiastical Branch)

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

Apprenticeship Grants,Assistance with winter fuel costs for the elderly,Provision and maintenance of two village halls,Provision of grants to Hilgay village school for the purchase of additional equipment,Provision of community grants for the benefit of the parish and residents of Hilgay.

Latest Income: £41,374
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Fred Towler Charity Trust

Charitable activities, Environment, Social care

The Trust provides grants and work with Respite and holiday organizations like Joined-Up Holidays, born of a desire to connect people with animals, nature and the natural environment regardless of anyone's special needs or disabilities. By offering farm visits with activities individually tailored to the needs and wishes of each guest

Latest Income: £41,329
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Red Socks Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support

Raises funds from Country Fairs and makes grants to charities particularly those relating to children in East Anglia and Derbyshire where most of the funds are raised.

Latest Income: £40,551
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Charities Of John Ansell

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Religion

1. Annual prescribed donations to nominated charities & organisations. 2. Provision & maintenance of chapel premises for use by the United Reformed Churches in nominated villages in Suffolk. 3. Educational grants to students who reside/or whose parents reside in Hadleigh, Suffolk.

Latest Income: £40,313
Areas of Operation: England
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 (£589.5m). 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 £8.2bn 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 100.0%. 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 £1.5m. 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.