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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.

Marshall's Educational Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

1) To provide a grant for the support of students attending Stamford Endowed Schools.2) To provide grants for students in financial need who are resident in north Southwark, with preference for those attending St Olave's & St Saviour's Grammar School.

Latest Income: £40,108
Areas of Operation: Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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Bergqvist Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Health

The charity promotes health, the arts, education and the environment, by making grants to specialist registered charities and community organisations. There is a particular emphasis on epilepsy and psychiatric research projects and assisting people with epilepsy and mental health conditions.

Latest Income: £40,077
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Sir Richard Raynes Foundation And Others

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Leisure, Social welfare

offers grants to promote the education of persons under 27 yrs who live in, or have attended school/college in, the town of Melton Mowbray for a period of two years at any time. Trustees deem 'Education' to include, inter alia, assistance with overseas trips, gap year projects, sports projects, Scout/Guide and similar projects and help with school clothing for needy families.

Latest Income: £39,577
Areas of Operation: Leicestershire
Status: Registered
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The Overseas Service Pensioners Benevolent Society

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

To relieve poverty by giving grants to members of the Overseas Service Pensioners' Association who are in need. Other pensioners may be eligible for a grant, at the Committee's discretion, if they are eligible for membership of the Association (see OSPA website).

Latest Income: £38,657
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Hackblock Educational Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

The main objective of the Charity is to provide funds to support children and young people under 25 living in the parish of St. Leonard's Southminster and neighbouring parishes. This can include financial support for the governors of Southminster Primary School. Grants may also be allocated to individuals or other bodies, after an application to the Trustees, in accordance with the scheme.

Latest Income: £38,549
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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The Huddersfield War Memorial Trust Fund

Charitable activities, Heritage

Monitoring the state of the War Memorial in Greenhead Park and providing grants to charitable organisations in the Huddersfield area which provide for Ex Servicemen and for the Sick and Needy.

Latest Income: £38,156
Areas of Operation: Kirklees
Status: Registered
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Nottingham Gordon Memorial Trust For Boys And Girls

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing, Social welfare

1. To promote education and assist persons under the age of 25 resident in Nottingham to pursue their education or training and may also provide grants for clothing, tools, instruments, or books and may include overseas travel to pursue education.2. To provide grants for persons under the age of 25 resident in Nottingham to relieve conditions of need, hardship or distress.

Latest Income: £38,057
Areas of Operation: Nottingham City
Status: Registered
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Holliday Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Health

The Trustees administer the charity in accordance with the objectives of the trust deed. The Trustees make grants to registered charities. There is a separate Cancer Fund within the charity the income of which is used to support charities involved in any major way with cancer treatment, research or relief.

Latest Income: £37,548
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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The Forebridge Charity

Charitable activities

The area of benefit is 26-33 St George's Road, Stafford ST17 4NA.The Trustees are responsible for the residents' wellbeing and the maintenance of the property.The income of the charity is the contribution paid by the residents for their occupation and investment income shown in the accounts. The Trustees have grant giving powers

Latest Income: £37,085
Areas of Operation: Staffordshire
Status: Registered
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Fairfield School Foundation

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Leisure

To provide grants to young people residing in the Fairfield area of Buxton, to assist with their education at university or college. Also to give grants for sports, study of music & other arts. Generally assisting with those costs.

Latest Income: £36,689
Areas of Operation: Derbyshire
Status: Registered
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Gillingham Forest Lands Charity (otherwise Known As Mere Forest Charity)

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The Charity relieves, either generally or individually persons resident in the Parishes of Mere and Zeals who are in conditions of need hardship or distress by making grants of money.

Latest Income: £36,453
Areas of Operation: Wiltshire
Status: Registered
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The Bosbury Educational Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

The charity gives grants to young people to assist with the cost of higher education. It can only help people who have lived in the parish of Bosbury for at least 3 years.

Latest Income: £36,441
Areas of Operation: Herefordshire
Status: Registered
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The Great Yarmouth Grammar School Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

EDUCATION/TRAINING.The Foundation investment Income is used to finance projects by participating schools and making grants available to students within these schools.

Latest Income: £35,768
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Tysoe Utility Estate

Charitable activities

Income for the charity is generated from properties owned by the charity leased to village residents/businesses as well as investments. The charity awards grants to eligible residents of Tysoe village who have been resident for seven years or longer.

Latest Income: £35,711
Areas of Operation: Warwickshire
Status: Registered
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Adam C I Naylor Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

Established to make grants for charitable purposes.

Latest Income: £35,664
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The C Paul Thackray General Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Society

Grant making in Yorkshire particularly within a ten mile radius of Harrogate for the care, rehabilitation and education of those with special needs, the protection of the local environment and complimentary medicine. Internationally, grants can be made for training and technology in developing countries, medical assistance, the protection of human rights, ecology and conservation.

Latest Income: £35,305
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Trevilson Educational Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

GRANTS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY, TO YOUNG PEOPLE THAT RESIDE IN THE PARISH OF ST.NEWLYN EAST UNDER THE AGE OF 25 YEARS. ALSO GRANTS TO LOCAL VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN THE PARISH OF ST.NEWLYN EAST, CONSISTING OF YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 YEARS, FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY.

Latest Income: £35,201
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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Lister Area Kidney Patients Association

Charitable activities, Health, Social welfare

The LAKPA provides support to persons suffering from kidney disease in particular patients from Hertfordshire & Bedfordshire receiving treatment via the Lister Hospital, Stevenage. We provide services or items to improve the welfare of renal patients and carers e.g. equipment, printed information, speakers, grants to patients and subsidised social events.

Latest Income: £35,135
Areas of Operation: Bedford
Status: Registered
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South Devon And Cornwall Institution For The Blind

Charitable activities, Health

The object of the charity is to help promote the welfare of state registered blind people within the South Devon and Cornwall area. This is done mainly by providing grants to help them purchase educational equipment and living aids.

Latest Income: £34,907
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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S C And M E Morland's Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Religion

The Trust gives to Quaker, local and national charities which have a strong social bias, and also to some UK based international charities. The Charity's grant making programme is fully committed and so the Trustees are not considering unsolicited grant applications at the current time.

Latest Income: £34,848
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Nottinghamshire Constabulary Benevolent Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Saving of lives, Social welfare

To enable the fund to carry out its purpose namely A) To assist by monetary grants such members of the fund and their widows, children and dependants as may be in necessitous or impoverished circumstances. B) To make grants to police charities and subscriptions to such other charities as the trustees may decide.

Latest Income: £34,702
Areas of Operation: Nottinghamshire
Status: Registered
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The Henry And Christine Armitage Burtt Trust

Charitable activities, Health, Housing, Religion, Social care

To apply such of the income as the Trustees determine for the benefit of The Retreat, York, (a non-profit making Registered Nursing Home) to make grants to meetings of the Religious Society of Friends and to enable travelling in the Ministry.

Latest Income: £34,149
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Kibworth Beauchamp High School Foundation

Charitable activities, Education, Facilities

The admin of the beneficial land holdings for the benefit of Kibworth High School and Community Centre and the distribution of income for the benefit of pupils past and present are in accordance with the trust scheme. The principal expenditure is on provision of school transport outside that provided by the local authority and grants to current and past pupils in accordance with the scheme.

Latest Income: £34,097
Areas of Operation: Leicestershire
Status: Registered
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The Society Of Dilettanti Charitable Trust Fund

Charitable activities, Heritage

The charity helps museums, libraries and the National Trust to acquire archives and works of art and makes grants towards the conservation of historic buildings, in both cases where there is a connection with the Society of Dilettanti. The charity's Normanby Fund makes an annual travel award for visiting classical sites and museums in Greece, Italy or the Eastern Mediterranean.

Latest Income: £33,776
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Lectureship Endowment Of Edward Lewis

Charitable activities, Professions, Religion

Grants to the vicar of St Davids, Fleur-de-Lis and for the benefit of the church and parsonage or for the extension of church work within the ancient parishes of Bedwellty and Mynyddiolwyn.

Latest Income: £33,624
Areas of Operation: Caerphilly
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.