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Charitable activities Charities That specialise in Grant making

Discover 4,408 Charitable activities charities that specialise in Grant making. Use the search below to filter within these results.

4,408
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.

St Marylebone Educational Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

Provides grants towards individuals educational costs if they are under 25 and have either resided in the City of Westminster or been schooled there for at least 2 years. Currently not providing grants to Tertiary or Further Education. Also provides grants to some Organisations. Various eligibility criteria apply, please apply in writing.

Latest Income: £311,060
Areas of Operation: City Of Westminster
Status: Registered
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Christadelphian Benevolent Fund

Charitable activities, Housing, Social care, Social welfare

The trust was established to relieve conditions of need, hardship or distress of the Christadelphian Community in the British Isles by providing grants. The trust has a policy of making regular grants, the largest of which is the Christadelphian care homes and irregular compassionate grants to individuals.

Latest Income: £307,306
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Aldgate And Allhallows Foundation

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The Foundation awards grants to individuals and organisations to meet the cost of education that is not the statutory responsibility of either central or local Government. Beneficaries must be permanent residents of either the City of London or the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Priority is given to those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Latest Income: £297,318
Areas of Operation: City Of London
Status: Registered
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The Charles Wallace India Trust

Charitable activities, Education

We award scholarships and grants to Indian nationals domiciled in India and working or studying in the arts,heritage conservation and humanities to enable them to visit the UK for the purpose of study, research or professional development. Details and guidelines for applicants can be found on our webpages

Latest Income: £287,556
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Lionel Abel-Smith Trust

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Housing

Makes grants to individuals and organisations within the parish of Wendover, the Moor Park Estate and the houses to the right of Halton Lane from Moor Park up to Perch Bridge.

Latest Income: £281,350
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Duchy Health Charity Limited

Charitable activities

The charity supports charities and other organisations involved in healthcare in Cornwall.It does this by making grants and loans. It also supports research in Cornwall relating to healthcare issues and organises seminars in order to identify current health needs .

Latest Income: £281,198
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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Montessori St Nicholas LTD

Charitable activities, Education

The Charity achieves its objectives through relationships and grants to other organisations, especially to St Nicholas Montessori Training Ltd, trading as Montessori Centre International (MCI) and smaller project collaborations with NGOs and community providers. Bursaries and professional development support projects to expand access to Montessori are also supported.

Latest Income: £278,840
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Royal Military Police Central Benevolent Fund

Charitable activities, Saving of lives, Social welfare

Maintain the efficiency and esprit de corps of The Royal Military Police (RMP); providing financial assistance to any serving or former member of The RMP and their dependants; and making financial grants to any charity, which benefits persons or dependants of persons who are serving or who have served in The RMP.

Latest Income: £278,077
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Shaftesbury Homes And Arethusa

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing

SYP Trust provides grants and support to small organisations working to transform the lives of children and young people in London by helping them to learn, be healthy, be heard, and be active citizens. We support work to remove the barriers and challenges many young people face when working towards these goals and which contribute to the widening inequality in our society.

Latest Income: £276,523
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Margaret Davies Charity

Charitable activities

The main objectives of the charity are to pay grants to other registered grants, at the Trustee's discretion, to broadly benefit Arts, Education, Health and Social.

Latest Income: £275,483
Areas of Operation: Powys
Status: Registered
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Bfwg Charitable Foundation

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Heritage

Awards Main Foundation Grants to help women in the final year of a PhD.Awards Emergency Grants to graduate women on a post graduate course who then face an unforeseeable financial crisis.Awards Theodora Bosanquet bursaries are offered annually to women graduates whose research in History or English Literature requires a short residence in London.

Latest Income: £274,867
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Deeping St James United Charities

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Deeping St. James United Charities makes grants to groups and individuals for sickness, need, public purposes and promoting the education (including social and physical training) of young people who have not attained the age of 25 year who in the opinion of the trustees are in need of financial assistance, to residents of Deeping St. James ecclesiastical parish, including Frognall

Latest Income: £269,557
Areas of Operation: Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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The Roughley Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

The Roughley Trust gives Grants in the Range -+¦500 - -+¦3000 to Charities engaging with disadvantage in all its different aspects in Bham. The Trust also gives Grants to Bham Charities who work in the arts, heritage, and the environment.We do not give grants to individuals, or support animal or medical charities. We do not support national charities even if they have a branch in Birmingham.

Latest Income: £268,504
Areas of Operation: Birmingham City
Status: Registered
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The Toy Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund and the income thereof upon trust to pay or apply the same to or for such Charity or Charities or Charitable purposes connected with children as they shall in their absolute discretion from time to time decide.The Trust makes grants in response to requests from charitable causes where it considers their aims to be within its area of operation.

Latest Income: £267,758
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Fellowship Of St John (uk) Trust Association

Charitable activities, Education, Religion

The charity gives grants to UK and foreign agencies for education and missionary work. These grants include the "Bernard Mizeki" award which funds ministry given by the laity and Father Benson scholarships, awarded to seminarians at St Stephen's House Oxford to help those engaged in higher theological study.

Latest Income: £258,841
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Jesus Lane Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Religion

SUPPORT OF CHRISTIAN WORK AMONG STUDENTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO SUPPORT WORKERS AND VOLUNTEERS BASED IN CHURCH MINISTRY IN CAMBRIDGE.

Latest Income: £242,322
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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The St Paul's Cathedral Chorister Trust

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

The Trust provides bursaries to the families of choristers of St Paul's Cathedral in cases of financial hardship or lack of means to defray the costs of boarding. It also provides grants to the cathedral towards the education of choristers. In addition it makes grants to the Cathedral School to assist in the costs relating to the fabric or for other projects within the foundations objectives.

Latest Income: £231,407
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust

Charitable activities, Heritage

The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust was set up in 1990 to provide financial assistance to owners and custodians in the UK in preserving the nation's written heritage. In addition to giving grants, we advise applicants on matters relating to potential applications, including specific preservation policies and strategies and to best practice in preservation.

Latest Income: £228,355
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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The Bmta Trust

Charitable activities

Making of welfare grants to individuals, with a preference for individuals or their related dependents who are employed in the Motor Trade or Motor Industry.

Latest Income: £226,386
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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St Luke's College Foundation

Charitable activities, Education, Religion

Makes grants to individuals for university level studies in theology and religious education, and provides resources to universities for these subjects.

Latest Income: £224,304
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Sir John Sedley Educational Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

To provide funds for young people under 25 years on proven application for further education of an academic or vocational nature. Limited to Wymondham and peripheral parishes.

Latest Income: £221,114
Areas of Operation: Leicestershire
Status: Registered
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The Bethany Project (tanzania) UK

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Religion, Social care

As per existing Trust deed. Activity is now focussed on providing grants to run the Bethany Orphanage in Tanzania for the welfare of children who were once either orphaned, abandoned or abused and providing education where possible.

Latest Income: £219,027
Areas of Operation: Tanzania
Status: Registered
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Sir Walter St.john's Educational Charity

Charitable activities, Education

Grants to individuals under the age of 25 for educational activity resident in the area of benefit, and for work of an educational nature done by organisations in the area.

Latest Income: £217,797
Areas of Operation: Lambeth
Status: Registered
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St Faith's Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing, Social welfare

To relieve children and young people in the County of Surrey in conditions of need, hardship or distress, by such means as are chaitable in law and in particular to co-operate with or make grants to other charities, voluntary bodies and statutory or local authorities in Surrey, who are working towards the same objective.

Latest Income: £217,675
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Friends Of Bristol Eye Hospital

Associations, Charitable activities, Health

Making grants to pay for medical equipment, patient comforts and staff resources, or the provision of other assistance, to improve the care and treatment of patients of the Bristol Eye Hospital.

Latest Income: £214,680
Areas of Operation: Bristol City
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 4,408 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.