Grant Making Trust

The Boshier-Hinton Foundation exists to improve quality of life for people with disabilities or learning difficulties, and their families, in any part of the country, by making donations to charitable institutions providing facilities and advocacy for children and adults with special educational or other needs: or by making donations to other registered Charities: or by making donations to local community charities or other agencies in any part of the country whose objects are no wider than the charity's own, or to any charity for particular purposes which fall within the Foundation's objec

Small Grants Programme

is a grant making charity that supports causes in the UK and Africa, with a focus of offering grants to small organisations delivering programmes that benefit children and their families, in particular children with disabilities.

The Trust has a number of grant programmes, however only two of these are open for unsolicited applications, these being the Small Grants UK and Small Grants Africa programmes. Across all of their programmes the Trust provides grants of around £2 million each year.

Within the small grants programmes the Trust only supports registered charities.

The Newby Trust

The Newby Trust was formed with aim of achieving improvements in the areas of education and social and medical welfare. In recent years the Trust has given around £300,000 a year in grants to achieve these aims. Its grant programmes supports both charities and individuals (with grants to individuals made via providing funds to a local organisation rather given directly to the individual)

The Trust grant programme supports the following areas:

Grant Scheme

The Toy Trust grant scheme is provided and administered by the British Toy and Hobby Association. It is available to registered charities working with children in the UK and throughout the world.

The funding is intended to help disadvantaged children under the age of 13 years and their families to:

Grants Programme

Unrestricted grants to support small and medium-sized local charities, with a proven track record of helping people in England and Wales with complex social issues, to recover and renew beyond the COVID-19 crisis. There is a total of £9.5 million for 2021. Unrestricted grants of £50,000 over two years. The Foundation expects to fund around 190 charities in 2021.

General Grant

The Pilgrim Trust was founded in 1930 by Edward Stephen Harkness of New York, with an endowment of just over £2 million, in order to promote the future well being of the United Kingdom. For nearly eight decades The Pilgrim Trust have been giving grants to charitable organisations operating in the heritage and social welfare arenas in Britain. Their aim is to preserve and promote Britain's historical and intellectual assets and to provide assistance to vulnerable members of society.

Charitable Trust

The Thompson Family Charitable Trust provides grants to registered charities for general charitable purposes.

 

Previous grants have been given in the following areas:

  • Health and social welfare.
  • Medical research.
  • Animal welfare.
  • The arts.
  • Sports.
  • Education.
 

Funding is provided at the discretion of the Trustees.

In 2020, £6.9 million was awarded in grants that individually ranged from £500 to £600,000 in value.How To Apply

Headley Trust

Funding for registered charities in the UK for projects in the following areas: arts and heritage UK, cathedrals and major churches, parish churches, arts and heritage overseas, developing countries, education, and health and social welfare.

The Headley Trust Grant is provided and administered by The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts and is available to registered charities throughout the UK

Funding is available for registered charities in the UK or activities with clearly defined charitable purposes

The Weinstock Fund

The trust is particularly interested in supporting charitable causes in the arts, community groups and projects, cultural and environmental causes, disability groups and charities supporting people with disabilities, educational projects, welfare causes to include hardship alleviation, and medical charities encompassing treatment, care and support.

Funding is at the discretion of the trustees. Typically grants range from £1,000 to £5,000.

Last year, 152 grants, totalling around £672,000, were awarded to the charitable sector.

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