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By Occupation
Funding for doctors, nurses, microbiologists and emergency service workers
Funding for Workers such as barbers, fisherman, foresters, glaziers, civil servants, grocers, pharmacists, ironmongers, hairdressers, injured jockeys, cordwainers, writers, journalists, secondary teachers, the automotive industry and disabled drivers
Funding for Armed Forces Personnel and Heroes
By People
Funding for Children
Funding for Disabled People
Funding for Disadvantaged People
Funding for those with the surname Buchanan
Funding for Homeless People
Funding for People in Need
Funding for Prisoners and Ex-prisoners
Funding for Officers
Funding for Older People
Funding for Refugees
Funding for Woman
Funding for Young People
By Location
Funding for the People of England
Funding for the People of Northern Ireland
Funding for the People of Scotland
Funding for the People of Wales
By Subject
Advertising and media
Aeronautics
Agriculture and farming
Animals and animal welfare
Anthropology
Art, Architecture and Archaeology
Business
Charitable giving
Construction and surveying
Corporate
Cultural and social
Dancing
Democracy
Demonstrating Excellence
Economic development
Education
Engineering and Technology
Entertainment and Performing Arts
Environment and Sustainability
Equality and Justice
Expeditions
Extraordinary Talents
Family Support
Fashion
Financial and hardship
Health and wellbeing
Heritage
Home improvement
Horticulture
Hospitality
Housing
Human rights
Insurance
Innovation
International relations
Leadership
Leather industry
Legal
Mining
Music
Poverty
Property
Religion
Science
Sport
Trade and industry
Travel
Water related
Welfare

Funding for doctors, nurses, microbiologists and emergency service workers

Microbiology society - A membership charity for scientists interested in microbes, their effects and practical uses

Junius S. Morgan Benevolent Fund — For the benefit of nurses, midwives and health care assistants in hardship, whether practising or retired

Medical Womens Federation — Working for woman doctors and their patients

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists — Working to improve health care for women everywhere, by setting standards for clinical practice, providing doctors with training and lifelong learning, and advocating for women's healthcare worldwide

Royal College of Nursing — Support for nurses

Royal Medical Benevolent Fund — Help for doctors and their families in need

The Cameron Fund — The GPs own charity

The Queens Nursing Institute — The charity for community nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

The Royal College of Surgeons — Committed to enabling surgeons to achieve and maintain the highest standards of surgical practice and patient care

British Fire Services Association — Actively promoting the personal development of all fire fighters and control room staff including those who are retained or volunteers within local authority, occupational, airport, military, private and volunteer fire services as well as those who are now retired from the service

North West Police Benevolent Fund — To support officers of Cheshire Constabularly, Greater Manchester Police, Merseyside Police, Lancashire Constabulary, Cumbria Constabulary and NCA, retired officers of those and previous police forces amalgamated within the constituent forces, together with their dependents, who are in a condition of need and hardship or distress

The Ambulance Staff Charity — Dedicated to supporting the lifesaving ambulance community in the UK

The Gurney Fund — Educational support for the children of police officers

Worshipful Company of Firefighters — Service, Fellowship, Harmony and Honour

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Funding for Workers

The Worshipful Company of Barbers — support for charities, institutions and individuals in the City of London associated with ancient and long established traditions and origins.

Fisherman's Mission — this is the only Fishermans charity that provides emergency support alongside practical, financial, spiritual and emotional care to all fisherman, active or retired and their families.

The Institute of Chartered Foresters — this trust seeks to foster the maintenance and improvement of the standards of practice and understanding of all aspects of forestry and arboriculture in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass — membership is open to everyone of any nationality with an interest in stained glass. New members join as Freemen and may after a time apply to become Liverymen.

The Charity for Civil Servants — practical, emotional and financial support for civil servants.

The Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust — support for grocers, pharmacists, commercial travellers and their families.

Hair and beauty benevolent — help for hairdressers and beauty therapists who find themselves facing challenging times.

The Ironmongers' Company — working in the city of London providing support for educational establishments and their students, almshouses, historic ironwork and other good causes.

The Injured Jockeys Fund — appropriate support in a prompt and sympathetic manner to those jockeys past or present who are injured, unable to ride or generally in need.

The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers — working in the city of London, providing support for shoemakers.

Arvon — residential creative writing courses and retreats for schools, groups and individuals held at three rural centres. Arvon residential creative writing courses and retreats for schools, groups and individuals held at three rural centres. Helping people write creatively free from distractions of everyday life.

Journalists' Charity — advice, support and financial assistance to journalists thoughout the UK and Ireland.

Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust — Small scale grants to British artists, designers, writers and performers over the age of 30 who are experiencing financial difficulities in the pursuit of their careers.

Royal Literary Fund — grants and pensions to all sorts of writers in financial difficulty

The Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society — dedicated to promoting the advancement of science, literature and the arts in the City of Leeds.

The Pratt Green Trust — help for hymn writers and hymnody

The Peggy Ramsay Foundation — Help for writers writing for the stage and dramatists.

Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association — support for Scottish Secondary Teachers.

Dyslexia Action — Training courses designed to strengthen the expertise and confidence of those that teach and support students

ASLEF — the train drivers' union

Ben — The automotive industry support service.

Motability Scheme — The car and scooter scheme for disabled people.

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Funding for Armed Forces Personnel and Heroes

Andrew Carnegie Hero Trust Fund — recogising acts of civilian heroism by those over 18 and giving financial assistance to dependants of those that have died or been injured or suffered financial loss through heroism

ARNO — support for navel officers

Blesma — a military charity for limbless veterans

Burma Star Association — relieving hardship or distress among men and women

Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League

The Royal Merchant Navy Education Foundation

Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

Royal Air Forces Association

Royal Naval Benevolent Trust

Scottish War Blinded — supporting visually impaired ex-service personnel

SSAFA the Armed Forces Charity — support for military families

The Royal British Legion — support for British Armed Forces, reservists, veterans and their families

The Royal Scots — The Royal Regiment

The Theodore Salvesen Memorial — training and support for the British Merchant Navy in Scotland

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Funding for Children

Action Medical Research — Changing childrens lives through medical research

Barbara Ward Children's Foundation — Grants in respect of charitable activities throughout the UK

Bernard van Leer Foundation — Giving all children a good start in life

Child Growth Foundation — Support for children and adults with rare growth conditions

BBC Children In Need Appeal

Children Today — Specialised equipment and services for children and young people

CLIC Sargent — Cancer support

Echo Trust — Grants to childrens and young adults charities

Family Holiday Association — The charity that gives struggling families a break

Global Care - International Christian Children's Charity — Supporting the most vulnerable children and young people in Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia and Central America

Happy Days Children's Charity — Giving courageous children coping with adversity memorable holidays

John Lyon's Charity — Support for young people in nine London boroughs

Katharine Howard Foundation — Giving children the best start in life

LATCH — Welsh childrens cancer charity

Lifeline 4 Kids — Essential equipment to improve the quality of life for children with disabilities and special needs

Local Aid — Support for children and community special needs

Presbyterian Childrens Society

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

REACT Childrens Charity — Giving depth to short lives

The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Childrens Fund

Roald Dahls Marvellous Childrens Charity — Making life better for seriously ill children

Sparks — The Childrens Medical Research Charity

Straight Childrens Foundation — Brightening the lives of seriously and terminally ill children and entertaining over half a million children every year in hospitals and hospices throughout the UK

Strongbones Children Charitable Trust

The Actors Childrens Trust

The Childrens Foundation — Helping children have happy, healthy safe lives

The Elifar Foundation — Making daily challenges easier for those with physical and mental disabilities

The Highland Childrens Trust — Help with education costs

The Monica Rabagliati Charitable Trust

The Sobell Foundation

The Woodward Charitable Trust

SHINE Trust — Support and help in education

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Funding for Disabled People

Baily Thomas Charitable Fund — Aid for voluntary organizations dealing with learning disabilities

Barchester Foundation — Help for older people and other adults with disabilities

Beacon Centre for the Blind — Making a visible difference for people with sight loss

Blind Business Association Charitable Trust — Support for blind and partially sighted entrepreneurs

Bruce Wake Trust

Chartered Institute of Public Relations — Grants to meet specific needs, such as help with respite care or care break costs

Deafblind UK

Dyslexia Action — Training courses designed to strengthen the expertise and confidence of those that teach and support students

Family Fund — Grants for those raising a disabled or seriously ill child

Gardening for Disabled Trust — Grants for gardening for those that are disabled

Independence At Home — Grants to people living with a disability or long term illness who are in financial need

Kingston Upon Thames Association for the Blind

Lords Taverners — Youth cricket and disability sports charity

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Funding for disadvantaged people

Andy Fanshawe Memorial Trust — Grants that allow disadvantaged young people to take up opportunities to develop and exciting interest in the great outdoors

Lankelly Chase — Helping everyone to lead rewarding lives

Lords Taverners — Youth cricket and disability sports charity

Northern Rock Foundation — Tackling disadvantage and improving quality of life in the North East and Cumbria

Paul Hamlyn Foundation — Helping people overcome disadvantage and lack of opportunity

Steve Morgan Foundation — Support for projects that help children and families, people with physical or learning disabilities, the elderly, or those that are socially disadvantaged in North Wales, Merseyside, Cheshire and North Shropshire

The Oak Trust, Essex — Grants of £250 - £4000 to UK charities

The Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust — Making life easier for sick and disadvantaged people

The Woodward Charitable Trust — Grants to charities that make good use of volunteers

Zurich Community Trust — Improving the quality of life for disadvantaged people and helping families face dementia

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Funding for those with the surname Buchanan

Buchanan Society — Membership of The Buchanan Society is open to those who bear by birth, adoption or marriage the surname Buchanan and also those of the recognized septs: MacAusian (all spellings), MacWattie and Risk

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Funding for Homeless people

Help the Homeless — Support for homeless charities throughout the UK

StreetSmart — Help for homeless people

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Funding for people in need

Charity Link — Help to find funding for people in need

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Funding for Prisoners and Ex-prisoners

HAVEN — Practical support and books to prisoners within the UK

Prisoners Abroad

Prisoners of Conscience

Prisoners Education Trust

The Hardman Trust — Help for people who have been in prison for a long time to get their lives back on track when released

The Sheriffs and Recorders Fund

The Woodward Charitable Trust

The Worshipful Company of Weavers

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Funding for Officers

Officers Association — Ensuring that former officers and their dependants live with dignity and independence

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Funding for Older People

Age UK — The largest charity working with older people in the UK

Alzheimers Society — United against dementia

Barchester Foundation — Help for older people and other adults with a disability across England, Scotland and Wales

Broadening Choices for Older People — Providing a range of life-style opportunities from supported and independent living through to nursing care and other specialized advice and guidance services within the community

Friends of the Elderly — Providing individual care with dignity that meets your needs

Independent Age — Help to prevent the heartbreak of isolation

Shuttlewood Clarke Foundation

The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust — Grant giving trust

The Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust

The Sobell Foundation

The Spittal Trust

W.G. Edwards Charitable Foundation — Provision of care and aims to improve the wellbeing of older people in the UK

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Funding for Refugees

Airey Neave Trust — Support for refugees

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Funding for Woman

Associated Country Woman of the World — small grants to women-led organisations active in urban and rural communities. Projects must be for the benefit of women and children

Baron Davenports Charity — grants to Almshouses and Hospices, Childrens Organisations, Older Peoples Organisations and grants to single ladies in their retirement and living alone. Emergency grants to single ladies and fatherless children.

Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust

Feminist Review Trust — supporting projects that transform the lives of women

Frederick Andrew Convalescent Trust — providing women with financial assistance during times of convalescence

Funds for Woman Graduates — advancement of education and promotion of higher education and wider learning of women graduates

Global Fund for Woman — supporting womans rights

MamaCash — supports women, girls and trans people who fight for their rights

Medical Womens Federation — working for women doctors and their patients

Nuffield Foundation — providing support for student parents and womens education

Smallwood Trust

The Royal Society for the Support of Women of Scotland

Womens Engineering Society

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Funding for Young People

Andy Fanshawe Memorial Trust — grants that allow disadvantaged young people to take up opportunities to develop an exciting interest in the great outdoors

Charity Of Sir Thomas White Warwick

CLIC Sargent — support for young people with cancer

The Duke of Edinburgh Resilience Fund — Young people facing disadvantage need support more than ever

Echo Trust — grants to childrens and young adults charities across the UK

Esh Charitable Trust — esupport benefiting young people and the environment

Francis C Scott Charitable Trust — Supporting Charities Since 1963

Geoff Brown Charitable Trust — provides young local people with critical and terminal illnesses and their families with an opportunity to go on their dream holiday

Halls Exhibition Foundation — to benefit educationally young people between the age of 11+ and 25 resident in the village of Snettisham

Hedley Foundation — grant giving charitable foundation which supports small to medium sized charities which work with young people

Henry Morris Memorial Trust — Funding Awards to young people aged 13-19 in Cambridgeshire for projects with purpose

Impetus — transforms the lives of young people in poverty in the UK by backing some of the best charities and social enterprises specialising in this area

Irish Youth Foundation — helping disadvantaged young Irish people and their families

Jack Petchey Foundation

John Lyons Charity — grant-giving charity supporting young people in nine London boroughs

Liphook, Hampshire — serving the needs of young people in the Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Bramshott, with Liphook

Marine Society and Sea Cadets — helping young people stand out and get qualifications.

Pain Adventure Trust

Peter Cruddas Foundation — benefits disadvantaged and disengaged young people in society

Polska Fundacja Dzieci i Młodzieży

Ragdoll Foundation

Shepherd Street Trust

Shuttlewood Clarke Foundation

Sir Thomas Middlecotts Exhibition Foundation — support for young people in further education that went to Algarkirk, Fosdyke, Frampton, Kirton, Sutterton or Wyberton primary schools

The Elifar Foundation — helps to improve the lives of children and young adults with severe learning difficulty and associated physical disability

The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation — grants that focus on the Arts, Children and Young people, the environment, food and social change

The Hellenic Journal — supports those engaged in Hellenic Studies and makes grants to schools, universities, cultural institutions and young researchers

The Holywood Trust — helps young people in Dumfries and Galloway and gives grants to individuals and organisations, creating opportunities for young people in the region

The Key — inspiring belief in young people

The MacRobert Trust — assistance to young people to help them achieve their potential no matter what disadvantages they may face

The Oli Bennett Charitable Trust — funds to buy a business asset for young people between 18 and 30

The Prince's Trust — Inspiring Young Lives

The Wakeham Trust — Supporting Small Scale Change

The Warwick Apprenticing Charity

The Wilson Foundation

The Woodward Charitable Trust

Tribune Trust — support for young people plagued by crime, for example, they would fund a community garden to rejuvenate a piece of land plagued by crime and disorder

Worshipful Company of Coachmakers — forum for meeting like-minded people whose interests centre on the automotive and aerospace industries, coach making and the armed forces

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Funding for the People of England

Berkshire Community Foundation — grants to local charities and community groups addressing identified need across Berkshire

Bravehearts of the North East — recognising courage and bravery of children of the North East of England

Brelms Trust — grants to a wide variety of charities operating in Yorkshire and directly benefitting only Yorkshire communities

Brighton and Hove City Council — engaging people who live and work in the city and tackling inequality

Bristol Charities — improving the lives of individuals and families experiencing poverty in Bristol

Bristol Corn and Feed Trade Association — educational grant scheme to which member companies can apply for assistance with funding for industry related training

Cambridgeshire Community Foundation — grants for community programmes in Cambridgeshire

Chippenham Borough Lands Charity — benefits the majority of Chippenham's population

City Bridge Trust — tackling disadvantage in London

Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust — grants to preserve Kent churches, promote musical excellence and support the local communities of Kent

Community Foundation — Philanthropic charity helping communities in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland and across North East England

Community Foundation for Calderdale
Community Foundation for Merseyside

Community Foundation for Surrey

Cornwall Community Foundation

County Durham Community Foundation — grants that make a genuine difference to the lives of local people

Cumbria Community Foundation — grants to help grassroots community groups and small-to-medium-sized voluntary organisations

Devon Community Foundation — grants for individuals and organisations in Devon

Dr Edward and Bishop King's Fulham Charity — supplying essential items to Fulham residents on low incomes who may be referred by local welfare agencies or who may apply direct

Durham Freemasons — Members are expected to be of high moral standing and are encouraged to speak openly about Freemasonry

Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust — grants for charities and charitable projects focused on Merseyside and benefiting women and unpopular and neglected causes

English Schools Football Association — supporting new schools football activity nationwide

Essex Community Foundation — grants for specific projects and everyday running costs for Essex, Southend and Thurrock

Frome Society for Local Study — preserving historic buildings and records in Frome

Gatwick Airport Community Trust — helping local projects get off the ground

Gillian Dickinson Trust — offering support to small charities in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham

Girton Town Charity — help for Girton residents, both as individuals and collectively through Village societies and activities

Harefield Parochial Charities — aims to benefit either the poor of the Ancient Parish of Harefield or poor persons resident therein

Heart of England Community Foundation — grants for community and voluntary groups in Coventry

Hertfordshire Community Foundation — grants to charities for those in greatest need

Hillingdon Community Trust — To support projects which benefit people living in the southern six wards of the Borough of Hillingdon; Botwell, Pinkwell, Heathrow Villages, Townfield, West Drayton and Yiewsley

Hospital Of God — providing quality care and housing and helping communities throughout the North East of England

Huntingdon Freemen's Trust — supporting the residents of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

International Students House — provides accommodation for British and international students in one of the safest and most convenient locations in central London

Jill Franklin Trust — funding for deprived areas of Great Britain, but mostly funding for the North of England and Wales

John James Bristol Foundation — grants to charitable organisations working for the benefit of Bristol residents

John Lyons Charity — grant-giving charity supporting children and young people in nine London boroughs

John Martins — supporting the people and organisations of Evesham, Worcestershire

Kent Community Foundation — helping vulnerable, isolated and disadvantaged people and communities in Kent

Kent Gardens Trust — working for Kent's garden heritage

Kingspan Community Trust — bringing funding into the heart of the communities that surround Kingspan, near Liverpool

Lancashire Environmental Fund — grants to community and environmental projects which benefit the environment and people of Lancashire

Leeds Community Foundation — large grants of up to £25,000 to community groups working to improve the social networks of disadvantaged communities and individuals

Len Pick Trust — charity for the general benefit of the townspeople of Bourne, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire Community Foundation — funds and facilitates people and projects from the Humber to the Wash

Manchester Airport Community Trust Fund — supporting neighbourhood and community projects throughout the area

Market Harborough and The Bowdens Charity — working to protect and enhance the lives of the residents and groups of Market Harborough

Melton Mowbray Town Estate — supporting the town of Melton Mowbray

Merchant Taylors — helping young people, medical research, welfare and poverty relief in London

Metropolitan and City Police Orphans Fund — support the children of police officers and former police officers of the Metropolitan Police

Milton Keynes Community Foundation — supporting the growth of Milton Keynes and in making it a great place to live

Norfolk Community Foundation — aims to build a stronger community in Norfolk by making it easier to give to address the real needs that exist

Norman Family Charitable Trust — grants to charities and non-profit groups working in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset

Northampton Community Foundation — grants for projects across Northamptonshire providing funding for arts, culture and heritage, health and wellbeing, sporting champions and organisations, disability support, children and young people and crime safety schemes

Nottingham Roosevelt Memorial Travelling Scholarship — support scholars and creating leaders in Nottingham

Oxfordshire Community Foundation — charity that connects people who care with causes that matter

Quartet Community Foundation — inspiring local giving

Richmond Parish Lands Charity — support for charities and people in need

Royal Docks Trust — London

Royal Victoria Hall Foundation — A London based theatre charity which awards between twenty and thirty grants each year to smaller scale professional theatre projects based in London

RW Mann Trust Charitable Trust — helping improve the lives of people and communities in the North Tyneside, South Northumberland and East Newcastle area of the North East Safer London

ScotsCare — The charity for Scots in London

Sir James Knott Trust — supporting community projects in Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and County Durham including Hartlepool

Sir John Cass Foundation — supports education for young people in London through its grant programmes for individuals, schools and organisations

Society of Antiquaries of London

Somerset Community Foundation

Key Project supported by South Tyneside Churches

South Yorkshire Community Foundation — Our goal is to improve the lives of local people

St Johns Foundation — Independent Living and Funding Support in Bath

Stevenage Community Trust — the charity helping the local community

Stratford Town Trust

Summerfield Charitable Trust

Tees Valley Community Foundation

Thackray Medical Research Trust

The Anchor Society — caring for the elderly in Bristol

The Barnes Workhouse Fund — help for people living in Barnes, London

The Brighton Fund — one off awards to residents of The City of Brighton and Hove

The Charles and Elsie Sykes Trust

The Cotton Districts Convalescent Fund — supporting Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Craven, North Yorkshire and high peak Derbyshire, Macclessfield and Warrington, Cheshire; Calderdale and West Yorkshire

The Craven Trust — grants generally £100 – £1,500 to community projects and groups in the area

The Dolphin Society — helps older and disabled people on low incomes in the Bristol area to live independently and safely in their own homes

The Elmley Foundation — grantmaking charity which supports the arts in the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire

The Essex and Southend Sports Trust — charitable grants in support of sport and in particular football and cricket. The geographical area in which this trust operates is strictly limited to Southend-on-sea and the county of Essex

The Frieda Scott Charitable Trust

The Gloucester Charity Trust — providing affordable housing and practical assistance to older people in Gloucestershire

The Haberdashers Livery Company — developing the city of London

The Hampstead Wells and Campden Trust — Grants to individuals, whether one-off payments or pensions, can only be made to residents of the former Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead

The Kent Peoples Trust — helping prevent crime in Kent before it starts

The King Henry VIII Endowed Trust, Warwick — supporting the repair of historic buildings, for the relief of the elderly, infirm and needy, for the improvement of social welfare, recreation and leisure facilities and for the support of educational facilities

The Leonard Laity Stoate Charitable Trust

The Magdalen and Lasher Charity — assisting families and schools in the Borough of Hastings

The Mercers Company — grants to support education, general welfare, church and faith and arts and heritage in London

The Paristamen CIO — Standing beside charities with small grants to make a big difference

The Peter Minet Trust — aims to improve the quality of life for people living in the inner city boroughs of South East London, especially Lambeth and Southwark

The Prestbury United Charities — Helping people in our community

The Red Hill Trust

The Saddlers Hall

The Salters Charitable Foundation

The Sir James and Lady Scott Trust

The St Giles Charities — Meeting need and promoting education in central London since the seventeenth century

The Sunderland Guild of Help

The Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust — supporting early years preventative work in England and Wales, and development work in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

The Tower Hill Trust — Funding projects in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

The Village of Groby

The Vintners Company

The Wakefield and Tetley Trust — Funding projects in Southwark, Tower Hamlets and the City of London

The Wixamtree Trust — Supporting the communities and people of Bedfordshire

The Worshipful Company of Coopers

The Worshipful Company of Curriers — A historic City of London Livery Company

The Worshipful Company of Farriers

The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London

The Worshipful Company of Horners

The Worshipful Company of Marketors

The Worshipful Company of Plumbers

The Worshipful Company of Shipwrights

The Yapp Charitable Trust

Trust for London

Two Ridings Community Foundation

United St Saviours Charity

Uxbridge United Welfare Trusts

Vivian Moon Foundation — grants to people who have links with North Devon, and who wish to achieve a better life through further education

Walcot Foundation — aims to break cycles of financial deprivation for people living in Lambeth

Wates Foundation — Independent Grant-Making Family Trust

Wellfield Trust

William A Cadbury Charitable Trust — grant making charity which provides funding to other charitable organisations working principally in the West Midlands

Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers

York Civic Trust

York CVS — Supporting your charity or community group

Yorkshire Agricultural Society

Yorkshire Association of Change Ringers

Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust — Working together for the Dales

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Funding for the People of Northern Ireland

Belfast Central Mission — works with people of all ages in communities throughout Northern Ireland

Fermanagh Trust — supports local communities and groups across County Fermanagh and its hinterlands

Ulster Garden Villages

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Funding for the People of Scotland

Absafe — teaches safety in Aberdeen

Agnes MacLeod Memorial Fund — grants to women resident in Scotland who were born MacLeod (or whose mothers were born MacLeod) and who are in need of assistance owing to sickness, advanced age or limited means

Banffshire Educational Trust — for residents, schools and organisations in the former county of Banffshire including Buckie, Keith and Aberdeenshire

Cattanach Trust — supports children from pre-birth to three years old, who are affected by levels of relative deprivation

Clackmannan District Charitable Trust - provide assistance for the benefit of the poor, sick, aged and handicapped persons and generally all persons in reduced or deserving circumstances

Donald Manson Bequest — bursaries available to Forres and Edinkillie residents

Glasgow Highland Society — provides funding for students of a Highland extraction or decent who are undertaking a course of academic or vocational study at an educational institution located within the Glasgow postcode of G

Medical Research Scotland — encouraging and supporting promising young people wishing to pursue a career in biomedical research

Moray and Nairn Educational Trust — grants for students who are resident and educated in the former combined county of Moray and Nairnshire, schools and further education centres in Moray and Nairnshire and clubs and organisations operating for the benefit of people in Moray or Nairnshire.

Officers Association Scotland — advice and welfare support for former military officers and a free recruitment service for employers

Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust — enhances the economic, social and environmental benefits of the historic environment of Perth and Kinross

Sacro — Safeguarding Communities, Reducing Offending

Spifox Too

Strathspey Charitable Trust

Argyll and Bute Supporting communities fund

The Barcapel Foundation — supporting charitable works and endeavours in Scotland

The Glasgow Educational and Marshall Trust — provides funding for the people of Glasgow to advance their academic or vocational qualifications - whatever age or stage

The Highland Children's Trust — support for those under 25 with a Highland postcode

The Holywood Trust — aims to help young people in Dumfries and Galloway. It gives grants to individuals and organisations, creating opportunities for young people in the region

The Hunter Foundation — supporting self-sustaining interventions that can solve intractable problems

The Mining Institute of Scotland — funding for miners

The Paristamen CIO — Standing beside charities with small grants to make a big difference

The Robertson Trust

The Royal Society of Edinburgh

The Scottish Association for Marine Science

The Scottish International Education Trust

The Trades House of Glasgow

VSA — The Social Care Charity for Aberdeen

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Funding for the People of Wales

Anglian Water Assistance Fund — supporting customers in financial hardship

Community Foundation Wales — changing lives together

Jill Franklin Trust — funding for deprived areas of Great Britain and in particular North of England and Wales

LATCH — Welsh childrens Cancer Charity

The Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust — provides financial support to inspiring projects throughout Wales

The Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust — supporting children and young people, those with a disability and those living in poverty or who are socially excluded

The Yapp Charitable Trust

Wales Council for Voluntary Action

Wates Foundation — Independent Grant-Making Family Trust

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Advertising and media

NABS — improving the wellbeing of everyone in the advertising and media industry

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Aeronautics

British Women Pilots Association — supporting women who fly or who are learning to fly

The Air League — flying, engineering and gliding scholarships, not to mention flying bursaries

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Agriculture and farming

Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust

RSABI — supporting people in Scottish agriculture

Studley College Trust — Agriculture, Horticulture and Arboriculture

Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust

The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

Tropical Agriculture Association

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Animals and animal welfare

British Ornithologists Union — Awards of up to £2,000 per project aimed at supporting small projects outright and to part-fund medium-sized research programmes

International Fund for Animal Welfare — rescuing and protecting animals around the world

Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust — Animal Welfare Grants

Peoples Trust for Endangered Species — grants to help protect endagered species

RCVS Knowledge — celebrates achievement, and builds new knowledge that contributes to evidence-based veterinary medicine and other projects.

David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation — saving endangered animals

The Animal Defence Trust

The Marchig Animal Welfare Trust — aims to protect animals and to promote and encourage practical work in preventing animal cruelty and the relief of animal suffering

The Woodland Trust

Vetlife

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Anthropology

Royal Anthropological Institute — a scholarly association dedicated to anthropology in all its many fields and applications

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Art, Architecture and Archaeology

Abbey Awards — Scholarship and Fellowships in Painting

Architects Benevolent Society — helping architects, assistants, technologists, technicians, landscape architects and their families in times of need

Art Fund — The national fundraising charity for art

Association For Art History — Shaping the future for art history

British Institute at Ankara — supports, enables and encourages research in Turkey and the Black Sea region in a wide range of fields including archaeology, ancient and modern history

CIAT — the qualifying body for architectural technology

Council for British Research in the Levant — sponsors a large number of individuals and research projects in the Levant, in topics ranging from Palaeolithic archaeology to contemporary social science, fostering collaborative research with scholars in the region

Eden Arts — Artist-led organisation based in Cumbria

Elephant Trust — develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the fine arts in the UK

Gatsby — supporting plant science, neuroscience, education, africa, public policy and the arts

Idlewild Trust — independent grant-making trust that supports conservation and the arts

Jerwood Foundation — dedicated to the arts in the UK

Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust — funding for British artists, sculptors, writers, musicians and dancers

RC Sherriff Trust — Advancing The Arts in Elmbridge such as music, theatre, arts development with arts funding

Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture

Society of Wildlife Artists

St Hughs Foundation for the Arts

Steel Charitable Trust

Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust — grants for young people aged 13 to 30 to broaden their view of what is possible

The Architectural Heritage Fund — ensuring as many people as possible can enjoy the cultural, social and economic benefits of a vibrant and well-managed architectural heritage

The Barakat Trust — supports the study and preservation of Islamic heritage, architecture, archaeology, art and culture by funding students, academic research, publications, digitisation, conservation, conferences and other projects

The Four Lanes Trust, Basingstoke — money to people with ideas and projects which will improve life in Basingstoke and the surrounding district for social and community, education and the arts

The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation — supporting excellence in publications about photography, film and the moving image

The Linbury Trust — grants to organisations and towards causes across a broad range of categories, including the Arts; Education; Environment and Heritage; Medical; Social Welfare and Developing Countries

The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust — aims to improve the quality of life for people and communities in the UK through work with arts, environmental and social welfare organisations

The Rayne Foundation — tackling entrenched social issues through the arts, health, wellbeing and education

The Royal Institution of Naval Architects

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Business

Sir Thomas White Loan Charity — Interest Free Business and Education Loans in Leicestershire

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Charitable giving

Big Lottery Fund Awards for All

Big Lottery Fund — funding from the National Lottery

Bulldog Trust — financial and advisory assistance to charities

Charles Hayward Foundation — grant-making charitable trust making awards to charities that are registered in the UK

CHK Charities Limited — grants to charities across the UK

Edgar E Lawley Foundation — funding general charitable purposes with particular reference to medicine, to necessitous elderly persons, and to educational purposes with reference to the arts, commerce and industry

FIL International Foundations — funding strong charities in order to add lasting, measurable value

Foyle Foundation

Garfield Weston Foundation

John Moores Foundation — grants towards running costs, volunteers out-of-pocket expenses, one-off projects, equipment and salaries

Kitchen Table Charities Trust

P.G. and N.J. Boulton Trust

Rozelle Trust — Charity Support, Funding, supporting charities, local community

The Allen Lane Foundation

The Dulverton Trust

The Gay and Peter Hartley's Hillards Charitable Trust

The Gerald Micklem Charitable Trust — grants to individuals or to organisations that are not registered charities

The Norton Foundation — supporting disadvantaged young people who live in the area within the boundaries of Birmingham, Solihull, Coventry and the County of Warwickshire

The Pilgrim Trust

The Robert Clutterbuck charitable trust

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation

Tudor Trust

William Leech Charity — grants and interest free loans to registered charities in the North East of England

YBS Charitable Foundation — Society Matters

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Constuction and Surveying

Construction Youth Trust — the aim of the programme is to help build a cross-industry partnership and offer students a range of meaningful encounters with employers that widen their career horizons, challenge stereotypes, champion STEM careers and support them to achieve their career ambitions

Lighthouse Club — The Construction Industry Charity — delivering emotional and financial support to construction industry families in crisis

LionHeart — the charity for RICS professionals, past and present, and their families helping members whenever life throws them a curve ball

RICS Research Trust — an established grant award entity supporting research in the disciplines of land, real estate and construction right across the world

The Chartered Institute of Building — working worldwide in the development, conservation and improvement of the built environment

The Worshipful Company of Paviors — aims to promote the craft of paving in London through its outreach programmes and fellowship

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Corporate

Air France Foundation — fighting against the inequalities that affect children around the world

BT Benevolent Fund — help BT employees and BT pensioners in financial difficulty

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Cultural and Social

A. G. Leventis Foundation — supporting the dissemination of Greek and Cypriot cultural heritage, as well as extensive public benefits programs, pioneering environmental protection projects, and medical research

AJ Muste Memorial Institute Nonviolence Training Fund — supporting efforts to attain racial, ethnic and gender equality, economic and environment justice, and immigrants and labor rights

Andrews Charitable Trust — supporting funding for housing and poverty and giving Christian community grants

Martha Lane Fox Just for Kids Law (formerly Antigone) — a UK charity that works with and for children and young people to hold those with power to account and fight for wider reform by providing legal representation and advice, direct advocacy and support, and campaigning to ensure children and young people in the UK have their legal rights and entitlements respected and promoted, and their voices heard and valued.

Attlee — community-based organisation, sharing a common commitment to Clement Attlee’s philosophy and ethos, whilst independent of the Attlee Foundation the focus of which is social policy research and innovation

Barrow Cadbury Trust — an independent, charitable foundation, committed to bringing about socially just change

Canon Foundation — grant-making institution, active in the promotion of international culture and scientific relations between Europe and Japan

European Cultural Foundation — supporting imaginative cultural initiatives that, in the midst of the global pandemic crisis reinforce European solidarity and the idea of Europe as a shared public space

Evens Foundation — contributing to rethinking and building a European reality committed to the values of diversity, freedom, responsibility and solidarity supporting innovative ideas and achievements through prizes and calls

Helena Kennedy Foundation — the Foundation exists to overcome social injustice by providing financial bursaries, mentoring and support to disadvantaged students from the further and adult education sectors, enabling them to complete their studies in higher education and move on successfully into employment or further studies

John Ellerman Foundation — an independent grantmaking foundation supporting charities that make a difference to people, society and the natural world

Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd — working for democratic and political reform through our activities and the campaigns we fund

Sir Halley Stewart Trust — a grant-giving charity that supports innovative and pioneering Social, Medical and Religious projects, to enable human flourishing and to prevent suffering

Steel Charitable Trust — The five current funding priority categories are Arts & Heritage, Education, Environment, Heath, and Social or Economic Disadvantage

The Anchor Foundation — The trustees look favourably on organisations whose boards demonstrate equal opportunities for projects abroad or in the UK

The Clore Duffield Foundation — a grant-making charity which supports cultural learning, the creation of learning spaces within arts and heritage organisations, leadership training, and enhancing Jewish life

The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation — aiming to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK

The Four Lanes Trust, Basingstoke — gives money to people with ideas and projects which will improve life in Basingstoke and the surrounding district for social and community action, education and the arts

The Henry Smith Charity — grants to reduce social and economic disadvantage

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation — an independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty

The Lotus Foundation — funding, supporting, participating in and promoting charitable projects aimed at developing social welfare in diverse areas such as substance abuse, cerebral palsy, brain tumours, cancer, battered women and their children, homelessness and animals in need

The Network for Social Change — funding for projects that promote social change (broadly defined) and tend to favour projects which are innovative, highly leveraged, and/or difficult to fund

The Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation — a grant giving trust with Quaker family roots in the United Kingdom. We aim to contribute to the development of a just society based on a commitment to nonviolence and environmental sustainability

The Scurrah Wainwright Charity — supports a wide range of charitable projects with an emphasis on social reform and tackling the root causes of social inequity in Yorkshire, South Africa and Zimbabwe

The Andrew Wainwright Reform Trust —

Volunteer Service Bureau Foundation — grants for political and pressure group work that a registered charity could not support. The AWRT has a wide-ranging remit, striving for a just and democratic society, redressing political and social injustices

Webb Memorial Trust — aim is to create the narrative on a good society and to help connect key people and promising approaches

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Dancing

Dance Professionals Fund — grants to professional dancers due to illness or injury, with support for everyday living costs or with crisis funding for the unexpected, we can help

Dancers Career Development — the go to organisation, and the only one of its kind in the UK, for all professional dancers regarding career transition

International Dance Teachers Association — a leading dance qualifications awarding body and membership association for professional dance teachers

Penny Parks School of Dancing — entering pupils in examinations for Ballet with the Royal Academy of Dance twice a year and for Tap, Jazz and Musical Theatre examinations once a year with the IDTA, also organising trips to the ballet and the theatre

Penny Parks Charitable Trust — supports disadvantaged children and their families both around London and overseas and particularly offers support in times of trauma and crisis
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Democracy

McDougall Trust — the independent charitable trust that promotes public understanding of electoral democracy

National Endowment for Democracy — supporting freedom around the world

Open Society Foundations — working to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens

Westminster Foundation for Democracy — placing democratic values at the heart of the UK's international strategy

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Demonstrating Excellence

The Ian Mactaggart Trust — objectives are to distribute funds by way of charitable donations to suitable charities in the United Kingdom and abroad. The Directors take a proactive approach to their grant-making and their present policy is to make grants to those charities whose aims they support and who they believe have demonstrated excellence in their achievements

The Mactaggart Third Fund — objectives are to distribute funds by way of donations to suitable charities in the United Kingdom and abroad. The Directors take a proactive approach to their grant-making and their present policy is to make grants to those charities whose aims they support and who they believe have demonstrated excellence in their achievements

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Economic development

Aga Khan Development Network — protecting the environment and helping populations adapt to the effects of climate change

Shell Foundation — supports pioneering social enterprises and institutions that serve low-income communities across Africa and Asia lacking access to affordable energy and transport services

The Virtual Foundation: First in E-Philanthropy — a unique online philanthropy program which supported grassroots initiatives around the world. Carefully screened community improvement projects in the fields of environment, health, poverty alleviation and sustainable economic activity were posted on our web site. They could be read and funded by online donors

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Education

A. G. Leventis Foundation — scholarships in support of cultural heritage, museums, libraries, environment, conservation, humanitarian and medical science.

All Saints Educational Trust — personal grant awards to teachers, intending teachers and students in Religious Studies, Home Economics and related areas

Ark — support for problems facing children – including poor numeracy, inadequate support for dyslexic pupils, and the lack of quality social workers

Association of Colleges — technical and professional education and training for over 3 million young people, adults and employers

Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust — purpose is to advance public education, learning and knowledge in all aspects of the philosophy of Marxism, the history of socialism, and the working class movement.

British and Foreign School Society — support for charitable organisations running UK and International projects to improve access to education or the quality of education for vulnerable or deprived children and young people under the age of 25

British Council — The international culture and education organisation in the UK — building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and other countries through arts and culture, education and the English language

BUNAC Educational Scholarship Trust — helping as many people as possible have their own work abroad experience with several scholarships to help fund trips.

Canon Collins Educational and Legal Assistance Trust — focus our scholarship provision for social justice on enabling access to postgraduate and doctoral studies.

Carter's Educational Foundation — supporting the Education, the Social and Physical Development of the young people of the Ancient Parish of Wilford, Nottingham

CLAAS Foundation — promoting science and research, as well as educate in the field of agricultural engineering and the related areas of engineering and economic science

Clingan's Trust — Grants For Students under 25 and in education for Christchurch, Highcliffe, parts of Bournemouth to the East

Comino Foundation — finding approaches to help young people be productive, develop personal capabilities to cope with life and practical capabilities such as designing and making, innovation and manufacturing

Crichton Foundation Charitable Organisation — funding for the Crichton Campus in Dumfries and Galloway to support the creation and development of a diverse Campus and innovative centre for learning and enterprise

DAAD Branch Office in London — German Academic Exchange Service

Dr Robert Oldfield — Chester based Charity, providing means tested financial assistance to students under 25 years of age and born or permanently resident in the Chester Area

Education Development Trust — improving school systems at scale and provide empowering employability and careers services to young people and adults

Education Support Partnership — supporting teachers to feel their best and to overcome stress, anxiety, depression and have a good work life balance

English-Speaking Union — a charity working to give young people the speaking and listening skills and the cross-cultural understanding they need to thrive

Erach and Roshan Sadri Foundation — providing financial assistance for education and welfare purposes, relieving poverty by alleviating homelessness and assisting members of the Zoroastrian religious faith

Eurasia Foundation — working with individuals and communities to create innovative solutions to local development challenges.

Feed the Minds — runs practical education projects to help women and people who have been marginalised due to extreme poverty, conflict or gender discrimination

Four Acre Trust — supporting schools extracurricular projects, early intervention work, international eye and water projects

Fuchs Foundation — creating science and geography teachers as leaders in education through carrying out science projects in the harshest of conditions in the Polar Regions

Gatsby — seeking to transform the cotton industry and develop science

Gilchrist Educational Trust — support for students with unexpected financial difficulties and support for organisations to fill educational gaps, or make more widely available a particular aspect of education or learning

Hertfordshire Educational Foundation — grants, scholarships and funds to help young people with their education across Hertfordshire.

Independent Private and Boarding School in Scotland — Strathallan School

Integrated Education Fund — supporting Integrated Schools and opportunities for children to be educated together, not apart

Jephcott Charitable Trust — grants for charitable purposes in four main areas of funding — population control, the natural environment, education and health

Kelsick Educational Foundation, Ambleside — grants to help our local children and young people of all abilities who are resident in Ambleside, Rydal, Grasmere, Langdale and part of Troutbeck to achieve their full potential in a wide range of educational activities

Lansbury House Trust Fund — support for small, innovative projects which are not yet in a position to obtain support from anywhere else

Marc Fitch Fund — small grants towards the costs of publishing scholarly work in the fields of British and Irish national, regional and local history, archaeology, antiquarian studies, historical geography, the history of art and architecture, heraldry, genealogy and surname studies, archival research, artefact conservation and the broad fields of the heritage, conservation and the historic environment

Mario Lanza Educational Foundation — grants for students studying singing full-time at a college or conservatoire

Marshall Scholarships — finance for young Americans of high ability to study for a graduate degree in the UK

Marshall's Charity — to make grants for the support of parsonages to dioceses of the Church of England and the Church in Wales, also grants for repair of churches

MBI Al Jaber Foundation — helps the next generation of talent from the Arab world gain the freedom and opportunity to shape their future and that of their community, country and region

Newby Trust — to enable people to benefit from educational opportunities, to support excellence and to improve the quality of life and health in disadvantaged communities

Nuffield Foundation — mission to advance educational opportunity and social well-being.

Open Gate — a small charity supporting grassroots environmental, land-based and sustainable projects to benefit local communities, both in the UK and abroad

Perry Foundation — PhD Funding – a registered UK Charity with the objectives of promoting education and research connected with agriculture or food production for the benefit of the public

Rotherwick Foundation — advancement of education and health and the relief of the sick especially within a 20 mile radius of either Tylney Hall, Rotherwick; Ashdown Park Hotel, Wych Cross; The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne or Luton Hoo Hotel, Luton

Royal Academy of Engineering — working across all phases of education to encourage the widest diversity of people to work as technicians and engineers

Royal Caledonian Education Trust — Scotland's Armed Forces Children's Charity

Royal Commission for the Exhibition 1851 — grants for research in science and engineering, applied research in industry and industrial design to increase the means of industrial education

Savoy Educational Trust — an independent, grant giving charitable trust, whose main aim is to advance and develop education, training and qualifications within the hospitality industry

SPRET Educational Trust — Providing travel grants in Yorkshire and Norfolk

St Matthias Trust — Advancement of education with a preference for higher or further education; such education contributing to the advancement of the Church of England

Steel Charitable Trust — grants for Arts & Heritage, Education, Environment, Health, and Social or Economic Disadvantage.

Tallow Chandlers

The Beit Trust — support for established, independent institutions, in particular schools, hospitals and health centres to maintain, as far as possible, an equitable distribution of grants between Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi

The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland — improving access to university, encouraging the development of research skills in undergraduates and postgraduates and enable academics to establish new lines of enquiry

The Dick Harrison Trust — grants for students to study livestock auctioneering or rural estate management. Support by way of financial assistance would take the form of books, equipment or grants towards travel arrangements

The Foulkes Foundation — Supporting outstanding post-doctoral scientists wishing to undertake a medical degree, in order to make a significant contribution to medical research in all its diverse disciplines

The Four Lanes Trust, Basingstoke — money to people with ideas and projects which will improve life in Basingstoke and the surrounding district.

The Frederick Soddy Trust — funding to schools, students and postgraduates for studies of the social, economic and cultural life of specific regions within the UK, Ireland or elsewhere in the world

The Gen Foundation — grants to students and researchers in natural sciences, in particular food sciences and technology

The Hellenic Journal — Study of Greek language, Hellenic Society

The Linbury Trust — funding a wide variety of projects in the fields of culture (including arts, dance, museums and heritage) as well projects that improve the lives of people experiencing disadvantage, including older people, young people and homelessness

The Norwich Jubilee Esperanto Foundation — advancement of education in the study and practice of Esperanto

The Ogden Trust — The Trust supports schools, projects and programmes that are committed to enhancing physics teaching and learning

The Rayne Foundation — creative ways of tackling entrenched social issues through the arts, health, wellbeing, and education

The Roman Society — advancing the understanding of ancient Rome and the Roman Empire

The Salters Charitable Foundation — provides a range of project grants, small one-off donations and longer-term core support

The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust — supports the work of mature students of proven academic merit, and in financial need, who are pursuing further degree qualifications at an institution in the UK

The Skinners Company — tackling poverty and the restrictions it places on people; providing homes for older people in financial or social need; and creating opportunity through education, training or sponsorship

The Sutherland Trust — stimulating thinking about psychodynamic approaches to health, social care and education

Thomas Wall Trust — grants for encouragement and assistance of educational work and social service

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Engineering and Technology

Chartered body for Health and Safety professionals — champion, adviser, advocate and trainer for health and safety professionals working in organisations of all shapes and sizes, in around 130 countries to create safer, healthier and more sustainable workplaces

ICE Benevolent Fund — help for all civil engineers who are, or have been, members of ICE and for their families

Institue of Physics — professional body and learned society for physics in the UK and Ireland, inspiring people to develop their knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of physics

Institution of Civil Engineers — lead the debates around infrastructure and the built environment and provide an unmatched level of training, knowledge and thinking

Institution of Mechanical Engineers — striving to improve the world, develop engineer, promote engineering and encourage innovation

Open Gate — supporting grassroots environmental, land-based and sustainable projects to benefit local communities, both in the UK and abroad

The Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers — we are a charitable community of makers and users of instruments who include scientists, engineers, academics and students coming together to share knowledge and experience; influence opinion; and enjoy good fellowship.

The Daphne Jackson Trust — working cohesively with organisations across STEM, social sciences, arts, humanities, and all other related disciplines

The Douglas Bomford Trust — helping individuals to train, innovate, travel to learn and apply science and technology with respect to the design, development, evaluation and construction of machines, systems and techniques

The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining — The global network for the materials cycle, promoting sustainability in the extraction, processing and use of materials across all sectors

The Institution of Structural Engineers — leads and supports the development of structural engineering worldwide

The Worshipful Company of Engineers — The Company works to promote and develop all aspects of the science, art and practice of engineering within a social and charitable ethos which is at the core of the Livery movement.

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Entertainment and Performing Arts

Actors Benevolent Fund

BBC — Performing Arts Fund

CTBF — The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund

Equity Charitable Trust

Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust — funding for British artists, sculptors, writers, musicians and dancers

Tait Memorial Trust

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation

The Leche Trust

The Musicians Company

The Peter Darrell Trust

The Royal Theatrical Fund

The Society for Theatre Research (STR) — Studying the history and technique of British theatre

The Theatrical Guild

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Environmental and Sustainability

British Ecological Society

Esh Charitable Trust

Global Greengrants Fund

Idlewild Trust

Lancashire Environmental Fund

Open Gate

Oxford Preservation Trust

PPCF — The Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation

Royal Meteorological Society

Steel Charitable Trust

SUEZ Communities Trust

The Ashden Trust

The Conservation Foundation

The Ernest Cook Trust — Learning from the land since 1952

The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

The Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne

The Gloucestershire Environmental Trust Company

The Linbury Trust

The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust

The Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation

The Tree Council

The Underwood Trust

The Virtual Foundation: First in E-Philanthropy

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Equality and Justice

The Association of Jewish Refugees

Charities Advisory Trust

Ethnic Minority Foundation

Jewish Aids Trust

Jewish Child's Day

Lintel trust

Muslim Hands UK

Stefan Batory Foundation

The Baring Foundation

The Bromley Trust

The Fed social care charity for the Jewish Community

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

The Rayne Foundation

The Wyndham Charitable Trust

War On Want — Join forces with us against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice

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Expeditions

Mount Everest Foundation

Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge — Gino Watkins Memorial Fund

Timmissartok Foundation — philanthropic grants and funding for exploration

YET — Young Explorers Trust

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Extraordinary talents

Horizonti — Extraordinary Talents

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Family support

Kelly Family Charitable Trust

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Fashion

The Costume Society

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Financial and hardship

Association of International Accountants

British Gas Energy Trust

CABA - The charity supporting chartered accountants wellbeing

Charities Aid Foundation

Dacorum

Fredericks Foundation

Institute of Financial Accountants

LSCT – The Leslie Sell Charitable Trust

MSE Charity

Spondon Charity — Financial Help and Hardship Grants Spondon

The Dorfred Charitable Trust

The Leaders of Worship and Preachers Trust

The Market Research Benevolent Association

The Sir James Reckitt Charity

The Stock Exchange Benevolent Fund

The Three Oaks Trust

There for You (UNISON Welfare) — Member support and services

Transport Benevolent Fund

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Health and Wellbeing

Arthritis Action

Asthma UK

Ataxia

Blues Supporting Blues — Benevolence in Action

British Heart Foundation – Fighting for every heartbeat

British Polio Fellowship

British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Brittle Bone Society

Bud Flanagan Leukaemia Fund'

Cancer Research UK

Caron Keating Foundation

Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland

Children’s Liver Disease Foundation

Clevedon Forbes

Colchester Catalyst | Supporting Healthcare Needs

Colt Foundation

Community Food and Health (Scotland)

Cystic Fibrosis Holiday Fund

Cystic Fibrosis Trust

Diabetes UK – Know diabetes. Fight diabetes. | Diabetes UK

Elton John AIDS Foundation

Epilepsy Action

Epilepsy Research UK - Research into epilepsy, Information about epilepsy,

Florence Nightingale Aid in Sickness Trust

Florence Nightingale Foundation

Gatsby

George House Trust

Hospice UK

iprovision | Chartered Institute of Public Relations

Island Health Trust

Jeans for Genes Day - Friday 22nd September 2017

Jephcott Charitable Trust

Jimmy Knapp Cancer Fund

JTSMA — Back & Spinal Care

Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund

Kayleigh's Wee Stars - Financial Support for families where a child has a terminal illness.

Kidney Care UK

Kidney Research Charity | Kidney Treatments & Cures | Kidney Research UK - Kidney Research UK - Kidney Research UK

King Baudouin Foundation

LATCH - Welsh children's Cancer Charity - Elusen Canser Plant Cymru

Macmillan Cancer Support

Mark Davies Injured Riders Fund – help for those involved in any horse related accident

Meningitis Now - offering life saving information

MND Association

MPS Society for Mucopolysaccharide Diseases (MPS Society)

Multiple Sclerosis Society UK - MS Info, Research, News and Support

Muscular Dystrophy UK

North West Cancer Research

Parkinson's UK

Sir Halley Stewart Trust

Spinal Research

St Francis Leprosy Guild

St John Scotland

Steel Charitable Trust

Stroke Association

Tenovus Scotland - Medical research charity | Medicine | Healthcare

The Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust

The Dunhill Medical Trust

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

The Haemophilia Society

The Health Foundation

The James Tudor Foundation - A grant giving charitable organisation established for the relief of sickness

The King's Fund

The League of the Helping Hand

The Macfarlane Trust

The Migraine Trust - a patient focused, research driven UK charity

The Nuffield Trust

The Rayne Foundation

The Royal Society of Medicine

The Sutherland Trust

Tribute to NurseAid

Tuberous Sclerosis Association

Wellcome

Wessex Cancer

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Heritage

Beaverbrook Foundation

Bishop of Guildford's Foundation | Diocese of Guildford

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation — UK Branch

Cornwall Heritage Trust

Essex Heritage Trust - Preserving our unique heritage

GBCC - The Great Britain-China Centre

GoodFund

Grand Order of Water Rats

Grantscape - Grant-making Solutions

Grateful Society – We are passionate about helping the elderly

Greenham Common Trust

Greenwich Hospital

Grocers' Company

Groundswell | Out of homelessness

Grundy Educational Trust

Guild of Freemen

Guild of Motoring Writers

ICOMOS-UK International Cultural Heritage and Conservation News

King Baudouin Foundation

Making Music | Helping amateur music flourish

Masonic Charitable Foundation

Peter Greenwood Memorial Trust

Sasakawa Foundation Activities

Steel Charitable Trust

The Anna Plowden Trust

The Goldsmiths' Company

The Grand Lodge of Scotland

The Grand Prix Trust

The Greenpeace Environmental Trust | Greenpeace UK

The Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators – Gapan Organization

The Linbury Trust - About the Linbury Trust

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Home improvement

Rainy Day Trust

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Horticulture

Alpine Garden Society - alpine plants, rock plants, other small hardy plants and bulbs

Chartered Institute of Horticulture (CIH)

GardeningforDisabledTrust – Don’t let disability, age or accident stop you …

Grants for Horticulturists - Edinburgh Botanic Garden (Sibbald) Trust

Merlin Trust

National Garden Scheme

Perennial

Studley College Trust | Agriculture | Horticulture | Arboriculture

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Hospitality

Hospitality Action | Hospitality Action

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Housing

Bakers Benevolent Society

HACT - ideas and innovation in housing

John Huntingdon's Charity

Pathways | Helping communities move forward

Peter Bedford Housing Association

The Foundation of Edward Storey - Accommodation, Residential Care & Grants, Cambridge —

The Ogilvie Charities

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Human rights

The Sigrid Rausing Trust

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Insurance

The Insurance Charities – The charity for the British Islands and Republic of Ireland insurance industry

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Innovation

Commonwealth Foundation

The Rank Foundation

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

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International Relations

NZ UK Link Foundation

AGBU London

Anglo-German Foundation | Deutsch-Britische Stiftung

The Britain-Australia Society

Canada-UK Foundation

Friends of Hadhramaut

Africa Educational Trust

Anglo-Swedish Society

Daiwa Foundation

Koning Willem Fonds - Netherlands Benevolent Society

Kulika Uganda

Merstham Aid Project

Miriam Dean Fund

Nchima Trust - A source of help for the people of Malawi

Novi Most International | Pioneering youth work in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Open Society Foundation- South Africa

The Open Society Fund Prague

Overseas Service Pensioners' Association

Royal Belgian Benevolent Society

Saga Charitable Trust

The Schilizzi Foundation

St Mark's Overseas Aid Trust

The Frank Knox Memorial Fellowships

The German Marshall Fund of the United States | Strengthening Transatlantic Cooperation

The Hilden Charitable Trust - support for UK charities working overseas

The International Visegrad Fund

The Noel Buxton Trust: Grant making

The Onaway Trust - supporting traditional indigenous groups in maintaining their natural worldviews - The Onaway Trust

The Waterloo Foundation

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Leadership

Leadership Trust

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Leather industry

Leather & Hide Trades Benevolent Institution – Founded 1860

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Legal

Eosfoundation | A Better Legal System

Garden Court Chambers | Barristers' chambers

The Barristers' Benevolent Association

London Legal Support Trust | LLST

The Edridge Fund – Here to help you today

The London Law Trust - The London Law Trust

The Solicitors Benevolent Association - SBA, Solicitors' Charity

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Mining

Coalfields - Coalfields

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Music

Awards for Young Musicians | Giving talent a chance

Benslow Music Courses and Concerts

Britten-Pears Foundation

Cherubim Music Trust Charity - Musical Instrument Loans for Musicians

Choir Schools Association

Colwinston Charitable Trust - Grants to Opera, Classical Music, Visual Arts companies

EMI Music Sound Foundation

Finzi Trust

Hattori Foundation

Hinrichsen Foundation

Incorporated Society of Musicians

International Centre Nadia and Lili Boulanger

Jessie's Fund

Merton Music Foundation | Leading the Merton Music Education Hub...

Music Libraries Trust

Old Possums Practical Trust

On Organ Fund

Philharmonia Orchestra

Royal College of Organists | Organ Courses | Organ Classes | Organ Teachers | Organ Lessons

RPS | Royal Philharmonic Society

RPS | Royal Philharmonic Society

RVW Trust

The Brereton Memorial Fund – Incorporating the Agnes Rolph Bequest

The BRIT Trust – Supporting young people in music & education

The Countess of Munster Musical Trust

The Craxton Memorial Trust

The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation

The Royal Society of Musicians

The Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust

The Tillett Trust – Supporting tomorrow's classical music stars today

The Tunnell Trust

Youth Music

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Poverty

A Glimmer of Hope

Catalyst - Working together to tackle poverty and ill health in London

Christian Aid

Comic Relief

EDF Energy Trust

Erach and Roshan Sadri Foundation

Hampton Fuel Allotment Charity

Harefield Parochial Charities

Human Relief Foundation | An International Islamic Charity

King Baudouin Foundation

Oxfam GB | leading UK charity fighting global poverty

PCAC | Professional Classes Aid Council

St Vincent de Paul Society | Turning Concern Into Action

Tearfund - A Christian charity passionate about ending poverty

The ACT Foundation | ACT to enhance the quality of life for people in need

The Hampstead Wells and Campden TrustHome - The Hampstead Wells and Campden Trust

the innocent foundation

The Virtual Foundation: First in E-Philanthropy - Online Since 1996

Turn2us

Yardley Great Trust

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Property

Elvetham Estate

LandAid - the property industry charity

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Religion

Allchurches Trust Limited | Grants For Churches

Beds and Herts Historic Churches Trust

Bisley-with-Lypiatt Parish Council

Catholic international development charity | CAFOD

Church of Ireland - A Member of the Anglican Communion

Church Urban Fund

Clergy resources | The Church of England

Deeping St James United Charities

Devon Historic Churches Trust

Diocese of York
Friends of Essex Churches Trust | Preserving the Churches and Chapels of Essex

Friends of Kent Churches | Preserving Churches in Kent

Leeds Jewish Welfare Board | Positively Changing Lives

Newtownabbey Methodist Mission

Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust

Northumbria Historic Churches Trust / Conserving the Church Heritage of Northumbria

Norwood

Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust | OHCT

Rehoboth Charitable Trust

Rothschild

Rutland Historic Churches Preservation Trust | Support Historic Churches

Saint Sarkis Charity Trust

Sir Halley Stewart Trust

Sons and Friends of the Clergy

St Luke's College Foundation

Suffolk Historic Churches Trust

The Balmore Trust

The Joseph Rank Trust -

The MB Reckitt Trust

The Mylne Trust

The Nottinghamshire Historic Churches Trust | Raising money to grant-aid historic churches and chapels in Nottinghamshire.

The Ouseley Trust - Grants to cathedrals, choral foundations, parish churches, choir schools and other relevant institutions.

The Priorities Fund of the Church of Ireland

The Spalding Trust

World Friendship

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Science

Funding — BBSRC

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Sport

Andy Fanshawe Memorial Trust

Boost Charitable Trust

British Canoeing

English Schools' Football Association (ESFA)

Essex and Southend Sports Trust

Essex and Southend Sports Trust

Home / Football Foundation

Lord's Taverners | The UK's leading youth cricket and disability sports charity

Official website of Brian Johnston, cricket commentator

Peter Harrison Foundation

Racing Welfare

Ron Pickering Memorial Fund

The Voice of Racing: The Sir Peter O'Sullevan Charitable Trust

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Trade and industry

The Drinks Industry Charity

The Leading Charity Supporting Everyone in Retail - Retail Trust

The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust | QEST | Crafts Charity

The Tobacco Charity

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Travel

Andrew Coft Memorial Fund

Nick Estcourt Award

Peter Kirk European Travel Scholarships

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Water related

Inland Waterways Association

ITF Seafarers' Trust

Nautilus International

Seafarers Hospital Society

Seafarers UK

Severn Trent Trust Fund

Shipwrecked Mariners' Society Charity - Support UK Seafarers in Need

The Drinking Fountain Association

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Welfare

The NewstrAid Benevolent Fund

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