Grants for projects in all sectors of the local community. Each foundation has its own character appropriate to the location and grants may be made to a wide range of activities including: health; children and young people; arts and culture; the environment; services.
Grants are available to UK registered charities for a range of charitable projects, particularly the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage; and for the advancement of education, the advancement of the arts, culture, and heritage.
The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust offers grants to UK registered charities.
The objects of the Trust are to foster and promote the education of the general public in the appreciation of the arts and music, to relieve poverty and to support other purposes recognised by the law of England and Wales to be charitable.
Within these objectives, the Trust focusses on funding cultural and heritage preservation projects in the UK, especially in East Anglia.
Grants are available for medical, socially supportive, educational and cultural charities in England and Wales.
The Basil Samuel Charitable Trust offers grants to UK registered charities.
In particular, the Trust wishes to support projects with the following themes:
This Trust does not maintain a wesbite. Applications must be made in writing.
Address:
Basil Samuel Charitable Trust
c/o Smith and Williamson
25 Moorgate
London
EC2R 6AY
This small trust supports charities working in Scotland and overseas – focusing on children and young people, community arts, social justice, international development, health and wellbeing and community outreach programmes.
The Trust will consider applications for grants from charities registered in the United Kingdom, with preference being given to charitable organisations operating from Scotland and with an annual income of less that £500,000.
The Trust can support a wide range of charitable projects. Preference given to causes within Perth & Kinross with emphasis on the sphere of education, music and the arts. There is a preference to fund start up projects or improvements to projects.
The maximum amount is normally £5,000.
Apply to: Messrs Miller Hendry Solicitors, 10 Blackfriars Street, Perth, PH1 5NS
Grants are given to a wide variety of organisations (generally in Scotland, particularly Tayside) including cancer research and other medical charities, youth organisations and arts and music.
Apply in writing, enclosing a copy of your most recent accounts, to the following address:
Thorntons Law LLP,
Whitehall House,
33 Yeaman Shore,
Dundee, DD1 4BJ
Funding is intended to support general charitable purposes. In the past grants have ranged from £250 to £1,000. Charitable organisations in the UK are eligible to apply.
No website, contact details:
Martin Paisner CBE,
Denise Cohen Charitable Trust,
Berwin Leighton and Paisner,
Adelaide House
London Bridge,
London
EC4R 9HA
The Said Foundation is a British charity founded in 1982 by international businessman and philanthropist, Wafic Said, and his wife Rosemary.
Amal (‘hope’ in Arabic ) is a programme of the Said Foundation making grants in the UK in support of a rich diversity of arts projects and activities, including storytelling, visual arts, theatre, poetry, film, music and dance.
The programme aims to further the following dual interlinked objectives:
Persimmon, the UK’s leading house builder, launched their £750,000 community fund in 2015 to support local groups and charities across England, Scotland and Wales.
The Persimmon Community Champions is a national programme where charities and local groups and organisations can apply for funding up to the value of £1,000 to match money they have already raised themselves.
Each Persimmon business, as well as the Head office in York, gives away two grants of up to £1,000 each to support local community initiatives.
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