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- Allavida (Alliances for Voluntary Initiatives and Development) - brings together grant-making, training and capacity building, and
research and publishing
- Allen Lane Foundation - a grant-making trust set up in 1966 by Sir Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, to support general
charitable causes
- Anglo German Foundation (Deutsch-Britische Stiftung) - aims to enhance mutual British-German understanding and
co-operation by supporting joint research into patterns of economic activity
- Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) - the UK's national support organisation for grant-making trusts and foundations of
all types
- Atlantic Philanthropies - trust which identifies and supports leaders, institutions, and organizations dedicated to learning,
knowledge-building, and solving pressing social problems
- Baring Foundation - trust with specific grants programmes concerned with voluntary sector development, the arts and
international work
- BBC Children in Need - supports organisations that look after the physical, emotional and social needs of children in difficult
circumstances
- BFWG Charitable Foundation - helps women graduates with living expenses while registered for study or research at an
approved institution of higher education in Great Britain
- Bridge House Estates Trust Fund - makes grants to London charities which support people with disabilities, older people, the
environment, children & young people
- British & Foreign School Society (BFSS) - provides professional development services and courses, in the London area and
throughout the UK, as well as a research and publications programme
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch) - makes grants to organisations in the UK and Republic of Ireland in the areas of
Arts, Social Welfare and Education, and Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Relations
- Carnegie UK Trust - provides grants to local communities
- Charities Advisory Trust - registered charity which helps other charities with their trading
- Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) UK - helps non profit organisations in the UK and overseas to increase, manage and administer
their resources
- Clothworkers Foundation - makes charitable grants of about £4 million each year to varied projects for which adequate funding
from recognised sources is not available
- Comic Relief - over 5,000 grants made to projects in Africa and the U.K.
- Commonwealth Foundation - supports regular programmes in civil society, professional exchange, arts and culture, and
Commonwealth understanding
- Community Foundation Network - provides support for local grant-making trusts which build and manage endowments for the
benefit of voluntary and community groups within specific geographic areas
- Delius Trust - promotes the music of Frederick Delius by giving help towards the cost of performances, by publishing a collected
edition of the music, and by financing recordings
- Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund - humanitarian work in the UK and overseas, providing grants to organisations,
championing charitable causes and creating new money for the charity sector
- Esmée Fairbairn Foundation - aims to improve the quality of life for those facing disadvantage, by making grants for social
development, the environment, education, and arts and heritage
- Ethic Minority Foundation (EMF) - aims to redress a lack of money and involvement of ethnic minority professionals in the policy
and decision making process in the United Kingdom
- Family Holiday Association - helps to provide holidays for economically and socially deprived children, typically those suffering
severe financial hardship, illness, violence or abuse
- Four Acre Trust - makes grants in areas of respite care and holidays, vocational guidance, relief of health disability, and social
housing
- Francis C Scott Charitable Trust (FCSCT) - grant-giving trust which supports charities addressing disadvantage primarily in
Cumbria and North Lancashire and otherwise in the remainder of Lancashire
- Gatsby Charitable Foundation (a Sainsbury Family Charitable Trust) - supports mental health, disadvantaged children, technical
education
- Groundswell - UK project that promotes and develops self-help initiatives with people who are homeless, excluded or living in
poverty
- Help the Aged - provides assistance to the aged in the areas of home safety, retirement services, and mobility
- Housing Associations Charitable Trust - raises and distributes funds to explore, develop and test solutions to issues affecting
groups that are marginalised from mainstrean housing
- Immigration Index (London) - focuses on all matters relating to immigration and has hundreds of resources relating to asylum
and refugees, conflict, country data, deportation, detention, discrimination, funding, gender, government, human rights, human
trafficking, legal, media, migration and studies
- John Ellerman Foundation - general grantmaking trust which distributes about £4 million each year to medical and disability,
community development and social welfare, the arts and conservation
- Joint Educational Trust (JET) - helps children who have suffered tragedy or trauma at home or are at risk in some way to attend
caring Independent Schools
- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust - makes grants mainly for work in Britain but also for work towards peace, justice and
reconciliation in South Africa and in Ireland
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation - social policy research and development charity, with a wide programme of research and
development projects in housing, social care and social policy
- Leadership Trust - provides personal and leadership development opportunities to individuals and organisations who would
normally be unable to fund such development for themselves
- LifeSpan Trust - undertakes research into ageing and age discriminations, advances public education on these matters, and
protects the health and relieves the disabilities of people aged over fifty
- Lloyds TSB Foundations - four foundations, covering England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands,
support charities which help disadvantaged or disabled people
- Montessori St Nicholas Charity - promotes early years education by funding research and development into the value and
effectiveness of Montessori education and making awards
- National Autistic Society - the UK's foremost charity for people with autism and Asperger syndrome
- Nationwide Foundation - makes grants to UK organisations whose aim is to improve the quality of life and the range of
opportunities for those in need and promote social inclusion
- Nuffield Foundation - funds self-contained projects which advance education or social welfare, often by means of research or
practical innovation
- Nuffield Trust - promotes independent analysis and debate on UK health care policy, with the aim of enabling the nation's people
to enjoy better health
- Ove Arup Foundation - 'for advancement of education directed towards the promotion, furtherance and dissemination of
knowledge of matters associated with the built environment'
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation - has three priority areas of funding - the arts, education, and overseas projects concentrated in India
- Peter Harrison Foundation - gives grants to the disabled and disadvantaged, with priority given to organisations that work in the
field of sport, education and the support of children and young people
- Pilgrim Trust - endowed in 1930 by Edward Stehen Harkness of New York with two million pounds in admiration for Great
Britain's achievements in the 1914-18 war
- Plan UK - national office of Plan International, responsible for raising funds nationally by attracting new sponsors and other
donors
- PPP Healthcare Medical Trust - makes grants to charities, research organisations and educational institutions
- Prince's Trust - helps 14-30 year olds to develop confidence, learn new skills and get into work
- Prisoners' Education Trust - makes grants to prisoners wanting to make a fresh start by extending academic and vocational
education via distance learning, and promoting education in prisons
- Public Concern at Work (London) - promotes compliance with the law and good practice in organisations across all sectors,
focusing on the responsibility of workers to raise concerns about malpractice, and the responsibility of those in charge to
investigate and remedy such issues
- Ragdoll Foundation - an independent UK based grant-making charity whose aim is to fund imaginative ideas which support
children through the arts
- Refugee Council (London) - membership organisation that believes asylum seekers and refugees should be treated with
understanding and respect, by providing them advice and support, working with refugee community organisations, caring for
unaccompanied refugee children, offering training and employment courses, managing a residential home for young and elderly
refugees, campaigning and lobbying, keeping them high on the political agenda, and producing authoritative information on
refugee issues worldwide
- Roald Dahl Foundation - a UK-based charity which offers a programme of grant-making to charities, hospitals and individuals in
the U.K. only
- Rufford Foundation - grant-making foundation which assists a wide variety of charities and has a special interest in nature
conservation, the environment and sustainable development
- Save the Children Fund (UK) - leading international children's charity to create a better future for children
- SHINE (Support and Help in Education) - helps disadvantaged children and young people by funding best practice educational
support projects, thus ensuring choice and control in their lives
- Sir Halley Stewart Trust - promotes the development of body, mind and spirit, a just environment, and international goodwill
- Sir James Reckitt Charity - grant-making charity which supports a wide range of charitable causes
- Stone Ashdown Trust - gives grants for programmes concerned with equalities, interfaith dialogue and action (especially
between Muslims and Jews), and Jewish organisations with a progressive approach
- Sutton Trust - aims to provide educational opportunities for able young people from non-privileged backgrounds
- England. Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland
- Tudor Trust - makes grants to charities and organisations with charitable objectives, especially schemes which address rural
isolation and offer support to young people, families and older people
- VSO - international development charity in the UK, which works through volunteers
- Wellcome Trust - fosters and promotes research aimed at improving human and animal health by supporting 'blue skies' and
applied clinical research and exploiting research findings for medical benef
- Woodward Charitable Trust (a Sainsbury Family Charitable Trust) - grant-making to the arts, community and social welfare,
disability and health, education and the environment
- World-in-Need - provides seed and growth funding to social entrepreneurs and supports these investments with a blend of skills,
advice and networking
- World Vision - Christian, charity and child sponsorship organisation
- Yapp Charitable Trust - makes grants for work with elderly people, children and young people, people with disabilities or mental
health problems, and people trying to overcome life-limiting problem
- Zurich Financial Services Community Trust - works to support a range of local, national and international charities, many
selected by Zurich employees
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