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Registered charity 1015792 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£842k
Grants listed (FY2025)
51
Listed grants total
£2.7m
Accounts grants total
£1.7m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded
  • Education/training (32 grantees)
  • Environment/conservation/heritage (16 grantees)
  • Economic/community Development/employment (11 grantees)
  • General Charitable Purposes (11 grantees)
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (9 grantees)
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (6 grantees)
  • Disability (5 grantees)
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (4 grantees)
  • Other Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
  • Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (3 grantees)
Where grantees operate
  • Throughout England And Wales (16 grantees)
  • Scotland (7 grantees)
  • South Africa (5 grantees)
  • Throughout England (4 grantees)
  • Throughout London (4 grantees)
  • Ireland (4 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (4 grantees)
  • Spain (3 grantees)
  • Italy (3 grantees)
  • India (3 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
EnvironmentFY2025£1.0mTotal grants for Environment pillar
Literacy SupportFY2025£210kTotal grants for Literacy Support
PerspectivaFY2025£170kCore funding
GeneralFY2025£155kTotal grants for General/Immediate Relief
Students Organising for Sustainability UKFY2025£120kTo fund SOS-UK and New Economics Foundation (NEF).
ClientEarthFY2025£83kAccountable Finance team
Rethinking Economics InternationalFY2025£60kFor its university-specific ecological economics and its Doughnut Economics module campaigns.
Global Action PlanFY2025£60kTo influence the Government’s Curriculum and Assessment Review by coordinating a sector-wide campaign, engaging directly with politicians, and hosting a pilot climate education assembly and a parliamentary event.
Peers for the PlanetFY2025£52kTowards staff costs
Our New Economy (ONE) FoundationFY2025£50kWorking with influential economists to review Economics textbooks used by universities in the UK and globally.
Royal Society of Arts (RSA)FY2025£50kPilot for learning with the “10Cs” towards their pilot phase for this new learning programme based on the 10Cs.
Heard Organisation Ltd (formerly On Road Media)FY2025£34kClimate Stories that Work project.
Carbon TrackerFY2025£33kTo engage climate scientists to review already-published papers on the economic impacts of climate change.
Forest Peoples ProgrammesFY2025£31kFor the indigenous territorial emergency fund and radio and digital communications in 2025/6
ClientEarthFY2025£31kTo scope a legal action using the European Social Charter
The Sainsbury ArchiveFY2025£30kCore costs
Jesus College CambridgeFY2025£25kTo complete a project to develop and launch a fossil-free bond index with Bloomberg.
PerspectivaFY2025£20kTo support a detailed scoping phase for the TEAMedia channel.
Doorstep Library NetworkFY2025£20kTowards its Online Reading Corner programme
Learn to Love to ReadFY2025£20kVolunteer reading support for disadvantaged Wandsworth primary school pupils
Global Greengrants Fund UKFY2025£20kTo support GGF UK’s UK's Women’s Environment
Bank of Dreams & NightmaresFY2025£20kCore costs of storymaking workshops for children and young people
Literacy HubsFY2025£20kAfter-school literacy support in a pirate-themed hub for children in Portsmouth
Integrity Initiatives InternationalFY2025£20kFor a Deputy Director position to work on the IACC campaign
The Latin Programme - Via FacilisFY2025£20kTeaching weekly Latin lessons in state primary schools
We Are PossibleFY2025£19kTowards its campaign to encourage communities to adopt low-carbon technologies
Green Finance Community HubFY2025£18kTowards a business plan and community/stakeholder engagement for Project Collette
Bates Wells & Braithwaite LLPFY2025£15kTo develop a strategy and then commission a legal opinion on potential legal interventions to clarify the duties of pension funds in relation to understanding and managing the impacts of climate change.
Church ArmyFY2025£15kTo support the Marylebone Project.
South Lakes Action on Climate ChangeFY2025£15kTo challenge the development of a proposed coal mine in Cumbria through a judicial review in the High Court
XLPFY2025£15kTowards its Literacy and Numeracy Programme.
Shooting Fish Theatre CompanyFY2025£15kLiteracy support for disadvantaged young people in Bristol via theatre
Primary Shakespeare CompanyFY2025£15kTo integrate comic books of Shakespeare plays into literacy teaching
Diverse Youth NIFY2025£15kLiteracy support for refugee and asylum-seeking children in Belfast.
Literacy PiratesFY2025£15kTowards its Learning Programme
Climate OutreachFY2025£13ktowards the Action on Climate Empowerment Coalition to support the delivery of the Government’s first national Net Zero Public Participation Strategy
Znaniye FoundationFY2025£13kFree Saturday literacy sessions for school years 5-7.
Liverpool LighthouseFY2025£12kSetting up an in-school creative literacy programme in North Liverpool
British Red Cross – HeadquartersFY2025£10kTowards its Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territory appeal
E3GFY2025£10kTowards the communication costs and secretariat support for London Climate Action Week 2024
Medecins Sans Frontieres - Doctors without BordersFY2025£10kTowards its work in the Israel – Hamas conflict
Granville Community KitchenFY2025£10kTo recruit a part-time food aid and community meals coordinator for one year
Woodland TrustFY2025£8kTo contribute to the Memorial Woodland at Preston Farm Estate that is being created with the Woodland Trust in memory of Lord John Sainsbury
Welcoming AssociationFY2025£7kCore costs
Granville Community KitchenFY2025£7kTowards its growing space, Granville Rec
Refugee Women in BristolFY2025£7kCore costs
Sunderland Literacy Aid C.I.CFY2025£6kLiteracy tuition for disadvantaged young jobseekers in Sunderland
Land of Hope and StoryFY2025£5kFor its pilot community workshop.
Assisting Berkshire Children to ReadFY2025£5kOne-to-one reading support for primary school children in Berkshire
Charity Finance GroupFY2025£3kTo promote the Charity Investment Governance Principles
Peers for the PlanetFY2025£3kTowards its Guide and its October launch event
Purpose DisruptorsFY2024£950kto cover salary costs over three years for the Purpose Disruptors GoodLife team and provide a contribution towards operational costs and staff (communications, designer and programme manager).
Purpose DisruptorsFY2024£144kTo underwrite the funding shortfall for Purpose Disruptors’ GoodLife2030 in 2023/4.
Green Finance InstituteFY2024£100kTowards the Local Climate Bonds project.
Social Change NestFY2024£100kTo part-fund a new Storyteller in Scotland and a Content Manager over two years for the Local Storytelling Exchange.
PlatformFY2024£93kTowards their partnership work on UK Divest.
Finance for Environmental and Social Systemic ChanceFY2024£70kFor core funding to employ Dr Belinda Bell and Ella Lipscombe for a year.
British Ceramics ConfederationFY2024£62kTo support BCC to publish an updated ceramic sector Decarbonisation Roadmap and to support small to medium enterprises (SMEs) across the ceramics sector on decarbonisation during 2024.
Agence France-PressFY2024£60kTo design modules and deliver in-depth training for 20 to 40 journalists on climate change and economics.
Friends of the Earth Charitable TrustFY2024£56kTowards its partnership work on UK Divest.
Rethinking Economics InternationalFY2024£55kto deliver new research into ecological economics in UK university economics courses and lead the UK part of a global student campaign on climate and ecological economics education.
Community Supported Agriculture Network (CSAN)FY2024£50kTo run a pilot project in urban Leeds and rural Suffolk to engage with disadvantaged communities and increase the economic and social benefit of CSA farms.
Ashden Climate SolutionsFY2024£50kTowards core costs.
Friends of the Earth ScotlandFY2024£30kTowards its partnership work on UK Divest.
Forest Peoples ProgrammesFY2024£29kTo provide emergency support for 12 months for forest communities in the Peruvian Amazon to deal with threats to themselves and their territory.
Students Organising for SustainabilityFY2024£25kTo develop a ‘tracked changes’ re-write of the Economics A-Level curriculum and towards its PR and influencing campaign on wider UK educational reform for sustainability.
Students Organising for SustainabilityFY2024£25kTo deliver engagement with senior decision-makers and regulators in university education to embed sustainability in university courses in the UK and globally.
PRFY2024£20kTo support PR, comms and market research in 2023/24.
Bringing Words to Life LtdFY2024£20kTo deliver its new Write2 programme to eight schools in Gateshead in 2023/24.
Surrey Care TrustFY2024£20kTowards a Learning Assistant for its STEPS to 16 programme.
Black British Book Fest CICFY2024£19kTowards its Reading for Smiles programme to promote reading amongst young people using diverse literature.
Bates WellsFY2024£18kTo understand the legal and regulatory impacts of Carbon Tracker’s ‘Loading the Dice report.
Bank of Dreams & NightmaresFY2024£18kTowards its primary and secondary school creative writing workshops.
Carbon TrackerFY2024£16kFor staff capacity to engage regulators/wider stakeholders with the findings of its ‘Loading the Dice’ report.
Heard Organisation Ltd (formerly On Road Media)FY2024£15kTowards the core climate team in 2024/25.
Forest Peoples ProgrammesFY2024£12kTo continue its Kichwa radio programmes in San Martin, Peru to enable the Kichwa communities to share information, raise awareness, and coordinate actions to deal with threats to themselves and their territory.
Artconnexion UK CICFY2024£12kTowards its Poetry Plane creative writing programme.
Little Green PigFY2024£12kTowards its after school creative writing clubs for primary and second school pupils.
Integrity Initiatives InternationalFY2024£12kFor staffing needs on the IACC.
Learning Partnership WestFY2024£11kTowards reading sessions at its adventure playground.
Learning PartnershipsFY2024£11kTowards its Let’s Read Programme, a volunteer support programme to improve disadvantaged children’s literacy skills.
Ready, Steady, ReadFY2024£10kTowards its work providing 1:1 volunteer reading support in Hull.
Sinal do Vale, BrazilFY2024£10kTo train farmers and landowners along the Guanabara Bay trail in jackfruit farming and agroforestry.
Read With Me CICFY2024£9kTo provide reading support sessions for disadvantaged secondary pupils in Gloucestershire.
Bates WellsFY2024£8kTowards the costs of Bates Wells and other legal firms producing legal opinions on charity reporting duties.
Charity Finance GroupFY2024£8kTo develop the Charity Investment Governance Principles.
Integrity SoilsFY2024£7kTo contribute to the fees of a student, who has been offered a scholarship on the UK CREATE course.
Reading LaddersFY2024£6kTo deliver specialist dyslexia literacy tuition in primary schools in London for a year.
Sarah WoodsFY2024£6kTowards a trial for the Atlas. Atlas is a tool to support people in the creative sectors, such as TV content writers, to understand the systemic nature of the causes of climate change so that they could reflect that in their content.
Refugee Women ConnectFY2024£5kTowards core costs.
Cambridge UniversityFY2024£5kTo provide match funding for ESRC funding to enable Emily Bugden in the Sustainable Finance Team at the Cambridge University to undertake a PhD...
Oasis CardiffFY2024£5kTowards its work supporting women refugees.
Harmony ProjectFY2023£180kTo recruit two new part-time staff members over three years
British Academy of Film & Television Awards (BAFTA)FY2023£135kTo support the Screenwriters’ Lecture Series over three years
SchoolreadersFY2023£120kTo support reading mentors for schools in areas of deprivation and post-pandemic educational deficit over three years.
Purpose DisruptorsFY2023£110kTowards the GoodLife2030 project
WCSFP (World Congress of Science and Factual Producers) BudgetFY2023£90kFunding for JJC partnership with WCSFP for a keynote speaker and workshop on climate storytelling.
University of Cambridge Department of Land EconomyFY2023£90kCore funding over three years for the Sustainable Finance Team.
The Social Change NestFY2023£63kTo contribute to core funding for Uplift.
Climate Safe Lending Network (CSLN)FY2023£60kCore costs
Climate OutreachFY2023£55kFor Climate Visuals to run a pilot for Britain Sees Climate over six months from January 2023
Global Action PlanFY2023£54kTo develop its strategy and national advocacy campaign to reorient the English education system
Ashden Climate SolutionsFY2023£50kCore costs
Accounting for Sustainability (A4S)FY2023£50kTo subsidise 15 places from the 2023 cohort, for delegates from public sector, emerging markets, and SMEs to join its sustainability Academy programme for finance professionals
The Social Change NestFY2023£50kTo support the expansion of the Local Story Telling Exchange into new regions of the UK
Environmental Funders' NetworkFY2023£38kTo support Regen Narratives Community over two years
PlatformFY2023£33kTo contribute to its Kick Fossil Fuels out of Football campaign.
National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)FY2023£20kTo contribute to its fossil fuel divestment campaign for the UK voluntary sector.
HomespunFY2023£20kTo increase the Community Engagement Officer’s role from one day per week to full time
Global Greengrants Fund UKFY2023£20kTowards projects and grant-making support in the Women’s Environment Action programme.
Students Organising for SustainabilityFY2023£20kFor the 1.5 Degrees league table.
Clarifying trustee investment dutiesFY2023£20kTo support activities to ensure that the Butler-Sloss judgment is accurately reflected in Charity Commission guidance and integrated into charities’ Statement Of Recommended Practice (SORP).
PR BudgetFY2023£20kTowards PR and Communications.
Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)FY2023£18kTo contribute to its consortium of trans-national litigation organisations.
Influence MapFY2023£15kTo contribute to its investigation into lobbying against biodiversity and land use policies in Europe and globally.
Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)FY2023£12kTo contribute to a communications coordinator role.
Good Law ProjectFY2023£10kTo contribute to its work to develop new legislation which would oblige judges to consider and protect the environment when adjudicating cases and/or interpreting legislation.
South Lakes Action on Climate ChangeFY2023£10kFor its legal work in challenging the development of a coal mine in Cumbria.
Footprints Women's CentreFY2023£10kTowards its women’s centre and community garden
Turkey Mozaik FoundationFY2023£10kTurkey Earthquake Emergency Fund
Woodlands Community Development TrustFY2023£10kTowards its community garden, Veg Box scheme and Warm Welcome Café
Carbon TrackerFY2023£8kTo contribute to its project to challenge the flawed advice that is endangering people’s pensions.
Granville Community KitchenFY2023£8kFor a part-time food grower
Peckham PalmsFY2023£5kTo cover the venue costs for the refugee support sessions
Women at the WellFY2023£5kCore costs
West End Women & Girls CentreFY2023£5kTowards its community garden and small holding
Blackpool Citizens Advice BureauFY2023£5kCore costs
Comfrey ProjectFY2023£5kCore costs
Marches Energy AgencyFY2023£5kTowards their energy advice service and support for households
South SeedsFY2023£5kTowards their energy advice service
The Welcoming AssociationFY2023£5kCore costs
Tomorrow's Women WirralFY2023£5kTowards core costs
Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan TrustFY2023£5kToward core costs
Regenerative Viticulture FoundationFY2023£3kTowards employment costs
Legal BudgetFY2023£2kA budget to bring together the legal teams of South Lakes Action on Climate Change and Friends of the Earth, who are both bringing legal challenges against a new coal mine in Cumbria, England.
PlatformFY2023£1kA small additional grant to enable the charity to manage unexpected costs because of high inflation.
Friends of the Earth Charitable TrustFY2023£1kA small additional grant to enable the charity to manage unexpected costs because of high inflation.
People and PlanetFY2023£600A small additional grant to enable the charity to manage unexpected costs because of high inflation.
Friends of the Earth ScotlandFY2023£371A small additional grant to enable the charity to manage unexpected costs because of high inflation.

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 2668949 vs reference 1660188 (60.8% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.