THE CANDLELIGHTERS TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£1.9m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

—

Accounts grants total

£207k

extracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The funder does not accept unsolicited applications. Businesses are invited to create a partnership by getting in touch, joining corporate events, or downloading a business fundraising pack.

Summarised from candlelighters.org.uk · candlelighters.org.uk/how-you-can-help/fundraise/ · candlelighters.org.uk/how-you-can-help/business-fundraising-and-partnerships/ on 16/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What changed: FY2023 → FY2024

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2023	FY2024
new	Candlelighters Supportive Care Research Centre	—	£555k
new	Dinner Supervisor	—	£27k
new	Paediatric Radiographer	—	£18k
new	Other	—	£2k
down	Eckersley House	£155k	£10k
not listed	Yorkshire Register	£372k	—
not listed	Lead Nurse	£70k	—
not listed	Other grants	£67k	—
not listed	Outreach Play Specialists	£66k	—
not listed	Social Workers	£26k	—
not listed	Outreach Chemotherapy worker	£24k	—
not listed	Youth Activity Co-ordinator	£15k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Candlelighters Supportive Care Research Centre	FY2024	£555k	Supportive Care Research Programme (Years 1-3)
Playleaders	FY2024	£63k	1 year extension
Dinner Supervisor	FY2024	£27k	1 year extension
Paediatric Radiographer	FY2024	£18k	8 month/1 year extension
Eckersley House	FY2024	£10k	1 year extension
Other	FY2024	£2k	General grants
Yorkshire Register	FY2023	£372k	5 year period
Eckersley House	FY2023	£155k	1 year period
Playleaders	FY2023	£71k	1 year extension
Lead Nurse	FY2023	£70k	2 year period
Other grants	FY2023	£67k	Not specified in note 24, but included in total charitable activities grants
Outreach Play Specialists	FY2023	£66k	3 year period
Social Workers	FY2023	£26k	6 month extension
Outreach Chemotherapy worker	FY2023	£24k	2 year period
Youth Activity Co-ordinator	FY2023	£15k	3 year period
Yorkshire register	FY2022	£372k	Yorkshire Specialist Register of Cancer in Children and Young People
Social Workers	FY2022	£155k	6 month extension
Outreach play specialists	FY2022	£66k	3 year period
Paediatric Radiographer	FY2022	£24k	1 year period
Eckersley House	FY2022	£15k	Running costs contribution
Other	FY2022	£1k

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 (no individually listed grants). 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.