THE DAVID WILSON FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£313k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

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Accounts grants total

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extracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The David Wilson Foundation recognises that applying for a grant requires plenty of preparation and research by the beneficiary and therefore does not operate an open application process.

Summarised from www.davidwilsonfoundation.com · www.davidwilsonfoundation.com/about/private-grants-for-uk-individuals/ · www.davidwilsonfoundation.com/about/private-grants-for-uk-organisations/ on 14/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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 (5 grantees)
Amateur Sport (4 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (3 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Recreation (2 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)
Animals (1 grantee)
Disability (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Leicestershire (4 grantees)
Leicester City (2 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Malawi (1 grantee)
Rutland (1 grantee)

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	Construction apprentices	—	£104k
new	Rainbows Hospice	—	£20k
new	Ibstock Junior School	—	£10k
new	Ibstock Secondary School	—	£8k
new	Ukraine Aid Appeal	—	£7k
new	YOUNG LEICESTERSHIRE LTD	—	£5k
new	St John's Ambulance	—	£4k
new	Switch 180/Snow Camp	—	£2k
up	Building Heroes	£500	£75k
up	LEICESTER HOSPITALS CHARITY	£20k	£60k
up	Medicine for Ukraine Refugees	£2k	£15k
not listed	Glenfield Hospital	£76k	—
not listed	HOSPICE HOPE	£40k	—
not listed	St Andrews Clinics	£20k	—
not listed	MELTON LEARNING HUB	£15k	—
not listed	UK Veterans Hearing	£15k	—
not listed	Falcon Support Services	£13k	—
not listed	Stephensons Studio School Trust	£10k	—
not listed	The Laura Centre	£5k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount
Construction apprentices	FY2024	£104k
Building Heroes	FY2024	£75k
Leicester Hospitals Charity	FY2024	£60k
Rainbows Hospice	FY2024	£20k
Oakham Ashwell Scanner	FY2024	£15k
Medicine for Ukraine Refugees	FY2024	£15k
Air Ambulance	FY2024	£15k
Ibstock Junior School	FY2024	£10k
Ibstock Secondary School	FY2024	£8k
Ukraine Aid Appeal	FY2024	£7k
Young Leicestershire	FY2024	£5k
St John's Ambulance	FY2024	£4k
Switch 180/Snow Camp	FY2024	£2k
Treehouse Creative CIC	FY2024	£2k
Miss L Weston	FY2024	£2k
Marlene Reid Centre	FY2024	£500
Glenfield Hospital	FY2023	£76k
Hospice Hope	FY2023	£40k
St Andrews Clinics	FY2023	£20k
Leicester Hospitals Charity	FY2023	£20k
Oakham Ashwell Scanner	FY2023	£15k
Melton Learning Hub	FY2023	£15k
UK Veterans Hearing	FY2023	£15k
Air Ambulance	FY2023	£15k
Falcon Support Services	FY2023	£13k
Stephensons Studio School Trust	FY2023	£10k
The Laura Centre	FY2023	£5k
Tall Ships Youth	FY2023	£3k
Medicine for Ukraine Refugees	FY2023	£2k
The Leg Up Project	FY2023	£2k
Ibstock Baptist Church - Foodbank	FY2023	£1k
Marlene Raid Centre	FY2023	£1k
1st Ibstock Scout Group	FY2023	£500
Building Heroes	FY2023	£500
Ian and Clare Mattioli Charitable Trust	FY2023	£500
Henry Sale Foundation	FY2023	£500
Heanor Vision CIC	FY2023	£500
Building Heroes	FY2022	£276k
Hospice Hope	FY2022	£240k
Stephensons Studio School Trust	FY2022	£210k
The Ian and Clare Mattioli Charitable Trust	FY2022	£21k
Heanor Vision CIC	FY2022	£3k
Ibstock Baptist Church food bank	FY2022	£3k
1st Ibstock Scout Group	FY2022	£3k
Henry Sale Foundation	FY2022	£3k

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.