THE DAVID WILSON FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1049047 · filings on the Charity Commission register

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

Where grantees operate

Leicestershire (3 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Leicester City (1 grantee)
Malawi (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount
Glenfield Hospital	FY2023	£76k
Hospice Hope	FY2023	£40k
St Andrews Clinics	FY2023	£20k
Leicester Hospitals Charity	FY2023	£20k
Melton Learning Hub	FY2023	£15k
UK Veterans Hearing	FY2023	£15k
Air Ambulance	FY2023	£15k
Oakham Ashwell Scanner	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
Marlene Raid Centre	FY2023	£1k
Ibstock Baptist Church - Foodbank	FY2023	£1k
1st Ibstock Scout Group	FY2023	£500
Heanor Vision CIC	FY2023	£500
Henry Sale Foundation	FY2023	£500
Ian and Clare Mattioli Charitable Trust	FY2023	£500
Building Heroes	FY2023	£500

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.