WILLIAM AND EDITH OLDHAM CHARITABLE TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£3.4m

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£276k

Accounts grants total

£288k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2024 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

Environment/conservation/heritage (4 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (3 grantees)
Education/training (3 grantees)
Religious Activities (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
Disability (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Kent (7 grantees)
Medway (2 grantees)
Bromley (2 grantees)
Bexley (2 grantees)
Oxfordshire (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)
Greenwich (1 grantee)
Lewisham (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (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	Archbishop Courtenay Primary School	—	£22k
new	Teston Church	—	£20k
new	THE BLACKTHORN TRUST	—	£17k
new	Barming Primary School	—	£13k
new	MAIDSTONE AREA ARCHAEOLOGICAL GROUP	—	£5k
new	Wye Rural Museum	—	£5k
new	CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, ROCHESTER	—	£5k
new	Maidstone LitFest	—	£4k
down	Maidstone Borough Council	£100k	£50k
down	WADHAM COLLEGE	£42k	£10k
down	Holmesdale School, Snodland	£60k	£1k
down	Community Safety Education	£2k	£1k
down	Teston Village Hall Management Committee	£5k	£650
not listed	Boughton Malherbe Hoard	£26k	—
not listed	Rachel M Koopmans and Leonie Seliger	£25k	—
not listed	Maidstone Grammar School for Girls	£18k	—
not listed	Westborough Primary School	£10k	—
not listed	Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings	£5k	—
not listed	THE CANTERBURY HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY	£4k	—
not listed	Hollingbourne Late Bronze Age Hoard	£3k	—
not listed	FRIENDS OF TESTON CHURCH	£2k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Maidstone Grammar School	FY2024	£50k	Student Services Project
Maidstone Borough Council	FY2024	£50k	Maidstone Museum – Revamp of Local History Gallery
Maidstone Grammar School	FY2024	£46k	Audio Visual Wall part of 475 Year Celebration
Archbishop Courtenay Primary School	FY2024	£22k	School Library Project
Teston Church	FY2024	£20k	Repair of Church Hatchments
Blackthorn Trust	FY2024	£17k	Provision of an Accessible Covered Seating Area at their Café
Barming Primary School	FY2024	£13k	Building to support work with Children coming into School with delays in speech and language
Maidstone Borough Council	FY2024	£10k	Maidstone Museum – Revamp of Local History Gallery – New Exhibition Case for 21st Century
Wadham College, Oxford	FY2024	£10k	Pictures and Globe Restoration
Maidstone Area Archaeological Group	FY2024	£5k	East Farleigh and East Malling sites
Wye Rural Museum	FY2024	£5k	Works at Brook Rural Museum
Rochester Cathedral	FY2024	£5k	Rochester Cathedral Garden Project
Maidstone Borough Council	FY2024	£5k	Maidstone Museum – Revamp of Local History Gallery – Interpretation Writing
Maidstone LitFest	FY2024	£4k	Launch Event to promote reading with Children
Giles Whitehead	FY2024	£4k	Project to promote Local History and in particular Maidstone’s Industrial heritage within Schools
National Trust	FY2024	£4k	Post Excavation Assessment at Smallhythe
Godmersham Heritage Park	FY2024	£2k	Restoration of the Susanna Sackree Memorial at Godmersham Church
Dr Philp, Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit	FY2024	£2k	Publication of the Albany Place, Dover Archaeological Report
Holmesdale School, Snodland	FY2024	£1k	Provision of STEM Enrichment Day
Community Safety Education	FY2024	£1k	Financial Literacy Course at St. Augustines Academy
Teston Village Hall Management Committee	FY2024	£650	Replacement of Light Fittings in Main Hall
David Carder	FY2024	£400	Publication of an Archaeological report in the Annual Report of the Friends of Rochester Cathedral
Dr Jack Newman	FY2024	£398	Scoping Document for the History of Maidstone Project
Dennis Astridge	FY2024	£180	Reprint of The Mighty Pen which had previously been funded by the Trust
Maidstone Borough Council	FY2023	£100k	Maidstone Museum New Archaeological Gallery
Holmesdale School, Snodland	FY2023	£60k	Provision of an outside area Amphitheatre
Maidstone Grammar School	FY2023	£50k	Audio Visual Wall part of 475 Celebration
Wadham College, Oxford	FY2023	£42k	Pictures and Globe Restoration
Boughton Malherbe Hoard	FY2023	£26k	Grant towards Conservation Work, Research and Publication of the Bronze Age Hoard
Rachel M Koopmans and Leonie Seliger	FY2023	£25k	The Kent Miracle Window Project
Maidstone Grammar School for Girls	FY2023	£18k	Second World War Visitor Centre Project and Careers
Wadham College, Oxford	FY2023	£10k	Modern Archiving and Preservation of Archive Material — Phase 2
Westborough Primary School	FY2023	£10k	Revamp of School Library
National Trust	FY2023	£6k	Community Research Excavation at Smailhythe
Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings	FY2023	£5k	Archaeological Excavation and related Educational Activities at the Old House Project located in Sandling
Teston Village Hall Management Committee	FY2023	£5k	Grant for the provision of a combination of projector, screen and speakers etc., for installation at the Village Hall
Canterbury Archaeological Society	FY2023	£4k	Historical Atlas of Kent
Hollingbourne Late Bronze Age Hoard	FY2023	£3k	Grant towards Conservation Work and Publication
Community Safety Education	FY2023	£2k	Financial Literacy Course for New Learning Academy and Cornwallis Academy
Friends of Teston Church	FY2023	£2k	Teston Church — Survey of Church Hatchments
The Smallpiece Trust	FY2023	£1k	Provision of a Second STEM Enrichment Day at Holmesdale School, Snodland
Dr Philp, Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit	FY2023	£1k	Grant for the Publication of the Meopham Archaeological Report
Westborough Primary School	FY2023	£1k	Revamp of School Library Additional Books
Holmesdale School, Snodland	FY2022	£17k	Provision of an outside area Amphitheatre
Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings	FY2022	£5k	Archaeological Excavation and related Educational Activities at Boxley Abbey and Old House Project
Teston Village Hall Management Committee	FY2022	£5k	Provision of projector, screen and speakers etc.
Lunatraktors	FY2022	£4k	Performance artwork for Boughton Malherbe Hoard project
Dr Nick Stoodley, Archaeologist	FY2022	£3k	Book launch in Aylesford
Maidstone Grammar School for Girls	FY2022	£3k	Apprenticeship Fairs
Dennis Astridge and Dawn Page	FY2022	£504	Publication of the book “The Mighty Pen”
Boughton Malherbe Hoard	FY2021	£226k	Grant towards Conservation Work and Publication of the Bronze Age Hoard
Maidstone Borough Council	FY2021	£100k	Maidstone Museum New Archaeological Gallery
Maidstone Grammar School for Girls	FY2021	£18k	Second World War Visitor Centre Project
Holmesdale School Snodland	FY2021	£16k	Provision of an outside area Amphitheatre
Wadham College Oxford	FY2021	£10k	Modern Archiving and Preservation of Archive Material from Wadham College
Teston Village Hall	FY2021	£7k	Grant towards new Flooring
Dr Nick Stoodley Archaeologist	FY2021	£6k	Framing of historic pictures of Aylesford Priory
Canterbury Archaeological Trust Outreach	FY2021	£4k	Grant towards the publication of the Historic Towns Map of Canterbury
Hollingbourne Late Bronze Age Hoard	FY2021	£3k	Grant towards Conservation Work and Publication
Dr Nick Stoodley Archaeologist	FY2021	£3k	Book launch in Aylesford
Maidstone Grammar School for Girls	FY2021	£3k	Careers and Apprenticeship Fairs
Kent Archaeological Society	FY2021	£3k	Grant towards the publication of the Book Maritime Kent through the Ages
Rochester Cathedral Trust	FY2021	£2k	Repairs to the Bishops Gate at Rochester Cathedral
The Smallpiece Trust	FY2021	£2k	Provision of a STEM Enrichment Day at Holmesdale School Snodland
Dr Nick Stoodley Archaeologist	FY2021	£2k	Book Romano British Villa and Anglo Saxon Cemetery of the Eccles Monograph

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 276403 vs reference 287784 (4.0% 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.