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Brian Mercer Trust — grant history

Registered charity 1076925 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£753k
Grants listed (FY2025)
32
Listed grants total
£1.3m
Accounts grants total
£1.1m

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 (16 grantees)
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (13 grantees)
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (12 grantees)
  • Overseas Aid/famine Relief (10 grantees)
  • Economic/community Development/employment (8 grantees)
  • Disability (7 grantees)
  • Environment/conservation/heritage (5 grantees)
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (5 grantees)
  • Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (3 grantees)
  • General Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
Where grantees operate
  • Kenya (8 grantees)
  • Uganda (7 grantees)
  • Throughout England And Wales (5 grantees)
  • Sierra Leone (5 grantees)
  • Tanzania (5 grantees)
  • The Gambia (4 grantees)
  • Ghana (4 grantees)
  • Nigeria (4 grantees)
  • Malawi (4 grantees)
  • Nepal (4 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Chase AfricaFY2025£150k
Team KenyaFY2025£150k
Kids Club KampalaFY2025£75k
SightsaversFY2025£75k
Hello WorldFY2025£75k
The Making RoomsFY2025£60k
Adami ProjectFY2025£60k
Festival of MakingFY2025£50k
Eating BetterFY2025£45k
Blackburn MuseumFY2025£45k
Re-CycleFY2025£45k
ACAAFY2025£45k
Blackburn Youth ZoneFY2025£45k
The WhittakerFY2025£42k
Castlefield GalleryFY2025£34k
Drugs for Neglected DiseasesFY2025£30k
PragyaFY2025£30k
Social Change LabFY2025£30k
Kairos HousingFY2025£30k
EFN MembershipFY2025£30k
African Adventure FoundationFY2025£30k
Tate GalleryFY2025£25k
OxfamFY2025£20k
EFN Climate Activist Speaker FundFY2025£20k
CrackerjacksFY2025£15k
IntercareFY2025£10k
HOME (Manchester Exhibition)FY2025£10k
Our SansarFY2025£8k
Community Voluntary Service (CVS)FY2025£7k
SYNDFY2025£5k
Blackburn with Darwen BC (reversal of commitment)FY2025£0
Impatience EarthFY2025£-1k
Medecins Sans FrontiereFY2024£300kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Power for the PeopleFY2024£300kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Cure InternationalFY2024£150kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Against Malaria FoundationFY2024£150kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
OxfamFY2024£95kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Blackburn Youth ZoneFY2024£95kCauses Local to Blackburn Lancashire
SamaritansFY2024£75kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
NightsafeFY2024£75kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Kids Club KampalaFY2024£45kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
The Community CVSFY2024£34kCauses Local to Blackburn Lancashire
CSEF MoneywiseFY2024£30kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Legs4AfricaFY2024£30kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Re-CycleFY2024£30kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
DekiFY2024£30kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Cleanup UkFY2024£30kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Raising Futures KenyaFY2024£30kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Hello WorldFY2024£20kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Festival of MakingFY2024£20kCauses Local to Blackburn Lancashire
Hope Health ActionFY2024£15kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
St Mary’s Sixth Form CollegeFY2024£13kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
African Adventure FoundationFY2024£8kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Client EarthFY2024£7kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
HOME (Manchester Exhibition)FY2024£5kArts
HOME (Manchester Exhibition)FY2024£5kArts
Living Paintings TrustFY2024£3kArts
Blaze ArtsFY2024£3kArts
Our SansarFY2024£3kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
ACAAFY2024£3kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Community Voluntary Service (CVS)FY2024£3kCauses Local to Blackburn Lancashire
EFN Climate Activist Speaker FundFY2024£3kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Open Eye MuseumFY2024£3kArts
GreenpeaceFY2024£3kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Castlefield GalleryFY2024£2kArts
Hutton Grammar SchoolFY2024£2kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Stanley Grange Community AssociationFY2024£2kCauses Local to Blackburn Lancashire
Kairos HousingFY2024£2kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
CrackerjacksFY2024£2kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
The Making RoomsFY2024£750Causes Local to Blackburn Lancashire

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 1295433 vs reference 1103388 (17.4% 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.