BOOKER PRIZE FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1090049 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£3.5m
Grants listed (FY2025)
7
Listed grants total
£274k
Accounts grants total
£137k

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 (5 grantees)
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (5 grantees)
  • Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
  • Environment/conservation/heritage (1 grantee)
  • General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
  • Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
  • Accommodation/housing (1 grantee)
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
  • Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
  • Disability (1 grantee)
Where grantees operate
  • Throughout England And Wales (5 grantees)
  • Scotland (3 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (2 grantees)
  • Isle Of Man (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Total Charitable Donations and GrantsFY2025£137k
National Literacy TrustFY2025£50k
The Reading AgencyFY2025£48k
Royal National Institute of Blind PeopleFY2025£14k
Designer bookbindersFY2025£13k
The Reading AgencyFY2025£9kQuick Reads
Royal National Institute of Blind PeopleFY2025£3k
Libraries ProjectFY2023£50k
Edinburgh Book FestivalFY2023£48k
English PENFY2023£13k
Designer bookbindersFY2023£12k
National Literacy TrustFY2023£7k
University of East Anglia (Scholarship)FY2023£4k
Royal National Institute of Blind PeopleFY2023£4k

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 274334 vs reference 137167 (100.0% 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.