BOOKER PRIZE FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£3.5m

Grants listed (FY2025)

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)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2025

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	FY2025
new	Total Charitable Donations and Grants	—	£137k
new	READ - THE READING AGENCY	—	£48k
up	THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST	£7k	£50k
up	THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BLIND PEOPLE	£4k	£14k
not listed	Libraries Project	£50k	—
not listed	Edinburgh Book Festival	£48k	—
not listed	ENGLISH PEN	£13k	—
not listed	University of East Anglia (Scholarship)	£4k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Total Charitable Donations and Grants	FY2025	£137k
National Literacy Trust	FY2025	£50k
The Reading Agency	FY2025	£48k
Royal National Institute of Blind People	FY2025	£14k
Designer bookbinders	FY2025	£13k
The Reading Agency	FY2025	£9k	Quick Reads
Royal National Institute of Blind People	FY2025	£3k
Libraries Project	FY2023	£50k
Edinburgh Book Festival	FY2023	£48k
English PEN	FY2023	£13k
Designer bookbinders	FY2023	£12k
National Literacy Trust	FY2023	£7k
University of East Anglia (Scholarship)	FY2023	£4k
Royal National Institute of Blind People	FY2023	£4k
National Literacy Trust	FY2022	£50k	Donations and Grants
National Literacy Trust - Booker Squad Project	FY2022	£50k	Donations and Grants
Libraries Project	FY2022	£16k	Donations and Grants
University of East Anglia (Scholarship)	FY2022	£13k	Donations and Grants
Designer bookbinders	FY2022	£12k	Donations and Grants
Royal National Institute of Blind People	FY2022	£7k	Donations and Grants
English PEN	FY2022	£5k	Donations and Grants
Edinburgh Book Festival	FY2022	£5k	Donations and Grants
Other Charitable / festivals	FY2022	£3k	Donations and Grants
International PEN	FY2022	£3k	Donations and Grants

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.