Bedford School Foundation Trust — grant history

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Latest income

£2.7m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£52k

Accounts grants total

£684k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The Bishop Memorial Fund provides financial support to Old Bedfordians (OBs), former staff, and their dependants during times of hardship. Eligible applicants can complete an online application form or download a PDF version, and should contact the OB Club via email for questions.

Summarised from www.bedfordschool.org.uk · www.bedfordschool.org.uk/community/ob-club/bishop-memorial-fund/ on 16/08/2026. 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 (9 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (6 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (5 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (4 grantees)
Disability (3 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (2 grantees)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
Recreation (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Bedford (4 grantees)
Northern Ireland (3 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (3 grantees)
Sierra Leone (2 grantees)
Buckinghamshire (1 grantee)
British Virgin Islands (1 grantee)
Bangladesh (1 grantee)
Cameroon (1 grantee)
Bermuda (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → 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	FY2024	FY2025
up	Bedford School	£3k	£22k
not listed	Lunt Waldecker Fund	£14k	—
not listed	Combined Cadet Force	£11k	—
not listed	Bedford School Chapel	£8k	—
not listed	Colonel Wells Charity	£2k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Bedford School	FY2025	£22k	for a second golf simulator (Golf Fund)
Bedford School	FY2025	£11k	towards AI computer for school (General Fund)
Bedford School	FY2025	£9k	for laser taggers (CCF)
Bedford School	FY2025	£7k	towards virology research project (General Fund)
Bedford School	FY2025	£4k	for tents for residentials at Ickwell (Col Wells)
Lunt Waldecker Fund	FY2024	£14k	to support a previous student through university (Lunt Waldecker)
Combined Cadet Force	FY2024	£11k	laser combat simulation training system (CCF Fund)
Bedford School Chapel	FY2024	£8k	towards choir stalls in the Chapel (Siddons Fund)
Bedford School	FY2024	£3k	towards robotics equipment (Goode)
Colonel Wells Charity	FY2024	£2k	additional funding for DNA Snowdrop project biology (Col Wells)
Bedford School	FY2023	£33k	Gallery lighting in the Bellroom (Gilbert Lloyd Fund)
Bedford School	FY2023	£33k	Gallery lighting in the Bellroom (Gilbert Lloyd Fund)
Harpur Trust	FY2023	£12k	Donation to Administrative costs
Harpur Trust	FY2023	£12k	Donation to Administrative costs
Other charities	FY2023	£8k	Donated to other charities (from Charities Committees)
Other charities	FY2023	£8k	Donated to other charities (from Charities Committees)
Bedford School	FY2023	£5k	Strength conditioning equipment (Col J B Smith Fund)
Bedford School	FY2023	£5k	Strength conditioning equipment (Col J B Smith Fund)
Bedford School	FY2023	£5k	Replacing professional microphones including secure storage (General)
Bedford School	FY2023	£5k	Replacing professional microphones including secure storage (General)
Bedford School	FY2023	£5k	Purchase to upgrade current mixing console (General)
Bedford School	FY2023	£5k	Purchase to upgrade current mixing console (General)
Bedford School	FY2023	£3k	Purchase of left-hand rifle (General)
Bedford School	FY2023	£3k	Purchase of left-hand rifle (General)
General	FY2022	£25k	Replacing the Milling Machine used in the Design & Technology department
Oakley	FY2022	£15k	Updating the long jump area
General	FY2022	£14k	Update banners and honours boards
Blackwell	FY2022	£6k	Masters in education for a member of staff
Oakley	FY2022	£6k	Purchase of live streaming video cameras to be used within the sport department
Boat Club Appeal	FY2022	£4k	Purchase of powerline rowing instrumentation equipment
St John’s Hospice (Sue Ryder)	FY2022	£1k	Grant
Movember	FY2022	£520	Grant
Luna Animal Rescue	FY2022	£520	Grant
Comic Relief	FY2022	£520	Grant
Q:Alliance	FY2022	£469	Grant
Yarls Wood Befrinders	FY2022	£469	Grant
Multiple Sytsem Atrophy Trust	FY2022	£469	Grant
The Hope Foundation	FY2022	£469	Grant
Bedfordshire Open Door	FY2022	£469	Grant
Country Days	FY2022	£469	Grant
Captain Tom Foundation	FY2022	£469	Grant
Drops Maternal Mortality Campaign	FY2022	£469	Grant
CRY	FY2022	£469	Grant
Life for African Mothers	FY2022	£469	Grant
Bhubesi Pride Foundation	FY2022	£469	Grant
British Red Cross	FY2022	£468	Grant
Level Trust	FY2022	£468	Grant
Tibbs Dementia	FY2022	£468	Grant
Sundry (Under £500)	FY2022	£377	Grant
The Harpur Trust	FY2022	£121	Grant

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 51951 vs reference 683836 (92.4% 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.