THE SIR TOM COWIE CHARITABLE TRUST — grant history

Registered charity 1096936 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£145k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£341k

Accounts grants total

£433k

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: Applicants must complete the online Grant Application Form. The guidelines recommend contacting the administrator for advice before applying to avoid wasted time if there is little prospect of success.
What they don’t fund: The Trust will not fund projects outside the City of Sunderland and County Durham, those within the Borough of Darlington, individuals, national/international charities seeking partial funding for large projects, or Community Interest Companies.

Summarised from www.stcct.co.uk · www.stcct.co.uk/grant-application · www.stcct.co.uk/grant-application/application-guidelines on 13/08/2026. 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 (4 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (2 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Recreation (1 grantee)
Disability (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Durham (4 grantees)
Sunderland (2 grantees)
Throughout England (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount
Monkwearmouth Academy	FY2025	£250k
Wear Rivers Trust	FY2025	£22k
University of Sunderland Development Trust Features Fund Bursary	FY2025	£20k
Derwentside Detached Youth Project	FY2025	£20k
Pelton Community Centre - Room 14	FY2025	£10k
Broom House	FY2025	£7k
Ocean Youth Trust North	FY2025	£7k
Ever Ready Band	FY2025	£5k
Aged Merchant Seamen's Homes	FY2024	£30k
Wear Rivers Trust	FY2024	£25k
Beamish Museum	FY2024	£20k
University of Sunderland Development Trust Features Fund Bursary	FY2024	£12k
Hylton Castle Primary School	FY2024	£11k
Broadway Junior School	FY2024	£10k
Ocean Youth Trust Association	FY2024	£7k
Pelton Community Association	FY2024	£6k

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 341289 vs reference 433137 (21.2% 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.