THE SIR TOM COWIE CHARITABLE TRUST — grant history

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Latest income
£145k
Grants listed (FY2025)
8
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

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
Where grantees operate
  • Durham (5 grantees)
  • Sunderland (2 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
  • Northumberland (1 grantee)
  • Scotland (1 grantee)
  • Throughout England (1 grantee)
  • Cumbria (1 grantee)
  • Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)
  • North Yorkshire (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.

ChangeGranteeFY2024FY2025
newMonkwearmouth Academy—£250k
newDerwentside Detached Youth Project—£20k
newPelton Community Centre - Room 14—£10k
newBroom House—£7k
newOCEAN YOUTH TRUST NORTH—£7k
newEver Ready Band—£5k
upUniversity of Sunderland Development Trust Features Fund Bursary£12k£20k
not listedAGED MERCHANT SEAMEN'S HOMES£30k—
not listedBEAMISH MUSEUM£20k—
not listedHylton Castle Primary School£11k—
not listedBroadway Junior School£10k—
not listedOcean Youth Trust Association£7k—
not listedPELTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION£6k—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Monkwearmouth AcademyFY2025£250k
Wear Rivers TrustFY2025£22k
University of Sunderland Development Trust Features Fund BursaryFY2025£20k
Derwentside Detached Youth ProjectFY2025£20k
Pelton Community Centre - Room 14FY2025£10k
Broom HouseFY2025£7k
Ocean Youth Trust NorthFY2025£7k
Ever Ready BandFY2025£5k
Aged Merchant Seamen's HomesFY2024£30k
Wear Rivers TrustFY2024£25k
Beamish MuseumFY2024£20k
University of Sunderland Development Trust Features Fund BursaryFY2024£12k
Hylton Castle Primary SchoolFY2024£11k
Broadway Junior SchoolFY2024£10k
Ocean Youth Trust AssociationFY2024£7k
Pelton Community AssociationFY2024£6k
7 Colombo Road - ActivitiesFY2022£20kWillowfields Primary School
Total GrantsFY2022£11k
VillaFY2022£10kSt Mark's Community Centre
Sunderland CommunityFY2022£10kTransport
of LightFY2022£10kFoundation
Southmoor AcademyFY2022£10kDame Dorothy Primary School Alterations
RealFY2022£6kWear Rivers Trust
Asthma ReliefFY2022£6kCoats For Kids
Primary SchoolFY2022£5kRainbow Trust
Burnside SchoolFY2022£5kBarmston Village Primary School
Sunderland CommunityFY2022£5kDerwentside Trust
STEAM WorkshopsFY2022£3kSandhill Community Group
Primary Schools - Book PacksFY2022£2kGrange Park
University of SunderlandFY2022£2kDevelopment Trust Features Fund Bursary
Hudson Road - LibraryFY2022£2kDame Dorothy - Health and Wellbeing Support Champion
The KeyFY2022£2kGrindon Church Community Project
GrangetownFY2022£2kGillas Lane
Durham Association of Boys and Girls ClubsFY2022£2kCastletown Scout Group
Reversal of grants previously awardedFY2022£1k
Soup Kitchen - Covid-19FY2022£820East Durham Community Development Trust - Covid-19
Seaburn DeneFY2022£295Willow Wood Community
Stanhope Silver BandFY2022£234Willow Hospice

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.