The Connolly Foundation (UK) Limited — grant history

Registered charity 1109135 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£14.0m
Grants listed (FY2025)
55
Listed grants total
£2.2m
Accounts grants total
£2.1m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Summarised from www.connollyfoundation.org.uk · www.connollyfoundation.org.uk/how-to-apply/ 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 (17 grantees)
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (9 grantees)
  • Other Charitable Purposes (8 grantees)
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (7 grantees)
  • Recreation (6 grantees)
  • Disability (6 grantees)
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (5 grantees)
  • Environment/conservation/heritage (4 grantees)
  • General Charitable Purposes (4 grantees)
  • Amateur Sport (3 grantees)
Where grantees operate
  • Bedford (13 grantees)
  • Luton (11 grantees)
  • Central Bedfordshire (9 grantees)
  • Throughout England And Wales (5 grantees)
  • Hertfordshire (5 grantees)
  • Milton Keynes (5 grantees)
  • Throughout England (3 grantees)
  • Cambridgeshire (3 grantees)
  • Buckinghamshire (3 grantees)
  • Northamptonshire (2 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Redborne SchoolFY2025£494kYoung people/School
Academic grantsFY2025£491kYoung people/Student Awards
Bedford CollegeFY2025£223kYoung people/FE College
Oak bank SchoolFY2025£100kYoung people/School
Bedford GivingFY2025£100kYoung people/Community
Wadham College - Oxford Thinking ProjectFY2025£70kYoung people/School
West Herts CollegeFY2025£63kYoung people/FE College
Sue RyderFY2025£60kElderly/End of Life Care
Level TrustFY2025£50kYoung people/Community
Samual WhitbreadFY2025£42kYoung people/School
Daubeney AcademyFY2025£37kYoung people/School
Bedfordshire Opportunities for Learning DisabilitiesFY2025£35kYoung people/Community
Blues FoundationFY2025£30kYoung people/Community
Community Interest LutonFY2025£30kYoung people/Community
STEMpointFY2025£30kYoung people/School
Chiltern Teaching School HubFY2025£25kYoung people/School
Chiltern AcademyFY2025£24kYoung people/School
Teaching grantsFY2025£21kYoung people/School
Kempston AcademyFY2025£20kYoung people/School
Luton Town FC Community TrustFY2025£20kYoung people/Community
Tibbs DementiaFY2025£16kElderly/Loneliness
Diverse CommunityFY2025£15kYoung people/Community
Grow Your PotentialFY2025£15kYoung people/Community
Challney High SchoolFY2025£14kYoung people/School
Peabody CommunityFY2025£12kElderly/Community
Mark Rutherford Upper SchoolFY2025£10kYoung people/School
Stopsley Baptist ChurchFY2025£10kElderly/Community
Bedford Creative ArtsFY2025£10kYoung people/Community
Full House TheatreFY2025£10kYoung people/Community
Music24FY2025£8kElderly/Community
Yes FuturesFY2025£8kYoung people/Community
Social InnovationFY2025£8kYoung people/Community
Villager MinibusFY2025£6kElderly/Transport
Bedford CitizenFY2025£6kElderly/Community
Smallpeice TrustFY2025£6kYoung people/Community
Sight ConcernFY2025£5kElderly/Community
Out of ClassFY2025£5kYoung people/Community
Houghton Regis Baptist ChurchFY2025£5kElderly/Community
Link to ChangeFY2025£5kYoung people/Community
Luton LiteratureFY2025£5kYoung people/Community
Bedford Tigers RLFCFY2025£5kYoung people/Community
Ujala Support GroupFY2025£3kElderly/Community
Dilkush HealthFY2025£3kElderly/Community
Ekta Hindu CentreFY2025£3kElderly/Community
Guru NanakFY2025£3kElderly/Community
Guru RavidassFY2025£3kElderly/Community
KhidmatFY2025£3kElderly/Community
Centre of YouthFY2025£3kYoung people/Community
Sandy SchoolFY2025£3kYoung people/School
Community SafetyFY2025£2kElderly/Community
The Hygiene GroupFY2025£2kYoung people/Community
DeafBlindFY2025£1kElderly/Community
St Charalambos LutonFY2025£1kElderly/Community
Peace Child InternationalFY2025£750Young people/Community
Power 2 InspireFY2025£750Young people/Community
Academic grantsFY2024£427kEducation
Redborne SchoolFY2024£339kEducation
Bedford CollegeFY2024£295kEducation
Central Bedfordshire CollegeFY2024£267kEducation
West Herts CollegeFY2024£194kEducation
YouthScapeFY2024£175kEducation
Bedford GivingFY2024£100kEducation
Wadham College - Oxford Thinking ProjectFY2024£70kEducation
Sue RyderFY2024£60kElderly
Careers and EnterpriseFY2024£46kEducation
Samual WhitbreadFY2024£31kEducation
Blues FoundationFY2024£30kEducation
Teaching grantsFY2024£23kEducation
FND Careers HubFY2024£23kEducation
Challney High SchoolFY2024£20kEducation
English Opera HouseFY2024£11kEducation
Sight ConcernFY2024£10kElderly
Boxing Saves LivesFY2024£10kEducation
Friends for LifeFY2024£10kElderly
Buzzer BusesFY2024£10kElderly
Att10tiveFY2024£8kEducation
St Thomas Catholic SchoolFY2024£7kEducation
Grand Union HousingFY2024£6kElderly
Villager MinibusFY2024£6kElderly
Bedford CitizenFY2024£6kElderly
Peabody CommunityFY2024£6kElderly
Zoological SocietyFY2024£6kEducation
Smallpeice TrustFY2024£5kEducation
Enterprising YouthFY2024£5kEducation
Respite for VolunteersFY2024£4kElderly
Peace Child InternationalFY2024£3kEducation
Putnoe Scout GroupFY2024£3kEducation
Ekta Hindu CentreFY2024£3kElderly
Dilkush HealthFY2024£3kElderly
Bangladesh YouthFY2024£3kEducation
Ujala Support GroupFY2024£3kElderly
Guru RavidassFY2024£3kElderly
Sandy SchoolFY2024£3kEducation
Guru NanakFY2024£3kElderly
KhidmatFY2024£3kElderly
Falkes ScoutsFY2024£3kEducation
Community SafetyFY2024£2kElderly
The Hygiene GroupFY2024£2kEducation
Daubeney AcademyFY2024£1kEducation
ALS PalsFY2024£1kEducation
Power 2 InspireFY2024£1kEducation
DeafBlindFY2024£996Elderly
Shuttleworth TrustFY2024£-1kEducation
Arkwright Trust Engineering ProgrammeFY2024£-30kEducation
Redborne SchoolFY2023£625kGrants, Education
Vandyke SchoolFY2023£525kGrants, Education
Academic grantsFY2023£413kGrants, Education
Bedford CollegeFY2023£267kGrants, Education
Samual WhitbreadFY2023£258kGrants, Education
Oak bank SchoolFY2023£200kGrants, Education
Wadham College - Oxford Thinking ProjectFY2023£200kGrants, Education
Harpur TrustFY2023£100kGrants, Education
YouthScapeFY2023£100kGrants, Education
Arkwright Trust Engineering ProgrammeFY2023£92kGrants, Education
Careers and EnterpriseFY2023£92kGrants, Education
West Herts CollegeFY2023£81kGrants, Education
Wadham College - Oxford Thinking ProjectFY2023£70kGrants, Education
Sue RyderFY2023£61kGrants, Elderly
Central Bedfordshire CollegeFY2023£61kGrants, Education
Keech HospiceFY2023£50kGrants, Elderly
Alzheimers Bedford CitizenFY2023£40kGrants, Education
Working Options in EducationFY2023£30kGrants, Education
Level TrustFY2023£30kGrants, Education
Bedford and Luton Community FoundationFY2023£23kGrants, Education
Blues FoundationFY2023£18kGrants, Education
Initial Teacher EducationFY2023£14kGrants, Education
Shuttleworth TrustFY2023£6kGrants, Education
ThornhillFY2023£5kGrants, Education
ST LeonardsFY2023£5kGrants, Education
Peace Child InternationalFY2023£4kGrants, Education
Putnoe Scout GroupFY2023£3kGrants, Education
Sandy SchoolFY2023£3kGrants, Education
Redborne SchoolFY2022£525kEducation
Academic grantsFY2022£457kEducation
Vandyke SchoolFY2022£200kEducation
Oak Bank SchoolFY2022£100kEducation
YouthscapeFY2022£100kEducation
Bedford CollegeFY2022£78kEducation
Graduate teachers schemeFY2022£70kEducation
Keech HospiceFY2022£50kElderly
Arkwright trust engineering programmeFY2022£20kEducation
Working Options in EducationFY2022£15kEducation
Buzzer BusesFY2022£10kElderly
Cedars SchoolFY2022£10kEducation
Alzheimers researchFY2022£10kElderly
Chiltern SchoolFY2022£9kEducation
BPHA LtdFY2022£6kElderly
Grand Union HousingFY2022£6kElderly
Catalyst HousingFY2022£6kElderly
Bedford CitizenFY2022£6kElderly
Bedford Day HospiceFY2022£5kElderly
Men in Sheds BedfordFY2022£3kElderly
Stratton FestivalFY2022£2kCommunity
Chellington CentreFY2022£1kCommunity
Sue Ryder Hospice, MoggerhangerFY2022£0Elderly
Wadham College - Oxford thinking projectFY2022£0Education
Educational PsychologistsFY2022£-57kEducation
Hockliffe Village HallFY2022£-250kCommunity

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 2179399 vs reference 2146765 (1.5% 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.