THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£3.1m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£297k

Accounts grants total

£297k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

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	Westminster Abbey	—	£193k
not listed	The Dean & Chapter of Westminster	£355k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Westminster Abbey	FY2025	£193k	King Charles III Sacristy
Westminster Abbey	FY2025	£29k	General
Westminster Abbey	FY2025	£23k	Fabric fund
Westminster Abbey	FY2025	£20k	Keltner Concert Fund
Westminster Abbey	FY2025	£14k	Peter Partridge fund
Westminster Abbey	FY2025	£7k	Heritage Preservation Appeal
Westminster Abbey	FY2025	£4k	WA music fund
Westminster Abbey	FY2025	£3k	Vestments
Westminster Abbey	FY2025	£2k	Sculpture Catalogue
Westminster Abbey	FY2025	£2k	WA Education Fund
The Dean & Chapter of Westminster	FY2023	£355k	Grants to The Dean & Chapter of Westminster
Wolfson Foundation Grant	FY2022	£375k	part-funding for the Clerk of Works team including salaries and basic maintenance budget
Weston Collections Fund	FY2022	£272k	part funding for the Collections team including salaries and basic maintenance budget
Heritage Preservation (HPA)	FY2022	£179k	targeting specific funding for 3 key areas: the building, its collections and music
HPA - Music	FY2022	£135k	Donations to the Heritage Preservation Appeal to which donors have explicitly expressed desire for their donation to be used for securing the musical aspect of the Abbey’s provision
Ramp Access	FY2022	£56k	to fund the construction of ramped access to the Abbey’s West door
Library cataloguing	FY2022	£30k	Computerisation of the Library Catalogue
General	FY2022	£30k	General
WA music fund	FY2022	£23k	To fund the commissioning of new choral music
Keltner Concert Fund	FY2022	£21k	Meeting the costs incurred by the Abbey in putting on music concerts
Bovender Organ Scholar Endowment Fund	FY2022	£17k	funds transferred with the intent of establishing an endowment fund that can sustain yield sufficient to fund annual employment costs of the Organ Scholar
Vicars' scholarship	FY2022	£14k	To provide scholarships for students in need at the Westminster Abbey Choir School
St Margaret's Appeal	FY2022	£9k	Funding raised specifically for use against identifiable running costs for St Margaret’s church
WA Education Fund	FY2022	£8k	To provide support of the costs for schools with limited resources to use or visit the Abbey’ and its education centre

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 297430 vs reference 297430 (0.0% 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.