THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£2.8m

Grants listed (FY2025)

50 · 2 amount not stated

Listed grants total

£2.5m

Accounts grants total

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Accounts grants total not shown: this filing has grants flagged as unverified reads.

reconciliation not assessedextracted from its FY2025 accounts

FY2025: 1 grant totalling £78k is listed but excluded from totals: unverified read (the amount is not printed in the accounts text).

FY2022: 2 grants totalling £132k are listed but excluded from totals: unverified read (the amount is not printed in the accounts text).

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Applicants can apply for funding by completing our online grant application form and submitting the required documentation, including details of the project, budget, and expected outcomes.
Deadlines: PLEASE NOTE: the closing date for applications to the Martin Wills Fund is 31 August.
What they don’t fund: Individuals are generally not eligible unless stated otherwise.

Summarised from www.hdhwills.org · hdhwills.org/grants/ · hdhwills.org/grants/grant-applications-faqs/ on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

OPEN DOOR EXMOUTH “We would also like to thank Beatrice Laing Trust, Hubbub Foundation, Jamieson Bystock Trust, Albert Hunt Trust, Exmouth ”
CURLEW ACTION “HDH Wills 1965 Charitable Trust”

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 (51 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (43 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (22 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (19 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (16 grantees)
Animals (13 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (11 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (10 grantees)
Disability (9 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (9 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (29 grantees)
Scotland (22 grantees)
Northern Ireland (17 grantees)
Oxfordshire (14 grantees)
Ireland (5 grantees)
Austria (3 grantees)
South Africa (3 grantees)
France (3 grantees)
Germany (3 grantees)
Gloucestershire (3 grantees)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	THE DITCHLEY FOUNDATION	—	£887k
new	20 grants of £15,000 or less	—	£223k
new	St Mary's Church, Lidgate	—	£190k
new	45 grants of £2,000	—	£90k
new	Lidgate Parochial Church Council	—	£73k
new	NORTHERN ROOTS (OLDHAM) LTD	—	£25k
new	Heart of England Forest	—	£25k
new	Beyond Finance Charitable Trust	—	£25k
up	The National Association for Children of Alcoholics (Nacoa)	£2k	£90k
up	Scottish Seabird Centre	£25k	£50k
up	THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY	£25k	£50k
up	Scottish Wildlife Trust	£23k	£50k
up	Rare Breeds Trust	£21k	£37k
up	THE BAT CONSERVATION TRUST	£20k	£35k
up	CURLEW ACTION	£20k	£30k
up	BUGLIFE THE INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION TRUST	£20k	£30k
not listed	MARTIN WILLS WILDLIFE MAINTENANCE TRUST	£655k	—
not listed	Peterborough Cathedral Chapter	£110k	—
not listed	River Dee Trust	£100k	—
not listed	Royal Botanic Gardens (Friends of), Kew	£50k	—
not listed	ATLANTIC SALMON TRUST	£50k	—
not listed	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh	£50k	—
not listed	Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum	£50k	—
not listed	KNEPP WILDLAND FOUNDATION	£40k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Ditchley Foundation	FY2025	£887k
20 grants of £15,000 or less	FY2025	£223k
St Mary's Church, Lidgate	FY2025	£190k
45 grants of £2,000	FY2025	£90k
The National Association for Children of Alcoholics (Nacoa)	FY2025	£90k
78 grants under £2,000	FY2025	Unverified read£78k
Lidgate Parochial Church Council	FY2025	£73k
Scottish Seabird Centre	FY2025	£50k
Royal Horticultural Society	FY2025	£50k
Scottish Wildlife Trust	FY2025	£50k
Rare Breeds Trust	FY2025	£37k
Bat Conservation Trust	FY2025	£35k
Curlew Action	FY2025	£30k
Buglife: the Invertebrate Conservation Trust	FY2025	£30k
South Georgia Heritage Trust	FY2025	£30k
Wild Oxfordshire	FY2025	£30k
Community Action Groups Oxfordshire	FY2025	£30k
Northern Roots (Oldham) Ltd	FY2025	£25k
Heart of England Forest	FY2025	£25k
The County Trust	FY2025	£25k
Future Trees Trust	FY2025	£23k
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust	FY2025	£20k
Friends Of Westonbirt Arboretum	FY2025	£20k
The British Deer Society	FY2025	£20k
G0 Flourish	FY2025	£20k
Oxfordshire Community Foundation	FY2025	£20k
Plant Heritage	FY2025	£20k
Worcestershire Wildlife Trust	FY2025	£20k
Cumbria Wildlife Trust	FY2025	£20k
Global Canopy	FY2025	£20k
The Soil Association Land Trust	FY2025	£20k
Dorset Wildlife Trust	FY2025	£20k
Oxford City Farm	FY2025	£20k
Plantlife International - The Wild Plant Conservation Charity	FY2025	£20k
Red Squirrel Survival Trust	FY2025	£20k
Severn Rivers Trust	FY2025	£20k
Sumatran Orangutan Society	FY2025	£20k
The Community Action Group Project Oxfordshire	FY2025	£20k
The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust	FY2025	£20k
The Green Team	FY2025	£20k
Wessex Rivers Trust	FY2025	£20k
Wilderness Foundation Uk	FY2025	£20k
Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust	FY2025	£18k
Sandford St Martin Cricket Club	FY2025	£18k
Knockando Church Fund	FY2025	£18k
Oxfordshire Youth 11th Rotherham (Wales St John's) Scout Group	FY2025	£7k
National Horseracing Museum	FY2025	£5k
Lidgate Village Hall	FY2025	£5k
Oxfordshire Homeless Movement	FY2025	£5k
SOFEA	FY2025	£3k
Royal Shakespeare Company	FY2025	£3k
Martin Wills Wildlife Maintenance Trust	FY2025	amount not stated
Conservation and wildlife charities	FY2025	amount not stated
Martin Wills Wildlife Maintenance Trust	FY2024	£655k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Peterborough Cathedral Chapter	FY2024	£110k	Knockando Church Fund
Oxfordshire Community Foundation	FY2024	£100k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
River Dee Trust	FY2024	£100k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Royal Botanic Gardens (Friends of), Kew	FY2024	£50k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Atlantic Salmon Trust	FY2024	£50k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh	FY2024	£50k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum	FY2024	£50k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Knepp Wildland Foundation	FY2024	£40k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
The Orchard Project	FY2024	£33k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Action for Conservation	FY2024	£30k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
South Georgia Heritage Trust	FY2024	£30k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Songbird Survival Trust	FY2024	£30k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Farming and Wildlife Advisory SW Group Ltd	FY2024	£30k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Brogdale Collections	FY2024	£30k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Future Trees Trust	FY2024	£25k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Scottish Seabird Centre	FY2024	£25k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Royal Horticultural Society	FY2024	£25k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust	FY2024	£25k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Scottish Wildlife Trust	FY2024	£23k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Rare Breeds Trust	FY2024	£21k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Community Action Groups Oxfordshire	FY2024	£20k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Wild Oxfordshire	FY2024	£20k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Bat Conservation Trust	FY2024	£20k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Buglife: the Invertebrate Conservation Trust	FY2024	£20k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Curlew Action	FY2024	£20k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Sheffield Rotherham Wildlife Trust	FY2024	£15k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
Butterfly Conservation	FY2024	£10k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
General	FY2024	£8k	General Fund Grant
The Wildlife for all Trust	FY2024	£5k	Martin Wills Fund - Conservation and wildlife charities
11th Rotherham (Wales St John's) Scout Group	FY2024	£5k	General Fund Grant
Oxfordshire Youth	FY2024	£5k	General Fund Grant
SOFEA	FY2024	£4k	General Fund Grant
Lidgate Village Hall	FY2024	£4k	General Fund Grant
National Horseracing Museum	FY2024	£3k	General Fund Grant
Royal Shakespeare Company	FY2024	£3k	General Fund Grant
Oxfordshire Homeless Movement	FY2024	£3k	General Fund Grant
Women for Women International UK	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
The National Association for Children of Alcoholics (Nacoa)	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Arnisdale and Loch Hourn Community Association	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Ashford Mediation Service	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Bradbury Fields (Catholic Blind Institute)	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Bucks Association for the Care of Offenders (BACO)	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Cartwheel Youth and Community Centre	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Cheshire Search & Rescue Team	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
DocBike	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Homemakers Community Recycling	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Instruments of Time and Truth	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Kids N'Action	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Kilcooley Womens Centre	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Leuchie House	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Life Youth Hub	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Lindengate	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Norfolk and Norwich Send Association (NANSA)	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Open Door Exmouth	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Paul Sartori Foundation Limited	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Southmead Project	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Spencer Contact	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
The Otakar Kraus Music Trust	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
The Tim Henman Foundation	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Trinity Project (Cardiff Methodist Circuit)	FY2024	£2k	General Fund Grant
Rendcomb College, Gloucestershire	FY2023	£1.6m	Martin Wills Fund
Conservation and wildlife charities	FY2023	£1.6m	Martin Wills Fund
Oxfordshire Community Foundation	FY2023	£175k	General Fund
Oxfordshire Victoria County History Trust	FY2023	£20k	General Fund
Sports Driving Unlimited	FY2023	£20k	General Fund
British Red Cross	FY2023	£18k	General Fund
Thornage Independent Living limited	FY2023	£10k	General Fund
Sandford St Martin Trust	FY2023	£8k	Knockando Church Fund
Royal Shakespeare Company	FY2023	£5k	General Fund
The GRAB Trust (Group for Recycling in Argyll Bute Trust ltd)	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
The Inspire Arts Trust	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
21st Century Trust	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
Sandford St Martin Cricket Club	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
Médecins Sans Frontières	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
The National Horse Racing Museum	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
Over Norton and Nether Worton PCC	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
Farms for City Children	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
Community Hearts Productions	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
Peterborough Cathedral Chapter	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
Friends of Ashton	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
Spelsbury Memorial Hall	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
Bath City Farm	FY2023	£2k	General Fund
Martin Wills Fund	FY2022	£1.4m	Grant - making programme
Magdalen College, Oxford	FY2022	£1.0m	Grant - making programme
Oxfordshire Community Foundation	FY2022	£184k	Grant - making programme
Suffolk Horse Society	FY2022	£130k	Grant - making programme
111 (2021: 95) grants under £1,000	FY2022	Unverified read£111k	Grant - making programme
Sandford St Martin Trust	FY2022	£97k	Grant - making programme
Rendcomb PCC	FY2022	£55k	Grant - making programme
All Saints’ Church, Spelsbury	FY2022	£54k	Grant - making programme
General	FY2022	£40k	Grant - making programme
Oxfordshire Community Foundation	FY2022	£28k	Grant - making programme
21st Century Trust	FY2022	Unverified read£21k	Grant - making programme
21st Century Trust	FY2022	£18k	Grant - making programme
Sandford St Martin Cricket Club	FY2022	£10k	Grant - making programme
Médecins Sans Frontières	FY2022	£9k	Grant - making programme
British Red Cross	FY2022	£8k	Grant - making programme
Knockando Church Fund	FY2022	£6k	Grant - making programme
British Red Cross	FY2022	£5k	Grant - making programme
The National Horse Racing Museum	FY2022	£3k	Grant - making programme
Britten Pears Arts	FY2022	£2k	Grant - making programme
Swaziland Charitable Trust	FY2022	£2k	Grant - making programme
Over Norton and Nether Worton PCC	FY2022	£2k	Grant - making programme
The Turquoise Mountain Trust	FY2022	£2k	Grant - making programme
The National Horse Racing Museum	FY2022	£2k	Grant - making programme
Rendcomb PCC	FY2022	£2k	Grant - making programme
Suffolk Horse Society	FY2022	£2k	Grant - making programme
Médecins Sans Frontières	FY2022	£2k	Grant - making programme
Over Norton and Nether Worton PCC	FY2022	£2k	Grant - making programme
Leith School of Art	FY2022	£2k	Grant - making programme
The Sixteen	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Leith School of Art	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Britten Pears Arts	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Swaziland Charitable Trust	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
The Turquoise Mountain Trust	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Sandford St Martin Cricket Club	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
All Saints’ Church, Spelsbury	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Oxfordshire Community Foundation	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
RSC	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Sandford St Martin PCC	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
St Luke’s Hospital	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Wigmore Hall Trust	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Alice Marshall Hall	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Chef’s in Schools	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Enstone Uplands and District Conservation Trust	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Horatio’s Garden	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Oxfordshire Community Soup Kitchen	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Oxfordshire Youth	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
The Garden Museum	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
The River Learning Trust - Middle Barton School	FY2022	£1k	Grant - making programme
Rendcomb College, Gloucestershire	FY2022	amount not stated	Grant - making programme
Magdalen College, Oxford	FY2021	£1.0m
The National Horse Racing Museum	FY2021	£125k
Sandford St Martin Trust	FY2021	£120k
The Spey Foundation (Spey Fishery Board)	FY2021	£97k
95 (2020: 121) grants under £1,000	FY2021	£59k
The Community Foundation for Staffordshire	FY2021	£47k
Lidgate Village Hall	FY2021	£28k
21st Century Trust	FY2021	£18k
Farms for City Children	FY2021	£10k
Friends of Middle Barton School (FOMBS)	FY2021	£10k
Knockando Church Fund	FY2021	£8k
Lawrence Home Nursing Team	FY2021	£5k
Forage Aid	FY2021	£5k
Wales Council for Voluntary Action	FY2021	£5k
Rendcomb PCC	FY2021	£5k
Katharine House Hospice	FY2021	£5k
Suffolk Horse Society	FY2021	£3k
The Sixteen	FY2021	£2k
All Saints’ Church, Spelsbury	FY2021	£2k
Oxfordshire Community Foundation	FY2021	£2k
RSC	FY2021	£2k
Sandford St Martin PCC	FY2021	£2k
St Luke’s Hospital	FY2021	£2k
Swaziland Charitable Trust	FY2021	£2k
Wigmore Hall Trust	FY2021	£2k
Cleanup UK	FY2021	£2k
The Polar Academy	FY2021	£2k
Brainstrust	FY2021	£2k
Cirencester Housing for Young People	FY2021	£2k
Oxfordshire Community Soup Kitchen	FY2021	£1k
Chef’s in Schools	FY2021	£1k
Alice Marshall Hall	FY2021	£1k
The Garden Museum	FY2021	£1k
Oxfordshire Youth	FY2021	£1k
Gamekeepers Welfare Trust	FY2021	£1k
The Oxford Trust - Science Oxford	FY2021	£1k
Horatio’s Garden	FY2021	£1k
Enstone Uplands and District Conservation Trust	FY2021	£1k
Worton PCC, Over Norton Church	FY2021	£1k
The River Learning Trust - Middle Barton School	FY2021	£1k
Institutions with such charitable purposes as the Trustees shall in their absolute discretion think fit	FY2021	amount not stated

4 listed grants have no usable amount in the accounts (shown as “amount not stated”); they are left out of the grant counts and totals.

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. Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the filed accounts. They stay in the list and the CSV (read_status column) but are left out of the totals, counts and recipient tallies this site computes.