John Lewis Partnership Foundation — grant history

Registered charity 1118162 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£2.4m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

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Accounts grants total

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extracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Deadlines: Applications for the Employability Fund are currently open. The deadline for submission is Friday, November 14th, at 5 PM (17:00).

Summarised from www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/foundation · www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/foundation/grantmaking on 15/08/2026. 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 (13 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (13 grantees)
Disability (9 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (7 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (6 grantees)
Accommodation/housing (5 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (4 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (3 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (6 grantees)
India (4 grantees)
Nepal (4 grantees)
Bangladesh (4 grantees)
Kenya (3 grantees)
Tanzania (3 grantees)
Pakistan (3 grantees)
Throughout England (3 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Uganda (3 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Sense International	FY2024	£205k	Grant for two year project in Delhi and Alleppey, India
Catch 22	FY2024	£195k	Grant over three years for Care Experienced Young People programme
Become	FY2024	£181k	Grant over three years for 'Propel' project pilot
SOFEA	FY2024	£150k	Total funding over two years for 'Transitional Support Programme'
The Citizens Foundation	FY2024	£138k	Grant for Community Vocational Training Programme in Pakistan
Future Roots	FY2024	£120k	Grant over two years for 'Futures Plus' programme
Cyrenians	FY2024	£120k	Grant over two years for 'Key to College' (KtC) programme
1625 Independent People	FY2024	£112k	Grant over two years for Employment Transition Coach role
Breaking Barriers	FY2024	£100k	Grant over two years for targeted programme for young refugees
Blackburn Youth Zone	FY2024	£100k	Extension grant for Darwen Youth Hub
Waste Aid	FY2024	£100k	Grant for single year project in Mpumalanga, South Africa
Rees Foundation	FY2024	£80k	Grant over two years for 'Connect to Careers' project
Toybox	FY2024	£76k	Second payment for project in Jaipur, India
British Asian Trust	FY2024	£73k	Second payment for project in Jaipur, India
Scotswood Garden	FY2024	£70k	Total funding over three years for 'Nightshade Rangers' programme
Children North East	FY2024	£61k	Grant over two years for mentoring programme
Rowan	FY2024	£60k	Total funding over three years for 'Student Skills Enhancement Programme'
Just Like Us	FY2024	£53k	Grant for expansion of Ambassador Programme
Drive Forward	FY2024	£50k	Grant for 3-year strategy to increase care leavers transitioning into careers
My Sisters House	FY2024	£30k	Grant for 'Thrive Programme'
Papworth Trust	FY2024	£30k	New funding for 'Opportunities Without Limits' (OWL) bike shop project
Move On	FY2024	£28k	Grant for driving programme
The Baytree Centre	FY2024	£25k	Second year extension payment for 'Step into Work' programme
Adoption UK	FY2024	£24k	Second year payment for 'The Bridge' programme
Sussex Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (SASBAH)	FY2024	£19k	Grant for 'Saspire' employability project training
The Grassmarket Community Project	FY2024	£18k	Final one year extension for Wood Workshop Assistant Manager
Youth Concern	FY2024	£17k	Grant for part time Careers Youth Worker
Turtle Dove Cambridge	FY2024	£15k	Grant for Alternative Education Programme and Youth Support services
Wirral Youth Zone	FY2024	£15k	Grant for 'Inspiring Futures Programme'
Toybox and British Asian Trust Jaipur projects	FY2023	£141k	Multi-year Jaipur projects
WaterAid	FY2023	£100k
Blackburn Youth Zone	FY2023	£100k	Darwen Youth Hub fund
The Save the Children Fund	FY2023	£63k
Step by Step	FY2023	£58k	Mentoring to enable young people to stay away from homelessness
Hope Springs	FY2023	£53k	HopeSpring Education Hub
Future Roots	FY2023	£50k
See Ability	FY2023	£44k	Ready, Willing & Able supported employment programme
Changing Young Lives Foundation	FY2023	£43k	Youth Employability Support programme
Action4Youth	FY2023	£34k	Inspiration Programme
Toybox	FY2023	£31k	Non-formal remedial and basic education in Jaipur
Future Roots	FY2023	£30k
Smartworks	FY2023	£30k
Sheffield Wornens Aid	FY2023	£30k	Employability support for young women affected by domestic abuse
Roundabout Limited	FY2023	£29k
The Baytree Centre	FY2023	£25k	STEP INTO WORK project extension (Sub-Committee)
The Baytree Centre	FY2023	£25k	STEP INTO WORK project extension
Grassmarket Community Project	FY2023	£24k	Wood Workshop Assistant Manager extension
Adoption UK	FY2023	£23k	The Bridge programme
Voices of Hope	FY2023	£20k
The Feed Enterprises	FY2023	£20k
Pop Up Enterprises	FY2023	£19k
Papworth Trust	FY2023	£16k	First Steps to Success project
Transitions	FY2023	£15k	Attain programme
Jubilee Community Enterprise	FY2023	£10k
Emma us Turvey	FY2023	£9k
Street Soccer Scotland	FY2023	£9k
Toybox and British Asian Trust Jaipur projects	FY2023	£1k

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 (no individually listed grants). 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.