KUSUMA TRUST UK — grant history
Latest income
£2.7m
Grants listed (FY2025)
84
Listed grants total
£21.3m
Accounts grants total
£5.7m
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
- Deadlines: Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis. Should we receive an overwhelming number of submissions, we may need to close the call for proposals. However, if this is the case, we will ensure a minimum of three weeks’ notice is provided on this page.
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Economic/community Development/employment
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- General Charitable Purposes
- Amateur Sport
- Recreation
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Scotland
- Throughout England
- Northern Ireland
- Throughout London
- City Of Westminster
- Kensington And Chelsea
- Camden
- South Africa
- Hammersmith And Fulham
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Charity | FY2025 | £2.5m | Children's Cancer Centre |
| Moorfields Eye Charity | FY2025 | £2.5m | Oriel |
| Kew Gardens | FY2025 | £1.5m | Seminar Room |
| Natural History Museum | FY2025 | £1.5m | Urban Nature Project |
| St Paul's Girls School | FY2025 | £1.0m | CDI Building and Exhibition Hall |
| The English Heritage Trust | FY2025 | £1.0m | Neolithic Classroom - Stonehenge |
| Kusuma Trust Gibraltar | FY2025 | £856k | Programme and Operational Costs - 2025 |
| CW+ | FY2025 | £500k | Day Surgery Unit (Treatment Centre) |
| The Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust | FY2025 | £500k | Nature + Love |
| University College London Hospitals Charity | FY2025 | £490k | Upgrade to the cancer facilities |
| University of Leicester | FY2025 | £400k | Leicester Medical Fellowship |
| Imperial College London | FY2025 | £400k | Imperial Medical Fellowship |
| King's College London | FY2025 | £400k | KCL Giacca Lab |
| University of Oxford | FY2025 | £396k | Oxford Medical Fellowship |
| University College London | FY2025 | £331k | UCL Medical Fellowship |
| University of Cambridge | FY2025 | £299k | A cardiac patch to restore heart function after a heart attack (research) Cambridge Medical Fellowship |
| Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration | FY2025 | £250k | Revitalising New River Head |
| Evelina London Children’s Charity | FY2025 | £250k | MRI Scanner |
| The Brilliant Club | FY2025 | £250k | Brilliant Club- Core Funding for the Join the Club strategy 2023-2026 |
| London Wildlife Trust | FY2025 | £250k | LWT Sydenham/Dulwich Woods |
| Chiswick House and Gardens Trust | FY2025 | £250k | CHGT-Community and Creative Campus |
| Global Generation | FY2025 | £240k | The Triangle |
| University of Cambridge | FY2025 | £225k | |
| National Gallery | FY2025 | £225k | Articulation Three Year Extension |
| British Educational Research Association (BERA) | FY2025 | £224k | Neurodiversity in mainstream schools grant programme |
| Royal Horticultural Society | FY2025 | £200k | RHS Lewisham Hospital |
| Bankside Open Spaces Trust | FY2025 | £200k | Marlborough Sports Academy Landscape |
| Trees For Cities | FY2025 | £200k | Hainault – A forest for the people of London and Essex |
| Dulwich Picture Gallery | FY2025 | £200k | Dulwich Picture Gallery Grounds |
| National Portrait Gallery | FY2025 | £198k | Faces and Places Schools Outreach Programme |
| Ashden Climate Solutions | FY2025 | £197k | Sharing Spaces |
| National Children's Bureau | FY2025 | £184k | Belonging Matters |
| Street League | FY2025 | £176k | Sport and Employability Academy in Southwark |
| King's College London | FY2025 | £171k | KCL Bromage Group |
| Raise, West Hertfordshire Hospitals Charity | FY2025 | £159k | Interventional radiology ‘super scanner’ |
| University of Cambridge Faculty of Education | FY2025 | £153k | Operationalising Neurodiversity in the Primary Classroom |
| Canal & River Trust | FY2025 | £150k | WOW-Wings on Water |
| University of Oxford | FY2025 | £150k | Choudhury Lab |
| The Royal Free Charity | FY2025 | £149k | Quadra PET-CT scanner |
| The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust Charity | FY2025 | £146k | Hi-Rise CBCT Scanner |
| Bumble Bee Conservation Trust | FY2025 | £125k | Buzzing in the East End Continued |
| Fulham Palace Trust | FY2025 | £107k | Going Green |
| Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | FY2025 | £100k | Core Funding |
| Royal Academy of Dance | FY2025 | £100k | RADiate and Core Funding |
| Vauxhall City Farm | FY2025 | £99k | Developing the Farm |
| Walworth Garden | FY2025 | £97k | Walworth Gardens- Environmental Learning Hub |
| The Royal Parks | FY2025 | £97k | Green Futures 2 |
| Buglife | FY2025 | £90k | Get London buzzing! |
| Speakers Trust | FY2025 | £84k | Culturally Speaking programme |
| Imperial College Proto Maker Challenge | FY2025 | £79k | Imperial College Proto Maker Challenge |
| The Woodland Trust | FY2025 | £78k | |
| The Difference | FY2025 | £75k | Losing Learning Coalition |
| Pursuing Independent Paths | FY2025 | £65k | Bridging the Gap |
| Core Arts | FY2025 | £64k | Core Arts Community Garden |
| Museum of the Home | FY2025 | £62k | Discovery Garden |
| King's College School | FY2025 | £61k | King's Business School |
| Bumble Bee Conservation Trust | FY2025 | £60k | Buzzing in the East End |
| London Met | FY2025 | £58k | Wild Ways |
| Migration Museum | FY2025 | £51k | All Our Stories |
| Future Frontiers | FY2025 | £50k | To support 400 students from London to undertake the first year of the new 2 year Future Frontiers programme |
| Board of Trustees of the Science Museum (Science Museum Group) | FY2025 | £42k | Technicians: Meet the Employee |
| Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology | FY2025 | £32k | Upgrade the pain clinic for conditions and related health issues for the elderly |
| Photographers Gallery | FY2025 | £32k | Develop Programme |
| The Ramblers' Association | FY2025 | £25k | Don't Lose Your Way |
| Create Arts | FY2025 | £25k | creative:connections |
| Sufra NW London | FY2025 | £24k | Community Garden Manager |
| The Royal Free Charity | FY2025 | £19k | Resus & UTC waiting rooms refurbishments |
| The Bubble Foundation UK | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Imperial College London | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Jessie's Fund | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| London Inner City Kitties | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Luma Foundation | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Mid South Essex NHS Trust Charity | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| North East London Community Healthcare Charity | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| The 1010 Foundation, aka Possible | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Stephens House and Gardens Trust | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| The Mayhew Home | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| The Whittington Health Trust | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Wetherby School Gold Standard Charitable Trust | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Women's Environmental Network | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Young Urban Arts Foundation | FY2025 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| London Inner City Kitties | FY2025 | £9k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Pelvic Radiation Disease Association | FY2025 | £6k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Forest Gate Community Garden | FY2025 | £5k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity | FY2024 | £2.5m | Children's Cancer Centre |
| Victoria & Albert Museum | FY2024 | £2.0m | Needs Analysis 2023 |
| Kew Gardens | FY2024 | £1.5m | Seminar Room |
| Natural History Museum | FY2024 | £1.5m | Urban Nature Project: Bronze Diplodocus and the Jurassic Gardens |
| St Paul's Girls School | FY2024 | £1.0m | Centre for Design & Innovation Building and Exhibition Hall |
| Kusuma Trust Gibraltar | FY2024 | £736k | Programme & Operational Costs '24 |
| The Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust | FY2024 | £500k | Nature + Love |
| CW+ | FY2024 | £500k | Day Surgery Unit (Treatment Centre) |
| University College London Hospitals Charity | FY2024 | £490k | Upgrade to the cancer facilities |
| University of Leicester | FY2024 | £400k | Medical Fellowship |
| University of Oxford | FY2024 | £396k | Medical Fellowship |
| UCL | FY2024 | £331k | Medical Fellowship |
| London Wildlife Trust | FY2024 | £250k | Re-uniting Sydenham Hill/Dulwich Woods |
| The Brilliant Club | FY2024 | £250k | Losing Learning Coalition |
| Chiswick House and Gardens Trust | FY2024 | £250k | Cedar Yards Community and Creative Campus |
| Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration | FY2024 | £250k | Revitalising New River Head |
| Evelina London Children’s Charity | FY2024 | £250k | MRI Scanner |
| Global Generation | FY2024 | £240k | The Triangle |
| University of Cambridge | FY2024 | £225k | A cardiac patch to restore heart function after a heart attack (research) |
| National Gallery | FY2024 | £225k | Articulation Three Year Extension |
| British Educational Research Association (BERA) | FY2024 | £224k | Neurodiversity in mainstream schools grant programme |
| Dulwich Picture Gallery | FY2024 | £200k | Dulwich Picture Gallery Grounds |
| Trees For Cities | FY2024 | £200k | London Healthy Playgrounds |
| Royal Horticultural Society | FY2024 | £200k | RHS Lewisham Hospital garden and wellness programme |
| National Portrait Gallery | FY2024 | £198k | Faces and Places Schools Outreach Programme |
| Ashden Climate Solutions | FY2024 | £197k | Sharing Spaces |
| National Children's Bureau | FY2024 | £184k | Belonging Matters |
| Street League | FY2024 | £176k | Sport and Employability Academy in Southwark |
| Raise, West Hertfordshire Hospitals Charity | FY2024 | £159k | Interventional radiology ‘super scanner’ |
| University of Cambridge Faculty of Education | FY2024 | £153k | Room 98 in the Photography Centre & the Photography Centre redevelopment more widely |
| University of Oxford | FY2024 | £150k | Choudhury Lab |
| The Royal Free Charity | FY2024 | £149k | Quadra PET-CT scanner |
| The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust Charity | FY2024 | £146k | Hi-Rise CBCT Scanner |
| Somerset House Trust | FY2024 | £115k | Makerversity exhibition and learning programme |
| Fulham Palace Trust | FY2024 | £107k | Going Green |
| Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust | FY2024 | £104k | Genetic Sequencer |
| Asthma and Lung UK | FY2024 | £100k | Little Lungs Programme |
| The Kensington and Chelsea Foundation | FY2024 | £100k | Core Funding |
| Royal Academy of Dance | FY2024 | £100k | RADiate and Core Funding |
| Thames21 | FY2024 | £100k | Thames21-ReWilding the Rom |
| Vauxhall City Farm | FY2024 | £99k | Developing the Farm |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain | FY2024 | £98k | Science in Schools 2023-24 |
| SS. John and Elizabeth Charity | FY2024 | £98k | St John's Hospice - Garden Renovation |
| Walworth Garden | FY2024 | £97k | Environmental Learning Hub |
| The Royal Parks | FY2024 | £97k | Green Futures 2 |
| Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust General Charitable Fund | FY2024 | £92k | Extending the REU & at first floor level the paediatric unit at Kingston Hospital |
| The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity | FY2024 | £91k | Interoperative Ultrasound Machine & Mobile Image Intensifier |
| Buglife | FY2024 | £90k | Get London buzzing! |
| Speakers Trust | FY2024 | £84k | Culturally Speaking programme |
| Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity | FY2024 | £80k | 2 x Medtronic Stealth Image Guidance Systems |
| Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | FY2024 | £79k | Imperial College Proto Maker Challenge |
| The Woodland Trust | FY2024 | £78k | Hainault – A forest for the people of London and Essex |
| The Education Endowment Foundation | FY2024 | £77k | Early-Stage Programme Development – Innovation Stage |
| The Difference | FY2024 | £75k | Core Funding for the Join the Club strategy 2023-2026 |
| Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity | FY2024 | £70k | Play & Therapy Room Redevelopment |
| National Theatre | FY2024 | £70k | New Views |
| Pursuing Independent Paths | FY2024 | £65k | Bridging the Gap |
| Social Farms and Gardens | FY2024 | £65k | Londoners' Natural Future Together |
| Core Arts | FY2024 | £64k | Core Arts Community Garden |
| Oasis Children's Venture | FY2024 | £62k | Environmental Education Programme for Young People Disengaged from Nature |
| Museum of the Home | FY2024 | £62k | Discovery Garden |
| King's College School | FY2024 | £61k | King's Business School |
| Bumble Bee Conservation Trust | FY2024 | £60k | Buzzing in the East End |
| Independent Provider of Special Education Advice (IPSEA) | FY2024 | £59k | Advice services & e-learning |
| London Met | FY2024 | £58k | Wild Ways |
| Camden Art Centre | FY2024 | £57k | SEN Schools Programme and Schools Programme |
| Migration Museum Project | FY2024 | £51k | All Our Stories |
| creative:connections | FY2024 | £50k | Pathways to Professional Careers (Key Stage 5 Programme) |
| Future Frontiers | FY2024 | £50k | To support 400 students from London to undertake the first year of the new 2-year Future Frontiers programme |
| The Smallpiece Trust | FY2024 | £49k | STEM Educational Enrichment for London Schools |
| Ambitious About Autism | FY2024 | £48k | Employ Autism Longitudinal Evaluation |
| London Transport Museum | FY2024 | £47k | 21st Century Skills: Preparing for the Future |
| The Friends of Leighton House | FY2024 | £45k | Developing the Leighton House Learning Centre |
| Board of Trustees of the Science Museum (Science Museum Group) | FY2024 | £42k | Technicians: Meet the Employee |
| Moorfields Eye Charity | FY2024 | £41k | Thunder Imager |
| Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology | FY2024 | £32k | Upgrade the pain clinic for conditions and related health issues for the elderly |
| Photographers Gallery | FY2024 | £32k | Develop Programme |
| Crisis UK | FY2024 | £30k | Roots and Shoots |
| The Garden Classroom | FY2024 | £29k | ‘A Very Urban Forest School’ |
| The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust Charity | FY2024 | £25k | The Imaging Ultrasound Project |
| Marylebone Cricket Club Foundation | FY2024 | £25k | Action Plan for London |
| Southbank Centre | FY2024 | £25k | Imagine Festival 2024 |
| The Literacy Pirates Limited | FY2024 | £25k | Volunteering Programme |
| Transform Schools UK | FY2024 | £25k | Operationalising Neurodiversity in the Primary Classroom |
| Playmakers | FY2024 | £25k | Imperial College Proto Maker Challenge |
| Castlehaven Community Association | FY2024 | £25k | Edibeds |
| Conservation Education and Research Trust | FY2024 | £25k | Teach Earth 2023 |
| Freightliners Farm | FY2024 | £25k | 2023 Freightliners City Farm Core Costs |
| Loughborough Junction Action Group | FY2024 | £25k | Growing Loughborough Farm |
| Chess in Schools and Communities | FY2024 | £25k | Chess Fest 2024 |
| The Ramblers' Association | FY2024 | £25k | Don't Lose Your Way |
| Caxton Youth Organisation | FY2024 | £25k | Creating Communities, Opportunities, and Employment Support |
| Bonny Downs Community Association | FY2024 | £25k | Growing Well |
| The Orchard Project | FY2024 | £25k | Growing Fruit and Skills |
| Design Museum | FY2024 | £25k | Growing Together |
| Equal People Mencap | FY2024 | £25k | Making Food Work 2 |
| Thames Explorer Trust | FY2024 | £24k | Performance Improvements and School Subsidies |
| Sufra - NW London | FY2024 | £24k | Community Garden Manager |
| ADHD Foundation | FY2024 | £22k | Neurodiversity Umbrella Project London Schools – Talk Matters |
| Nova New Opportunities | FY2024 | £20k | 2023-24 Family programme |
| St Paul's School | FY2024 | £20k | Colet Mentoring |
| The Royal Free Charity | FY2024 | £19k | Resus & UTC waiting rooms refurbishments |
| Museum of Brands | FY2024 | £15k | Widening Reach |
| RSPB | FY2024 | £13k | Girlguiding LaSER nature events in London at RSPB |
| Home-Start WKCHF | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Jessie's Fund | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Kentish Town City Farm | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Lewisham Music | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| London Inner City Kitties | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| London Reclaimed | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Luma Foundation | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Magpie Project | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Motor Neurone Disease Association | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Music Venue Trust | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| North East London Community Healthcare Charity | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Possible | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Rosetta Art Centre | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Sebby's Corner | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Sports Traider | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Street Doctors | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Sufra - NW London | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Switch180 | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| The Arts Emergency Service | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| The Hall School Charitable Trust | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| The Healthy Living Platform | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| The Listening Place | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| The Mayhew Home | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| The Whittington Health Trust | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Tomorrow's Warriors Trust | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Turn 2 Us | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Two Ridings Community Foundation | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| UK for UNHCR | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Woman's Trust | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Yard Theatre | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Yorkshire Air Ambulance Limited | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| UK for UNHCR | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Young Minds | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Young Westminster Foundation | FY2024 | £10k | Go Live Theatre Projects |
| Bow Foodbank | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| British Red Cross | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Bromley and Croydon Women's Aid | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| C4WS Homeless Project | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Campaign Against Living Miserably | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Disability Snowsport UK | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Feast With Us | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Friends of Royal London Hospital | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Give a Book | FY2024 | £10k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Evie's Gift | FY2024 | £7k | Random Act of Kindness |
| Forest Gate Community Garden | FY2024 | £5k | Random Act of Kindness |