THE MARCELA TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£8.3m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£400k

Accounts grants total

£400k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (4 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (4 grantees)
Education/training (4 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
Disability (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Animals (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Essex (4 grantees)
Scotland (2 grantees)
Australia (1 grantee)
Belize (1 grantee)
Bosnia And Herzegovina (1 grantee)
Bracknell Forest (1 grantee)
Burma (1 grantee)
Bulgaria (1 grantee)
Cambodia (1 grantee)
Barbados (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → 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	FY2024	FY2025
new	THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE FOUNDATION	—	£150k
new	COLCHESTER MERCURY THEATRE LIMITED	—	£100k
new	COLCHESTER MUSEUMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION	—	£100k
new	THE NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE CHARITY	—	£50k
not listed	FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL	£280k	—
not listed	COLCHESTER ARTS CENTRE	£3k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
The Florence Nightingale Foundation	FY2025	£150k	scholarships to develop the leadership skills of nurses and midwives
Colchester Mercury Theatre Limited	FY2025	£100k	fund various youth employment projects
Colchester Museums Development Foundation	FY2025	£100k	fund various youth employment projects
The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Charity	FY2025	£50k	contribute towards the cost of the new Nuffield Ambulatory Surgical Centre
Fauna & Flora International	FY2024	£280k	to fund selected charitable community initiatives in the remote Zarand region of Western Transylvania
Colchester Arts Centre	FY2024	£3k
Consensus Action on Salt, Sugar & Health	FY2023	£200k
Fauna & Flora International	FY2023	£150k
Society of Portrait Sculptors	FY2023	£2k
St Helena Hospice	FY2023	£2k

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 400000 vs reference 400000 (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.