THE DISCWORLD FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£173k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£1.3m

Accounts grants total

£180k

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

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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 (6 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (4 grantees)
Disability (2 grantees)
Animals (2 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (2 grantees)
Recreation (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (5 grantees)
Scotland (2 grantees)
Northern Ireland (2 grantees)
Liverpool City (1 grantee)
Madagascar (1 grantee)
Manchester City (1 grantee)
Oldham (1 grantee)
Throughout England (1 grantee)
Throughout London (1 grantee)
Vietnam (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	HERTFORDSHIRE CHORUS	—	£180k
new	REMIND UK CHARITY	—	£180k
new	THE WILDHEART TRUST	—	£180k
new	READ FOR GOOD	—	£180k
new	THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION	—	£180k
new	Chalke Valley Community Hub Ltd	—	£180k
new	COMPASSION IN DYING	—	£180k
not listed	The RICE centre	£50k	—
not listed	THE ARTS EMERGENCY SERVICE	£10k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount
Hertfordshire Chorus	FY2025	£180k
ReMind UK Charity	FY2025	£180k
The Wildheart Trust	FY2025	£180k
Read for Good	FY2025	£180k
The National Brain Appeal	FY2025	£180k
Chalke Valley Community Hub Ltd	FY2025	£180k
Compassion in Dying	FY2025	£180k
The RICE centre	FY2024	£50k
Arts Emergency Service	FY2024	£10k
Friends of Broad Chalke Playground	FY2023	£30k
The RICE centre	FY2023	£25k
Animals Asia Foundation	FY2023	£25k
Guide Dogs for the Blind	FY2023	£10k
The David Nobbs Memorial Trust	FY2022	£3k

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 1260000 vs reference 180000 (600.0% 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.