THE FROEBEL TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£604k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£100k

Accounts grants total

£387k

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

How to apply: The 'New Grants for 2026: Professional Inquiry for Practice Transformation' states 'APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED'. Other grants like 'Open call research grants' and 'Funding for CPD & training' have 'Learn more' links but do not specify the application method (e.g., form, email) on the provided pages.

Summarised from www.froebeltrust.org.uk · www.froebeltrust.org.uk/grants-and-funding on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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

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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 (2 grantees)
Accommodation/housing (1 grantee)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Caerphilly (1 grantee)
Cardiff (1 grantee)
China (1 grantee)
Denbighshire (1 grantee)
Egypt (1 grantee)
Greece (1 grantee)
India (1 grantee)
Ireland (1 grantee)
Lebanon (1 grantee)
Bulgaria (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	CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY	—	£10k
new	University College London	—	£10k
new	Northumbria University	—	£10k
new	University of Canterbury, New Zealand	—	£10k
new	Edge Hill University	—	£9k
new	Cardiff Flying Start	—	£6k
new	Ely and Caerau Children’s Centre	—	£5k
new	Ely and Caerau Integrated Children's Centre	—	£5k
up	University of Roehampton	£5k	£15k
not listed	Practitioner Support & PLR grants	£552k	—
not listed	Froebelian Futures	£300k	—
not listed	The Froebel Partnership	£134k	—
not listed	Informing Programme	£59k	—
not listed	CCCU	£50k	—
not listed	University of Roehampton bursaries	£43k	—
not listed	Brunel University	£35k	—
not listed	Evidencing Programme	£27k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
University of Roehampton	FY2025	£15k	Bursaries
Canterbury Christ Church University	FY2025	£10k	Open Call Research Grant
University College London	FY2025	£10k	Open Call Research Grant
Northumbria University	FY2025	£10k	Open Call Research Grant
University of Canterbury, New Zealand	FY2025	£10k	Open Call Research Grant
Edge Hill University	FY2025	£9k	Open Call Research Grant
Cardiff Flying Start	FY2025	£6k	Action Research Grant
Ely and Caerau Children’s Centre	FY2025	£5k	Practice Development Grant
Ely and Caerau Integrated Children's Centre	FY2025	£5k	Action Research Grant
Maisondieu Primary School	FY2025	£5k	Practice Development Grant
Tuffkid Nursery	FY2025	£5k	Practice Development Grant
Hailesland Early Years Centre and Poppies Preschool	FY2025	£3k	Practice Development Grant
Froebel-Research Group at University Erfurt	FY2025	£1k	Network Grant
West Partnership Froebel Network	FY2025	£1k	Network Grant
Falkirk Froebel Network	FY2025	£1k	Network Grant
National Froebel Network	FY2025	£1k	Network Grant
Froebelian Leaders	FY2025	£1k	Network Grant
Froebel Network Wales	FY2025	£1k	Network Grant
The Irish Froebel Network	FY2025	£1k	Network Grant
Practitioner Support & PLR grants	FY2024	£552k	Grants
Froebelian Futures	FY2024	£300k	Hub and spoke project
The Froebel Partnership	FY2024	£134k	Hub and spoke project
Informing Programme	FY2024	£59k	Project work
CCCU	FY2024	£50k	Research grants
University of Roehampton bursaries	FY2024	£43k	Research grants
Brunel University	FY2024	£35k	Research grants (Related Party)
Evidencing Programme	FY2024	£27k	Project work
Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales	FY2024	£24k	Research grants
Middlesex University	FY2024	£23k	Research grants
Connecting Programme	FY2024	£21k	Project work
Advocating Programme	FY2024	£11k	Project work
University of Roehampton	FY2024	£5k	Research grants (Related Party)
University of Western Cape, South Africa	FY2024	£5k	Research grants
University of Stirling, Scotland	FY2024	£5k	Research grants
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece	FY2024	£5k	Research grants
E. Renfrewshire Froebel Friends	FY2024	£500	Small grants
Glasgow Froebel Network	FY2024	£500	Small grants
Froebel South Africa Network	FY2024	£500	Small grants
Dumfries & Galloway Froebel Network	FY2024	£500	Small grants
Orkney Froebel Network	FY2024	£500	Small grants
South & West London Froebelian Network	FY2024	£500	Small grants
International Froebel Society China	FY2024	£500	Small grants
The Froebel Partnership	FY2023	£260k	Hub and Spoke project
Froebelian Futures	FY2023	£260k	Hub and Spoke project
Canterbury Christ Church University	FY2023	£50k	Open Call Research Grant
Brunel University	FY2023	£50k	Open Call Research Grant
University of Edinburgh	FY2023	£35k	Bursaries for MSc Education - Early Childhood Practice and Froebel
Cardiff Metropolitan University	FY2023	£24k	Open Call Research Grant
Middlesex University	FY2023	£23k	Open Call Research Grant
University of Roehampton	FY2023	£16k	Bursaries for Froebel Certificate courses and MA Early Childhood Studies
University of the Western Cape	FY2023	£5k	Open Call Research Grant
University of Stirling	FY2023	£5k	Open Call Research Grant
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	FY2023	£5k	Open Call Research Grant
Maddiston Primary School	FY2023	£5k	Practice Development Grant
Spateston ELCC	FY2023	£5k	Practice Development Grant
Oliver Thomas Nursery School	FY2023	£5k	Practice Development Grant
Lochwinnoch ELCC Class	FY2023	£5k	Practice Development Grant
Canonbie Nursery	FY2023	£5k	Practice Development Grant
Kay Rowe Nursery School	FY2023	£4k	Extension grant
Linden Tree Nursery Schools	FY2023	£3k	Action Research Grant
Hertfordshire Froebel Network	FY2023	£2k	Grant for network activities

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 99846 vs reference 387486 (74.2% 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.