BIG CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST — grant history

Registered charity 1145224 · filings on the Charity Commission register · its own accounts analysis · funder finder · deadlines · watch this funder · check a grantee list

Latest income

£2.2m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£487k

Accounts grants total

£206k

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: The next Spark Awards will open in 2027.

Summarised from www.big-change.org · www.big-change.org/what-we-do/how-we-do-it · www.big-change.org/what-we-do/our-impact on 17/08/2026. 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 (7 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (3 grantees)
Disability (3 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (2 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (4 grantees)
Throughout London (2 grantees)
Throughout England (2 grantees)
Manchester City (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)
South Africa (1 grantee)
Australia (1 grantee)
United States (1 grantee)
Canada (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	CLIMATE LIVE	—	£50k
new	Muslim Social Justice Initiative CIC	—	£35k
new	Peoples Place Community Partnership CIC	—	£22k
new	Spark Awards: NEW ROMANCERS	—	£20k
new	Youth Empowerment Project (via Virgin Unite BVI)	—	£15k
new	ACTIVE HORIZONS	—	£5k
new	Be the change Media CIC	—	£0
up	The Firefly Project	£17k	£142k
up	UK YOUTH	£10k	£50k
up	Farhad Gohar Potential	£15k	£25k
down	THE NEW SCHOOL	£147k	£17k
down	THE BIG HOUSE THEATRE COMPANY	£35k	£15k
down	Emoco	£50k	£10k
down	#BeeWell Manchester (via the University of Manchester)	£25k	£10k
down	Emma Redfern	£17k	£8k
not listed	Hybrid Games Board Game Learning	£546k	—
not listed	Total	£529k	—
not listed	The London Interdisciplinary School	£457k	—
not listed	Caitlin Glover	£150k	—
not listed	Centre for Place Based Transformation via Right to Succeed	£142k	—
not listed	Sergio Gosalvez Gosalvez	£50k	—
not listed	Gracie Amber Chick	£22k	—
not listed	Fidjit Ltd	£20k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
The Firefly Project	FY2025	£142k
UK Youth	FY2025	£50k
Climate Live Ltd	FY2025	£50k
Muslim Social Justice Initiative CIC	FY2025	£35k
Force Of Nature Education CIC	FY2025	£33k
Farhad Gohar Potential	FY2025	£25k
Peoples Place Community Partnership CIC	FY2025	£22k
Spark Awards: NEW ROMANCERS	FY2025	£20k
The New School	FY2025	£17k
Youth Empowerment Project (via Virgin Unite BVI)	FY2025	£15k
The Big House Theatre Company	FY2025	£15k
Not So Micro CIC	FY2025	£15k
See Her Potential	FY2025	£10k
Emoco	FY2025	£10k
#BeeWell Manchester (via the University of Manchester)	FY2025	£10k
Emma Redfern	FY2025	£8k
Paige Braille	FY2025	£5k
Active Horizons	FY2025	£5k
Be the change Media CIC	FY2025	£0
Future Foundations Training	FY2025	£0
Hybrid Games Board Game Learning	FY2024	£546k
Total	FY2024	£529k
The London Interdisciplinary School	FY2024	£457k
Caitlin Glover	FY2024	£150k
The New School	FY2024	£147k
Centre for Place Based Transformation via Right to Succeed	FY2024	£142k
Sergio Gosalvez Gosalvez	FY2024	£50k
Emoco	FY2024	£50k
Force Of Nature Education CIC	FY2024	£50k
Future Foundations Training	FY2024	£35k
The Big House Theatre Company	FY2024	£35k
#BeeWell Manchester (via the University of Manchester)	FY2024	£25k
Paige Braille	FY2024	£25k
Gracie Amber Chick	FY2024	£22k
Fidjit Ltd	FY2024	£20k
Sophie Koumides	FY2024	£20k
Emma Redfern	FY2024	£17k
The Firefly Project	FY2024	£17k
Farhad Gohar Potential	FY2024	£15k
Big Education Trust	FY2024	£15k
Virgin Unite	FY2024	£10k
UK Youth	FY2024	£10k
See Her Potential	FY2024	£10k
REVISO A.I Ltd	FY2024	£10k
Not So Micro CIC	FY2024	£10k
Apart Of Me	FY2024	£7k
Redfern Studios Limited	FY2024	£5k
Less: Unspent grants returned	FY2024	£-17k
Redfern Studios Limited	FY2023	£457k
Fidjit Ltd	FY2023	£50k
Farhad Gohar Potential	FY2023	£50k
Apart Of Me	FY2023	£50k
Sergio Gosalvez Gosalvez	FY2023	£35k
Big Education Trust	FY2023	£34k
Future Foundations Training	FY2023	£25k
REVISO A.I Ltd	FY2023	£20k
The London Interdisciplinary School	FY2023	£20k
Sophie Koumides	FY2023	£17k
Centre for Place Based Transformation via Right to Succeed	FY2023	£17k
Foundation for Education Development	FY2023	£10k
Caitlin Glover	FY2023	£10k
Cymbrogi Futures	FY2023	£10k
Emma Redfern	FY2023	£10k
Emoco	FY2023	£10k
Force Of Nature Education CIC	FY2023	£10k
#BeeWell Manchester (via the University of Manchester)	FY2023	£10k
Hybrid Games Board Game Learning	FY2023	£10k
Joined Up (via Reach Foundation)	FY2023	£10k
No Limits (via Gesher Trust)	FY2023	£10k
Not So Micro CIC	FY2023	£10k
The Big House Theatre Company	FY2023	£10k
The New School	FY2023	£10k
Tranquiliti	FY2023	£10k
Virgin Unite	FY2023	£10k
Children's University Trust	FY2023	£5k
Gracie Amber Chick	FY2023	£5k
BIG EDUCATION TRUST	FY2022	£66k	Funding the launch of the learner profiles project.
CYMBROGI FUTURES	FY2022	£43k	Staff time for Program Director and learning designer for pilot programs.
CHILDREN’S UNIVERSITY TRUST	FY2022	£27k	Staff time for CEO and Head of Comms for advocacy and campaigning.
NO LIMITS (via Gesher Trust)	FY2022	£25k	Funding Gesher's Director of Rigour, Director of Curation, and Community of Practice Lead.
THE LONDON INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOOL	FY2022	£20k	Staffing, development and implementation of the interdisciplinary programme in schools.
JOINED UP (via Reach Foundation)	FY2022	£20k	Staff time to facilitate network building and learning activities.
TRANQUILITI	FY2022	£20k	Grant awarded in 2022.
CENTRE FOR PLACE BASED TRANSFORMATION (via Right to Succeed)	FY2022	£8k	Staff costs associated with setting up the Centre for Place Based Transformation.
FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT	FY2022	£5k	Funding a Workstream Director for 12 months.
LIGHTHOUSE (via Catch-22 Charity Ltd.)	FY2021	£77k	Lighthouse will ensure that care leavers are viewed as an asset rather than a cost to society. They believe that residential care should be seen as an opportunity for the young person placed in it, not a failure, and aim to make a big change for children in care with a brand-new kind of children’s home based on successful German and Danish methods of practice.
IMPACTED LIMITED	FY2021	£30k	ImpactEd is developing England first teacher-led evidence and action-research platform to help teachers and school leaders identify what is working best in their context and on more than grades alone.
REKINDLE SCHOOL	FY2021	£30k	Rekindle is a supplementary school for 13-16 year-olds in South Manchester, at risk of mainstream and school exclusion, those struggling with motivation at school, or whose families are struggling to provide support.
TRANQUILITI	FY2021	£25k	Tranquiliti is a new, digital service that looks to place the voice of every young person at the heart of their school. Central to their service is a question-set which asks young people about their wellbeing, mental health, and experiences at school.
NO LIMITS (via Gesher Trust)	FY2021	£25k	Led by Gesher Trust, an established leader in working with children with special educational needs and disabilities, NoLimits will create a new evidence-based model of teaching and learning, and a community of practice for secondary school students that is academically rigorous and showcase it in other SEN learning communities.
CYMBROGI FUTURES	FY2021	£21k	Cymbrogi Futures is a programme in its pilot stage; designing unique learning journeys for both educators and young people to empower them to take on their futures with confidence.
JOINED UP (via Reach Foundation)	FY2021	£20k	JoinedUp is collaboration of award-winning and trusted organisations - Frontline, UK Youth, Reach Foundation, and Dixon Academies Trust - that will bring together school leaders, social workers and youth workers to better support disadvantaged children and young people across the UK.
CENTRE FOR PLACE BASED TRANSFORMATION (via Right to Succeed)	FY2021	£19k	Right to Succeed is a youth organization that exists to equip every child with the skills, wellbeing and access to opportunity to thrive from childhood to adulthood.
CHILDREN’S UNIVERSITY TRUST	FY2021	£19k	Children’s University Trust works in partnership with schools across the UK to develop a love of learning by encouraging participation in quality-assured extracurricular activities in and outside of school.
SHiFT UK (formerly Whatever it Takes)	FY2021	£13k	SHiFT exists to break the destructive cycle of offending behaviours in children enabling them to enjoy lives of choice and opportunity.
#BEEWELL MANCHESTER (via the University of Manchester)	FY2021	£10k	#BeeWell, a consortium of The University of Manchester and the Anna Freud Centre, in partnership with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, will oversee the delivery of an annual survey, co-created with young people, to assess the wellbeing (and the factors that influence wellbeing) of young people in Years 8 to 10 in up to 250 secondary schools across Greater Manchester over three academic years.
FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT	FY2021	£5k	The FED has been set up to address the problem of the short-term nature of education policy. It is an independent organisation that can bring together stakeholders from all sides and sectors to build on the wisdom and experience of policy makers, practitioners, and all interested parties.
PARENT PING (via Education Intelligence)	FY2021	£3k	Parent Ping is a daily survey app that helps parents learn how other parents are dealing with life by sharing experiences, gathering and sharing data on what’s happening, and to meld together education and parent data in a way that has never been done before.

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 486997 vs reference 206213 (136.2% 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.