THE ERNEST COOK TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£6.3m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

—

Accounts grants total

£2.2m

extracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The Trust is currently accepting applications for the Communities Grant via a specific application link. Other grants are offered in rounds with windows announced on their website and socials.
Deadlines: The next round for the Outdoor Essentials Grant is anticipated in January 2027. The next application window for the Outdoor Learning Leader Grant is anticipated October 2026.

Summarised from www.ernestcooktrust.org.uk · ernestcooktrust.org.uk/grants/ on 17/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

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

CUMBRIA DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION CENTRE “Over the next three years and with funding from the Ernest Cook Trust, we'll be supporting schools to embed place-based ”
GREEN SYNERGY “Ernest Cook Trust: additional commitments for the Green Influencers scheme to deliver environmental social action projec”
CELTIC HARMONY “The Ernest Cook Trust funded seventeen children to particpate in a Go Tribal Residential Experience and sixty children t”
STEP TOGETHER VOLUNTEERING “FUNDERS: Army Benevolent Fund Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust Avon & Somerset Police / RISE Mutual Bristol City Co”
EARTHWORKS TRUST LIMITED “The Ernest Cook Trust”
43RD BRISTOL (ST MARY MAGDALENE STOKE BISHOP) SCOUT GROUP “Charitable grants have also been gratefully received from Druid Fountain Neighbourhood Watch, GT Pearce Charitable Trust”

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 (4 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (4 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (3 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
Accommodation/housing (1 grantee)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)
Animals (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England (2 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Italy (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)
United States (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2024

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	FY2023	FY2024
new	THE AURORA TRUST	—	£99k
new	LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming)	—	£15k
new	SMALL WOODS ASSOCIATION	—	£15k
new	Dry Stone Walling Association	—	£15k
new	NATIONAL HEDGELAYING SOCIETY	—	£15k
new	QEST (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust)	—	£15k

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
The Aurora Trust	FY2024	£99k	Match-funding for the third round of the Outdoor Essentials Grant funding in 2023/2024
Ufton Court Educational Trust	FY2024	£53k	Outdoor Week of Learning
LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming)	FY2024	£15k	Access to Farms Grant towards the dissemination of the Industry Code of Practice (ICOP) (Platinum Jubilee Award)
Small Woods Association	FY2024	£15k	National Coppice Apprentices (Platinum Jubilee Award)
Dry Stone Walling Association	FY2024	£15k	Dry Stone Walling Apprentice (Platinum Jubilee Award)
National Hedgelaying Society	FY2024	£15k	Training Events & Accreditation Scheme with LANTRA (Platinum Jubilee Award)
QEST (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust)	FY2024	£15k	Master Thatcher Apprentice (Platinum Jubilee Award)
The Ufton Court Educational Trust	FY2023	£53k	Outdoor Week of Learning
The Ufton Court Educational Trust	FY2022	£50k	Outdoor Week of Learning

About this data

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