PETER SOWERBY FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1151978 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£1.4m

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£1.4m

Accounts grants total

£1.0m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The Foundation does not accept unsolicited applications for grants. Instead, it actively solicits applications from charities, community groups and registered healthcare providers for projects which meet the trustees’ priorities.

Summarised from www.petersowerbyfoundation.com · www.petersowerbyfoundation.com/apply · www.petersowerbyfoundation.com/our-grants on 14/08/2026. 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 (12 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (8 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (7 grantees)
Disability (6 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (4 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (2 grantees)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (2 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)
Accommodation/housing (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (9 grantees)
Scotland (6 grantees)
Northern Ireland (5 grantees)
Uganda (2 grantees)
North Yorkshire (2 grantees)
India (2 grantees)
Jordan (2 grantees)
Derbyshire (2 grantees)
City Of York (2 grantees)
Costa Rica (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Two Ridings Community Foundation	FY2024	£165k	to support organisations in North and East Yorkshire to provide vital support in rural communities.
Kings College	FY2024	£159k	continued support for the Peter Sowerby Chair in Philosophy and Medicine.
Culture Squared CIC	FY2024	£115k	a core grant to support the organisation to continue to embed Bradford Literature Festival within the local community.
Tommy's	FY2024	£90k	support to transform the availability and quality of miscarriage care across the UK.
Outreach EMR	FY2024	£80k	further funding to support the development of electronic medical records in the developing world.
AESOP	FY2024	£75k	a core grant to grow the Aesop Institute as a valued source of expertise, networking, training and support services for arts enterprises aiming to change lives demonstrably.
Autistica	FY2024	£75k	supporting the charity in developing key projects linked to its 2030 goals.
Stroke Association	FY2024	£74k	to launch a Stroke Data Science Catalyst (SDSC).
University of Leeds, Wild Ingleborough	FY2024	£74k	to demonstrate the benefits of landscape-scale restoration for people, nature and climate.
Thames Valley Air Ambulance	FY2024	£58k	to explore the benefit of using virtual reality (VR) in a pre-hospital setting and pioneering a new standardised training programme across the air ambulance and pre-hospital sector.
Thrive	FY2024	£55k	to support its Gardening for Health initiative.
Mental Health Innovations	FY2024	£50k	funding to support the development of technology to support mental health.
National Youth Jazz Orchestra	FY2024	£50k	a core grant to build NYJO’s profile through a package of organisational development projects to support and enhance its ambitious programme of frontline charitable activity.
Fairshot	FY2024	£25k
Save Rosedale Church	FY2024	£25k
Frozen Light	FY2024	£23k
Words Matter	FY2024	£22k
Yorkshire Dales Millenium Trust	FY2024	£19k
Spare Tyre Theatre	FY2024	£18k
Wilberforce Trust	FY2024	£17k
RAF Benevolent Fund	FY2024	£15k
Arts Derbyshire	FY2024	£13k
Encephalitis Society	FY2024	£13k
The Bureau	FY2024	£12k
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation	FY2024	£12k
Dementia UK	FY2024	£12k
Leeds Hospital Charity	FY2024	£12k
Community Care	FY2024	£11k
PAYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide	FY2024	£11k
Outreach EMR	FY2023	£230k	further funding to support the development of electronic medical records in the developing world
National Youth Jazz Orchestra	FY2023	£150k	a core grant to build NYJO’s profile through a package of organisational development projects to support and enhance its ambitious programme of frontline charitable activity
AESOP	FY2023	£150k	a core grant to grow the Aesop Institute as a valued source of expertise, networking, training and support services for arts enterprises aiming to change lives demonstrably
Autistica	FY2023	£150k	a core grant to support the charity in developing key projects linked to its 2030 goals
National Youth Choirs of Great Britain	FY2023	£150k	a core grant to support its programme of charitable activity
Mental Health Innovations	FY2023	£75k	funding to support the development of technology to support mental health
Deaf Action	FY2023	£25k
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Fund	FY2023	£25k
Muslim Hands	FY2023	£25k
Transform	FY2023	£25k
Encephalitis Society	FY2023	£25k
The Bureau	FY2023	£25k
Tyne & Wear Museums	FY2023	£25k
Leeds Hospital Charity	FY2023	£24k
Barbican Centre Trust	FY2023	£20k
Jurassic Coast Fund	FY2023	£19k
GROW	FY2023	£12k

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 1378754 vs reference 1012567 (36.2% 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.