LEVERHULME TRADE CHARITIES TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£3.1m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£5.2m

Accounts grants total

£5.2m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

What they don’t fund: The trust does not offer grants for previous years of study that have already been completed.

Summarised from www.leverhulme-trade.org.uk · www.leverhulme-trade.org.uk/about-trust/what-we-do · www.leverhulme-trade.org.uk/grants-undergraduate-study 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).

THE SALESPEOPLE'S CHARITY “The Salespeople’s Charity has a strong relationship with the Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust as a beneficiary of the Tr”

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)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (2 grantees)
Disability (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Northern Ireland (3 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (3 grantees)
Ireland (2 grantees)

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
up	NATIONAL GROCERS BENEVOLENT FUND	£1.0m	£3.0m
up	Postgraduate Bursaries	£239k	£413k

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
GroceryAid	FY2025	£3.0m	Schools Essentials Grant
Undergraduate Bursaries	FY2025	£1.8m	Undergraduate Bursaries
Postgraduate Bursaries	FY2025	£413k	Postgraduate Bursaries
Vocational Bursaries	FY2025	£7k	Vocational Bursaries
Undergraduate bursaries	FY2024	£1.3m	Undergraduate bursaries for periods of between one and six years
GroceryAid	FY2024	£1.0m	Schools Essential Grant (SEG) scheme
Postgraduate bursaries	FY2024	£239k	Postgraduate bursaries for periods of between one and four years
Vocational bursaries	FY2024	£10k	Vocational bursaries for periods of one and 2 years (Manchester and Bolton trial)
Undergraduate bursaries	FY2023	£1.5m	Education
GroceryAid	FY2023	£1.0m	Schools Essentials Grant
The Salespeople's Charity	FY2023	£900k	Benevolence
GroceryAid	FY2023	£467k	Benevolence
Royal Pinner Educational Trust	FY2023	£400k	Benevolence
Postgraduate bursaries	FY2023	£361k	Education
GroceryAid	FY2022	£466k	Grants to Institutions for Benevolence
The Salespeople’s Charity	FY2022	£450k	Grants to Institutions for Benevolence
Royal Pinner School Foundation	FY2022	£200k	Grants to Institutions for Benevolence

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 5233000 vs reference 5233000 (0.0% 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.