ASPEN TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£139k

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£1.4m

Accounts grants total

£1.4m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2024 accounts

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 (6 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (4 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
Accommodation/housing (1 grantee)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
Disability (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Oxfordshire (3 grantees)
Scotland (2 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Ireland (1 grantee)
Mali (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (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 OXFORD TRUST	—	£1.0m
new	Wesley House	—	£35k
new	Just Imagine If	—	£1k
up	SYLVA FOUNDATION	£22k	£106k
not listed	EARTH TRUST	£250k	—
not listed	ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST	£35k	—
not listed	WOLFSON COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD	£0	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Oxford Trust	FY2024	£1.0m	Stansfeld Park site development
Sylva Foundation	FY2024	£106k	Product Manager
Sylva Foundation	FY2024	£94k	Product Manager
Sylva Foundation	FY2024	£94k	Product Manager
Wesley House	FY2024	£35k	Transition costs
Wesley House	FY2024	£35k	Transition costs
TEMWA - Malawi	FY2024	£5k
S.A.F.E. Arts for Education - Kenya	FY2024	£5k
Just Imagine If	FY2024	£1k	Workshop on promoting creative ideas in the NHS
Earth Trust	FY2023	£250k	Core funding
Ecological Continuity Trust	FY2023	£35k	Annual grant for 2024-2026 (3 of 3)
Ecological Continuity Trust	FY2023	£35k	Annual grant for 2024-2026 (2 of 3)
Ecological Continuity Trust	FY2023	£35k	Annual grant for 2024-2026 (1 of 3)
Sylva Foundation	FY2023	£22k	Grant for salary of a part-time administrator (1 of 3)
Sylva Foundation	FY2023	£22k	Grant for salary of a part-time administrator (2 of 3)
Sylva Foundation	FY2023	£22k	Grant for salary of a part-time administrator (3 of 3)
S.A.F.E. Arts for Education - Kenya	FY2023	£5k	Donation
TEMWA - Malawi	FY2023	£5k	Donation for replacement 4wd vehicle
Wolfson College Oxford	FY2023	£0	River meadow conservation project (Note: Note 9 lists 0 for 2023, but text mentions continued funding. However, strictly following Note 9 table which details 'Grant making' amounts, the value is 0. The text says 'continued to fund', but no specific 2023 amount is listed in the grant table, only in 2022. Wait, Note 9 shows 0 for Wolfson College Oxford in 2023. The text says 'continued to fund this long term work'. It is possible the payment was made in a different period or the table is incomplete. However, the rule is to extract from accounts. Note 9 is the specific grant note. It lists 0. I will extract 0 or omit if strictly following paid amounts. The prompt asks for grants PAID OUT. Note 9 lists 'Total grants' as 429,608. The sum of the listed items is 215363 + 250000 + 350003 + 5000 + 5000 = 64608 + 250000 + 105000 + 10000 = 429608. This matches the total. Therefore, Wolfson College Oxford received 0 in 2023 according to the financial statements, despite the narrative. I will not include it with a non-zero amount. I will include the ones with explicit amounts.)
Earth Trust	FY2022	£580k	grant made as part of the donation received in 2021 from Mingulay Prewell Trust
Earth Trust	FY2022	£250k	grant made as part of the donation received in 2021 from Mingulay Prewell Trust
Sylva Foundation	FY2022	£119k	grant made as part of the donation received in 2021 from Mingulay Prewell Trust
Wolfson College Oxford	FY2022	£50k	grant made as part of the donation received in 2021 from Mingulay Prewell Trust
EuCAN	FY2022	£3k	grant made as part of the donation received in 2021 from Mingulay Prewell Trust
Mali Development Group	FY2022	£3k	grant made as part of the donation received in 2021 from Mingulay Prewell Trust
Friends St Nicks Fields	FY2022	£3k	grant made as part of the donation received in 2021 from Mingulay Prewell Trust
Ecol Continuity	FY2022	£1k	grant made as part of the donation received in 2021 from Mingulay Prewell Trust
Earth Trust	FY2021	£250k	Second instalment of a grant approved to fund salaries of senior leadership posts at Earth Trust.
Oxford Trust	FY2021	£100k	Emergency grant to enable Oxford Trust to keep its science education program afloat.
Rainforest Saver	FY2021	£25k	Grant pledged from donation received from Mingulay Prewell Trust.
Sylva Foundation	FY2021	£21k	Second and final instalment of a grant approved to fund the salary of the wood school tutor.

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 1375347 vs reference 1365346 (0.7% 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.