THE EQ FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£1.0m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

—

Accounts grants total

£754k

extracted from its FY2025 accounts

Cross-checked against the funder’s own 360Giving open-data publication: 13 of 16 grants we extracted from its FY2024 accounts match a published grantee by name (81%), and 5 also match on amount within 2%. Differences usually reflect accounting-year vs award-date timing and grants the accounts aggregate. Published 360Giving grants in the file: 306.

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Please note that we are not currently accepting unsolicited applications for funding as we are concentrating on our existing relationships.

Summarised from eqfoundation.org.uk · eqfoundation.org.uk/a-better-way-to-fund-charities/ 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 (15 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (11 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (7 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (7 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (6 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (5 grantees)
Disability (3 grantees)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (3 grantees)
Recreation (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (8 grantees)
Throughout England (5 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Kenya (3 grantees)
Tanzania (2 grantees)
Malawi (2 grantees)
Nepal (2 grantees)
British Indian Ocean Territory (1 grantee)
Brighton And Hove (1 grantee)
Birmingham City (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 Big Give	—	£128k
new	CITY HARVEST	—	£25k
new	Best Beginnings	—	£25k
new	THE WAVE PROJECT	—	£25k
new	Cares Family	—	£25k
new	THE RECRUITMENT JUNCTION	—	£20k
new	CLEAN SLATE SOLUTIONS	—	£20k
up	Sport 4 Life	£47k	£93k
up	RAINFOREST TRUST UK	£30k	£52k
up	AFRIKIDS LIMITED	£25k	£50k
up	AllChild	£25k	£45k
up	The For Baby's Sake Trust	£25k	£45k
not listed	Sand Dams Worldwide Limited	£41k	—
not listed	THE ACCESS PROJECT	£30k	—
not listed	THE BORNE FOUNDATION	£25k	—
not listed	ACTION TUTORING	£25k	—
not listed	THE PANATHLON FOUNDATION LIMITED	£25k	—
not listed	FOODCYCLE	£23k	—
not listed	RESURGO TRUST	£23k	—
not listed	THE FUNDING NETWORK	£16k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
The Big Give	FY2024	£128k	Granted to charities via Big Give campaigns (Christmas Appeal and Green Match Fund)
Sport 4 Life	FY2024	£93k	Recruitment of staff for satellite operations
My Life Films	FY2024	£59k	Penetration of My Life TV
Rainforest Trust UK	FY2024	£52k	New initiatives in Brazil (via Big Give Green Match)
Afrikids	FY2024	£50k	Leave No Child Behind programme in Ghana
Solar Aid	FY2024	£45k	Pilot of Light-a-Village project in Malawi
AllChild	FY2024	£45k	Programme at Kensington Aldridge Academy and North West rollout
For Baby’s Sake Trust	FY2024	£45k	Rollout of CONNECT virtual service
Blue Marine Foundation	FY2024	£41k	Marine Protected Areas (via Big Give Green Match Fund)
City Harvest	FY2024	£25k	Ingredients for nutritious meals
Best Beginnings	FY2024	£25k	Not specified in individual list, but listed in Note 5
The Wave Project	FY2024	£25k	Surf therapy courses for young people
Cares Family	FY2024	£25k	Not specified in individual list, but listed in Note 5
The Recruitment Junction	FY2024	£20k	Funding for people with convictions to enter programme
Clean Slate Solutions	FY2024	£20k	Programmes for adults leaving prison
The Big Give	FY2024	£8k	Grant to platform
Sport 4 Life	FY2023	£47k	Equal Opportunity & Fighting Poverty
My Life Films	FY2023	£44k	Generational Bonding & Loneliness
Blue Marine Foundation	FY2023	£43k	Environment and Climate Change
Sand Dams Worldwide	FY2023	£41k	Environment and Climate Change
Solar Aid	FY2023	£37k	Environment and Climate Change
The Access Project	FY2023	£30k	Equal Opportunity & Fighting Poverty
Rainforest Trust UK	FY2023	£30k	Environment and Climate Change
The For Baby’s Sake Trust	FY2023	£25k	Early Years Intervention
Afrikids	FY2023	£25k	Equal Opportunity & Fighting Poverty
The Borne Foundation	FY2023	£25k	Early Years Intervention
West London Zone	FY2023	£25k	Equal Opportunity & Fighting Poverty
Action Tutoring	FY2023	£25k	Equal Opportunity & Fighting Poverty
The Panathlon Foundation	FY2023	£25k	Equal Opportunity & Fighting Poverty
Foodcycle	FY2023	£23k	Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition
Resurgo Trust	FY2023	£23k	Equal Opportunity & Fighting Poverty
The Funding Network	FY2023	£16k	Improving Philanthropy
The Access Project	FY2022	£50k	Inequality of opportunity
The Big Issue	FY2022	£31k	Generational bonding & loneliness
West London Zone	FY2022	£30k	Inequality of opportunity
The Funding Network	FY2022	£29k	Improving philanthropy
Sand Dams Worldwide	FY2022	£28k	Environment and climate change
Blue Marine Foundation	FY2022	£28k	Environment and climate change
Renewable World	FY2022	£25k	Environment and climate change
Resurgo Trust	FY2022	£25k	Inequality of opportunity
Action Tutoring	FY2022	£25k	Inequality of opportunity
Advent of Change	FY2022	£25k	Inequality of opportunity
Best Beginnings	FY2022	£25k	Early years intervention
Kids Operating Room	FY2022	£25k	Early years intervention
My Life Films	FY2022	£25k	Inequality of opportunity
Panathlon Foundation	FY2022	£25k	Inequality of opportunity
The Borne Foundation	FY2022	£25k	Early years intervention
Solar Aid	FY2022	£23k	Environment and climate change
Foodcycle	FY2022	£20k	Healthy lifestyles & nutrition
The Bike Project	FY2022	£20k	Generational bonding & loneliness
The Cares Family	FY2022	£15k	Generational bonding & loneliness
City Harvest	FY2022	£15k	Healthy lifestyles & nutrition

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 (no individually listed grants). 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.