THE PERSIMMON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£462k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£449k

Accounts grants total

£465k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 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 (13 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (10 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (10 grantees)
Disability (7 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (6 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (6 grantees)
Accommodation/housing (3 grantees)
Amateur Sport (3 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (2 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (7 grantees)
Scotland (6 grantees)
Throughout England (5 grantees)
Northern Ireland (4 grantees)
Somerset (2 grantees)
Bristol City (2 grantees)
Oxfordshire (2 grantees)
Cambridgeshire (1 grantee)
Burundi (1 grantee)
Bracknell Forest (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Stephens and George Charitable Trust	—	£50k
new	Bristol City Robins Foundation	—	£50k
new	MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT	—	£50k
new	Bothwell Futures	—	£50k
new	THANET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST	—	£50k
new	Newcastle College	—	£40k
new	The Place, York (formerly the Westfield Centre)	—	£33k
new	Cardiff City Foundation	—	£15k
not listed	REFUGE	£25k	—
not listed	The Larder, West Lothian	£15k	—
not listed	NORWICH CITY COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION	£15k	—
not listed	The University of Exeter’s South West Social Mobility Commission	£15k	—
not listed	YMCA Sandwell	£15k	—
not listed	The Schools Outreach Company	£9k	—
not listed	CARDIFF CITY FC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	£8k	—
not listed	Swansea City FC Community Foundation	£8k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Stephens and George Charitable Trust	FY2025	£50k
Bristol City Robins Foundation	FY2025	£50k
Macmillan Cancer Support	FY2025	£50k
Bothwell Futures	FY2025	£50k
Thanet Community Development Trust	FY2025	£50k
Newcastle College	FY2025	£40k
The Place, York (formerly the Westfield Centre)	FY2025	£33k
Cardiff City Foundation	FY2025	£15k
Heather House, Sittingbourne	FY2025	£15k
Youth Almighty Project	FY2025	£15k
Friends of Frank Wise School, Banbury	FY2025	£15k
Young Somerset	FY2025	£15k
Aberdeen FC Community Trust	FY2025	£15k
Thames Valley Air Ambulance	FY2025	£10k
Cash for Kids	FY2025	£10k
The School Outreach Company	FY2025	£9k
The Create Streets Foundation	FY2025	£5k
The Young People’s Counselling Service	FY2025	£1k
Refuge	FY2024	£25k	Donation to kickstart a fundraising campaign to purchase a safehouse for women they support.
The Larder, West Lothian	FY2024	£15k	To empower the most disadvantaged children, young people, adults and communities to improve their life chances, through access to learning and good food.
Norwich City Community Sports Foundation	FY2024	£15k	Funding families who are struggling with the cost of living to enjoy sports facilities and eat nutritious healthy meals.
The University of Exeter’s South West Social Mobility Commission	FY2024	£15k	To lead and co-ordinate efforts to transform social mobility and improve life prospects for disadvantaged young people across the South-West peninsula.
YMCA Sandwell	FY2024	£15k	To build life skills and inspire employment prospects by broadening their existing limited view of potential opportunities.
The Schools Outreach Company	FY2024	£9k	To maximise the exposure and visibility of job opportunities for all school students across the UK, acting as a conduit between employers and potential employees to develop fully inclusive and diverse talent pipelines.
Cardiff City FC Community Foundation	FY2024	£8k	To change lives and transform communities by improving health and wellbeing, supporting learning and skills, and building stronger communities.
Swansea City FC Community Foundation	FY2024	£8k	To inspire and engage people from all backgrounds from across South-West Wales, using Swansea City AFC as a force for positive change within their communities.
The Create Streets Foundation	FY2024	£5k	Not specified in the list of grants paid.
The Story of Christmas	FY2024	£3k	Not specified in the list of grants paid.
Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity	FY2023	£50k	support the MakeItVisible on-site initiative
Place2Be	FY2023	£50k	mental health support to children and young people in schools
The Place, York (formerly the Westfield Centre)	FY2023	£33k	community-embedded learning centre to improve educational attainment and social mobility
Hungry Minds, York	FY2023	£20k	provides free breakfasts for lower-income families in York schools
Young Minds Matter, Stratford Upon Avon	FY2023	£20k	educational and mentoring support to young people
Rachel House Children’s Hospice, Kinross	FY2023	£20k	respite, relaxation and support services for those in need
Saints Foundation, Southampton	FY2023	£20k	promotion of community participation in healthy recreation
2wish, Llantrisant	FY2023	£10k	support and counselling service to young people who have lost loved ones
The University of Salford’s Friends of Energy House 2.0 Impact Fund	FY2023	£10k	supports programmes and initiatives in climate change and poverty
Street Child	FY2023	£10k	helping to educate children who are not in school
Feeding Britain	FY2023	£10k	projects across affordable food clubs, Healthy Holidays, fuel banks and Pathways from Poverty
Whizz Kidz	FY2023	£10k	provides mobility-impaired children and young people with equipment, training and advice
Children’s Hospice South West	FY2023	£10k	full family support services for babies, children and young people with life-shortening conditions
LandAid	FY2023	£5k	mission to end youth homelessness
Band of Builders	FY2023	£5k	help members of the construction industry and their families in their hour of need
The Story of Christmas	FY2023	£3k	relieves poverty amongst homeless individuals
Great Yarmouth 221 Squadron, Royal Airforce Air Cadets	FY2023	£1k
Create Streets Foundation	FY2022	£10k	Advancing education in subjects related to the built environment
Pancreatic Cancer UK	FY2022	£10k	Research programme to develop a breath test for pancreatic cancer
The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)	FY2022	£6k	Suicide prevention charity

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 448641 vs reference 465373 (3.6% 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 or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].