WORCESTER MUNICIPAL CHARITIES (CIO) — grant history

Registered charity 1166931 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£1.4m

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£387k

Accounts grants total

£421k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Please contact us on Worcester 317117 or email [email protected]
Deadlines: 2026 deadlines for monthly individual grant applications: 12 noon on 8th January, 5th February, 5th March, 9th April, 7th May, 4th June, 9th July, 6th August, 10th September, 8th October, 5th November, 3rd December.

Summarised from www.wmcharities.org.uk 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 (5 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (4 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (4 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (3 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (2 grantees)
Disability (1 grantee)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)
Recreation (1 grantee)
Accommodation/housing (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Worcestershire (4 grantees)
Herefordshire (2 grantees)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Shropshire (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)
Denbighshire (1 grantee)
Wrexham (1 grantee)
Powys (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Citizens Advice	FY2024	£206k	Running Costs, advice, support, legal aid
Worcester Community Trust	FY2024	£46k	Youth work schemes (social housing areas)
WHAT Tudor House Museum	FY2024	£43k	Curator and Learning Officer salaries
Maggs Day Centre	FY2024	£35k	Running Costs, Worcester day centre, clothing project
Dancefest	FY2024	£20k	Dance lessons, (social housing areas)
Armchair furniture recycling	FY2024	£19k	Running Costs, free furniture - means tested
Allsorts of Performing Arts	FY2024	£16k	Running Costs
Palmer’s Educational Foundation	FY2024	£1k	Constitutional grant
Citizens Advice	FY2023	£193k	Running Costs, advice, support, legal aid
Worcester Community Trust	FY2023	£43k	Youth work schemes (social housing areas)
WHAT Tudor House Museum	FY2023	£40k	Curator and Learning Officer salaries
Maggs Day Centre	FY2023	£33k	Running Costs, Worcester day centre, clothing project
Dancefest	FY2023	£19k	Dance lessons, (social housing areas)
Armchair furniture recycling	FY2023	£18k	Running Costs, free furniture - means tested
Allsorts of Performing Arts	FY2023	£15k	Running Costs
Shopmobility	FY2023	£7k	Running costs, (frozen, as not means tested)
Palmer’s Educational Foundation	FY2023	£1k	Constitutional grant

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 386577 vs reference 420535 (8.1% 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.