THE ANCHOR SOCIETY CIO — grant history

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Latest income

£483k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£137k

Accounts grants total

£256k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Deadlines: Application deadlines for 2026 are: 19th March for an April decision 25th June for a July/August decision 1st October for a November decision 17 December for a January 2027
What they don’t fund: Unfortunately, we can’t help with: general living expenses, debts or outstanding bills, moving or travel expenses, holidays or respite breaks, insurance costs, funeral costs, clothing, crockery and kitchen utensils, cleaning.

Summarised from www.anchorsociety.org.uk · www.anchorsociety.org.uk/grant-giving · www.anchorsociety.org.uk/emergency-grants 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 (10 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (8 grantees)
Disability (5 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (4 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (4 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (4 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (3 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (3 grantees)
Recreation (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Bristol City (10 grantees)
North Somerset (4 grantees)
South Gloucestershire (4 grantees)
Bath And North East Somerset (3 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Leicestershire (1 grantee)
Derby City (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Gloucestershire (1 grantee)
Somerset (1 grantee)

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
new	Carers’ Support	—	£15k
new	AGE UK BRISTOL	—	£12k
new	Redcatch Community Garden	—	£10k
new	Quartet – Advice Centres	—	£9k
new	ARNOS VALE CEMETERY TRUST	—	£8k
new	ACTA COMMUNITY THEATRE LTD.	—	£6k
new	Improving Lives for Older People	—	£5k
new	All Saints Lands Charity	—	£5k
up	ALIVE ACTIVITIES LIMITED	£5k	£9k
up	SOUTHMEAD DEVELOPMENT TRUST	£500	£5k
down	BRISTOL MUSIC TRUST	£25k	£2k
not listed	Age UK Bristol – Fuel poverty	£15k	—
not listed	BRISTOL AFTER STROKE	£10k	—
not listed	Quartet Community Foundation – Advice Centres	£5k	—
not listed	ST GEORGE'S BRISTOL	£0	—
not listed	University of the West of England Robotics – grant refund	£0	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
St Werburgh’s Community Association	FY2025	£25k
Carers’ Support	FY2025	£15k
Age UK Bristol	FY2025	£12k
Redcatch Community Garden	FY2025	£10k
Quartet – Advice Centres	FY2025	£9k
Alive Activities	FY2025	£9k
Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust	FY2025	£8k
ACTA Community Theatre	FY2025	£6k
Southmead Development Trust	FY2025	£5k
Improving Lives for Older People	FY2025	£5k
All Saints Lands Charity	FY2025	£5k
Centre for Sustainable Energy Somali Project	FY2025	£5k
Goldies Charity	FY2025	£5k
Age UK South Glos	FY2025	£5k
Avon Indian Community Association	FY2025	£5k
Impermanence	FY2025	£3k
Life Cycle	FY2025	£3k
Bristol Music Trust	FY2025	£2k
Bristol Music Trust	FY2024	£25k	Bristol Beacon support
Age UK Bristol – Fuel poverty	FY2024	£15k	Fuel poverty support
Bristol After Stroke	FY2024	£10k	Not specified in grantee list, but listed under charitable activities
Alive Activities	FY2024	£5k	BME Elders Project support
Quartet Community Foundation – Advice Centres	FY2024	£5k	Advice services
Southmead Development Trust	FY2024	£500	Greenway Hub for Older People
St Georges, Bristol	FY2024	£0	Concerts (Note: Text says 'agreed to fund... for a further year', table shows 0 for 2024, likely paid in prior year or commitment. However, table explicitly lists 0. I will include as stated in table).
St Werburgh’s Community Association	FY2024	£0	Festive Friends event (Note: Table shows 0. Text mentions support. I will include as stated in table).
University of the West of England Robotics – grant refund	FY2024	£0	Grant refund
Southmead Development Trust	FY2023	£19k	Grants to institutions
Bristol Music Trust	FY2023	£7k	Grants to institutions
Age UK Bristol – various projects	FY2023	£5k	Grants to institutions
Alive Activities	FY2023	£5k	Grants to institutions
Bristol After Stroke	FY2023	£5k	Grants to institutions
St Georges, Bristol	FY2023	£5k	Grants to institutions
St Werburgh’s Community Association	FY2023	£500	Grants to institutions
The Anchor Society Ltd – Intergenerational Project	FY2023	£0	Grants to institutions (refund)
University of the West of England Robotics	FY2023	£0	Grants to institutions (refund)
Age UK Bristol – LinkAge	FY2022	£10k
Alive Activities	FY2022	£10k
Age UK Bristol – Cost of Living Crisis	FY2022	£10k
Age UK Bristol – Tai Chi Programme	FY2022	£7k
Age UK Bristol – Active Ageing Bristol	FY2022	£6k
Bristol After Stroke	FY2022	£5k
Age UK Bristol – Celebrating Age Festival	FY2022	£1k
Bristol Music Trust	FY2022	£500
St Georges, Bristol	FY2022	£0
Business in the Community	FY2022	£0
Trinity Community Arts	FY2022	£0
The Anchor Society Ltd – Intergenerational Project	FY2022	£0
St Werburgh’s Community Association	FY2022	£0

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 136848 vs reference 255561 (46.5% 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.