THE BIG YELLOW FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£444k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£345k

Accounts grants total

£345k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

SUPPORTING WOUNDED VETERANS LTD. “Big Yellow Foundation”
WORKING CHANCE LTD “The Big Yellow Foundation has been incredibly generous, supporting Working Chance with funding of £77,500 over the first”
DOWN'S SYNDROME ASSOCIATION “One example of this is the support for the WorkFit programme by the Big Yellow Foundation . The employment programme bri”
THE BACK-UP TRUST “Their support has allowed us to reduce our costs and also help us ensure people with a spinal cord injury and have the s”

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 (7 grantees)
Disability (3 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
Amateur Sport (3 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (2 grantees)
Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency (1 grantee)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (6 grantees)
Scotland (5 grantees)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Throughout England (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
up	SUPPORTING WOUNDED VETERANS LTD.	£30k	£58k
up	St Giles’ Trust	£30k	£49k
up	DOWN'S SYNDROME ASSOCIATION	£30k	£48k
up	WORKING CHANCE LTD	£30k	£48k
up	STREET LEAGUE	£30k	£48k
not listed	HIRE A HERO	£30k	—
not listed	Bounce Back	£30k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Supporting Wounded Veterans	FY2025	£58k	General grant
St Giles’ Trust	FY2025	£49k	General grant
The Back Up Trust	FY2025	£48k	General grant
Down’s Syndrome Association	FY2025	£48k	General grant
Breaking Barriers	FY2025	£48k	General grant
Working Chance	FY2025	£48k	General grant
Street League	FY2025	£48k	General grant
Breaking Barriers	FY2024	£55k	General grant and targeted grant (Employment programme services)
The Back Up Trust	FY2024	£51k	General grant and targeted grants (Careers Fair and Education Inclusion service)
Down’s Syndrome Association	FY2024	£30k	General grant
Hire A Hero	FY2024	£30k	General grant
St Giles’ Trust	FY2024	£30k	General grant
Bounce Back	FY2024	£30k	General grant
Street League	FY2024	£30k	General grant
Working Chance	FY2024	£30k	General grant
Supporting Wounded Veterans	FY2024	£30k	General grant
Breaking Barriers	FY2023	£40k	Supporting Breaking Barriers expand their refugee employment support into Glasgow and Liverpool
Down's Syndrome Association	FY2023	£28k	Employing an Information & Training Officer and funding the making of two films
The Back Up Trust	FY2023	£28k	Hosting their Careers Fair for people with a spinal cord injury
St Giles' Trust	FY2023	£28k	Extra funding for their Client Fund
Street League	FY2023	£20k	General grant
Hire A Hero	FY2023	£20k	General grant
Bounce Back	FY2023	£20k	General grant
Working Chance	FY2023	£10k	General grant to new charity partner
Breaking Barriers	FY2022	£45k
The Back Up Trust	FY2022	£28k
Hire A Hero	FY2022	£25k
Street League	FY2022	£25k
St Giles Trust	FY2022	£25k
Bounce Back	FY2022	£25k
Down's Syndrome Association	FY2022	£20k

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 345199 vs reference 345199 (0.0% 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.