THE FRAXINUS CHARITABLE TRUST — grant history
Latest income
£618k
Grants listed (FY2025)
6
Listed grants total
£541k
Accounts grants total
£541k
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
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What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- Economic/community Development/employment
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- Disability
- Animals
Where grantees operate
- Burma
- Madagascar
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Nepal
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Bangladesh
- Ethiopia
- China
- Cambodia
What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | GHP - Saving Mothers at Delivery; Family Planning and Gender-Based Violence Somaliland | — | £205k |
| new | GHP - Improving non-communicable diseases services in Ethiopia, for Ethiopia and our NCD project; | — | £145k |
| new | United World Schools - The UWS Nepal Fellowship Programme is delivering accelerated learning gains in rural schools, with numeracy proficiency improving nearly twice as fast in Fellow-supported classrooms (+5.4% vs +2.3%). By placing highly trained graduate teachers in underserved communities, the programme has reached over 6,500 students, transforming teaching quality, classroom engagement, and a | — | £89k |
| new | Leeds University - Delivery of the Changing the Story research project on the ground in Ukraine, South Africa and Rwanda (Year 2) - This year, the Changing the Story project has made strong progress in supporting 40 children and young people in Rwanda and South Africa to engage meaningfully with policy makers and social service providers on issues relating to care reform. Through a combination of | — | £51k |
| new | Shelter - Towards the Sheffield Domestic Abuse Navigator Service | — | £48k |
| new | British Refugee Council - The Refugee Council is incredibly grateful to have had Fraxinus Charitable Trust’s support for a second year. Last year, we were able to support 15,203 refugees and people seeking asylum, including 7,022 unaccompanied young people. The Trust specifically supported our Families in Crisis programmes through the Big Give campaign, helping families to access adequate housing, | — | £4k |
| not listed | GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS | £199k | — |
| not listed | THE BRISTOL CLIFTON AND WEST OF ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY LIMITED | £100k | — |
| not listed | UNITED WORLD SCHOOLS | £71k | — |
| not listed | University of Leeds | £51k | — |
| not listed | WAR CHILD | £50k | — |
| not listed | GREENPEACE ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST | £50k | — |
| not listed | BRITISH REFUGEE COUNCIL | £9k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHP - Saving Mothers at Delivery; Family Planning and Gender-Based Violence Somaliland | FY2025 | £205k | GHP - Saving Mothers at Delivery; Family Planning and Gender-Based Violence Somaliland |
| GHP - Improving non-communicable diseases services in Ethiopia, for Ethiopia and our NCD project; | FY2025 | £145k | GHP - Improving non-communicable diseases services in Ethiopia, for Ethiopia and our NCD project; |
| United World Schools - The UWS Nepal Fellowship Programme is delivering accelerated learning gains in rural schools, with numeracy proficiency improving nearly twice as fast in Fellow-supported classrooms (+5.4% vs +2.3%). By placing highly trained graduate teachers in underserved communities, the programme has reached over 6,500 students, transforming teaching quality, classroom engagement, and a | FY2025 | £89k | United World Schools - The UWS Nepal Fellowship Programme is delivering accelerated learning gains in rural schools, with numeracy proficiency improving nearly twice as fast in Fellow-supported classrooms (+5.4% vs +2.3%). By placing highly trained graduate teachers in underserved communities, the programme has reached over 6,500 students, transforming teaching quality, classroom engagement, and access to education in some of Nepal’s most remote regions. |
| Leeds University - Delivery of the Changing the Story research project on the ground in Ukraine, South Africa and Rwanda (Year 2) - This year, the Changing the Story project has made strong progress in supporting 40 children and young people in Rwanda and South Africa to engage meaningfully with policy makers and social service providers on issues relating to care reform. Through a combination of | FY2025 | £51k | Leeds University - Delivery of the Changing the Story research project on the ground in Ukraine, South Africa and Rwanda (Year 2) - This year, the Changing the Story project has made strong progress in supporting 40 children and young people in Rwanda and South Africa to engage meaningfully with policy makers and social service providers on issues relating to care reform. Through a combination of training, workshops, advocacy activities, and participation in high-level events, these young people have built their confidence and skills in communicating with decision-makers and advocating for change. |
| Shelter - Towards the Sheffield Domestic Abuse Navigator Service | FY2025 | £48k | Shelter - Towards the Sheffield Domestic Abuse Navigator Service |
| British Refugee Council - The Refugee Council is incredibly grateful to have had Fraxinus Charitable Trust’s support for a second year. Last year, we were able to support 15,203 refugees and people seeking asylum, including 7,022 unaccompanied young people. The Trust specifically supported our Families in Crisis programmes through the Big Give campaign, helping families to access adequate housing, | FY2025 | £4k | British Refugee Council - The Refugee Council is incredibly grateful to have had Fraxinus Charitable Trust’s support for a second year. Last year, we were able to support 15,203 refugees and people seeking asylum, including 7,022 unaccompanied young people. The Trust specifically supported our Families in Crisis programmes through the Big Give campaign, helping families to access adequate housing, receive therapy sessions, and gain small emergency grants to pay for things like food and transport. Thank you so much for your support and continued belief in our work. |
| Tropical Health and Education Trust | FY2024 | £199k | To support work in Somalia/Somaliland and in particular to support the Female Health Workers operating at a community level. |
| Bristol Clifton and West of England Zoological Society Limited | FY2024 | £100k | for the construction of the new learning space in the African Forest area at Bristol Zoo Project. |
| United World Schools | FY2024 | £71k | Teaching Fellowship Impact Summary (2024–25). |
| University of Leeds | FY2024 | £51k | a multi-year commitment to fund the research project “Making Education Accountable”. |
| Bristol Clifton and West of England Zoological Society Limited | FY2024 | £50k | for the continuation of the conservation programme in Equatorial Guinea between 2024 and 2026. |
| War Child | FY2024 | £50k | to implement the full version of the Tech Hub project, transforming the future for some of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s most vulnerable young women and girls. |
| Greenpeace Environmental Trust | FY2024 | £50k | in support of the 2024 Climate Justice Camp for Sub-Saharan Africa which took place in Tanzania; and the 2025 Climate Justice Camp for Latin America, which will take place in Mexico. |
| British Refugee Council | FY2024 | £9k | a donation via the Big Give in support of the campaign: A Safe Place to Call Home. |
| Tropical Health and Education Trust | FY2023 | £138k | Funding for the first-year pilot in Ethiopia to support Health Extension Workers to increase the effectiveness of their role in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of NCDs and the use of a children’s book to promote inter-generational behaviour change associated with NCD treatment and care. |
| United World Schools | FY2023 | £53k | Continued support in scaling the UWS Fellowship programme over the next 3 years in Nepal. With the intention of recruiting, training and placing in UWS schools 15 fellows in the first year. |
| UNICEF UK | FY2023 | £50k | Second year funding towards the programme to help end child marriage and increase access to education for girls in Nepal. |
| University of Leeds | FY2023 | £39k | Funding a PhD Scholarship in Politics and International Studies. |
| Greenpeace Environmental Trust | FY2023 | £20k | Supporting Climate Justice Camp in Lebanon which helped to train and support eight young people from the camp to COP28. More than 450 young leaders from almost 100 countries across the Global South took part in the camp in Lebanon, which was a collaborative effort between close to 40 organisations. |
| The 196 Foundation (Givingworks) | FY2023 | £10k | Towards the Memusi Project in Kenya where an 8 acre farm will be established that will deliver food to 1,000 children every day by growing staple crops of pawpaw, watermelon, tomato, onions, maize and beans, which will create wide opportunities such as free school meals and the ability to sell surplus produce at an affordable rate. |
| Tropical Health and Education Trust | FY2022 | £210k | to support a programme in Somaliland aimed to reduce maternal and infant mortality by ensuring women seek and receive quality care when they need it over a three year period |
| University of Leeds | FY2022 | £114k | in support of the research programme ‘Changing the Story’ and sponsorship of a Phd student studying Politics and International Studies. |
| UNICEF UK | FY2022 | £50k | towards their programme to end child marriage and increase access to education for girls in Nepal |
| The 196 Foundation (Givingworks) | FY2022 | £10k | towards their women’s sanitary products programme in Nepal |
| United World Schools | FY2022 | £0 | |
| University of Leeds | FY2021 | £114k | |
| UNICEF UK | FY2021 | £100k | |
| Tropical Health and Education Trust | FY2021 | £70k | |
| United World Schools | FY2021 | £55k |