THE CHARLES LEWIS FOUNDATION — grant history
Latest income
£125k
Grants listed (FY2025)
52
Listed grants total
£311k
Accounts grants total
£108k
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Disability
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Amateur Sport
- Recreation
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Economic/community Development/employment
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Throughout England
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- West Sussex
- Surrey
- Essex
- Devon
- Kent
- Barnet
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Island Trust | FY2025 | £108k | Towards the costs of their Ocean Discoverability programme for the young people they support to experience sailing and other maritime activities. |
| The Friend's of Dolphin | FY2025 | £61k | Part of the costs of the new Dolphin boat that takes disabled people of all ages around Poole Harbour and up to Wareham. |
| The Bike Experience | FY2025 | £47k | Towards the cost of a bike experience day. |
| Contact Hostel | FY2025 | £5k | Good Memories project - an ongoing project that provides positive experiences for their residents, such as & including birthday cakes, celebratory meals and trips out. |
| Sunshine Wishes Children's Charity | FY2025 | £5k | Towards the cost of the essential item care packages and the cost of keeping the pantry stocked up for the families they support. |
| Victoria's Promise | FY2025 | £5k | Funding towards extending services for young women diagnosed with cancer to Frimley Park Hospital. |
| PSDS | FY2025 | £5k | Cost of summer party with Singing Hands. |
| Acheinu Cancer Support | FY2025 | £5k | Providing winter holiday activity packs for 80 children & a nutritional dinner for 80 children over 4 days. |
| Master Park Pavilion Charity | FY2025 | £3k | Part funding of audio & visual eupiment at the Pavilion. |
| Bollington Community Association (Bridgend Centre) | FY2025 | £3k | To go towards the costs to continue running the Bridgend Buddies project for another year which reduces isolation and depression for older people in their community. |
| MyTime Young Carers | FY2025 | £3k | Part of the costs of the Making Memories Programme which provides young carers the chance to experience new things and make special memories with new friends and make sure their voices are heard. |
| MammaKind | FY2025 | £3k | Funding towards the cost of the rent of their warehouse for this baby bank. |
| CoActive Arts | FY2025 | £3k | Towards staff costs for 10 sessions of The Steering Group. |
| In Charley's Memory | FY2025 | £3k | Funding towards to the core costs of thie young people's mental health charity. |
| Make Them Smile | FY2025 | £3k | Funding towards various items of specialised equipment for a secondary SEN school in Upper Norwood London. |
| Nightingale Hammerson | FY2025 | £3k | Specialist melamine bowls, plates and cups to allow residents to maintain independence for as long as possible when enjoying meals. |
| MHA | FY2025 | £3k | Tutor costs for chair based exercise classes for 1 year. |
| MACS | FY2025 | £3k | Half the costs of their newsletter that goes out to circa 1000 people. |
| Bentley Beginnings | FY2025 | £2k | Cost of summer trip to cover coaches & spending money of £5 for 90 children. |
| Cyclists Fighting Cancer | FY2025 | £2k | Funding of 2 lightweight bikes or trikes for children with cancer. |
| Dearne Valley Venture | FY2025 | £2k | Funding towards for costs during the closure period whilst the centre is having refurbishments done. |
| Linden Lodge Charitable Trust | FY2025 | £2k | Daisy Player for their young blind students to aid them in learning. |
| Memories Are Golden | FY2025 | £2k | Christmas Project for those living with dementia in the community including a personalised Christmas hamper that included festive treats & gifts, a delicious Christmas dinner & festive entertainment. |
| Green Wrythe School | FY2025 | £2k | Supermarket vouchers for families in need at Christmas. |
| Reminiscence learning | FY2025 | £2k | The cost of Memory Activity Group for people living with dementia and those who support them. |
| Friends of Jubilee Pool | FY2025 | £2k | New lane dividers to replace old ones that are no longer usable. |
| Theodora Children's Charity | FY2025 | £2k | Funding towards the cost of their Giggle Doctor Programme. |
| St Raphael's Hospice | FY2025 | £2k | Funding for four Community Palative Care home visitsand some other organisational overheads. |
| Love Squared | FY2025 | £2k | Full costs for a trip to Bristol Zoo for 10 children with mental health needs. |
| The Robin Cancer Trust | FY2025 | £1k | Education and awareness programme for Germ Cell Cancer which is a rare cancer typically affecting 16-35 year olds. |
| Spread Some Sunshine | FY2025 | £1k | To purchase Christmas & birthday presents for children in need. |
| Ner Yisrael Educational Trust | FY2025 | £1k | Assisting with urgent building repairs for their thriving community centre that caters for all ages from the orthodox Jewish community. |
| Headway Surrey | FY2025 | £1k | Provision of a monthly young persons group for brain injury surviors for 1 year. |
| Nature Nook | FY2025 | £1k | Housing and veterinary scales for an exotic animal rescue centre. |
| Oscar's Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity | FY2025 | £1k | To cover the cost of 15 Booster Boxes for children with brain tumors & their siblings. |
| ExeAccess | FY2025 | £1k | Part of the cost of replacing their Tramper vehicle. |
| Alice Cross Community Centre | FY2025 | £1k | Artist costs and new instruments. |
| Solent Sharks | FY2025 | £1k | New camera equipment, tripod and bluetooth speakers to be used at the wheelchair rugby training sessions. |
| Caring Together | FY2025 | £1k | Costs for a creative writing tutor. |
| Crawley Open House | FY2025 | £1k | Continuation of the monthly mobile dental unit coming into Crawley Open House to provide those there with much needed dental treatment. |
| Hope's Place | FY2025 | £1k | Funding the costs of one course for disadvantaged young people to see hope in their future. |
| Scotswood Garden | FY2025 | £1k | Enhancing Scotswood Garden with a gardening for dementia project. |
| Shift.MS | FY2025 | £1k | Costs towards fundraising gap to enable them to support newly diagnosed and young people with MS. |
| Step by Step London | FY2025 | £1k | The cost of a trip to an interactive farm to enable the children with disabilities to engage directly with animals. |
| Time to Talk Befriending | FY2025 | £1k | Volunteer recruitment costs. |
| Families United Network | FY2025 | £960 | Activity costs for skills workshop to hel young people with a range of physical and cognitive disaabilities learn vital life skills to help them tranistion into adulthood. |
| Strong Men | FY2025 | £936 | Funding for the Zip World activity on an August Weekender trip for bereaved men. |
| Children's Hospital Pyjamas | FY2025 | £900 | Pyjama distributions for one location for one year. |
| Cleanup UK | FY2025 | £750 | Marketing assets for 3 Clean Up Hubs in Thanet. |
| London Wheelchair Rugby Club | FY2025 | £600 | To go towards the annual project costs, with £2,000 covering their volunteer costs. |
| Leeds Childrens Charity | FY2025 | £375 | Replacement of core activity equipment for children who are experienceing abuse, neglect and poverty. |
| BOOM Theatre | FY2025 | £360 | Financial assistance for a youth theatre group with the staging of Everybody's Talking About Jamie. |
| Jigsaw Southeast | FY2024 | £67k | Activity days/Social events for parents & siblings who have suffered bereavement. |
| On Course Foundation | FY2024 | £11k | Full costs for their employment programme - including work experience placements, insight workshops, voluntary employment & supporting people with getting industry based qualifications in the golf industry. |
| Heart Cells Foundation | FY2024 | £10k | To fund the pioneering research and development of a revolutionary life saving treatment that uses a patient's own stem cells to repair their damaged heart and make this treatment available to all on the NHS. |
| The Rotary Club of Brighouse | FY2024 | £8k | Funding towards the cost of a specialist wheelchair. |
| Magical Taxis | FY2024 | £6k | Sponsorship of 4 taxi for Children's Magical Taxi Tour to Disneyland 2024. |
| iChoosefreedom | FY2024 | £5k | Replacement of a television in their communal area. |
| Spencer Dayman | FY2024 | £5k | Meningitis vaccine study. |
| Be Free Young Carers | FY2024 | £5k | Trips for young carers, some local & some further afield, specifically towards transport costs, providing 12 coaches for 12 trips for 240 carers. |
| Bentley Beginnings | FY2024 | £5k | Cost for two trips for the young people the organisation supports one in the summer (beach) & one in October to a theme park & for fireworks. |
| Keston PTA | FY2024 | £5k | Part of the cost of replacing a school running track that was damaged. |
| The Chartwell Cancer Trust | FY2024 | £5k | To fund an expert team (videographer, animator and project manager) to produce a series of films & animations dedicated to Cancer treatments. |
| Wipe Away Those Tears | FY2024 | £4k | Funding of a specialist car seat for 17 month old little girl with cerebral palsy left sided hemiplegia, hypertonia and dysphagia with physical impairments, motor function difficulties and involuntary movements. |
| MYTI Youth Club | FY2024 | £4k | Operational costs to ensure they can keep on opening every week and during the school holidays. |
| CHECT | FY2024 | £4k | Towards the costs of our support work with children, teenagers and young people, adults and families whose diagnoses of RB cause lifelong challenges. |
| Croydon Refugee Day Centre | FY2024 | £3k | Family Support Project, specifically supplying uniform/vouchers for uniform for those families that need them. |
| Children's Hospital Pyjamas | FY2024 | £3k | For 375 pairs of pyjamas to poorly and disadvantaged children and young people in hospitals, hospices and refuges across the UK. |
| Emmie's Kitchen | FY2024 | £3k | To cover the cost of one months take away and snack bags for parents who have children in hospital. |
| Stripey Stork | FY2024 | £3k | Stripey's School Days Project - to purchase practical items for school required by the organisation's beneficiary families. |
| Guy's Gift | FY2024 | £3k | Bereavement Counselling for Children and Young People. A group programme for up to 15 children. |
| Criminon | FY2024 | £3k | Supporting 10 offenders with life changing distance-learning courses. |
| Children's Heart Federation | FY2024 | £2k | 100 Molly's Dollies. |
| Life Education Wessex (PB) | FY2024 | £2k | Healthy Living School Workshops, funding will provide 11 days of workshops, benefitting approx 1,140 children. |
| Tourette Syndrome UK | FY2024 | £2k | Towards costs of their TICfest & TEENfest. |
| Aspierations | FY2024 | £2k | Funding towards a new website which will promote their e-learning course “Introduction to Neurodiversity” and their pioneering online platform to help autistic candidates in to work. |
| ENYP | FY2024 | £2k | Urban Community Garden project. The project grows fruit & vegetables that help their food poverty initiatives, creates sustainable ways to source food and provides education for households to be able to do it for themselves too. This helps reduce food costs, but has mental health and physical health benefits. |
| FetLor Youth Club | FY2024 | £2k | Towards the cost of their Outward-Bound residential weeks for the young people they support. |
| Green Wrythe Primary School | FY2024 | £2k | Supporting 10-20 families who are impacted severely by the cost of living with £100-£200 worth of vouchers. |
| Spread Some Sunshine (PB) | FY2024 | £2k | Siblings Club - to provide days out, events & fun activities for siblings of terminally ill children. |
| Read for Good | FY2024 | £2k | Part funding for the supply of books to one of their hospitals for a year. |
| Hour Community (PB) | FY2024 | £2k | Towards the Men's & Ladies Shed Project, specifically for tools & equipment. |
| Kinetic Science | FY2024 | £2k | Lab in a Library Project, teaching science, maths & IT, funding for almost 2 sessions |
| Bramber Bakehouse | FY2024 | £2k | 1 month's salary for a Project Coordinator. |
| MACS | FY2024 | £2k | Funding for one persfon for a trip to Sicily (for 8 peoplein total) who have been born without eyes or underdeveloped eyes, often this will be their first trip abroad, for 6 days. Cost for 1 person. |
| The Bike Experience | FY2024 | £2k | Bike experience days for people disabled through injury or illness. An opportunity to learn or re-learn to ride a motorcycle. Our funding will cover the hire cost of the race track for the day for 6 riders. |
| Blesma | FY2024 | £2k | Funding towards the costs of garden maintenance and/or garden adaptions for Blesma members based in the South of England. |
| Sal's Shoes (PB) | FY2024 | £2k | Funding towards the purchase of school shoes, PE trainers and wellies for children who can't afford to buy them. |
| Time to Talk Befriending | FY2024 | £2k | A party for their volunteers and scheme members to celebrate Time to Talk Befriending's 10th anniversary. Food, cards, vouchers, gifts, postage etc. |
| MHA Communities | FY2024 | £1k | Holiday from Home weekly activity for members that can't go on the annual holiday, themed to different destinations once a week for 6 weeks. |
| Christel House | FY2024 | £1k | Funding for half a scholarship for one student for one year at Christel House. |
| Surrey Drug & Alcohol Care | FY2024 | £1k | Group counselling sessions via Zoom for 8 people for 8 weeks. |
| Clean Up UK | FY2024 | £1k | Funding for equipment - 40 sets of litter picking equipment. |
| We Are Beams | FY2024 | £1k | Items for refurbishment of a sensory room, specifically a musical hand wall. |
| The Marina Indoor Bowling Club | FY2024 | £1k | A retrospective grant towards lighting sensors to save on electricity in a bowls club. |
| Stripey Stork | FY2024 | £1k | Santa Stork - towards the cost of purchasing gifts and wrapping paper. |
| Crackerjacks | FY2024 | £1k | For a young boy, aged 6 who has Mowat-Wilson Syndrome, funding for the purchase a Specialist Buggy with Accessories. |
| Mosaic LGBT+ | FY2024 | £1k | Funding towards the travel costs for their Summer 2023 trip for 21 young people & 6 team members. |
| Caring For Life | FY2024 | £1k | Funds to improve the facilities in the Growers Garden where beneficiaries grow their own fruit & vegetables, and provide useful additions which will be utilised for years to come, whilst enabling us to further enhance our care and support of acutely vulnerable and at-risk individuals in and around Leeds. |
| Helpful Hounds | FY2024 | £1k | Costs for a new assistance dog. |
| Bromley Brighter Beginnings | FY2024 | £1k | School uniform for families in need, including blazers, shirts, trousers etc. and vouchers for school shoes and school supplies. |
| Crawley Open House | FY2024 | £929 | Dentaid will come in for 6 monthly 4-5 hour sessions to offer screenings, advice and dental care for the organisation that supports the homeless, they will support 25-30 patients. |
| St Raphaels | FY2024 | £500 | 25 TENS Machines to help patients with pain. |