KEN DODD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£508k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£853k

Accounts grants total

£852k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

FY2024: 5 grants totalling £174k are listed but excluded from totals: unverified read (a second reading of the page gave a different amount).

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

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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 (9 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (7 grantees)
Disability (5 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (5 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (5 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (4 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (4 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (4 grantees)
Religious Activities (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Liverpool City (5 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (3 grantees)
Lancashire (2 grantees)
Durham (1 grantee)
Flintshire (1 grantee)
Guernsey (1 grantee)
Halton (1 grantee)
Isle Of Man (1 grantee)
Jersey (1 grantee)
Knowsley (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Royal Court	—	£244k
new	Leeds Heritage Theatres	—	£125k
new	Shakespeare North Playhouse Capital Campaign	—	£75k
new	The Dogs Trust	—	£50k
new	THE SALVATION ARMY	—	£25k
new	IOM - SVG Education Programme	—	£25k
new	Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust	—	£11k
new	Liverpool Met. Cathedral Choir	—	£7k
up	THE CORPORATION OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN LIVERPOOL	£75k	£150k
up	St Lukes Church Widnes	£5k	£25k
down	Liverpool Heart & Chest Clinic	£20k	£5k
down	The Wingate Special Children's Trust	£2k	£1k
not listed	ALL TOGETHER NOW LTD	£114k	—
not listed	The Holistic Cancer Centre	£25k	—
not listed	RICE LANE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED	£20k	—
not listed	Liverpool Theatre School	£12k	—
not listed	4TH RUNCORN SCOUT GROUP	£10k	—
not listed	10M - SVG Education Programme	£10k	—
not listed	Burnley Youth Centre	£5k	—
not listed	KIND	£2k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount
Royal Court	FY2025	£244k
Liverpool Cathedral	FY2025	£150k
Leeds Grand Theatre	FY2025	£125k
Shakespeare North Playhouse Trust	FY2025	£75k
Frank Field Foundation	FY2025	£50k
The Dogs Trust	FY2025	£50k
Alder Hey Children's Charity	FY2025	£50k
The Salvation Army	FY2025	£25k
IOM - SVG Education Programme	FY2025	£25k
St Lukes Church Widnes	FY2025	£25k
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust	FY2025	£11k
Liverpool Met. Cathedral Choir	FY2025	£7k
Liverpool Heart & Chest Clinic	FY2025	£5k
The Windows Project	FY2025	£5k
Grand Order of Water Rats	FY2025	£5k
The Wingate Special Children's Trust	FY2025	£1k
All together now	FY2024	£114k
Royal Court	FY2024	Unverified read£100k
Liverpool Cathedral	FY2024	£75k
Frank Field Foundation	FY2024	£50k
Alder Hey Children's Charity	FY2024	£50k
Knotty Ash Primary School	FY2024	Unverified read£50k
Holistic Cancer Centre	FY2024	£25k
Rice Lane Community Association	FY2024	£20k
Liverpool Heart & Chest Clinic	FY2024	£20k
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust	FY2024	Unverified read£20k
Liverpool Theatre School	FY2024	£12k
4th Runcorn Scout Group	FY2024	£10k
10M - SVG Education Programme	FY2024	£10k
Burnley Youth Centre	FY2024	£5k
St Lukes Church Widnes	FY2024	£5k
KIND	FY2024	£2k
St John's Church	FY2024	£2k
The Wingate Special Children's Trust	FY2024	£2k
France - Hayhurst Tugboat Rescue	FY2024	Unverified read£2k
Red Rose Concert Band	FY2024	Unverified read£2k
AF & V Launchpad Limited	FY2024	£200
Knotty Ash Primary School	FY2023	£131k
Blackpool Heritage and Museum Trust - ‘Showtime’	FY2023	£75k
Liverpool Cathedral	FY2023	£75k
Royal Court Liverpool Trust Limited	FY2023	£58k
Alder Hey Children’s Charity – surgical neonatal appeal	FY2023	£50k
Frank Field Education Trust	FY2023	£50k
IOM – SVG Education Programme	FY2023	£20k
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust	FY2023	£10k
France – Hayhurst tugboat rescue	FY2023	£10k
The Wingate Special Children’s Trust	FY2023	£2k
Red Rose Concert Band	FY2023	£1k
St John the Evangelist Church, Knotty Ash	FY2023	amount not stated
The Salvation Army	FY2023	amount not stated
Rice Lane Community Association Limited – City Farm	FY2023	amount not stated
Worcester Operatic and Dramatic Society	FY2023	amount not stated
Nextup Comedy Ltd	FY2023	amount not stated
Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust Limited	FY2023	amount not stated
Shakespeare North Playhouse Trust	FY2023	amount not stated
Whitechapel Centre	FY2023	amount not stated
The Hammond School Limited	FY2023	amount not stated
Halton Speak Out CIO	FY2023	amount not stated
Overseas Plastic Surgery Appeal	FY2022	£250k
St John the Evangelist Church, Knotty Ash	FY2022	£120k
The Friends of the Grand – Blackpool Grand Theatre	FY2022	£25k
Christ Church Parochial Church Council	FY2022	£20k
The Salvation Army	FY2022	£20k
The Parish Church of Saint Anne, Stanley – Organ	FY2022	£10k
Rice Lane Community Association Limited – City Farm	FY2022	£10k
Morecambe Winter Gardens Preservation Trust Limited	FY2022	£5k
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital League of Friends	FY2022	£5k
Royal Court Liverpool Theatre Trust Limited	FY2022	£1k
Age Concern Mid Mersey	FY2022	amount not stated
British Music Hall Society	FY2022	amount not stated
Multiple Sclerosis Society	FY2022	amount not stated
Worcester Operatic and Dramatic Society	FY2022	amount not stated
Halton Speak Out CIO	FY2022	amount not stated
Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust Limited	FY2022	amount not stated
Shakespeare North Playhouse Trust	FY2022	amount not stated
Whitechapel Centre	FY2022	amount not stated
The Hammond School Limited	FY2022	amount not stated
Nextup Comedy Ltd	FY2022	amount not stated
Phoenix Foundation – Homelessness	FY2022	amount not stated

21 listed grants have no usable amount in the accounts (shown as “amount not stated”); they are left out of the grant counts and totals.

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 853013 vs reference 852413 (0.1% 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 or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the filed accounts. They stay in the list and the CSV (read_status column) but are left out of the totals, counts and recipient tallies this site computes.