THE CHARLOTTE AITKEN TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£175k

Grants listed (FY2025)

16 · 10 amount not stated

Listed grants total

£854k

Accounts grants total

£402k

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

FY2024: 2 grants totalling £99k are listed but excluded from totals: unverified read (grantee names (or the pattern of amounts) not found in the accounts text; the amount is not printed in the accounts text).

Credited as a funder by

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

GIVE A BOOK “The Charlotte Aitken Trust is dedicated to the support of literature, writing and reading. It is funded by the estate of”
THE APPLEDORE BOOK FESTIVAL “Charlotte Aitken Trust Schools Week”
ALMEIDA THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED “Major Trusts & Foundations Anonymous The Charlotte Aitken Trust”
INTERNATIONAL P.E.N. “Charlotte Aitken Trust”

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 (8 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (6 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (4 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Disability (1 grantee)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (4 grantees)
Northern Ireland (3 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Throughout England (2 grantees)
Devon (1 grantee)
Southwark (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	Naomi Klein Women's Prize	—	£402k
new	GIVE A BOOK	—	£50k
new	Cormar Shakespeare Schools Foundation	—	£30k
new	Arvon Lumb Crowd funder	—	£15k
up	THE LONDON LIBRARY	£32k	£50k
up	Calibre Audio	£3k	£23k
up	Comar	£5k	£20k
up	British Sculptors	£2k	£20k
down	Forward Arts Foundation - Poetry prizes	£30k	£5k
not listed	Young Vic - production sponsor	£50k	—
not listed	North East Theatre	£30k	—
not listed	NATIONAL POETRY CENTRE	£23k	—
not listed	NEW WRITING NORTH	£5k	—
not listed	SimpleB	£5k	—
not listed	INTERNATIONAL P.E.N.	£5k	—
not listed	Troupe Productions	£1k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Naomi Klein Women's Prize	FY2025	£402k
Arvon Lumb Redevelopment	FY2025	£51k
Sunday Times - Young Writer of the Year Award	FY2025	£50k
Almedia Theatre	FY2025	£50k
Give a Book	FY2025	£50k
London Library	FY2025	£50k
First Story	FY2025	£35k
Appledore Book Festival	FY2025	£30k
Cormar Shakespeare Schools Foundation	FY2025	£30k
Calibre Audio	FY2025	£23k
Comar	FY2025	£20k
British Sculptors	FY2025	£20k
Arvon Lumb Crowd funder	FY2025	£15k
British Library	FY2025	£13k
INK	FY2025	£10k
Forward Arts Foundation - Poetry prizes	FY2025	£5k
Troupe Productions	FY2025	amount not stated
Uni of East Anglia	FY2025	amount not stated
Young Vic - production sponsor	FY2025	amount not stated
Simple8	FY2025	amount not stated
Phyllis Cook	FY2025	amount not stated
PEN International	FY2025	amount not stated
North East Theatre	FY2025	amount not stated
New Writing North	FY2025	amount not stated
National Poetry Centre	FY2025	amount not stated
National Literacy Trust	FY2025	amount not stated
Arvon Lumb Redevelopment	FY2024	£100k
Phyllis Cook	FY2024	Unverified read£78k
Sunday Times - Young Writer of the Year Award	FY2024	£73k
Young Vic - production sponsor	FY2024	£50k
Almedia Theatre	FY2024	£50k
London Library	FY2024	£32k
Forward Arts Foundation - Poetry prizes	FY2024	£30k
North East Theatre	FY2024	£30k
Appledore Book Festival	FY2024	£30k
First Story	FY2024	£24k
National Poetry Centre	FY2024	£23k
Naomi Klein Women's Prize	FY2024	Unverified read£22k
INK	FY2024	£16k
British Library	FY2024	£10k
New Writing North	FY2024	£5k
Comar	FY2024	£5k
SimpleB	FY2024	£5k
PEN International	FY2024	£5k
Calibre Audio	FY2024	£3k
British Sculptors	FY2024	£2k
Troupe Productions	FY2024	£1k
Sunday Times - Young Writer of the Year Award	FY2023	£78k
Arvon Lumb Redevelopment	FY2023	£50k
Young Vic - production sponsor	FY2023	£50k
Almedia Theatre	FY2023	£25k
Forward Arts Foundation - Poetry prizes	FY2023	£23k
Appledore Book Festival	FY2023	£20k
First Story	FY2023	£20k
New Writing North	FY2023	£16k
North East Theatre	FY2023	£5k
British Sculptors	FY2023	£3k
Sunday Times - Young Writer of the Year Award	FY2022	£80k	Grant funding of activities
Young Vic - production sponsor	FY2022	£45k	Grant funding of activities
Appledore Book Festival	FY2022	£25k	Grant funding of activities
R N I B - Talking Books Project	FY2022	£25k	Grant funding of activities
Forward Arts Foundation - Poetry prizes	FY2022	£23k	Grant funding of activities
Bronte Parsonage	FY2022	£20k	Grant funding of activities

10 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 853838 vs reference 401919 (112.4% 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.