THE CLARKSON FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£582k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£1.3m

Accounts grants total

£1.3m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The foundation invites interested parties to get in touch if they believe the foundation can help with charitable causes they are involved with or have ideas for how the foundation can help.

Summarised from www.theclarksonfoundation.com on 22/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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 (16 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (13 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (7 grantees)
Disability (6 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (5 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (4 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (3 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (3 grantees)
Accommodation/housing (3 grantees)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (3 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (12 grantees)
Scotland (8 grantees)
Northern Ireland (5 grantees)
Throughout England (3 grantees)
Nepal (3 grantees)
Throughout London (2 grantees)
India (2 grantees)
Nigeria (2 grantees)
South Africa (2 grantees)
Uganda (2 grantees)

What changed: FY2023 → 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	FY2023	FY2025
new	GOSH Charity	—	£1.0m
new	Dig Deep	—	£50k
new	MOVEMBER EUROPE	—	£25k
new	Stella Maris	—	£21k
new	MARITIME LONDON OFFICER CADET SCHOLARSHIP	—	£15k
new	Ipswich Community Bus	—	£12k
new	Make a Wish Norge	—	£10k
new	THE GURKHA WELFARE TRUST	—	£9k
down	CARNEY'S COMMUNITY	£29k	£5k
down	SPREAD A SMILE	£50k	£4k
not listed	HOSPICE IN THE WEALD	£68k	—
not listed	BOWEL CANCER UK	£43k	—
not listed	AMBITIOUS ABOUT AUTISM	£28k	—
not listed	The Big Give - Disaster Emergency Committee	£25k	—
not listed	The Honeypot Child	£15k	—
not listed	THE COUNTRY TRUST	£14k	—
not listed	STRONGBONES CHILDREN'S CHARITABLE TRUST	£14k	—
not listed	THE WHITECHAPEL MISSION	£10k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
GOSH Charity	FY2025	£1.0m	Grant expenditure
The Felix Project	FY2025	£100k	Grant expenditure
Dig Deep	FY2025	£50k	Grant expenditure
Movember	FY2025	£25k	Grant expenditure
Stella Maris	FY2025	£21k	Grant expenditure
School of Hard Knocks	FY2025	£16k	Grant expenditure
Maritime London Officer Cadet Scholarship	FY2025	£15k	Grant expenditure
Ipswich Community Bus	FY2025	£12k	Grant expenditure
Make a Wish Norge	FY2025	£10k	Grant expenditure
The Gurkha Welfare Trust	FY2025	£9k	Grant expenditure
Other charitable organisations	FY2025	£6k	Grant expenditure
Carney's Community	FY2025	£5k	Grant expenditure
Spread a Smile	FY2025	£4k	Grant expenditure
The Felix Project	FY2023	£100k
Hospice in the Weald	FY2023	£68k
Spread a Smile	FY2023	£50k
Bowel Cancer UK	FY2023	£43k
Carney's Community	FY2023	£29k
Ambitious About Autism	FY2023	£28k
The Big Give - Disaster Emergency Committee	FY2023	£25k
The School of Hard Knocks	FY2023	£18k
The Honeypot Child	FY2023	£15k
The Country Trust	FY2023	£14k
Strongbones Children’s Charitable Trust	FY2023	£14k
Whitechapel Mission	FY2023	£10k
Thames 21	FY2023	£10k
Crisis	FY2023	£10k
Dig Deep (Africa)	FY2022	£83k
Frontline19	FY2022	£57k
The Lotus Flower	FY2022	£45k
The Trussel Trust	FY2022	£30k
Disaster Emergency Committee	FY2022	£25k
Other charitable organisations	FY2022	£24k
The Big Give - The Wave Project	FY2022	£15k
Sydney Institute of Marine Science Foundation	FY2022	£11k
The Childhood Trust - Renaissance Foundation	FY2022	£10k
Global Girl Project	FY2022	£10k
Other charitable organisations	FY2021	£35k	Includes grants to Samaritans, The Valley Hospital Charity, The Whitechapel Mission and other charities with grants under £10,000.
Street Child	FY2021	£21k	Grant to build a new school within one of Liberia's most remote and rural communities.
The Wave Project	FY2021	£20k	Grant for a new minibus for their Northern Ireland location to support the 'surf therapy' course.
Willow Foundation	FY2021	£10k	Grant to provide memorable experiences for seriously ill young adults at difficult times.

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 1272938 vs reference 1261271 (0.9% 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].