THE CLARKSON FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£2.0m

Grants listed (FY2023)

Listed grants total

£433k

Accounts grants total

£457k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2023 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 (13 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (10 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (6 grantees)
Disability (6 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (5 grantees)
Recreation (3 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (3 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (2 grantees)
Accommodation/housing (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (9 grantees)
Scotland (5 grantees)
Northern Ireland (3 grantees)
Throughout England (3 grantees)
Throughout London (2 grantees)
Uganda (2 grantees)
Nigeria (2 grantees)
Nepal (2 grantees)
Haiti (1 grantee)
East Sussex (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2022 → FY2023

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2022	FY2023
new	Felix London	—	£100k
new	HOSPICE IN THE WEALD	—	£68k
new	SPREAD A SMILE	—	£50k
new	BOWEL CANCER UK	—	£43k
new	CARNEY'S COMMUNITY	—	£29k
new	AMBITIOUS ABOUT AUTISM	—	£28k
new	The Big Give - Disaster Emergency Committee	—	£25k
new	SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS	—	£18k
not listed	DIG DEEP (AFRICA)	£83k	—
not listed	Frontline19	£57k	—
not listed	THE LOTUS FLOWER	£45k	—
not listed	The Trussel Trust	£30k	—
not listed	Disaster Emergency Committee	£25k	—
not listed	Other charitable organisations	£24k	—
not listed	The Big Give - The Wave Project	£15k	—
not listed	Sydney Institute of Marine Science Foundation	£11k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
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
Crisis	FY2023	£10k
Thames 21	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 433052 vs reference 456890 (5.2% 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 and want a correction, contact us.