THE MCCARTHY & STONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — grant history
Latest income
£754k
Grants listed (FY2025)
15
Listed grants total
£2.4m
Accounts grants total
£408k
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: Organisations who can demonstrate a strong alignment with our charitable aims are invited to apply for unrestricted funding, currently up to £7500. If you are unsure whether you should apply for core cost funding, please get in touch for advice.
- What they don’t fund: Unrestricted funding is only available to registered charities and community groups. We do not fund unrestricted to Community Interest Companies.
What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- East Sussex
- Gateshead
- Kent
- Throughout England
- Oxfordshire
- Leeds City
- Staffordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Bury
What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | Friends for Life | — | £186k |
| new | BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF DEMENTIA FOR SANDWELL | — | £186k |
| new | HAVENS HAPPY CLUBS | — | £186k |
| new | Friends of Windmill Gardens, Lambeth, London | — | £186k |
| new | WEST NORFOLK BEFRIENDING | — | £186k |
| new | REACH FAMILY PROJECT | — | £186k |
| new | DEEP ROOTS TALL TREES | — | £186k |
| new | The Community Forget Me Not Choir | — | £186k |
| not listed | Community Grants | £387k | — |
| not listed | Other | £86k | — |
| not listed | Christmas Connections | £41k | — |
| not listed | Winter Warmer Grants | £29k | — |
| not listed | Dementia Action Week | £812 | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends for Life | FY2025 | £186k | Community Grants |
| Better Understanding of Dementia for Sandwell | FY2025 | £186k | Community Grants |
| Havens Happy Clubs | FY2025 | £186k | Community Grants |
| Friends of Windmill Gardens, Lambeth, London | FY2025 | £186k | Community Grants |
| West Norfolk, Befriending | FY2025 | £186k | Community Grants |
| Reach Family Project | FY2025 | £186k | Community Grants |
| Deep Roots Tall Trees | FY2025 | £186k | Community Grants |
| The Community Forget Me Not Choir | FY2025 | £186k | Community Grants |
| Dance Network Association | FY2025 | £186k | Community Grants |
| Conversation Works CIC | FY2025 | £186k | Community Grants |
| Ballers Academy | FY2025 | £186k | Community Grants |
| Dementia Caring | FY2025 | £186k | Community Grants |
| Teams and Bensham Community Care | FY2025 | £38k | Christmas Connection Grants |
| Upper Norwood Association for Community Care (UNACC) | FY2025 | £38k | Christmas Connection Grants |
| Gateshead 50+ | FY2025 | £38k | Christmas Connection Grants |
| Community Grants | FY2024 | £387k | Grants to institutions |
| Other | FY2024 | £86k | Grants to institutions |
| Christmas Connections | FY2024 | £41k | Grants to institutions |
| Winter Warmer Grants | FY2024 | £29k | Grants to institutions |
| Dementia Action Week | FY2024 | £812 | Grants to institutions |
| Small Acts of Kindness | FY2023 | £8k | Community Grants |
| Place at my Table | FY2023 | £8k | Community Grants |
| InCommon Foundation | FY2023 | £8k | Community Grants |
| Cumbernauld Action on Care of the Elderly | FY2023 | £7k | Dementia Action Week |
| Sporting Memories Foundation | FY2023 | £7k | Dementia Action Week |
| Wag and Company | FY2023 | £7k | Dementia Action Week |
| Reach Family Project | FY2023 | £7k | Dementia Action Week |
| Omega | FY2023 | £7k | Dementia Action Week |
| Age UK Reading | FY2023 | £7k | Dementia Action Week |
| Sharewear Clothing Scheme | FY2023 | £7k | Dementia Action Week |
| Goldies | FY2023 | £7k | Dementia Action Week |
| Touch Trust | FY2023 | £7k | Dementia Action Week |
| Caraway | FY2023 | £7k | Dementia Action Week |
| Age Concern Barnstaple and North Devon | FY2023 | £7k | Dementia Action Week |
| Mid Suffolk Voluntary Organisation Forum | FY2023 | £6k | Dementia Action Week |
| Independent Arts | FY2023 | £6k | Community Grants |
| Community Link Café, Low Bentham | FY2023 | £6k | Community Grants |
| The Together Project | FY2023 | £6k | Community Grants |
| Time To Talk Befriending | FY2023 | £6k | Community Grants |
| 4ALL – Building Community in West Dulwich | FY2023 | £5k | Community Grants |
| Connecting Communities Berkshire | FY2023 | £5k | Community Grants |
| Ryedale Carers Support | FY2023 | £5k | Community Grants |
| Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard | FY2023 | £5k | Community Grants |
| b:friend | FY2023 | £5k | Community Grants |
| Brighter Together | FY2023 | £5k | Community Grants |
| Care Home Volunteers | FY2023 | £5k | Community Grants |
| Sydenham Garden | FY2023 | £5k | Community Grants |
| Intergenerational Music Making | FY2023 | £5k | Community Grants |
| LGBT Hero | FY2023 | £5k | Community Grants |
| Crossgates and District Good Neighbours | FY2023 | £4k | Community Grants |
| The Link Visiting Scheme | FY2023 | £4k | Community Grants |
| Equal Arts | FY2023 | £4k | Community Grants |
| The Archway Foundation | FY2023 | £4k | Community Grants |
| New Friends for You | FY2023 | £4k | Community Grants |
| Biddulph Youth and Community Zone | FY2023 | £4k | Community Grants |
| The Living Memory Association | FY2023 | £4k | Community Grants |
| The Creativity Centre Educational Trust | FY2023 | £4k | Community Grants |
| Otley Action for Older People | FY2023 | £4k | Community Grants |
| Moorlands Voluntary and Community Transport | FY2023 | £4k | Community Grants |
| Community Voluntary Action Ledbury & District | FY2023 | £4k | Community Grants |
| Truth Be Told | FY2023 | £3k | Community Grants |
| Fishbourne Companions | FY2023 | £3k | Community Grants |
| Our Community Kitchen | FY2023 | £3k | Community Grants |
| Rocksolid Dundee | FY2023 | £3k | Community Grants |
| Wilderness Trust | FY2023 | £3k | Community Grants |
| Sgt Pepper's Friendship Club | FY2023 | £3k | Community Grants |
| Old Moaties | FY2023 | £3k | Community Grants |
| Dinas Wellbeing Hub | FY2023 | £2k | Community Grants |
| Autumn community awards | FY2022 | £93k | Autumn community awards |
| Spring community awards | FY2022 | £63k | Spring community awards |
| Ukraine | FY2022 | £25k | Ukraine |
| British Red Cross | FY2022 | £25k | Ukraine Crisis Grant |
| Christmas connections | FY2022 | £13k | Christmas connections |
| Dementia Action Week | FY2022 | £10k | Dementia Action Week |
| Small community grants | FY2022 | £8k | Small community grants |
| Intergenerational Music Making | FY2022 | £5k | Intergenerational Music Making |
| Winter Support Bags for Older People | FY2022 | £5k | Winter Support Bags for Older People |
| Small Acts of Kindness | FY2022 | £5k | Small Acts of Kindness |
| Omega | FY2022 | £5k | Volunteer Recruitment for Befriending |
| Wag and Company | FY2022 | £5k | Volunteer Recruitment and Training |
| Shabbat Walk | FY2022 | £5k | Intergenerational Activities |
| Equal Arts | FY2022 | £5k | Intergenerational Programme |
| Biddulph YCZ | FY2022 | £5k | Intergenerational Programme |
| Hands of Hope | FY2022 | £5k | Intergenerational Regeneration Project |
| The Videobox | FY2022 | £5k | Social Eating Project |
| The Parish Trust | FY2022 | £5k | Community Choir and Lunch Club Project |
| Forest of Hearts | FY2022 | £5k | Community Garden and Green Space Project |
| Manchester Cares | FY2022 | £5k | Core Costs |
| Wetherby in Support of the Elderly | FY2022 | £5k | Dementia Memory Café |
| Medway Volunteer Centre | FY2022 | £5k | Core Costs – Befriending Programme |
| Time to Talk Befriending | FY2022 | £5k | Befriending |
| New Dementia Cafés | FY2022 | £5k | New Dementia Cafés |
| Caraway | FY2022 | £5k | Caraway |
| Befriending | FY2022 | £5k | Befriending |
| Intergenerational Music Hub | FY2022 | £5k | Intergenerational Music Hub |
| InCommon Foundation | FY2022 | £5k | Connect Programme Core Costs |
| Canterbury Volunteer Centre | FY2022 | £5k | Core Costs |
| The Together Project | FY2022 | £5k | Rental of new facility to support older people |
| Bedford Players Trust | FY2022 | £5k | Care Home Visits |
| LGBT Hero | FY2022 | £5k | LGBT Support Group for Older People |
| Wag and Company | FY2022 | £5k | Volunteer Recruitment and Training |
| Place at My Table | FY2022 | £5k | Core Costs |
| Black Country Wellbeing Centre | FY2022 | £5k | Feel Good Fridays Lunch Club |
| Bilston Peoples Centre | FY2022 | £5k | Core Costs |
| Mid Suffolk Voluntary Organisation | FY2022 | £5k | Weekly Lunch Club |
| Mustard Tree Foundation | FY2022 | £5k | Befriending |
| Archway Foundation | FY2022 | £5k | Core Costs – Befriending Programme |
| Greener Peebles | FY2022 | £4k | Community Garden Project |
| Skerton Community Association | FY2022 | £4k | Core Costs |
| Gorfenna | FY2022 | £3k | Dementia Activity Project |
| Other | FY2022 | £3k | Other |
| Journey Enterprises | FY2022 | £3k | Intergenerational Programme |
| Our Community Kitchen | FY2022 | £3k | Community Kitchen Project |
| Age Concern Bentham | FY2022 | £3k | Core Costs |