MANOLO BLAHNIK FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£211k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£491k

Accounts grants total

£491k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

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 (4 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)
Disability (1 grantee)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Scotland (2 grantees)
Northern Ireland (2 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Throughout London (2 grantees)
Burkina Faso (1 grantee)
Burma (1 grantee)
Bangladesh (1 grantee)
Falkland Islands (1 grantee)
British Virgin Islands (1 grantee)
Djibouti (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	SOMERSET HOUSE TRUST	—	£50k
up	THE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION	£60k	£90k
up	University of the Arts London	£19k	£60k

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
British Red Cross	FY2025	£110k	Support vulnerable communities domestically and internationally.
Mental Health Foundation	FY2025	£90k	Support the Parent Champion Network initiative.
University of the Arts London	FY2025	£60k	Second year of the Manolo Blahnik Scholarship for a home and an international student.
Médecins Sans Frontières	FY2025	£50k	Medical humanitarian assistance.
Somerset House Trust	FY2025	£50k	Enhance the education of the public by the provision of a centre for the arts.
Refuge for Pets	FY2025	£46k	Specialist animal fostering service across Devon and Cornwall.
James’ Place	FY2025	£35k	Suicide prevention organisation supporting men in crisis.
Give a Dog a Bone	FY2025	£25k	Tackles loneliness and animal rehoming by supporting the over 60s.
Pets for Elderly	FY2025	£25k	Companionship to older people through pet ownership.
British Red Cross	FY2024	£110k	Support vulnerable communities domestically and internationally.
Mental Health Foundation	FY2024	£60k	Support the Parent Champion Network initiative.
Médecins Sans Frontières	FY2024	£50k	Medical humanitarian aid.
Refuge for Pets	FY2024	£46k	Specialist animal fostering service across Devon and Cornwall.
Pets for Elderly	FY2024	£25k	Companionship to older people through pet ownership.
Give a Dog a Bone	FY2024	£25k	Combating loneliness via animal interaction centres in Scotland.
James’ Place	FY2024	£25k	Suicidal prevention organisation supporting men in crisis.
University of the Arts London	FY2024	£19k	Scholarship for a home or an international student.
British Red Cross	FY2023	£100k	Due to an increase in the number of conﬂicts around the world, Trustees agreed to approve the unrestricted grant of £100,000.
King’s College, London	FY2023	£100k	The aim of the pilot programme is to build a framework for NHS Trusts to provide essential mental wellbeing support for frontline workers.
Refuge for Pets	FY2023	£36k	The Trustees approved a grant for a specialist animal fostering service across Devon and Cornwall to support victim-survivors of domestic abuse so that they can leave with their much-loved animals.
Mental Health Foundation	FY2023	£20k	The Trustees approved a grant for the Mental Health Foundation to support the Parents Lived Experience Champion Network Project.
Dogs on the Streets (DOTS)	FY2023	£10k	The Trustees approved a Random Act of Kindness grant of £10k for Dogs on the Streets.
British Red Cross	FY2022	£5k	Ukraine Crisis

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 490525 vs reference 490525 (0.0% 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].