THE SHEARS FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1202285 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£489k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£536k

Accounts grants total

£714k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted 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 (9 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (7 grantees)
Disability (7 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (7 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (6 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (5 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (4 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (4 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (3 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Scotland (5 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (5 grantees)
North Yorkshire (5 grantees)
Northumberland (4 grantees)
Northern Ireland (4 grantees)
South Tyneside (3 grantees)
Bangladesh (3 grantees)
Newcastle Upon Tyne City (3 grantees)
Gateshead (3 grantees)
North Tyneside (3 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Two Ridings York Fund	FY2025	£60k	Strategic partnership grant
Bradford Grammar School	FY2025	£50k	Grant
Royal College of Surgeons	FY2025	£30k	Grant
St. Oswald's Hospice	FY2025	£30k	Grant
Sampling Institute for Young Singers	FY2025	£30k	Grant
Whitley Fund for Nature	FY2025	£30k	Grant
Haemochromatosis UK	FY2025	£20k	Grant
Bradford 2025 (City of Culture)	FY2025	£20k	Strategic partnership grant
Changing Lives	FY2025	£20k	Grant
Two Ridings Community Foundation	FY2025	£20k	Grant
Alzheimer's Research	FY2025	£15k	Core grant
British Red Cross	FY2025	£15k	Disaster Fund grant
Karuna Trust	FY2025	£15k	Grant
NSPCC	FY2025	£15k	Grant
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music	FY2025	£15k	Core grant
The Prince's Trust	FY2025	£15k	Grant
Water Harvest	FY2025	£15k	Core grant
West End Refugee Service	FY2025	£15k	Grant
WWF (World Wildlife Fund)	FY2025	£15k	Core grant
Frozen Light	FY2025	£10k	Patron's Fund award
Childrens' Heart Unit Fund	FY2025	£10k	Patron's Fund award
Baby Equipment and Loan Service	FY2025	£10k	Patron's Fund award
Basecamp Adventure Trust	FY2025	£10k	Grant
Cowpen Quay Community Association	FY2025	£10k	Patron's Fund award
Contact Hostel	FY2025	£10k	Patron's Fund award
Jennyruth Workshops	FY2025	£6k	Small grant
ORCA	FY2025	£6k	Small grant
Heart Wood	FY2025	£6k	Small grant
Heel and Toe	FY2025	£6k	Small grant
Cap-a-Pie	FY2025	£5k	Small grant
Solidarity Farm CIC	FY2025	£3k	Small grant

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 536356 vs reference 714371 (24.9% 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 and want a correction, contact us.