THE RIGBY FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£1.1m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£869k

Accounts grants total

£869k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The Rigby Foundation is unable to respond to unsolicited requests for support because its funds are fully allocated across chosen partner charities.

Summarised from www.rigbyfoundation.org.uk · www.rigbyfoundation.org.uk/what-we-fund · www.rigbyfoundation.org.uk/how-we-fund on 01/09/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

FIRST UK “Proudly fuelled by The Rigby Foundation supports programmes that enable young people, regardless of their background, to”

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 (5 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Recreation (1 grantee)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (5 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Northern Ireland (2 grantees)
Ireland (1 grantee)
Japan (1 grantee)
Switzerland (1 grantee)
Belgium (1 grantee)
United States (1 grantee)
Birmingham City (1 grantee)
Germany (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount
The Schools Programme	FY2025	£286k
Generation UK	FY2025	£200k
The SCC Academy	FY2025	£100k
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra	FY2025	£80k
Birmingham Childrens Hospital	FY2025	£50k
The King's Trust	FY2025	£50k
Other - £5,000 and below	FY2025	£37k
Think Forward	FY2025	£20k
Molly Olly's Wishes	FY2025	£15k
Jericho Foundation	FY2025	£10k
Place2Be	FY2025	£10k
Knowsley Disability	FY2025	£10k

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 868629 vs reference 868629 (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 and want a correction, contact us.