THE LEADSOM FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£2.7m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£269k

Accounts grants total

£269k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

What they fund: We support, strengthen and fund charities that are delivering better outcomes for babies through family hubs and other 'one stop shop' community initiatives. We provide multi-year grants for work that achieves measurable long-term impact and positive outcomes for babies.
Who can apply: We provide grants for charities and research. We direct our efforts to create the greatest impact for babies during their 1,001 Critical Days through awarding multi-year grants to charities supporting new families.

Summarised from 1001criticaldays.com · 1001criticaldays.com/news/seeking-an-evaluation-partner-for-our-charity-grants · 1001criticaldays.com/news/a-milestone-moment-1-million-in-grants-to-support-babies-and-families on 18/10/2026. 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).

OXFORD PARENT-INFANT PROJECT “Secondly, working closely with Oxfordshire County Council and co-funded by the 1001 Critical Days Foundation, the develo”

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)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

City Of Swansea (1 grantee)
Derby City (1 grantee)
Derbyshire (1 grantee)
Leicester City (1 grantee)
Leicestershire (1 grantee)
Lincolnshire (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Nottingham City (1 grantee)
Nottinghamshire (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Home-Start UK	FY2025	£147k	Grant funding of activities
The For Baby's Sake Trust	FY2025	£50k	Grant funding of activities
UCL Consultants Limited	FY2025	£23k	Research grants
Literacy Volunteers	FY2025	£20k	Grant funding of activities
Swansea University	FY2025	£15k	Research grants
Aston University	FY2025	£14k	Research grants

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 268984 vs reference 268984 (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].