FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST — grant history

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Latest income
£1.2m
Grants listed (FY2025)
106
Listed grants total
£2.5m
Accounts grants total
£1.1m

Write-backs & cancellations (all years shown): 3 entries, −£45k. These are listed separately below and are not netted off the grant totals or counted as grants.

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Cross-checked against the funder’s own 360Giving open-data publication: 67 of 106 grants we extracted from its FY2025 accounts match a published grantee by name (63%), and 59 also match on amount within 2%. Differences usually reflect accounting-year vs award-date timing and grants the accounts aggregate. Published 360Giving grants in the file: 102.

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Summarised from www.francis-scott.org.uk · francis-scott.org.uk/funding-development/ · francis-scott.org.uk/funding-development/applicant-guidance/ on 13/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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

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
Where grantees operate
  • Cumbria (71 grantees)
  • Lancashire (19 grantees)
  • Throughout England And Wales (3 grantees)
  • Scotland (3 grantees)
  • Throughout England (2 grantees)
  • Kent (1 grantee)
  • Liverpool City (1 grantee)
  • North Yorkshire (1 grantee)
  • Northumberland (1 grantee)
  • Surrey (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.

ChangeGranteeFY2024FY2025
newCUMBRIA FAMILY SUPPORT LTD—£90k
newYouthability Youth Services—£76k
newCumbria Community Foundation - Better Tomorrows—£75k
newDROP ZONE YOUTH PROJECTS—£64k
newKent Estuary Youth (KEY) Project—£64k
newWALNEY COMMUNITY TRUST—£64k
newNORTH ALLERDALE DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED—£62k
newCARLISLE KEY—£60k
upLANCASHIRE YOUTH CHALLENGE£29k£45k
upMORE MUSIC IN MORECAMBE£5k£45k
upASPATRIA DREAMSCHEME LIMITED£23k£44k
upAutus Cumbria£10k£39k
downANTI RACIST CUMBRIA£90k£30k
downAlways Another Way Cumbria Ltd£75k£30k
upAUTISM SUPPORT ALLERDALE AND COPELAND£15k£24k
upBENDRIGG TRUST£3k£20k
not listed1st Duddon Scout Group£60k—
not listedBarrow Community Trust (formerly Barrow AFC Community Trust)£53k—
not listedBE ME PROJECT£30k—
not listedA New Hope , Cumbria CIC£10k—
not listedKIRKGATE ARTS£5k—
not listedMarsh Community Centre£4k—
not listed1st Staveley Brownies£2k—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

Download this grant history as CSV (open data, provenance and licence noted in the file).

RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Cumbria Family SupportFY2025£90k
Youthability Youth ServicesFY2025£76k
Cumbria Community Foundation - Better TomorrowsFY2025£75k
Drop Zone Youth ProjectsFY2025£64k
Kent Estuary Youth (KEY) ProjectFY2025£64k
Walney Community TrustFY2025£64k
North Allerdale Development TrustFY2025£62k
Carlisle KeyFY2025£60k
Furness Multi-Cultural Community ForumFY2025£60k
Phoenix Youth ProjectFY2025£59k
Stanleys Community CentreFY2025£54k
The Birchall TrustFY2025£45k
Whitehaven Harbour Youth ProjectFY2025£45k
Wigton Youth StationFY2025£45k
Lancashire Youth ChallengeFY2025£45k
More Music in MorecambeFY2025£45k
Whitehaven Community TrustFY2025£45k
Aspatria DreamschemeFY2025£44k
Time to Share Bereavement Services CICFY2025£42k
Lancaster District CVSFY2025£42k
Together We CICFY2025£42k
Brathay TrustFY2025£40k
The Outdoor PartnershipFY2025£40k
Cumbria Community Foundation - Brighter FuturesFY2025£40k
Autus CumbriaFY2025£39k
Susan's FarmFY2025£37k
Wise Up Workshops CICFY2025£36k
Citizens Advice North LancashireFY2025£36k
Promoting Autonomy and Change Ltd - PACFY2025£35k
Morecambe FC Community FoundationFY2025£35k
The Windmill TrustFY2025£35k
Owl BlueFY2025£34k
CanDo FMFY2025£33k
Sight Advice South LakesFY2025£31k
CADASFY2025£31k
Families MatterFY2025£30k
Anti Racist CumbriaFY2025£30k
Always Another Way Cumbria LtdFY2025£30k
SpiralFY2025£30k
Keswick Youth Centre ServicesFY2025£30k
Theatre FactoryFY2025£30k
Every Life MattersFY2025£30k
Tullie House MuseumFY2025£28k
Escape 2 MakeFY2025£27k
Home To Work LtdFY2025£25k
Carlisle Eden MindFY2025£25k
Youth PresenceFY2025£25k
Autism Support Allerdale and CopelandFY2025£24k
Eden VenturesFY2025£24k
Triple A ProjectFY2025£24k
Cumbria Federation of Young Farmers ClubFY2025£23k
Young People FirstFY2025£21k
Morecambe Bay Poverty Trust CommissionFY2025£21k
The Happy Mums Foundation CICFY2025£20k
Bendrigg TrustFY2025£20k
Brathay Trust Aspiring Leaders ProgrammeFY2025£19k
Carlisle MencapFY2025£19k
New Hope , Cumbria CICFY2025£18k
Copeland Youth NetworkFY2025£17k
Inspiring Barrow - Cumbria CVSFY2025£15k
Blackwell SailingFY2025£15k
Carlisle Youth ZoneFY2025£12k
The Outside Club ClOFY2025£10k
Euphoric CircusFY2025£10k
CHOFHS Youth GroupFY2025£10k
Kirkby Lonsdale Fire AppealFY2025£10k
Achieve Change and EngagementFY2025£10k
Cowran Care LtdFY2025£9k
Moore Arts MillomFY2025£8k
Proud and Diverse CumbriaFY2025£5k
The Harrington Youth ClubFY2025£5k
Watchtree Nature ReserveFY2025£5k
Cumbria Rungwe Community LinkFY2025£5k
Northern Fells Community GroupFY2025£5k
Outside in CumbriaFY2025£5k
Rosehill Arts TrustFY2025£5k
Lancaster Music FestivalFY2025£5k
Appleby Deanery SynodFY2025£5k
Kendal Lads & Girls ClubFY2025£4k
Well Suited CICFY2025£4k
Wise Up Workshops CIC (Step Change)FY2025£4k
Always Another Way Cumbria Ltd - Step ChangeFY2025£4k
Achieve Change and Engagement (Step Change)FY2025£4k
Growing WellFY2025£4k
WHITEHAVEN UNIT 362 OF THE SEA CADET CORPSFY2025£4k
Hensingham ARLFCFY2025£4k
Euphoric Circus (Step Change)FY2025£4k
West End ImpactFY2025£3k
FOOTLE UK CICFY2025£3k
Morecambe Bay PartnershipFY2025£3k
Good Things Colective CICFY2025£3k
Lancaster District Young People's FoundationFY2025£3k
Peter Scott Award - Anti Racist CumbriaFY2025£3k
Ulverston RangersFY2025£3k
Global LinkFY2025£3k
Owl Blue - Step ChangeFY2025£2k
Lancaster Boys & Girls ClubFY2025£2k
Chapter OneFY2025£2k
Heron Corn Mill (Beetham) LtdFY2025£2k
The Olive BranchFY2025£2k
Great Clifton Community Youth GroupFY2025£2k
Slag Bank Play Area AssociationFY2025£2k
YMCA LakesideFY2025£1k
Growing ClubFY2025£1k
Together We CIC Step ChnageFY2025£468
Stricklandgate HouseFY2025£98
Anti Racist CumbriaFY2024£90k
Always Another Way Cumbria LtdFY2024£75k
1st Duddon Scout GroupFY2024£60k
Barrow Community Trust (formerly Barrow AFC Community Trust)FY2024£53k
Always Another Way Cumbria Ltd - Step ChangeFY2024£40k
Be Me ProjectFY2024£30k
Lancashire Youth ChallengeFY2024£29k
Blackwell SailingFY2024£24k
Aspatria DreamschemeFY2024£23k
Achieve Change and EngagementFY2024£17k
Autism Support Allerdale and CopelandFY2024£15k
A New Hope , Cumbria CICFY2024£10k
Autus CumbriaFY2024£10k
Kirkgate ArtsFY2024£5k
Lancaster Boys & Girls ClubFY2024£5k
More Music in MorecambeFY2024£5k
Lancaster Music FestivalFY2024£5k
Marsh Community CentreFY2024£4k
Bendrigg TrustFY2024£3k
1st Staveley BrowniesFY2024£2k
Slag Bank Play Area AssociationFY2024amount not stated
St John's HospiceFY2024amount not stated
Stricklandgate HouseFY2024amount not stated
Susan's FarmFY2024amount not stated
Brathay TrustFY2024amount not stated
Brathay Trust Aspiring Leaders ProgrammeFY2024amount not stated
CADASFY2024amount not stated
Calvert TrustFY2024amount not stated
CancercareFY2024amount not stated
CanDo FMFY2024amount not stated
Carer Support Carlisle and EdenFY2024amount not stated
Carer Support South LakesFY2024amount not stated
Carlisle Eden MindFY2024amount not stated
Carlisle KeyFY2024amount not stated
Carlisle Youth ZoneFY2024amount not stated
Chair's Discretionary AwardFY2024amount not stated
Chapter OneFY2024amount not stated
CHOFHS Youth GroupFY2024amount not stated
Copeland Youth NetworkFY2024amount not stated
Cumbria Community Foundation - Better TomorrowsFY2024amount not stated
Cumbria Community Foundation - Brighter FuturesFY2024amount not stated
Cumbria Family SupportFY2024amount not stated
Cumbria Federation of Young Farmers ClubFY2024amount not stated
Distington Club for Young PeopleFY2024amount not stated
Eden VenturesFY2024amount not stated
Egremont Youth PartnershipFY2024amount not stated
Escape 2 MakeFY2024amount not stated
Families MatterFY2024amount not stated
FOOTLE UK CICFY2024amount not stated
Friends of ArtspaceFY2024amount not stated
Friends of BramFY2024amount not stated
Future FixersFY2024amount not stated
Furness Multi-Cultural Community ForumFY2024amount not stated
Gilcrux Village HallFY2024amount not stated
Good Things Collective CICFY2024amount not stated
Great Clifton Community Youth GroupFY2024amount not stated
Greenbank Community AssociationFY2024amount not stated
Growing WellFY2024amount not stated
Hensingham ARLFCFY2024amount not stated
Heron Corn Mill (Beetham) LtdFY2024amount not stated
Home Start Morecambe and LancasterFY2024amount not stated
Howgill Family Centre (Good Enough Start)FY2024amount not stated
Horizon StudiosFY2024amount not stated
Inspiring Barrow - Cumbria CVSFY2024amount not stated
Kirkby Lonsdale Fire AppealFY2024amount not stated
Morecambe Bay PartnershipFY2024amount not stated
Morecambe Bay Poverty Trust CommissionFY2024amount not stated
MusicLinksFY2024amount not stated
North Allerdale Development TrustFY2024amount not stated
Northern Fells Community GroupFY2024amount not stated
Out in the BayFY2024amount not stated
Owl BlueFY2024amount not stated
Owl Blue - Step ChangeFY2024amount not stated
Peter Scott Award - Anti Racist CumbriaFY2024amount not stated
Phoenix Youth ProjectFY2024amount not stated
Promoting Autonomy and Change Ltd - PACFY2024amount not stated
Proud and Diverse CumbriaFY2024amount not stated
ROCKFY2024amount not stated
SAFA CumbriaFY2024amount not stated
Shackles OffFY2024amount not stated
Shap Parish CouncilFY2024amount not stated
Silloth on Solway Sport's AssociationFY2024amount not stated
Skerton Community AssociationFY2024amount not stated
SoundwaveFY2024amount not stated
South West Lakes District ScoutsFY2024amount not stated
South Whitehaven Youth PartnershipFY2024amount not stated
SpiralFY2024amount not stated
Stomping Ground CICFY2024amount not stated
Time to Share Bereavement Services CICFY2024amount not stated
Theatre FactoryFY2024amount not stated
The Harrington Youth ClubFY2024amount not stated
The Laal CollectiveFY2024amount not stated
The Lookout (CIC)FY2024amount not stated
The Whitehaven FoyerFY2024amount not stated
Together We CICFY2024amount not stated
Together We CIC Step ChangeFY2024amount not stated
Vision Support Barrow and DistrictFY2024amount not stated
West Cumbria Domestic Violence SupportFY2024amount not stated
West End ImpactFY2024amount not stated
Whitehaven Community TrustFY2024amount not stated
Whitehaven Harbour Youth ProjectFY2024amount not stated
Wigton Youth StationFY2024amount not stated
Windmill TrustFY2024amount not stated
Women's Community MattersFY2024amount not stated
Young People FirstFY2024amount not stated
Youth PresenceFY2024amount not stated
Youthability Youth ServicesFY2024amount not stated
YMCA LakesideFY2024amount not stated
Be Me ProjectFY2023£62k
Women's Community MattersFY2023£60k
SAFA CumbriaFY2023£60k
South Whitehaven Youth PartnershipFY2023£59k
Egremont Youth PartnershipFY2023£53k
Shackles OffFY2023£50k
Carer Support South LakesFY2023£48k
ROCKFY2023£48k
CancercareFY2023£46k
Distington Club for Young PeopleFY2023£46k
Escape 2 MakeFY2023£40k
Skerton Community AssociationFY2023£36k
Carer Support Carlisle and EdenFY2023£36k
Promoting Autonomy and Change Ltd - PACFY2023£35k
Youth PresenceFY2023£31k
Windmill TrustFY2023£30k
West Cumbria Domestic Violence SupportFY2023£30k
Marsh Community CentreFY2023£29k
St John's HospiceFY2023£28k
Vision Support Barrow and DistrictFY2023£24k
Horizon StudiosFY2023£22k
The Lookout (CIC)FY2023£21k
Friends of BramFY2023£20k
The Whitehaven FoyerFY2023£20k
Brathay TrustFY2023£20k
Calvert TrustFY2023£20k
Carlisle Youth ZoneFY2023£19k
Barrow Community Trust (formerly Barrow AFC Community Trust)FY2023£17k
SoundwaveFY2023£17k
Chair's Discretionary AwardFY2023£16k
Carlisle Eden MindFY2023£10k
Howgill Family Centre (Good Enough Start)FY2023£10k
Eden VenturesFY2023£5k
Shap Parish CouncilFY2023£5k
Kirkgate ArtsFY2023£5k
Proud and Diverse CumbriaFY2023£5k
Silloth on Solway Sport's AssociationFY2023£5k
SpiralFY2023£5k
Future FixersFY2023£5k
Lancaster Boys & Girls ClubFY2023£5k
Lancaster Music FestivalFY2023£5k
MusicLinksFY2023£5k
More Music in MorecambeFY2023£4k
1st Duddon Scout GroupFY2023£4k
Together We CICFY2023£4k
Bendrigg TrustFY2023£4k
Stomping Ground CICFY2023£4k
Greenbank Community AssociationFY2023£2k
The Laal CollectiveFY2023£2k
Friends of ArtspaceFY2023£2k
South West Lakes District ScoutsFY2023£2k
1st Staveley BrowniesFY2023£600
Barrow FoodbankFY2021£150k
Cumbria Alcohol & Drug Advisory ServiceFY2021£90k
Better TomorrowsFY2021£80k
Whitehaven Harbour Youth ProjectFY2021£70k
Copeland Youth NetworkFY2021£65k
Kepplewray TrustFY2021£60k
Brathay TrustFY2021£60k
The Growing Club CICFY2021£60k
Eden VenturesFY2021£60k
Wise Up Workshops CICFY2021£57k
Time to Share Bereavement Youth Sevices CICFY2021£56k
Christ Church Night ShelterFY2021£50k
SAFA CumbriaFY2021£50k
Autus Cumbria LimitedFY2021£48k
Cumbria Community FoundationFY2021£48k
EmuesUK CICFY2021£47k
Promoting Autonomy and Change Ltd - PACFY2021£45k
Shackles Off Youth ProjectFY2021£45k
North Allerdale Development TrustFY2021£45k
Cumbria Federation of Young Farmers ClubsFY2021£45k
Carlisle KeyFY2021£45k
Aspatria DreamschemeFY2021£42k
The Happy Mums Foundation CICFY2021£40k
Blue OwlFY2021£40k
Cumbria Development Education CentreFY2021£37k
The Laal CollectiveFY2021£35k
Peter Scott Award - Howgill Family CentreFY2021£33k
Lancaster District CVSFY2021£32k
James Rennie PTFAFY2021£31k
Friends of BramFY2021£30k
Whitehaven Sea Cadet CorpsFY2021£30k
PanathlonFY2021£30k
Owl Blue Children's CharityFY2021£30k
Furness Multicultural Community ForumFY2021£30k
Together We CICFY2021£30k
Cumbria Youth AllianceFY2021£30k
Always Another Way Cumbria LtdFY2021£30k
Walney Community TrustFY2021£30k
Women's Community MattersFY2021£30k
Birchall TrustFY2021£30k
Young CumbriaFY2021£30k
Young EnterpriseFY2021£30k
Gilcrux Village HallFY2021£25k
Achieve Change and EngagementFY2021£24k
Peter Scott Award - South Workington Youth PartnershipFY2021£22k
PiNCFY2021£20k
Greenbank Community AssociationFY2021£20k
Phoenix Youth ProjectFY2021£18k
Howgill Family CentreFY2021£16k
South Whitehaven Youth PartnershipFY2021£15k
Whitehaven Community TrustFY2021£13k
React FoundationFY2021£11k
Creative Studios CumbriaFY2021£11k
Carer Support South LakesFY2021£10k
West Cumbria Domestic Violence SupportFY2021£10k
Egremont Youth PartnershipFY2021£10k
Youthability Youth ServicesFY2021£10k
Strawberry Fields TrainingFY2021£10k
Voluntary ArtsFY2021£7k
Signal Film & MediaFY2021£4k
Barrow AFC Community TrustFY2021£4k
Cumbria CVSFY2021£4k
Cumbria Family SupportFY2021£4k
Distington Club for Young PeopleFY2021£4k
Moore Arts: MillomFY2021£3k
Liverpool Charity and Voluntary ServicesFY2021£3k
Stricklandgate HouseFY2021£2k
Families MatterFY2021£1k
Friends of Morecambe BayFY2021£1k

88 listed grants have no usable amount in the accounts (shown as “amount not stated”); they are left out of the grant counts and totals.

Write-backs & cancellations

3 entries totalling −£45k in this funder’s accounts are negative amounts, such as the write-back of an accrued grant or a cancelled grant. They are shown here on their own and are not netted off the grants total or counted as grants above. They are in the CSV with amount_note “write_back”.

RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Home Start Morecambe and LancasterFY2023−£40k
Out in the BayFY2023−£4k
Gilcrux Village HallFY2023−£1k

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 2482483 vs reference 1131031 (119.5% 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].