THE EVELYN TRUST — grant history

Registered charity 232891 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£1.3m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£1.7m

Accounts grants total

£1.3m

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

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Applications must follow the latest application guidelines. Please read the guidelines first, as they outline the criteria for potential project approval.
Deadlines: Except for our small grants programme, our annual application deadline is 15th November.
What they don’t fund: There is no recurrent award to support the ongoing costs of a project.

Summarised from www.evelyntrust.com · evelyntrust.com/our-grants/ · evelyntrust.com/our-grants/medical-research-grants/ on 13/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (12 grantees)
Education/training (12 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (7 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (7 grantees)
Disability (7 grantees)
Accommodation/housing (4 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (3 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Religious Activities (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Cambridgeshire (15 grantees)
Peterborough City (6 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (5 grantees)
Northern Ireland (4 grantees)
Suffolk (3 grantees)
Hertfordshire (3 grantees)
Bedford (3 grantees)
Norfolk (3 grantees)
Central Bedfordshire (3 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
The University of Cambridge	FY2025	£167k	Research training fellowship to research the regulation and mechanism of novel anti-viral factor LRRC15
The University of Cambridge	FY2025	£152k	Studying the effect of Time-Restricted Eating on metabolic function in obesity
The University of Cambridge	FY2025	£149k	Research into neglected metabolic targets to treat autoimmunity
Cambridge Acorn Project	FY2025	£131k	Creating and Connecting Therapeutic and Enrichment Networks across a whole school
Dhiverse	FY2025	£102k	Let’s Talk
Ormiston Families	FY2025	£90k	STARS children's pre-bereavement service
The University of Cambridge	FY2025	£87k	Research into the function of Alpha-Synuclein Droplets in Parkinson's Disease
The University of Cambridge	FY2025	£78k	Research work on microglial modulation of cognitive networks & functions in CNS inflammation
Latvian Community Association in the UK	FY2025	£77k	Wellbeing support for the living cost crisis affected
Tom’s Trust	FY2025	£75k	Supporting Children with Brain Tumours
The University of Cambridge	FY2025	£73k	Genetic interrogation of enzyme substrates in Angelman disease.
Haemochromatosis UK	FY2025	£60k	Delivering step-change in community point-of-care diagnostic test for iron overload
Home-Start Cambridgeshire	FY2025	£56k	Parent Infant Therapy project
The Cambridge Housing Society Ltd	FY2025	£47k	Corona Community Three-Year Extension project
Jimmy’s Cambridge	FY2025	£44k	Mental Health Nurse Project
The University of Cambridge	FY2025	£42k	Research with coronary specific vessels to pre-vascularise 3D-engineered heart tissue
Good Neighbours Rural Peterborough	FY2025	£41k	Good Neighbours Rural Peterborough
Red Balloon Leaner Centre	FY2025	£40k	Therapeutic counselling with parents
Melbourn Community Hub	FY2025	£35k	Children and Young People’s Mental Health
Safe Soulmates	FY2025	£34k	Developing Peterborough project
Romsey Mill Trust Ltd	FY2025	£34k	Support for the mental and emotional wellbeing of autistic children and young people
Amicus Trust Ltd	FY2025	£33k	Managing Mental Health
Rowan Humberstone Ltd	FY2025	£31k	Improving health and wellbeing of adults with learning disabilities, their families and wider community
Turning the Red Lights Green	FY2025	£20k	Mental Health Support Worker
The Light Project Peterborough	FY2025	£10k	Homeless Health Peer Advocates
Good Neighbours Rural Peterborough	FY2025	£10k	Good Neighbours Rural Peterborough
Fifteen awards during the year to 31 March 2025	FY2025	£10k	Other institutional grants awarded for £10,000 or less
The University of Cambridge	FY2025	£4k	Characterising the gut microbiota in people with multiple sclerosis
Darwin College	FY2024	£189k	Research work to develop new therapies for bile duct disease
Darwin College	FY2024	£168k	Research into novel drug targets for human cytomegalovirus infection
The University of Cambridge	FY2024	£167k	Systems serology in transplantation
The University of Cambridge	FY2024	£159k	Characterising microglia in human tauopathy post mortem brains
Darwin College	FY2024	£142k	Study on eliminating amyloidogenic proteins to protect brain cells
Centre Thirty Three	FY2024	£115k	Cambridge Youth Early Support Hub
Centre Thirty Three	FY2024	£101k	Cambridge Youth Early Support Hub Feasibility Study
Rowan Humberstone Ltd	FY2024	£90k	Improving health and wellbeing of adults with learning disabilities, their families and wider community
Romsey Mill Trust Ltd	FY2024	£89k	Support for the mental and emotional wellbeing of autistic children and young people
The University of Cambridge	FY2024	£80k	Research training fellowship researching Staphylococcus diagnostics to work towards precision medicine in this area
The University of Cambridge	FY2024	£80k	Research to identify metabolic changes in Alzheimer's pathology
Darwin College	FY2024	£75k	Research training fellowship to research mitochondrial disease
Peterborough Council for Voluntary Service	FY2024	£62k	Health Xchange project
National Childbirth Trust	FY2024	£60k	Birth and Beyond Community Support
Darwin College	FY2024	£57k	Research with T-regulatory cells for therapeutic uses
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	FY2024	£50k	Intraoperative MRI suite
Haemochromatosis Uk	FY2024	£50k	Delivering step-change in community point-of-care diagnostic test for iron overload
Darwin College	FY2024	£50k	Research work with molecular changes in ALS organoid model
The Cambridge Housing Society Ltd	FY2024	£47k	Corona Community Three-Year Extension project
Anglia Ruskin University	FY2024	£46k	Developing guidelines for social prescription of physical activity among those with sight loss
Latvian Community Association in the UK	FY2024	£44k	Wellbeing support for the living cost crisis affected
The University of Cambridge	FY2024	£42k	Eye tracking biomarker for re-myelination and neuroprotection in multiple sclerosis
Tom’s Trust	FY2024	£40k	Supporting Children with Brain Tumours
Wintercomfort for the Homeless	FY2024	£34k	Mending Minds project
Turning the Red Lights Green	FY2024	£31k	Mental Health Support Worker
Darwin College	FY2024	£30k	Improving a psychosis metabolic risk calculator
Amicus Trust Ltd	FY2024	£28k	Managing Mental Health
Connected Lives	FY2024	£25k	Cambridgeshire Hub Expansion
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	FY2024	£22k	Tai chi for the management of fibromyalgia
Cambridge Junction	FY2024	£22k	Red Balloon Learners Centres
Darwin College	FY2024	£22k	Wearable optics for metabolic brain monitoring
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust	FY2024	£19k	Evaluating the Staff Mental health Service
Care Network Cambridgeshire	FY2024	£16k	Care Network Wellbeing Service
Darwin College	FY2024	£15k	Development of an assay for pulmonary arterial hypertension research
Good Neighbours Rural Peterborough	FY2024	£14k	Good Neighbours Rural Peterborough
Home-Start Cambridgeshire	FY2024	£10k	Parent Infant Therapy project
Lives Set in Motion CIC	FY2023	£500k	Provision of a power-chair
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	FY2023	£500k	Intraoperative MRI suite
Centre Thirty Three	FY2023	£500k	Cambridge Youth Early Support Hub
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£222k	Research into mitochondrial DNA mutations in the brain
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£189k	Research work to develop new therapies for bile duct disease
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£168k	Research into novel drug targets for human cytomegalovirus infection
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£142k	Study on eliminating amyloidogenic proteins to protect brain cells
Wintercomfort for the Homeless	FY2023	£120k	Mending Minds project
Other institutional grants awarded for £10,000 or less	FY2023	£117k	Seventeen awards during the year to 31 March 2023
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£115k	DNA methylation-based diagnostics for renal cancer
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust	FY2023	£101k	Evaluating the Staff Mental health Service
National Childbirth Trust	FY2023	£89k	Birth and Beyond Community Support
Cambridge Cyrenians Ltd	FY2023	£87k	Brighter Futures project
Peterborough Council for Voluntary Service	FY2023	£82k	Health Xchange project
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£75k	Research training fellowship to research mitochondrial disease
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£73k	Treatment of traumatic acute brain injury with succinate supplements
Darwin College	FY2023	£71k	PhD Studentship in Medicine
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£69k	Development of hepatocyte cultures for use in liver cell therapy
Myelopathy.org	FY2023	£62k	Developing minimum standards for patient education in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£58k	Using a nasal challenge model to research viral innate immunity
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£57k	Research with T-regulatory cells for therapeutic uses
Caring Together Charity	FY2023	£50k	Adult Carers’ Counselling Service
Cornerstone Care in Confidence	FY2023	£50k	Cornerstone House project
Centre Thirty Three	FY2023	£50k	Cambridge Youth Early Support Hub Feasibility Study
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£50k	Research work with molecular changes in ALS organoid model
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£47k	Preserving muscle and exercise tolerance in multi-morbid older people
Anglia Ruskin University	FY2023	£46k	Developing guidelines for social prescription of physical activity among those with sight loss
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£43k	Research into cell-based therapy to augment nerve regeneration
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£30k	Improving a psychosis metabolic risk calculator
Care Network Cambridgeshire	FY2023	£25k	Care Network Wellbeing Service
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£23k	Research into the role of the MPZL1 gene in cancer metastasis
Jimmy’s Cambridge	FY2023	£23k	Mental health support
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£22k	Wearable optics for metabolic brain monitoring
Connected Lives	FY2023	£21k	Cambridgeshire Hub Expansion
Cambridge Junction	FY2023	£19k	Red Balloon Learners Centres
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	FY2023	£16k	Tai chi for the management of fibromyalgia
The University of Cambridge	FY2023	£15k	Development of an assay for pulmonary arterial hypertension research
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£240k	Research into the immune pathways operating in patients with COVID-19 infections
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£222k	Research using cerebral organoids to test new drug treatments for epilepsy in Rett syndrome
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£210k	Research to improve the diagnosis of neonatal seizures and epilepsy
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£168k	Research into inflammatory pathways in autoimmune disease
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£148k	Research into the role of specialised pro-resolving mediators in COPD
Myelopathy.org	FY2022	£120k	Developing minimum standards for patient education in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£115k	Research into mitochondrial DNA mutations in the brain
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£93k	Research into the stem cells used for cell-based cartilage therapy
Cambridge Cyrenians Ltd	FY2022	£87k	Brighter Futures project
Young People's Counselling Service	FY2022	£86k	Development of YPCS services into Fenland
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£75k	Using a nasal challenge model to research viral innate immunity
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£73k	Research training fellowship to investigate the role of senescent lung cancer cells in patients before, during and after treatment
Darwin College	FY2022	£71k	PhD Studentship in Medicine
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£69k	Research training fellowship to research cellular immune responses
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£63k	Use of Deuterium Metabolic Imaging to improve dementia diagnosis
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£60k	Development of treatments using MesEncymal cells to moderate excessive immune responses in patients with COVID-19 pneumonitis
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£58k	Research into cell-based therapy to augment nerve regeneration
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£52k	Research to improve speech perception for people with cochlear implants
Caring Together Charity	FY2022	£50k	Adult Carers' Counselling Service
Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum	FY2022	£50k	Improving refugee and migrant women's health and well-being through mobile arts
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£47k	Treatment of traumatic acute brain injury with succinate supplements
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£43k	Development of hepatocyte cultures for use in liver cell therapy
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£42k	DNA methylation-based diagnostics for renal cancer
Versus Arthritis	FY2022	£27k	Living Well with Arthritis project
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£26k	Research into the role of the MPZL1 gene in cancer metastasis
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£23k	Preserving muscle and exercise tolerance in multi-morbid older people
20Twenty Productions CIC	FY2022	£23k	Family learning project to increase social mobility
Jimmy's Cambridge	FY2022	£21k	Mental health support
The University of Cambridge	FY2022	£20k	Modelling obesity associated liver disease using stem cell derived hepatic organoids
Lives Set in Motion CIC	FY2022	£14k	Provision of a power-chair

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 1732675 vs reference 1284655 (34.9% 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.