THE MICHAEL MARKS CHARITABLE TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£223k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£378k

Accounts grants total

£247k

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: Please email applications to: [email protected]
Deadlines: The 2025 AGM will take place on the 4th of July and we will be accepting online applications until the 31st of May

Summarised from www.michaelmarkscharitabletrust.org · michaelmarkscharitabletrust.org/howtoapply/ on 14/08/2026. 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).

ARNOS VALE CEMETERY TRUST “The Michael Marks Charitable Trust is generously supporting vital conservation work at Arnos Vale Cemetery, protecting i”
CLEAN RIVERS TRUST “These are a few of the many charitable organisations who we a grateful to for funding our work. Michael Marks Charitable”
CURLEW ACTION “Michael Marks Charitable Trust”

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 (17 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (16 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (15 grantees)
Animals (6 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
Disability (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (11 grantees)
Scotland (8 grantees)
Throughout England (4 grantees)
Northern Ireland (4 grantees)
Germany (3 grantees)
Ireland (3 grantees)
Netherlands (3 grantees)
Italy (3 grantees)
Spain (3 grantees)
United States (3 grantees)

What changed: FY2022 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2022	FY2025
new	Ora Singers	—	£47k
new	SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST	—	£32k
new	New Alexandia Foundation	—	£15k
new	CYMEPA	—	£15k
new	BERKSHIRE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND OXFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST	—	£12k
new	ART HISTORY LINK-UP	—	£10k
new	Bampton Opera	—	£10k
new	THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS	—	£10k
up	THE LONDON WILDLIFE TRUST	£3k	£10k
down	Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra	£47k	£10k
down	THE WORDSWORTH TRUST	£26k	£10k
up	KEATS - SHELLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED)	£3k	£10k
up	Etaireia Messeniakon Spoudon	£3k	£8k
not listed	St Paul's Pro-Cathedral	£10k	—
not listed	Rubenianum	£5k	—
not listed	MANCHESTER CITY GALLERIES TRUST	£5k	—
not listed	CLEAN RIVERS TRUST	£5k	—
not listed	Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust	£4k	—
not listed	Harvard Centre of Hellenic Studies	£4k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount
Ora Singers	FY2025	£47k
Somerset Wildlife Trust	FY2025	£32k
New Alexandia Foundation	FY2025	£15k
CYMEPA	FY2025	£15k
Berkshire Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust	FY2025	£12k
Art History Link Up	FY2025	£10k
Bampton Opera	FY2025	£10k
British School at Athens	FY2025	£10k
Idryma Istorikon Meleton	FY2025	£10k
London Wildlife Trust	FY2025	£10k
National Theatre	FY2025	£10k
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra	FY2025	£10k
Species Recovery Trust	FY2025	£10k
St Marks Methodist Church Tottenham	FY2025	£10k
Tate Gallery St Ives	FY2025	£10k
Welcome to our Future (Worcheshire Nesting Boxes)	FY2025	£10k
Wild Futures	FY2025	£10k
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust	FY2025	£10k
Wordsworth Trust	FY2025	£10k
Keats Shelley Memorial Association	FY2025	£10k
Welsh National Opera	FY2025	£10k
British Museum	FY2025	£9k
Drama Express	FY2025	£8k
Etaireia Messeniakon Spoudon	FY2025	£8k
Modern Poetry in Translation	FY2025	£6k
Marine Conservation Society	FY2025	£5k
Alina Orchestra Ltd	FY2025	£5k
Science Museum Group	FY2025	£5k
New Writing North	FY2025	£5k
Orangutan Appeal UK	FY2025	£5k
British Library	FY2025	£5k
Galapagos Conservation Trust	FY2025	£5k
Cheetah Conservation Fund	FY2025	£5k
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment	FY2025	£4k
Little Angel Theatre	FY2025	£4k
Curlew Action	FY2025	£3k
Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust (Brighton & Hove Museums)	FY2025	£3k
Little Ouse Headwaters Project	FY2025	£3k
Ashmolean Museum	FY2025	£3k
Moorland Mouise Trust	FY2025	£2k
Butterfly Conservation	FY2025	£2k
Lake District Foundation	FY2025	£2k
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic	FY2025	£1k
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra	FY2022	£47k
Wordsworth Trust	FY2022	£26k
National Theatre	FY2022	£10k
St Paul's Pro-Cathedral	FY2022	£10k
Rubenianum	FY2022	£5k
Manchester City Galleries Trust	FY2022	£5k
Clean Rivers Trust	FY2022	£5k
Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment	FY2022	£4k
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust	FY2022	£4k
Harvard Centre of Hellenic Studies	FY2022	£4k
London Wildlife Trust	FY2022	£3k
Etaireia Messeniakon Spoudon	FY2022	£3k
Curlew Action	FY2022	£3k
Keats/Shelley Memorial Association	FY2022	£3k

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 378387 vs reference 246587 (53.4% 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.