THE LESLIE SMITH FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income
£104k
Grants listed (FY2025)
20
Listed grants total
£297k
Accounts grants total
£116k

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

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
  • Throughout England And Wales (13 grantees)
  • Scotland (8 grantees)
  • Somerset (6 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (5 grantees)
  • Wiltshire (4 grantees)
  • Devon (4 grantees)
  • Bath And North East Somerset (3 grantees)
  • Bristol City (2 grantees)
  • Blaenau Gwent (2 grantees)
  • North Somerset (2 grantees)

What changed: FY2024 → 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.

ChangeGranteeFY2024FY2025
newFriends of CAMHS Phoenix School—£40k
newBLACK SWAN ARTS LTD—£10k
newDartmoor Search & Rescue Team Ashburton—£10k
newSchool readers—£10k
newCHURCH OF ENGLAND CHILDREN'S SOCIETY—£10k
upCHILDREN'S HOSPICE SOUTH WEST£5k£40k
upSURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE£5k£25k
upFAIR FROME£5k£20k
downGREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CHILDREN'S CHARITY£45k£20k
upGo Beyond Charity£5k£20k
upGWENT WILDLIFE TRUST LTD£5k£20k
upHELEN & DOUGLAS HOUSE£5k£20k
downChoose Love - Gaza Appeal£160k£10k
not listedFrome Town United Football Club - U15 Falcons£100k—
not listedTHE MARY HARE FOUNDATION£20k—
not listedHOME-START NORFOLK£20k—
not listedChoose Love - Turkey / Syria Earthquake Appeal£20k—
not listedLucy Air Ambulance for Children£5k—
not listedDartmoor Preservation Association£5k—
not listedDEVON AIR AMBULANCE TRUST£5k—
not listedPrior's Court Foundation£5k—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Friends of CAMHS Phoenix SchoolFY2025£40k
Children's Hospice South WestFY2025£40k
Surfers Against SewageFY2025£25k
Fair FromeFY2025£20k
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's CharityFY2025£20k
Go BeyondFY2025£20k
Gwent Wildlife TrustFY2025£20k
Helen & Douglas HouseFY2025£20k
Black Swan Arts LimitedFY2025£10k
Choose Love - Gaza AppealFY2025£10k
Dartmoor Search & Rescue Team AshburtonFY2025£10k
Devon Wildlife TrustFY2025£10k
Make-a-WishFY2025£10k
School readersFY2025£10k
The Charlie Waller FoundationFY2025£10k
The Children's SocietyFY2025£10k
The Shakespeare Globe TrustFY2025£10k
Kidney Research UKFY2025£600
Cancer Research UKFY2025£600
The Heaton-Ellis TrustFY2025£500
Choose Love - Gaza AppealFY2024£160k
Frome Town United Football Club - U15 FalconsFY2024£100k
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's CharityFY2024£45k
Mary Hare FoundationFY2024£20k
Home-Start NorfolkFY2024£20k
Choose Love - Turkey / Syria Earthquake AppealFY2024£20k
Kidney Research UKFY2024£14k
Lucy Air Ambulance for ChildrenFY2024£5k
Children's Hospice South WestFY2024£5k
Dartmoor Preservation AssociationFY2024£5k
Devon Air Ambulance TrustFY2024£5k
Fair FromeFY2024£5k
Go BeyondFY2024£5k
Gwent Wildlife TrustFY2024£5k
Helen & Douglas HouseFY2024£5k
Make-a-WishFY2024£5k
Prior's Court FoundationFY2024£5k
Surfers Against SewageFY2024£5k
The Charlie Waller FoundationFY2024£5k
The Heaton-Ellis TrustFY2024£5k
The Shakespeare Globe TrustFY2024£5k
The Trussell TrustFY2024£5k
We Hear YouFY2024£5k
Cancer Research UKFY2024£750
Devon Wildlife TrustFY2024£750
Choose Love - Turkey / Syria Earthquake AppealFY2023£160k
Mary Hare FoundationFY2023£100k
Surfers Against SewageFY2023£45k
Choose Love —UkraineFY2023£20k
The Trussell TrustFY2023£20k
We Hear YouFY2023£14k
Phoenix Bereavement SupportFY2023£10k
Honeypot Children's CharityFY2023£10k
The Brainwave CentreFY2023£7k
Access to SportFY2023£7k
Disaster Committee Fund — Ukraine AppealFY2023£7k
Moor TreesFY2023£6k
Dartmoor Preservation AssociationFY2023£6k
Nelson's JourneyFY2023£5k
Prior's Court FoundationFY2023£5k
Lucy Air Ambulance for ChildrenFY2023£5k
Health and Independence Developing TrustFY2023£5k
Children's Hospice South WestFY2023£5k
Go BeyondFY2023£5k
Frame Town United Football Club —U15 FaiconsFY2023£5k
Lewis Moody FoundationFY2023£5k
The Shakespeare Globe TrustFY2023£5k
The Heaton-Ellis TrustFY2023£5k
Home-Start NorfolkFY2023£5k
Fairfield Farm TrustFY2023£1k
Cancer Research UKFY2023£750
Devon Air AmbulanceFY2023£500
Kidney Research UKFY2023£500
Go Beyond (formerly CHICKS)FY2022£40k
Choose LoveFY2022£40k
The Trussell TrustFY2022£20k
Mary Hare FoundationFY2022£20k
Lewis Moody FoundationFY2022£10k
Phoenix Bereavement SupportFY2022£10k
Access to SportFY2022£7k
Children's Hospice South WestFY2022£7k
Surfers Against SewageFY2022£7k
Moor TreesFY2022£7k
Young Carers Development TrustFY2022£7k
Merlin Theatre Trust LimitedFY2022£7k
Developing for ChildrenFY2022£6k
Nelson's JourneyFY2022£6k
Clowns in the SkyFY2022£6k
Fairfield Farm TrustFY2022£5k
Disaster Committee Fund - Ukraine AppealFY2022£5k
East Anglian Children's HospicesFY2022£5k
We Hear YouFY2022£5k
The Brainwave CentreFY2022£5k
Shakespeare Globe Education TrustFY2022£5k
Prior's Court FoundationFY2022£5k
Home-Start NorfolkFY2022£5k
Honeypot Children's CharityFY2022£5k
Heaton Ellis TrustFY2022£5k
Kidney Research UKFY2022£5k
Health and IndependenceFY2022£5k
Climate MovementFY2022£3k
Cancer Research UKFY2022£500
Lucy Air AmbulanceFY2022£500

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 296700 vs reference 116200 (155.3% 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.