DRAPERS CHARITABLE FUND — grant history

Registered charity 251403 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£2.7m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£1.9m

Accounts grants total

£2.6m

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

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

THE HERITAGE OF LONDON TRUST LIMITED “The Drapers' Charitable Fund”

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 (65 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (41 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (28 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (21 grantees)
Disability (18 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (15 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (11 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (8 grantees)
Accommodation/housing (6 grantees)
Recreation (3 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (28 grantees)
Throughout London (17 grantees)
Throughout England (10 grantees)
Scotland (10 grantees)
Northern Ireland (9 grantees)
Southwark (4 grantees)
Kensington And Chelsea (4 grantees)
Lambeth (4 grantees)
Tower Hamlets (4 grantees)
Newham (3 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Onwards & Upwards	FY2025	£75k	Social enterprise XO Bikes training ex-offenders
The Baroness de Turckheim Music Fund	FY2025	£58k	Scholarships to young musicians
Bangor Research Fellowship Fund	FY2025	£51k	Collaborative research for post-graduate students
Bancroft’s School	FY2025	£50k	Assisted Places for seven pupils
Bangor University	FY2025	£40k	Undergraduate and post-graduate students and employability bursaries
The Honourable The Irish Society	FY2025	£40k	Distribution to community organisations in County Londonderry
Queen Mary, University of London	FY2025	£35k	Research studentships, scholarships and prizes
Pembroke College, Cambridge	FY2025	£35k	Fellowship
Company Individuals	FY2025	£32k	Leaving prizes and support for transition to higher education
No Going Back	FY2025	£30k	Year 5 of initiative for people leaving prison
Action Tutoring	FY2025	£30k	Volunteer tutors in London schools
Literacy Pirates	FY2025	£30k	Core costs for literacy support
National Prison Radio	FY2025	£30k	Costs of National Prison Radio
The Shrewsbury Drapers’ Company	FY2025	£30k	Fairford Place development
St Anne’s College, Oxford	FY2025	£30k	Initiatives to enhance access and outreach
Hertford College, Oxford	FY2025	£30k	DPhil studentships
Veterans’ Aid	FY2025	£30k	Frontline work delivering practical support
MK Snap Enterprises	FY2025	£26k	EnABLE Talent programme
Sixty-One	FY2025	£25k	MentorMe ex-prisoner intensive one-to-one mentoring programme
Fine Cell Work	FY2025	£25k	Training prisoners in textile skills
Fair Shot	FY2025	£25k	Training programme for young adults with learning disabilities
Bonny Downs Community Association	FY2025	£25k	Enriched to Be meals and health education
Thrive	FY2025	£25k	London centre in Battersea Park STH programmes
Oasis Community Hub: Waterloo	FY2025	£25k	Community Fridge project
Bow Foodbank	FY2025	£25k	Core costs
Drive Forward Foundation	FY2025	£25k	Support for care-experienced young people
Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation	FY2025	£25k	Bursary places for young people from London
Social Mobility Foundation	FY2025	£25k	Aspiring Professionals Programme in Greater London
Welcare	FY2025	£25k	Senior Family Support Worker in Lambeth
Future Frontiers	FY2025	£25k	Guidance and opportunities for disadvantaged young people
Launch It	FY2025	£25k	Business start-up support for disadvantaged young people
Harold Hill Foodbank	FY2025	£25k	Emergency food parcels, volunteering programme and job club
Home-Start Havering & Redbridge	FY2025	£25k	Work with vulnerable families on Harold Hill
Recruitment Junction	FY2025	£25k	Core costs for placing ex-offenders
The Stoll Foundation	FY2025	£25k	Veterans Nomination Scheme
Trailblazers Mentoring	FY2025	£25k	Through-the-gate support to young offenders
Beating Time	FY2025	£25k	Inside Job peer-led employment service
Enriched to Be Community Association	FY2025	£24k	Poverty relief projects and Food Club
Universify Education	FY2025	£24k	Access and outreach programme
City and Guilds of London Art School	FY2025	£21k	Full scholarships for BA Carving: Carving & Gilding programme
Resurgo Trust’s Bethnal Green centre	FY2025	£20k	Spear Programme for unemployed young people
Kirkham Grammar School	FY2025	£20k	Half-fees bursary for a sixth form student
St Paul’s Way Trust School	FY2025	£20k	Furnishings for an IT suite and a wellbeing centre
Sister System	FY2025	£20k	Support for care-affected girls and young women
Become	FY2025	£20k	Helpline, workshops, advice surgeries and support into HE/employment
The Access Project	FY2025	£20k	Academic tutorials and in-school mentoring
Prison Reform Trust	FY2025	£20k	Advice and Information service
Providence Row	FY2025	£20k	Employability & Progression programme
999 Club	FY2025	£20k	Employability service
Hackney Doorways	FY2025	£20k	Hackney Night Shelter
NEWway Project	FY2025	£20k	NEWdawn winter night shelter
Forest Churches Emergency Night Shelter	FY2025	£20k	Temporary accommodation
Livery Food Initiative	FY2025	£20k	Collaboration with City Harvest
The Creative Dimension Trust	FY2025	£20k	Embroidery and Tailoring workshops
Shepherd’s Bush Family Project & Children Centre	FY2025	£20k	Support and assistance to families
The Care Workers Charity	FY2025	£20k	Crisis grant support to care workers in London
Healthy Living Projects	FY2025	£20k	One-to-one support, life skills training and employment support
Bancroft’s Foundation	FY2025	£20k	Assisted Place for a disadvantaged pupil
Kirkham Grammar School	FY2025	£18k	Refurbishment of communal bathrooms in the boys’ boarding house
Working Families	FY2025	£15k	In-work benefits advice
Textile Conservation Foundation	FY2025	£15k	Bursaries for MPhil Textile Conservation course
James’ Place	FY2025	£15k	Core costs for specialist intervention for men in suicidal crisis
The Upholders’ Charity	FY2025	£15k	Opus Anglicanum embroidery project
LandWorks	FY2025	£15k	Supported route back into employment
New Bridge Foundation	FY2025	£15k	Core costs for prisoner support
Hardman Trust	FY2025	£15k	Financial and practical support for long-term prisoners
City Year UK	FY2025	£15k	Volunteering opportunities in disadvantaged schools
Listening Place	FY2025	£15k	Core costs for listening support
Kirkham Grammar School	FY2025	£14k	Hardship fund
Thomas Adams School, Wem	FY2025	£14k	Hardship fund
Sir George Monoux College	FY2025	£14k	Hardship fund
St Paul’s Way Trust School	FY2025	£14k	Hardship fund
Howell’s School, Llandaff	FY2025	£14k	Hardship fund
St Paul’s Cathedral Chorister Trust	FY2025	£11k	Bursaries for choristers
MyBigCareer	FY2025	£10k	Careers guidance and workplace experiences
School Home Support	FY2025	£10k	Work in London
Storybook Dads	FY2025	£10k	Helping imprisoned parents maintain family ties
Bloomfield Learning Centre	FY2025	£10k	Star language and spelling programme
College of William & Mary, Virginia	FY2025	£10k	Bursary for postgraduate/postdoctoral scholar
Spires	FY2025	£10k	Rough sleeper drop-in service
Homeless Action in Barnet	FY2025	£10k	Supporting rough sleepers and homeless people
Faith in Action Merton Homelessness Project	FY2025	£10k	Drop-in centre and rotational night shelter
Other edu youngp projects	FY2024	£621k	Wide variety of educational projects
Prisoner support	FY2024	£398k	Distributed in 18 grants
Drapers’ Consolidated Charity	FY2024	£181k	Relief of persons in need, hardship or distress
Disability	FY2024	£162k	Distributed in 13 grants
Homelessness	FY2024	£152k	Distributed in 12 grants
Redcliffe Foundation Fund	FY2024	£151k	Benefit of pupils at schools within Drapers’ Multi-Academy Trust
Company Schools	FY2024	£145k	Hardship funds and other support
Henry Dixon’s Foundation for Apprenticing	FY2024	£92k	Support for young people pursuing career in textile industry
Drapers’ Academy Endowment Fund	FY2024	£89k	Advance education for community of London Borough of Havering
Welfare	FY2024	£79k	Distributed in 3 grants
Bancroft’s School	FY2024	£70k	Assisted Places
Miscellaneous	FY2024	£65k	Distributed in 97 grants
Gift and Legacy Fund	FY2024	£58k	Small charities and community groups
Baroness de Turckheim Music Fund	FY2024	£58k	Scholarships to young musicians
Ex-Servicemen and women	FY2024	£56k	Distributed in 5 grants
Queen Mary, University of London	FY2024	£54k	Research studentships, scholarships and prizes
Bangor Research Fellowship Fund	FY2024	£51k	Collaborative research for post-graduate students
No Going Back	FY2024	£50k	Year 4 of initiative
Livery Food Initiative	FY2024	£50k	Food rescue van campaign
Bangor University	FY2024	£40k	Support for students and employability bursaries
Northern Ireland	FY2024	£40k	Distributed in 1 grant
The Honourable The Irish Society	FY2024	£40k	Distribution to community organisations in County Londonderry and Future Leaders' Programme
Royal College of Music	FY2024	£35k	Scholarships
Pembroke College, Cambridge	FY2024	£35k	Fellowship
Guildhall School of Music and Drama	FY2024	£35k	Scholarships
Royal Academy of Music	FY2024	£35k	Scholarships
Royal Northern College of Music	FY2024	£35k	Scholarships
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance	FY2024	£35k	Scholarships
Textiles and Heritage	FY2024	£31k	Distributed in 4 grants
Working Chance	FY2024	£30k	Helping women with convictions
Veterans’ Aid	FY2024	£30k	Frontline work for ex-servicemen and women
Prison Radio Association	FY2024	£30k	National Prison Radio costs
Hertford College, Oxford	FY2024	£30k	DPhil studentships
Action Tutoring	FY2024	£30k	Volunteer tutors in London schools
Historic Royal Palaces	FY2024	£30k	Not specified in list, but mentioned in text as receiving grant
St Anne’s College, Oxford	FY2024	£30k	Access and outreach initiatives
Thrive	FY2024	£25k	London centre in Battersea Park for STH programmes
ThinkForward	FY2024	£25k	Not specified in list, but mentioned in text as receiving grant
Home-Start Havering & Redbridge	FY2024	£25k	Work with vulnerable families on Harold Hill
RL Glasspool Trust	FY2024	£25k	Enhanced subsistence support grants
New Horizon Youth Centre	FY2024	£25k	Employability support programmes
Prisoners Education Trust	FY2024	£25k	Core costs of distance learning and support
Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation	FY2024	£25k	Bursary places for young people from London
Onwards & Upwards	FY2024	£25k	Second of three annual grants for XO Bikes
One Small Thing	FY2024	£25k	Hope Street facility in Southampton
upReach	FY2024	£25k	Associate Employability Programme
Launch It	FY2024	£25k	Help disadvantaged young people start businesses
St Pancras Community Association	FY2024	£25k	Community Kitchen and Warm Spaces project; Golden Years project
Harold Hill Foodbank	FY2024	£25k	Emergency food parcels, volunteering programme and job club
Crosslight Advice	FY2024	£25k	Debt advice and financial education
The Baytree Centre	FY2024	£25k	Youth Education Programme
Beating Time	FY2024	£25k	Inside Job employment service
Envision	FY2024	£25k	Essential skills programme
Fine Cell Work	FY2024	£25k	Training prisoners in textile skills
Future Frontiers	FY2024	£25k	Guidance and opportunities for disadvantaged young people
Get Further	FY2024	£25k	Tuition programmes in further education colleges
Treasures Foundation	FY2024	£24k	Rehabilitation and support for female ex-offenders
Company Individuals	FY2024	£23k	Leaving prizes and support for transition to higher education
Settle Support	FY2024	£22k	Settle programme for care experienced young people
City and Guilds of London Art School	FY2024	£21k	Full scholarships for BA Carving programme
Providence Row	FY2024	£20k	Employability & Progression programme
Access Project	FY2024	£20k	Academic tutorials and mentoring
Career Ready	FY2024	£20k	Work across London
First Star Scholars UK	FY2024	£20k	Programmes for young people in care
In2Change	FY2024	£20k	Not specified in list, but mentioned in text as receiving grant
Nehemiah Project	FY2024	£20k	Not specified in list, but mentioned in text as receiving grant
Thomas Adams’ Foundation	FY2024	£20k	Not specified in list, but mentioned in text as receiving grant
Zahid Mubarek Trust	FY2024	£20k	Training and support for ethnic minority prisoners
Bancroft’s Foundation	FY2024	£20k	Assisted Place for a disadvantaged pupil
Merchant Taylors’ Golden Shears Competition	FY2024	£15k	Craft training award
St Peter’s Children and Young People’s Activities Group	FY2024	£15k	Educational interventions in St Peter’s Ward of Islington
Tutors United	FY2024	£15k	English and maths tuition to primary school children
Girls’ Network	FY2024	£15k	Mentoring programme, Unlock the Future
New Bridge Foundation	FY2024	£15k	Core costs for befriending and support
Hardman Trust	FY2024	£15k	Support for long-term prisoners
St Cuthbert’s Centre	FY2024	£15k	Practical and emotional support for marginalised people
James’ Place	FY2024	£15k	Core costs for specialist intervention for men in suicidal crisis
Listening Place	FY2024	£15k	Core costs for listening support
Watford Sheltered Workshop	FY2024	£15k	Core costs
Veterans into Logistics	FY2024	£15k	Core costs
Sufra NW London	FY2024	£15k	Community food and support hub
BEfriend	FY2024	£15k	Befriending visits to older residents and people with mental health problems
Abbey Community Association	FY2024	£15k	Elderly Group
Help On Your Doorstep	FY2024	£14k	Service empowering residents from deprived wards
Thomas Adams School, Wem	FY2024	£13k	Hardship fund
Sir George Monoux College	FY2024	£13k	Hardship fund
St Paul’s Way Trust School	FY2024	£13k	Hardship fund
Kirkham Grammar School	FY2024	£13k	Hardship fund
Howell’s School, Llandaff	FY2024	£13k	Hardship fund
St Paul’s Cathedral Chorister Trust	FY2024	£11k	Bursaries for choristers
Greenwich Winter Night Shelter	FY2024	£10k	Winter night shelter and Day Centre
Brokerage Citylink	FY2024	£10k	Pathway to the City programme
Manna Society	FY2024	£10k	Services supporting rough sleepers
Team Domenica	FY2024	£10k	Supporting young adults with learning disabilities
Yellow Submarine	FY2024	£10k	Evening social clubs and day-time activities
Tinnitus UK	FY2024	£10k	Additional Helpline Advisor
Hope Worldwide	FY2024	£10k	Charity Housing Service
College of William & Mary, Virginia	FY2024	£10k	Bursary for postgraduate/postdoctoral scholar
Abbey Community Centre	FY2024	£10k	Kilburn Good Neighbours befriending scheme
Street Storage	FY2024	£10k	Storage for belongings of people experiencing homelessness
Future Youth Zone	FY2024	£10k	Final instalment of grant totalling £100,000 over three years
Drapers’ (William and Mary) Tercentennial Award	FY2024	£10k	Not specified in list, but mentioned in text as receiving grant
Cockpit Arts	FY2024	£9k	Careers visits at Deptford site
Dig In	FY2024	£8k	Activities revolving around gardening and woodworking

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 1896905 vs reference 2629549 (27.9% 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.