THE BAILY THOMAS CHARITABLE FUND — grant history
Latest income
£2.2m
Grants listed (FY2025)
21
Listed grants total
£1.2m
Accounts grants total
£3.6m
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Credited as a funder by
- THE HORSE RANGERS ASSOCIATION (HAMPTON COURT)LIMITED
- TOUCAN EMPLOYMENT
- THE OUTLOOK FOUNDATION
- THE WOODLAND CENTRE TRUST
- NATIONAL DAY NURSERIES ASSOCIATION
- PARENTS IN NEED
- WAVES MUSIC THERAPY
- PHOENIX DANCE THEATRE
What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England
- Leeds City
- Surrey
- Calderdale
- Bradford City
- Essex
- Hertfordshire
- Cambridgeshire
- East Riding Of Yorkshire
- Central Bedfordshire
What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | University Hospital of Wales | — | £120k |
| new | University of Birmingham | — | £98k |
| new | University of Strathclyde | — | £65k |
| new | University of Edinburgh | — | £52k |
| new | Oxford Health | — | £39k |
| new | OAKFIELD (EASTON MAUDIT) LIMITED | — | £30k |
| new | University of Leicester | — | £29k |
| new | KEYNSHAM AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY | — | £28k |
| up | King's College London | £106k | £172k |
| up | University of Oxford | £98k | £170k |
| not listed | Ulster University | £119k | — |
| not listed | University of Glasgow | £101k | — |
| not listed | Aston University | £97k | — |
| not listed | University of Sheffield | £93k | — |
| not listed | Edinburgh Napier University | £90k | — |
| not listed | PURLEY PARK TRUST LIMITED | £30k | — |
| not listed | SEASHELL TRUST | £25k | — |
| not listed | READING MENCAP | £25k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| King's College London | FY2025 | £172k | Research |
| University of Oxford | FY2025 | £170k | Doctoral Fellowship / Research |
| University Hospital of Wales | FY2025 | £120k | Research |
| University College London | FY2025 | £112k | Research |
| University of Birmingham | FY2025 | £98k | Research |
| Rix-Thompson-Rothenberg Foundation | FY2025 | £70k | Grant making |
| University of Strathclyde | FY2025 | £65k | Research |
| University of Edinburgh | FY2025 | £52k | Research |
| Oxford Health | FY2025 | £39k | Research |
| Oakfield (easton Maudit) Limited | FY2025 | £30k | General Grant |
| University of Leicester | FY2025 | £29k | Research |
| Keynsham and District Mencap Society | FY2025 | £28k | General Grant |
| Hammersmith and Fulham Mencap | FY2025 | £25k | General Grant |
| The Odell Trust | FY2025 | £25k | General Grant |
| Greenwich Mencap | FY2025 | £25k | General Grant |
| Friends of Meath School | FY2025 | £25k | General Grant |
| Merton Mencap | FY2025 | £20k | General Grant |
| The Phoenix Trust (Milton) LTD | FY2025 | £20k | General Grant |
| Malvern Special Families | FY2025 | £20k | General Grant |
| Alexandra House of Joy | FY2025 | £20k | General Grant |
| Aim Habonim | FY2025 | £20k | General Grant |
| University College London | FY2024 | £179k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Ulster University | FY2024 | £119k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| King's College London | FY2024 | £106k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| University of Glasgow | FY2024 | £101k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| University of Oxford | FY2024 | £98k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Aston University | FY2024 | £97k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| University of Sheffield | FY2024 | £93k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Edinburgh Napier University | FY2024 | £90k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Rix-Thompson-Rothenberg Foundation | FY2024 | £70k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Purley Park Trust | FY2024 | £30k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Seashell Trust | FY2024 | £25k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Reading Mencap | FY2024 | £25k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Autism Anglia | FY2024 | £25k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Hastings and Bexhill Mencap Society | FY2024 | £25k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Hertsmere Mencap | FY2024 | £25k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Mencap Liverpool & Sefton | FY2024 | £25k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Pyramid of Arts | FY2024 | £25k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| SNAAP (Special Needs Advisory & Activities | FY2024 | £22k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Brainbox | FY2024 | £21k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Northumbria Calvert Trust | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Pure Innovations | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Shenstone School | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Social Life Opportunities (SoLO) | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Haswell & District Mencap | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Kids in Action | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| The Meath Epilepsy Charity | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Burton Street Foundation Ltd | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Families United Network | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Ferring Country Centre | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Friends of Castledon School | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Grove Cottage (Bishop's Stortford Mencap) | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Home-Start Rochdale and Bury | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| Solas | FY2024 | £20k | Total grants awarded in the period |
| The Bridge Project | FY2023 | £825k | Towards the Triangle New development: capital expenditure for construction of the buildmg. |
| Charlie House (Legal name: Grampian Children's Respite Care) | FY2023 | £825k | Towards Charlie House Specialist Support Centre: construction costs |
| Friends of Castlebar School | FY2023 | £638k | Towards the Castlebar School Holiday Scheme: to fund one years' costs of providing the holiday clubs for Summer and Easter |
| Compass Advocacy Network Ltd | FY2023 | £550k | Towards Phase 2 development of Lislagan Farm: a contribution towards the refurbishment cost of an original stone cottage. |
| St Rose's Special School | FY2023 | £535k | Towards St Martin's Connect: the renovation of stand-alone bungalows into a combined bungalow complex. |
| University of Glasgow | FY2023 | £110k | For 22 months 'A feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of the Go2Play active play intervention for children with intellectual disabilities'. |
| Queen Mary University of London | FY2023 | £103k | For 18 months 'Sleep and circadian interactions with sensory sensitivity in adults with intellectual disabilities' |
| King's College London | FY2023 | £98k | Towards the study entitled: 'Fixel-based analysis for the evaluation of white matter in Alzheimer's Disease and Down syndrome'. |
| Queen's University Belfast | FY2023 | £98k | For 24 months 'Randomised controlled feasibility study and exploratory trial of the Carers-ID intervention: Supporting family carers' mental health following the COVID-19 pandemic'. |
| University of Birmingham | FY2023 | £92k | Towards the study 'Investigating the Development of Repetitive Behaviours in Infants with Genetic Syndromes and Intellectual Disability'. |
| The Garwood Foundation | FY2023 | £86k | |
| Bromley Musicap | FY2023 | £86k | |
| Ulster University | FY2023 | £83k | For 18 months 'Improving life expectancy and quality of life for children born with Down syndrome, developing best practice guidelines in response to changing patterns in diagnosis, treatment and survival'. |
| Rix-Thompson-Rothenberg Foundation | FY2023 | £70k | Grant making |
| University of Plymouth | FY2023 | £66k | For 14 months 'A novel way to understand and communicate the burden of Antipsychotic Prescribing for Adults across Specialist Intellectual Disability Services in England and Wales'. |
| Acorn Villages | FY2023 | £35k | |
| Bedfordshire Opportunities for Learning Disability | FY2023 | £35k | |
| Ability Shetland | FY2023 | £25k | Towards Holiday Provision: service delivery costs. |
| Purple Patch Arts | FY2023 | £25k | Towards Lifelong Learning Programmes core programme delivery costs |
| Swings & Smiles | FY2023 | £23k | |
| Catcote Futures | FY2023 | £20k | |
| Friends Action North East | FY2023 | £20k | |
| Garva Id Edinburgh | FY2023 | £20k | |
| Rainbow ovine SW | FY2023 | £20k | |
| Ren Uk | FY2023 | £20k | |
| Uni vers i ty of Gl a s gow | FY2022 | £246k | Investigating the use of pain medication in adults with learning disabilities: relationship with polypharmacy and impact on health-related outcomes |
| Aston University | FY2022 | £119k | The Safety, Acceptability, Feasibility and Efficacy of Bed Enclosure Designs in children with intellectual disability (The SAFE BED study) |
| Uni vers i ty Col l ege London | FY2022 | £88k | Children and adolescents with learning disabilities: A cross-syndrome comparison of motor skill learning, physical activity and mental health in autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and Williams syndrome |
| Uni vers i ty of Oxford | FY2022 | £86k | Co-morbidities in people with intellectual disabilities and femoral fracture |
| Uni vers i ty of Pl ymouth | FY2022 | £86k | Older people with intellectual disabilities and epilepsy recognising and correcting anticholinergic inducing polypharmacy |
| Uni vers i ty of Bi rmi ngha m | FY2022 | £75k | Objective Actigraphy Study in Sleep of Children with Intellectual Disability and their Siblings (OASSIS-IDS): Direct assessment of sleep in children with intellectual disability, complex health needs and their siblings |
| Ki ng's Col l ege London | FY2022 | £74k | Machine learning using mixed imaging, clinical and biofluid markers to reveal the early stages of progression of Alzheimer's Disease in Down Syndrome |
| Uni vers i ty of Surrey | FY2022 | £70k | |
| Ri x-Thomps-on-Rothenberg Founda ti on | FY2022 | £70k | grant making |
| Uni vers i ty of Sheffi el d | FY2022 | £58k | |
| Foreland Fields Charity | FY2022 | £37k | Field of Dreams - A Community Disability Hub: external walls, frames, windows and doors for the pavilion building |
| Cornwall People First | FY2022 | £27k | Better Together volunteer programme: running costs for Year 1 |
| Derwen College Charity | FY2022 | £25k | The Agnes Hunt Village project: renovation costs of a bungalow |
| Down’s Syndrome Scotland | FY2022 | £25k | salary costs of a Family Support Service Officer |
| The Cha mwel l Centre Cha ri ty | FY2022 | £25k | core operational costs |
| Bentilee Volunteers CIO | FY2022 | £22k | Rainbows Club: shortfall for Year 1 running costs |
| Pennyhooks Fa rm Trus t | FY2022 | £20k | salary support for a Farm Manager and/or an Autism Centre Manager |
| Jol l y Jos h | FY2022 | £20k | salary costs of a Play Worker to lead specialist 'Stay and Play' sessions |
| Ji gs a w Trus t | FY2022 | £20k | |
| Dra vet Syndrome UK (DSUK) | FY2022 | £20k | |
| Upwa rd Mobi l i ty Ltd | FY2022 | £20k | |
| Where Next As s oci a ti on | FY2022 | £20k | |
| The Hextol Founda ti on | FY2022 | £20k | |
| Your Voi ce Counts | FY2022 | £20k |