THE ULVERSCROFT FOUNDATION — grant history
Latest income
£8.8m
Grants listed (FY2024)
42
Listed grants total
£556k
Accounts grants total
£540k
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2024 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: Applications can be made in writing by downloading, completing and posting us an application form. We also accept email applications.
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What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- Bath And North East Somerset
- Gloucestershire
- South Gloucestershire
- North Somerset
- Ireland
- Dorset
- Cornwall
What changed: FY2023 → FY2024
| Change | Grantee | FY2023 | FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | University of Surrey | — | £68k |
| new | Ruharo Mission Hospital Eye Centre, Uganda | — | £40k |
| new | UN ABPAM: Burkina Faso | — | £34k |
| new | Share the Vision | — | £30k |
| new | ORBIS CHARITABLE TRUST | — | £25k |
| new | University of St. Andrews | — | £21k |
| new | Coventry Resource Centre | — | £20k |
| new | Andean Medical Mission - Bolivia | — | £20k |
| up | READ - THE READING AGENCY | £35k | £70k |
| not listed | University of Leicester | £427k | — |
| not listed | Second Sight: India | £81k | — |
| not listed | LSH&TM Will Dean: South Africa | £67k | — |
| not listed | Clinique Ophthalmologique St Raphael: DR Congo | £20k | — |
| not listed | Bangladesh Protibandi Unnayan Sangstha (BPUS): Bangladesh | £20k | — |
| not listed | THE SHEFFIELD ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND | £15k | — |
| not listed | Vision Action: Zambia | £14k | — |
| not listed | MOORVISION | £10k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Reading Agency | FY2024 | £70k | Development of Reading Friends groups |
| University of Surrey | FY2024 | £68k | Multi-disciplinary research to create a full colour artificial retina |
| Ruharo Mission Hospital Eye Centre, Uganda | FY2024 | £40k | Equipment and training |
| UN ABPAM: Burkina Faso | FY2024 | £34k | Equipment and training in their school for young, visually impaired people |
| Share the Vision | FY2024 | £30k | Strategic support to the public library sector |
| Orbis Charitable Trust | FY2024 | £25k | |
| University of St. Andrews | FY2024 | £21k | |
| Coventry Resource Centre | FY2024 | £20k | |
| Andean Medical Mission - Bolivia | FY2024 | £20k | |
| Malawi University of S. & T. - Malawi | FY2024 | £20k | |
| Right To Sight & Health - Ghana | FY2024 | £20k | |
| Tshemba Charitable Foundation | FY2024 | £16k | |
| Book For All Trust - India | FY2024 | £12k | |
| My Sight York | FY2024 | £10k | |
| Embrace the Middle East — Egypt | FY2024 | £10k | |
| Microphthalmia Support (MACS) | FY2024 | £10k | |
| Lancashire Lions VI Sports Club | FY2024 | £5k | |
| KACSU - Kenya | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Greenwich Leisure Ltd | FY2024 | £5k | |
| The John Fawcett Foundation — Bali | FY2024 | £5k | |
| EthiopiAid — Ethiopia | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Greenwich Docklands Festival | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Outlook Trust for Visually Impaired | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Open Sight Hampshire | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Life Cycle Bristol | FY2024 | £5k | |
| British Limbless Assoc’n (BLESMA) | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Teeside & D. Society for the Blind | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Sutton Vision | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Nepal Leprosy Trust | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Vision of Adventure | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Vision Northumberland | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Be The Band | FY2024 | £5k | |
| VI Talk | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Choose Nature | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Royal Court Liverpool Trust | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Wirral C. Narrowboat Trust | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Ribble Valley Visually Impaired | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Pleasance Theatre Trust | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Walthew House | FY2024 | £5k | |
| InterCare Limited | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Leicester Visually Impaired Bowling | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Sightline Vision (NW) Limited | FY2024 | £5k | |
| University of Leicester | FY2023 | £427k | Retinoblastoma, nystagmus, and other conditions |
| Second Sight: India | FY2023 | £81k | Work in India |
| LSH&TM Will Dean: South Africa | FY2023 | £67k | Development of simulation training in South Africa |
| The Reading Agency | FY2023 | £35k | Development of Reading Friends Groups |
| Clinique Ophthalmologique St Raphael: DR Congo | FY2023 | £20k | |
| Bangladesh Protibandi Unnayan Sangstha (BPUS): Bangladesh | FY2023 | £20k | Project to improve self-development and employment opportunities for blind people in that country |
| Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind | FY2023 | £15k | |
| Vision Action: Zambia | FY2023 | £14k | |
| MoorVision | FY2023 | £10k | |
| Feed the Mind: Uganda | FY2023 | £10k | |
| Orchestra of the Swan | FY2023 | £10k | |
| Advantage Africa: Uganda | FY2023 | £10k | |
| CBM: Zimbabwe | FY2023 | £10k | |
| Fife Society for the Blind trading as Seescape | FY2023 | £8k | |
| Accrington & District Blind Society ELVIN | FY2023 | £5k | |
| Henshaws | FY2023 | £5k | |
| Kent Association for the Blind | FY2023 | £5k | |
| Mondo Foundation: Tanzania | FY2023 | £5k | |
| Sight Support West of England | FY2023 | £5k | |
| St Vincent’s School for Sensory Impairment: International | FY2023 | £5k | |
| Wirral Society of the Blind & Partially Sighted | FY2023 | £5k | |
| Living Paintings Trust | FY2023 | £4k | |
| Blind in Business | FY2023 | £3k | |
| Time & Talents | FY2023 | £3k | |
| Sight Loss Shropshire | FY2023 | £3k | |
| NAB | FY2023 | £3k | |
| CAM Sight (Cambridge Society for the Blind & Partially Sighted) | FY2023 | £3k | |
| Bucks Vision | FY2023 | £3k | |
| Braille Chess Association | FY2023 | £2k | |
| Berkshire Vision | FY2023 | £2k | |
| Alive & Kicking: Kenya, Zambia & UK | FY2023 | £2k | |
| 4 Sight Vision Support | FY2023 | £2k | |
| Warwickshire Vision Support | FY2023 | £2k | |
| Walsall Society for the Blind | FY2023 | £2k | |
| Middlesex Association for the Blind | FY2023 | £2k | |
| Inter Care: Tanzania | FY2023 | £2k | |
| Happy Days | FY2023 | £2k | |
| Living Options Devon | FY2023 | £1k | |
| Insight Gloucestershire | FY2023 | £1k | |
| Ulverscroft Vision Research Group | FY2022 | £243k | Grants approved in year |
| IMET 2000 – Uganda | FY2022 | £73k | Grants approved in year |
| Leicester Hospitals Charity | FY2022 | £26k | Grants approved in year |
| Ruharo Eye Centre | FY2022 | £21k | Grants approved in year |
| All Aboard Watersports | FY2022 | £18k | Grants approved in year |
| World Child Cancer | FY2022 | £10k | Grants approved in year |
| Andean Medical Mission | FY2022 | £8k | Grants approved in year |
| Medic to Medic | FY2022 | £7k | Grants approved in year |
| Sight for Surrey | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| Bury Blind Society | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| Galloways Society for the Blind | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| Happy Days Children’s Society | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| Chailey Heritage Foundation | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| Mondo Foundation | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| KACSU | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| MACS | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| Sense | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| Vocalise | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| Cotswold Vale Talking Newspaper | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| Childhood Eye Cancer Trust | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| Sight Advice South Lakes | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| Torch Trust for the Blind | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| Walthew House | FY2022 | £5k | Grants approved in year |
| 4Sight Vision Support | FY2022 | £4k | Grants approved in year |
| Deafblind Scotland | FY2022 | £4k | Grants approved in year |
| Comprehensive Research Network adjustment | FY2022 | £4k | Grants approved in year |
| Age UK Westminster | FY2022 | £3k | Grants approved in year |
| Braille IT | FY2022 | £2k | Grants approved in year |
| North Wales Access. Holidays | FY2022 | £2k | Grants approved in year |
| RAF Association | FY2022 | £2k | Grants approved in year |
| Sightline Vision NW Ltd | FY2022 | £2k | Grants approved in year |
| Orbis | FY2022 | £1k | Grants approved in year |
| Ystragynlais Lib. Powys CC adjustment | FY2022 | £-1k | Grants approved in year |