CORDWAINERS CHARITABLE TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£193k

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£88k

Accounts grants total

£185k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The focus of the Company’s charitable giving is on charities and partners with whom we have established strong links over many years.

Summarised from www.cordwainers.org on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (8 grantees)
Education/training (5 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (5 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (4 grantees)
Disability (4 grantees)
Accommodation/housing (4 grantees)
Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)
Environment/conservation/heritage (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (8 grantees)
Scotland (5 grantees)
Northern Ireland (4 grantees)
Isle Of Man (2 grantees)
Kenya (2 grantees)
Thailand (2 grantees)
Ireland (2 grantees)
Burma (1 grantee)
Bromley (1 grantee)
Belize (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2024

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	FY2023	FY2024
new	City University Music Scholarship (from the Music Fund)	—	£5k
new	Royal Society for Blind Children (£400 from the Music Fund)	—	£5k
new	Capel Manor College	—	£3k
new	Clarks Shoemakers Museum	—	£3k
new	London College of Fashion (in memory of Liveryman I Goff)	—	£2k
new	WALKING WITH THE WOUNDED	—	£1k
new	Sheriffs' and Recorder's Fund	—	£1k
new	Blind in Business	—	£1k
up	St Olave's Church	£200	£12k
up	St Mary Aldermary	£400	£11k
down	University of Northampton	£11k	£5k
up	GOVERNORS OF THE CHARITY FOR RELIEF OF THE POOR WIDOWS AND CHILDREN OF CLERGYMEN (COMMONLY CALLED CLERGY SUPPORT TRUST)	£300	£3k
up	Lord Mayor's Fund	£1k	£3k
down	Livery Food Initiative	£5k	£2k
up	CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, ROCHESTER	£400	£1k
up	Shorne Parish Church	£100	£1k
not listed	Weedon’s Almshouses Chesham	£790k	—
not listed	750 Anthem	£3k	—
not listed	Becket Pageant	£2k	—
not listed	Royal Society for Blind Children (from the Music Fund)	£2k	—
not listed	AGE UK	£300	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
St Olave's Church	FY2024	£12k	Unrestricted
Cordwainers' Footwear Awards	FY2024	£11k	Unrestricted
St Mary Aldermary	FY2024	£11k	Unrestricted
De Montfort University	FY2024	£10k	Unrestricted
City University Music Scholarship (from the Music Fund)	FY2024	£5k	Unrestricted
University of Northampton	FY2024	£5k	Unrestricted
Royal Society for Blind Children (£400 from the Music Fund)	FY2024	£5k	Unrestricted
The Clergy Support Trust	FY2024	£3k	Clergymen's Widows Fund
Capel Manor College	FY2024	£3k	Unrestricted
Fusiliers Aid Society	FY2024	£3k	Ex-servicemen and women
Lord Mayor's Fund	FY2024	£3k	Unrestricted
Clarks Shoemakers Museum	FY2024	£3k	Unrestricted
Livery Food Initiative	FY2024	£2k	Unrestricted
London College of Fashion (in memory of Liveryman I Goff)	FY2024	£2k	Unrestricted
Footwear Industry Trust	FY2024	£1k	Unrestricted
Walking With The Wounded	FY2024	£1k	Ex-servicemen and women
C Company Royal Fusiliers	FY2024	£1k	Unrestricted
Sheriffs' and Recorder's Fund	FY2024	£1k	Unrestricted
Footwear Industry Trust	FY2024	£1k	Distressed Fathers Fund
Footwear Industry Trust	FY2024	£1k	Elderly Ladies Fund
Blind in Business	FY2024	£1k	Unrestricted
Rochester Cathedral	FY2024	£1k	Unrestricted
Shorne Parish Church	FY2024	£1k	Unrestricted
St Katherine Cree	FY2024	£991	Unrestricted
Almshouses Association	FY2024	£700	Shorne Almshouses
The Royal Society for Blind Children	FY2024	£400	Blind Fund
Royal Association for the Deaf	FY2024	£300	Deaf Fund
Guildhall Library	FY2024	£250	Unrestricted
Almshouse Association	FY2024	£200	Unrestricted
Shorne Parish Church	FY2024	£100	Shorne Almshouses
University College London	FY2024	£100	Unrestricted
Weedon’s Almshouses Chesham	FY2023	£790k	Grant to Weedon’s Almshouses Chesham (Proceeds of sale of Chesham almshouses)
De Montfort University	FY2023	£12k	Unrestricted
University of Northampton	FY2023	£11k	Unrestricted
Cordwainers’ Footwear Awards	FY2023	£11k	Unrestricted
University College London	FY2023	£5k	Unrestricted
Livery Food Initiative	FY2023	£5k	Unrestricted
750 Anthem	FY2023	£3k	Unrestricted
The Royal Society for Blind Children	FY2023	£3k	Blind
Fusiliers Aid Society	FY2023	£3k	Ex-service men and women
Becket Pageant	FY2023	£2k	Unrestricted
Royal Society for Blind Children (from the Music Fund)	FY2023	£2k	Unrestricted
Footwear Friends	FY2023	£1k	Elderly ladies
Footwear Friends	FY2023	£1k	Distressed fathers
Lord Mayor’s Fund	FY2023	£1k	Unrestricted
C Company Royal Fusiliers	FY2023	£991	Unrestricted
St Mary Aldermary	FY2023	£400	Unrestricted
Rochester Cathedral	FY2023	£400	Unrestricted
Royal Association for the Deaf	FY2023	£300	Deaf
The Clergy Support Trust	FY2023	£300	Clergymen’s Widows
Age UK	FY2023	£300	Elderly ladies
St Katherine Cree	FY2023	£200	Unrestricted
St Olave’s Church	FY2023	£200	Unrestricted
Almshouse Association	FY2023	£200	Unrestricted
Shorne Parish Church	FY2023	£100	Unrestricted
Guildhall Library	FY2023	£100	Unrestricted
Cordwainers’ Footwear Awards	FY2022	£12k	Unrestricted
Sheriffs’ and Recorder’s Fund	FY2022	£6k	Unrestricted
The Royal Society for Blind Children	FY2022	£5k	Blind — regular annual grant
750 Anthem	FY2022	£3k	Unrestricted
SSAFA	FY2022	£3k	Ex-service men and women
Fusiliers Aid Society	FY2022	£3k	Ex-service men and women
Becket Pageant	FY2022	£2k	Unrestricted
Footwear Friends	FY2022	£2k	Elderly ladies
Shorne Parish Church	FY2022	£1k	Unrestricted
FANY (PRNC)	FY2022	£1k	Unrestricted
Royal Marsden Cancer Charity	FY2022	£1k	Unrestricted
Royal British Legion	FY2022	£500	Ex-service men and women
St Olave’s Church/St Katharine Cree Church	FY2022	£400	Unrestricted
St Mary Aldermary	FY2022	£400	Unrestricted
The Clergy Support Trust	FY2022	£300	Clergymen’s Widows
Royal Association for the Deaf	FY2022	£300	Deaf
Family Action	FY2022	£300	Distressed fathers
Age UK	FY2022	£300	Elderly ladies
Almshouse Association	FY2022	£200	Unrestricted
Rochester Cathedral	FY2022	£100	Unrestricted
Lord Mayor’s Fund	FY2022	£0	Unrestricted
QEST	FY2022	£0	Unrestricted
Queen’s Green Canopy	FY2022	£0	Unrestricted
Footwear Friends	FY2022	£0	Unrestricted
DEC Ukraine Appeal	FY2022	£0	Unrestricted
De Montfort University	FY2022	£0	Unrestricted
City University	FY2022	£0	Unrestricted
University College London	FY2022	£0	Unrestricted
University of Northampton	FY2022	£0	Unrestricted
Guildhall School of Music	FY2022	£0	Unrestricted
Urswick School, Hackney	FY2022	£0	Unrestricted
Guildhall Library	FY2022	£0	Unrestricted

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 87699 vs reference 184654 (52.5% 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.