THE SOBELL FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£1.1m

Grants listed (FY2026)

Listed grants total

£70k

Accounts grants total

£2.4m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2026 accounts

Credited as a funder by

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

INSIDE OUT FOR CHILDREN “Supported by: Adrian Baker, Berkshire Community Foundation, CLA Charitable Trust, Jillian DeVaney, Didymus, Mark Ellis, ”
THE KINGS HEDGES FAMILY SUPPORT PROJECT “We currently receive grants from The National Lottery, Awards for All, Cambridge City Council (Area Committee and Commun”
THE BERIN CENTRE “Benefactors Liz and Wilf Eaton Oxfordshire Community Foundation South Oxfordshire District Council The Hollick Foundati”
DEAF SPORTS FIRST “We supported the "Creating Music Through Technology" project (through our partner Decibels) & sponsored by The Sobell Fo”

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 (2 grantees)
Education/training (2 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Accommodation/housing (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Disability (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (3 grantees)
Scotland (2 grantees)
Ireland (1 grantee)
Kensington And Chelsea (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Brighton And Hove (1 grantee)
Throughout London (1 grantee)
Essex (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2026

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2026
new	The Wiener Holocaust Library	—	£25k
new	ONE SMALL THING	—	£25k
new	Village Way Educational Initiatives	—	£15k
new	THE ANNE ROBSON TRUST	—	£5k
not listed	JEWISH CARE	£150k	—
not listed	The Michael Sobell Hospice	£100k	—
not listed	Quintessentially	£5k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
The Wiener Holocaust Library	FY2026	£25k	part of a three-year grant towards its core work in preserving Holocaust memory, supporting research and education, and widening public access to its collections
One Small Thing	FY2026	£25k	part of a two-year £50,000 grant towards Hope Street, its trauma-informed alternative to custody for women and children
Village Way Educational Initiatives	FY2026	£15k	part of a two-year grant towards its work with Arab and Jewish at-risk youth in Israel
The Anne Robson Trust	FY2026	£5k	representing the final instalment of a three-year grant towards its work providing emotional support and companionship to people in the last days of life
Jewish Care	FY2024	£150k	representing the second instalment of a three-year grant towards the running costs of The Michael Sobell Jewish Community Centre
The Michael Sobell Hospice	FY2024	£100k	towards the running costs of the centre
Quintessentially	FY2024	£5k
St Clement & St James Community Development Project	FY2022	£100k	capital expansion project
Desert Stars representing School for the Bedouin community.	FY2022	£100k	building costs
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS trust	FY2022	£77k	Specialist Nurse
The Association for the Improvement of Women's Status, Lakia	FY2022	£58k	running costs

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 70000 vs reference 2421844 (97.1% 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 or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].