THE MRS L D ROPE THIRD CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT — grant history
Latest income
£2.3m
Grants listed (FY2025)
37
Listed grants total
£943k
Accounts grants total
£2.3m
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: The trust does not accept unsolicited applications from individuals directly; these must be referred by front-line advice and social care agencies. Organisations can register to receive an application form link. All grants are made at the discretion of the Trustees.
What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Suffolk
- Norfolk
- Essex
- Cambridgeshire
- Throughout England And Wales
- Zimbabwe
- Bangladesh
- Lebanon
- Burma
- Afghanistan
What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | Citizens Advice East Suffolk | — | £80k |
| new | THE SUTTON HOO SHIP'S COMPANY | — | £45k |
| new | DISABILITY ADVICE SERVICE (EAST SUFFOLK) | — | £40k |
| new | IPSWICH AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU | — | £35k |
| new | CHRISTIAN YOUTH MINISTRIES | — | £34k |
| new | Transformation Fund | — | £33k |
| new | SELIG | — | £32k |
| new | Sudbury & District Citizens Advice | — | £32k |
| up | Karuna Battambang | £17k | £73k |
| up | IPSWICH FURNITURE PROJECT | £40k | £60k |
| up | IPSWICH OUTREACH | £15k | £30k |
| up | JUST42 | £10k | £30k |
| up | For Children & Young People (4YP) | £15k | £30k |
| up | MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (UK) | £15k | £25k |
| not listed | LIGHTHOUSE WOMEN'S AID LIMITED | £45k | — |
| not listed | ORMISTON FAMILIES | £40k | — |
| not listed | ICENI IPSWICH | £37k | — |
| not listed | INSPIRE SUFFOLK LTD | £35k | — |
| not listed | THE MIX STOWMARKET LTD | £30k | — |
| not listed | BUCKINGHAM EMERGENCY FOOD APPEAL | £21k | — |
| not listed | REACH COMMUNITY PROJECTS | £20k | — |
| not listed | The Hardman Trust | £20k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citizens Advice East Suffolk | FY2025 | £80k | 2-year grant towards core running costs. |
| Karuna Battambang | FY2025 | £73k | 2-year funding for a new school in Cambodia with teaching staff, training and resources. |
| Ipswich Furniture Project | FY2025 | £60k | Towards the core running costs and help with delivery costs of goods. |
| The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company | FY2025 | £45k | 3-year grant to match fund the salary of an education coordinator. |
| Disability Advice Service (East Suffolk) | FY2025 | £40k | 2 years funding towards core running costs. |
| Ipswich and District Citizens Advice Bureau | FY2025 | £35k | 2-year grant to support core running costs. |
| Christian Youth Ministries | FY2025 | £34k | 2-year grant for support with Chaplaincy support in Chantry Academy. |
| Transformation Fund | FY2025 | £33k | Grant to enhance the student reception and create a Study Hub at a school in a particularly deprived area within the Charity’s Primary Area. |
| SELIG | FY2025 | £32k | To support those who have been homeless for a log period of time to find work and improve life skills. |
| Sudbury & District Citizens Advice | FY2025 | £32k | 2-year grant towards the post of a specialist benefits advisor. |
| Ipswich Outreach | FY2025 | £30k | 2-year grant towards the Charity Manager's post. |
| Just42 | FY2025 | £30k | 2-year grant to offer Compass Mentoring in Kesgrave and Farlingaye High Schools. |
| Genesis Orwell Mencap | FY2025 | £30k | To support the salary of the Workshop Manager. |
| For Children & Young People (4YP) | FY2025 | £30k | 2-year grant to help keep services at the Hub running. |
| Disability Advice Northeast Suffolk | FY2025 | £30k | 2-year grant to help with the appeals service. |
| Great Barton Free Church (Ltd) - CAP Debt Centre | FY2025 | £26k | 3-year grant to enable the debt advice service to operate. |
| MSF UK | FY2025 | £25k | Funding to be used during emergencies and crises to get doctors on the ground in the event of disaster. |
| Lofty Heights CIC | FY2025 | £20k | 2-year grant towards the Multi Skills tutor. |
| BME Suffolk Support Group (BSSG) CIC | FY2025 | £19k | Core funding grant. |
| HMP Hollesley Bay & Warren Hill (parent) | FY2025 | £17k | Chaplaincy Benevolent Fund to help prisoners purchase clothing and shoes. |
| ActivLives | FY2025 | £16k | To support the costs of the Re-Balance service. |
| Whitton Parish Church | FY2025 | £15k | Support for the hub project in Ipswich. |
| The Racing Centre | FY2025 | £15k | Towards the setting up of the Newmarket Pantry. |
| Home-Start in Suffolk | FY2025 | £15k | To support the Volunteer Recruitment Officer post. |
| Emmaus Suffolk | FY2025 | £15k | To set up support for families in receipt of free school meals to ensure children are fed during holidays and after school. |
| BSC Multicultural Services | FY2025 | £15k | Towards core running costs. |
| Families Together Suffolk | FY2025 | £15k | Towards the salary of the SEND Family Co-Ordinator. |
| FAMILYFIRST | FY2025 | £15k | Towards the core running costs. |
| Disasters Emergency Committee | FY2025 | £15k | To support the Middle East Humanitarian Appeal. |
| St Alban's Catholic High School | FY2025 | £14k | A grant for support with Chaplaincy provision. |
| Leeway Domestic Violence and Abuse Services | FY2025 | £12k | To enable security measures to be put in place immediately for those affected by abuse. |
| Lady Ryder of Warsaw Memorial Trust | FY2025 | £10k | To support the costs of Medical Student training. |
| Bury Drop In | FY2025 | £10k | To enable hot meals to be provided to the those who are homeless. |
| Volunteering Matters | FY2025 | £10k | Towards 4 youth engagement days. |
| SVP Conferences Gt. Yarmouth & Gorleston | FY2025 | £10k | To support those in hardship. |
| River Church Ipswich | FY2025 | £10k | To support their 7 programmes of social transformation. |
| FareShare East of England | FY2025 | £10k | Support towards the costs of redistributing surplus food. |
| Lighthouse Women's Aid | FY2024 | £45k | A two-year grant towards the core running costs associated with supporting women and children affected by domestic abuse, enabling recovery and the rebuilding of lives. |
| Ipswich Furniture Project | FY2024 | £40k | A grant to support with delivery costs across Suffolk for individual grants awarded by The Rope Trust. |
| Ormiston Families | FY2024 | £40k | A two-year grant award to support children, young people, and their families to manage the challenges they face and improve their life chances. |
| Iceni Ipswich | FY2024 | £37k | A two-year grant to help employ a Family Engagement Worker who will offer support to families affected by substance misuse (including victims of domestic violence), providing help to enable children to fulfil their potential and to reduce the number of children taken into care. |
| Inspire Suffolk | FY2024 | £35k | A two-year grant to support the mental health and wellbeing services, or advice for young people. A two-year grant which will enable them to offer services to young people, both from their hub and in outreach areas where the young people want support. |
| The Mix Stowmarket | FY2024 | £30k | A two-year grant which aims to reach young people living in poverty and experiencing disadvantage to support their well-being, resilience, and aspirations. Through an early intervention approach, they help to break the cycle of poverty, supporting young people to become leaders in their own lives and be healthy and happy. |
| Buckingham Emergency Food Appeal | FY2024 | £21k | A three-year grant to help with food supplies. |
| Reach Community Projects | FY2024 | £20k | A two-year grant to help run projects aimed at helping clients who are in financial crisis, including: A drop-in centre to access Reach resources; Free debt advice; Foodbank providing emergency food parcels; Starter Packs providing essential bedding and kitchenware. |
| The Hardman Trust | FY2024 | £20k | A two-year grant which will help assist prisoners who have served long sentences by providing financial awards and support to aid their resettlement. |
| BME Suffolk Support Group (BSSG) CIC | FY2024 | £18k | To provide support to the BME community of Ipswich and Suffolk by employing 2 part time workers to aid the programmes of delivery, foodbank, youth group, library, community café, drop-in sessions, advice, and support in managing debt. |
| Karuna Battambang | FY2024 | £17k | To help improve the quality of life of children with intellectual disabilities in Cambodia, in three areas: provision of special therapies and health services for children with intellectual disabilities; help to establish special education, schooling, and skills training; and campaigning to raise awareness on disabilities and to combat a tradition of social stigma. |
| Kesgrave High School | FY2024 | £16k | £15,000 towards a new sports hall floor and a further £1,000 towards a drama performance. |
| For Children & Young People (4YP) | FY2024 | £15k | Towards the costs of a youth worker to deliver the 4NOW youth project in Ipswich. |
| Home-Start in Suffolk | FY2024 | £15k | A contribution to a dual language member of staff supported by a trained infant massage staff member, and local volunteers including those of the global majority to work within the local community, working closely with existing venues, partners, and community leaders to engage with mothers in their early stages of pregnancy. |
| Ipswich Outreach | FY2024 | £15k | A core grant to help with the costs of running the Ipswich Soup Kitchen, supporting those who are vulnerably housed. |
| Let's Talk Reading | FY2024 | £15k | Support with services to improve literacy in the disadvantaged areas of Ipswich directly and by funding partner organisations, including encouraging attendance at ante-natal and post-natal classes, encouraging parents and early years settings to read with infants, giving away free book-bags to infants and families, and working with adults who struggle to read. |
| MSF UK | FY2024 | £15k | To support the work of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Afghanistan. |
| River Church Ipswich | FY2024 | £15k | Core funding to continue and expand several social transformation projects including young males struggling with mental health issues or criminal behaviour, refugees, and asylum seekers, those out of work or training, those in financial difficulty, young children, and their parents/carers, and those experiencing bereavement. |
| The Benjamin Foundation | FY2024 | £15k | A contribution to The Parent Wellbeing Support Group - a weekly, support worker guided, judgement free and secure meeting to help local parents share concerns, seek advice and guidance, enjoy peer support, and grow friendships. |
| Suffolk Family Carers | FY2024 | £14k | Providing funding to support the specialist information, advice and guidance service provided by Suffolk Family Carers, offering an additional 10 hours per week. |
| CYM Ipswich | FY2024 | £14k | A contribution towards the service of the school chaplaincy in Chantry Academy. |
| Bows and Arrows | FY2024 | £14k | A three-year grant to help provide essential support to families living in poverty across the most deprived areas of Ipswich. |
| Sudbury & South Suffolk Citizens Advice | FY2024 | £14k | Towards enabling the continuation of the part time Benefits Specialist (15 hours per week). |
| Suffolk Mind | FY2024 | £13k | To provide fully funded counselling for people experiencing mental ill health because of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, and with the help of Reach Haverhill offer practical financial advice to people struggling with their finances and mental health due to those pressures. |
| BSC Multicultural Services | FY2024 | £12k | A contribution towards core costs enabling, face to face support services, supplementary schools work, befriending, BME business awards and the celebrations offered throughout Ipswich. |
| Family First (parent) | FY2024 | £10k | Support towards helping families flourish and children to feel valued and cared for living within positive constructive environments. |
| Ipswich Community Playbus | FY2024 | £10k | A contribution to maintain the play sessions near Wherstead Road, Ipswich (Griffin Wharf). |
| Just42 | FY2024 | £10k | To fund the Compass mentoring scheme to be delivered in Kesgrave High School. |
| Citizens Advice East Suffolk | FY2023 | £75k | A two-year grant to provide holistic support to those in debt, poverty, or financial hardship. |
| Citizens Advice Mid Suffolk | FY2023 | £50k | A two-year grant to provide holistic support to those in debt, poverty, or financial hardship. |
| Disability Advice Northeast Suffolk | FY2023 | £27k | A two-year grant to support the advisers working with those with disabilities, in the North of the county. |
| Disability Advice (East Suffolk) | FY2023 | £24k | A two-year grant to support the advisers working with those with disabilities, in East Suffolk. |
| Service | FY2023 | £21k | A total of 4 grants. |
| Ormiston Families | FY2023 | £19k | Supporting the salary of the practitioner delivering the MPower project in Lowestoft. |
| Genesis Orwell Mencap | FY2023 | £19k | Towards the salary of the Speech and Language Therapy Practitioner supporting service users with communication plans and creative activities. |
| Karuna Battambang | FY2023 | £18k | Continuing support for those in Cambodia who have intellectual disabilities. |
| ActivLives | FY2023 | £17k | Supporting an ActivAgeing Development Officer to run inclusive sports and physical activity for those vulnerable and disadvantaged in the Ipswich and Southeast Suffolk area. |
| BME Support | FY2023 | £16k | A total of 3 grants, 2 towards the culturally appropriate foodbank and one towards the core costs of staff to support their projects across Suffolk for those from ethnically diverse backgrounds. |
| HMP Hollesley Bay | FY2023 | £16k | 8 grants supporting the Chaplaincy Benevolent fund to help those who are released from prison settle into a community. |
| SELIG | FY2023 | £16k | To provide supportive accommodation and holistic support for those who have been homeless to be able to increase their skills, opportunities and learn to live independently. |
| Kesgrave High School | FY2023 | £15k | Towards their local sports facilities. |
| Disasters Emergency Committee | FY2023 | £15k | Helping those that were caught in the Turkey-Syrian earthquake. |
| Emmaus | FY2023 | £15k | To support their community café, providing low-cost nutritional meals to those who are socially isolated, have poor mental health or are living in poverty. |
| Ipswich Citizens Advice | FY2023 | £15k | A grant to help with the transformation of operating systems to enhance the customer experience. |
| River Church | FY2023 | £15k | A core grant to support the social action projects run by the church; including “bridge the gap” football sessions, a safe space to study and relax as well as money advice and a community café. |
| St Elizabeth Hospice | FY2023 | £13k | Two grants, supporting improvements in the Hospice for staff and residents alongside the introduction of a Happiness programme. |
| HOUR Community | FY2023 | £12k | A total of two grants that support those vulnerable, elderly or socially isolated in and around Framlingham that need befriending and support from volunteers with day-to-day tasks. |
| PHOEBE | FY2023 | £12k | A total of 3 grants: A grant to help the development of their new premises and two welfare support grants for those women in poverty. |
| PCC of St Mary Le Tower | FY2023 | £12k | To create the Sanctuary Day Centre for asylum seekers in Ipswich, giving them activity, purpose and skills to help integration. |
| Volunteering Matters | FY2023 | £12k | To support the Youth Social Action programme in schools in Ipswich and Southeast Suffolk. |
| British Red Cross | FY2023 | £10k | Support to help with the Ukraine appeal. |
| Families Together | FY2023 | £10k | Two grants helping two projects across Suffolk for families that need support with their child’s language development and those with SEND diagnosis. |
| Inspire- Porch Project | FY2023 | £10k | Towards the salary of the detached youth work in Hadleigh and the surrounding area giving young people a safe place and trusted youth workers to share their concerns with. |
| Let’s Talk Reading | FY2023 | £10k | Supporting the work of Let’s Talk Reading and UK Babies in disadvantaged areas of Ipswich, by offering informative/supportive sessions on interacting with baby and offering parental support. |
| Ipswich Academy | FY2022 | £24k | Two grants: one to fund end of year rewards/fun day and the second for the refurbishment of the PE fitness suite and to build an outdoor shelter for break times. |
| Suffolk Young People’s Health Project (4YP) | FY2022 | £20k | Two year commitment towards funding counselling and support for young people and youth work. |
| Home Start in Suffolk | FY2022 | £17k | Two grants: one to support two “nurture” groups and the second towards funding a volunteer recruitment coordinator. |
| Thetford Foodbank | FY2022 | £15k | Three-year commitment to fund ongoing costs for the foodbank and energy bank services for the community in Thetford and surrounding area. |
| St Vincent’s Family Project, London | FY2022 | £15k | Grant towards providing services to deprived families living in the South Westminster area of London. |
| Emmaus, Ipswich | FY2022 | £15k | Grant towards employing a catering manager at Emmaus’ new Charity shop/community café in Ipswich. |
| Medecins Sans Frontiers UK | FY2022 | £15k | Grant towards funding MSF’s work in Afghanistan. |
| The Mix, Stowmarket | FY2022 | £15k | Grant towards employing a Youth Work Director. |
| Samathpheap Chun Pikar, Cambodia | FY2022 | £15k | Grant towards improving the quality of life and integration of children and adults with learning disabilities in Cambodia. |
| St Elizabeth Hospice, Ipswich | FY2022 | £14k | Two grants: one towards setting up a café in the new Community Care unit and the other towards funding workshops as part of the Big Hoot project. |
| Murrayfield Primary School, Ipswich | FY2022 | £12k | Grant towards refurbishing school swimming pool. |
| Lighthouse Women’s Aid, Ipswich | FY2022 | £12k | Grant towards cost of employing a Crisis Intervention Worker at women’s refuge. |
| Hope Church, Ipswich | FY2022 | £12k | Grant towards setting up community café in their new town centre accommodation. |
| Chaplaincy Benevolent Fund | FY2022 | £12k | Six grants to provide clothing for prisoners serving at HMP |
| ActivLives Ipswich | FY2022 | £11k | Grant towards employing a dedicated mental health support worker to provide opportunities for people with mental ill health to participate in sport, etc. |
| Christian Youth Ministries, Ipswich | FY2022 | £11k | Grant to provide a school chaplain for one day per week each at two secondary schools in Ipswich. |
| Ipswich Furniture Project | FY2022 | £10k | Grant towards completing the purchase of a new van to collect and deliver furniture and white goods. |
| Bury St Edmunds Volunteer Centre (BSEVC) | FY2022 | £10k | Grant towards supporting services provided by BSEVC: Suffolk Carers Matter and Later Life Community. |
| International Rescue Committee | FY2022 | £10k | Grant to emergency aid appeal for the people of Ukraine, either remaining in the country or fleeing as refugees. |