MRS L D ROPE'S THIRD CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT — grant history

Registered charity 290533 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£2.3m

Grants listed (FY2025)

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.

Summarised from www.theropetrust.org.uk · www.theropetrust.org.uk/how-to-apply-2/ · www.theropetrust.org.uk/how-to-apply-individuals/ on 14/08/2026. 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

Education/training (24 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (17 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (13 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (12 grantees)
Disability (12 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (10 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (9 grantees)
Accommodation/housing (8 grantees)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (5 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (5 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Suffolk (32 grantees)
Norfolk (7 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (5 grantees)
Cambridgeshire (5 grantees)
Essex (5 grantees)
Zimbabwe (3 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Lebanon (2 grantees)
Bangladesh (2 grantees)
Nigeria (2 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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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.
For Children & Young People (4YP)	FY2025	£30k	2-year grant to help keep services at the Hub running.
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.
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.
FAMILYFIRST	FY2025	£15k	Towards the core running costs.
BSC Multicultural Services	FY2025	£15k	Towards core running costs.
Families Together Suffolk	FY2025	£15k	Towards the salary of the SEND Family Co-Ordinator.
Disasters Emergency Committee	FY2025	£15k	To support the Middle East Humanitarian Appeal.
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.
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.
FareShare East of England	FY2025	£10k	Support towards the costs of redistributing surplus food.
River Church Ipswich	FY2025	£10k	To support their 7 programmes of social transformation.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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 942987 vs reference 2334625 (59.6% 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.