THE GREAT BRITAIN SASAKAWA FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£1.6m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

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Accounts grants total

£1.7m

extracted from its FY2025 accounts

FY2022: 19 grants totalling £1.8m are listed but excluded from totals: unverified read (the amount is not printed in the accounts text).

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Applications are submitted via email using specific forms. UK small grants go to [email protected]; Japan small grants to [email protected]. Butterfield Awards go to the London office. Unsolicited applications are accepted.
Deadlines: The UK office has three annual deadlines for standard applications (31 March, 15 September, 15 December) and one for Butterfield Awards (1 December). The Japan office has two annual deadlines (28 February, 30 September).

Summarised from www.gbsf.org.uk · www.gbsf.org.uk/grants/small-grants/ · www.gbsf.org.uk/grants/butterfield-awards-in-medicine-and-health/ on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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

UNITED KINGDOM - JAPAN 21ST CENTURY GROUP “We are grateful to the following institutions for the support towards our charitable activities. *Embassy of Japan in th”

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Fat Out Productions	FY2022	Unverified read£1.5m	Residency, UK tour and performance at Fat Out Fest by Japanese band DMBQ
Prudhoe Community High School	FY2022	Unverified read£16k	Japan Experience Study Tour (JEST)
Durham University	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	International Conference 'Techniques of the Shichosha: Television, Perception, and Technoscience' at Kyoto University
Manchester Camerata	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Training for musicians and workshops in Japan on benefits of music for people living with dementia
Second Hand Dance	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Dance performance for babies and toddlers 'We Touch, We Play, We Dance' at ricca*ricca festa in Okinawa and partner venues in Japan
Cairneyhill Explorer Scouts	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Scout visit to the UK for group from Iwate to mark 100 years of Scouting in Japan
Northumbria University	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Research and meetings in Japan with PhD student and Paralympic swimmer Takayuki Suzuki on understanding the needs and resources required for Paralympic athletes' dual careers
University of Bath	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	PhD research with Tokyo City University on ventilation adequacy and airborne diseases transmission in temporary shelters in Japan
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Research visit to Japan to gain deeper understanding of Kew's collection of Japanese paper and lacquerwork
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Research visit to herbarium in Fukuoka to examine collection and develop plan to make it accessible
Oxford Brookes University	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Analysis of beginner-level Japanese language learners' use of politeness in conversation with native Japanese speakers
The Royal Shakespeare Company	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Rehearsals for production of stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli's 'My Neighbour Totoro'
Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication Society	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Research at Edinburgh Festival Fringe to establish Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting (PARC) Fringe Society
Ikon Gallery	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Research trip and exhibition of work by Ainu artist Mayunkiki
Schoeni Projects	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Residency programme and exhibition with Kensuke Koike and Tanabe Chikuunsai IV
Llanelli Multicultural Network	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Ikebana and Japanese culture workshops
Lancaster University	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	PhD fieldwork to research playwright and director Yudai Kamisato in the context of contemporary Japanese theatre
International Festival of Glass	FY2022	Unverified read£15k	Japanese glass artists provide masterclasses and work exhibited at 2022 Festival
Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine	FY2022	Unverified read£2k	Butterfield Award: Comparative study of islands with extremely small populations and how Social Infrastructure is maintained
Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease at the University of Liverpool	FY2022	£129	Butterfield Award: Collaboration with Kanazawa University Graduate School's Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery on TMJ disorder

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 (no individually listed grants). 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].

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the filed accounts. They stay in the list and the CSV (read_status column) but are left out of the totals, counts and recipient tallies this site computes.