THE MICHAEL BISHOP FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 297627 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£2.8m

Grants listed (FY2023)

Listed grants total

£2.6m

Accounts grants total

£2.2m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2023 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: We welcome applications for funding in our five focus areas from eligible organisations. Please check your eligibility before submitting your application using the online form. We are a small team and will review applications twice a year after the application deadlines of March 31st and September 30th.
Deadlines: We consider applications made in two funding windows, March and September.

Summarised from michaelbishopfoundation.org · michaelbishopfoundation.org/eligibility/ · michaelbishopfoundation.org/apply/ 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

Education/training (6 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (4 grantees)
Disability (2 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
Accommodation/housing (1 grantee)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
Environment/conservation/heritage (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (4 grantees)
Scotland (2 grantees)
Northern Ireland (2 grantees)
Bangladesh (1 grantee)
British Virgin Islands (1 grantee)
Burkina Faso (1 grantee)
Bermuda (1 grantee)
Cayman Islands (1 grantee)
Djibouti (1 grantee)
Burma (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
The Glendonbrook Foundation	FY2023	£693k	general purposes
English Heritage	FY2023	£250k	renovation work of four projects
Birmingham Royal Ballet	FY2023	£165k	general purposes
Mill Hill School Foundation	FY2023	£142k	Scholarship scheme
Alzheimers Research UK	FY2023	£140k	general funds
The Royal Collection Trust	FY2023	£125k	restoration of property at Holyrood House
Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Trust	FY2023	£113k	education at Somerville College, Oxford
Governor Phillip International Scholarship Trust	FY2023	£94k	postgraduate scholarships
Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Trust	FY2023	£75k	education at Somerville College, Oxford (part of 5 year commitment)
The Royal Collection Trust	FY2023	£75k	Cassiano dal Pozzo Catalogue Project
Baker Dearing Trust	FY2023	£75k	creation of University Technical Colleges
Exeter Northcott Theatre	FY2023	£75k	general purposes
Broughton House	FY2023	£63k	restoration and improvement of the property
The Art Fund	FY2023	£50k	Prospect Cottage project
International Bomber Command Centre	FY2023	£50k	Lincolnshire Bomber Command Memorial
Australian World Orchestra	FY2023	£50k	performances
Alford House	FY2023	£50k	7020 project
The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of Music	FY2023	£50k	general purpose
NSPCC	FY2023	£50k	InCtrl service North West
British Red Cross	FY2023	£50k	mobility aids
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra	FY2023	£50k	general purposes
Pimlico Opera	FY2023	£50k	HMP Bronzefield performance
Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Trust	FY2023	£38k	new intake of students
Mill Hill School	FY2023	£25k	McClure Tribute Concert

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 2597042 vs reference 2182963 (19.0% 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.