The Portal Trust — grant history
Latest income
£8.2m
Grants listed (FY2025)
89
Listed grants total
£2.8m
Accounts grants total
£2.5m
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
- What they don’t fund: We don’t normally fund general fundraising appeals, work that replaces statutory funding, retrospective costs, or capital projects where this is the sole focus.
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What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Economic/community Development/employment
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Amateur Sport
- Disability
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Throughout London
- Scotland
- Throughout England
- Northern Ireland
- Wandsworth
- Hackney
- Tower Hamlets
- Hammersmith And Fulham
- Brent
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Migration Museum Project | FY2025 | £500k | A new Migration Museum for Britain |
| Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School | FY2025 | £155k | Annual Benefits |
| The Aldgate School | FY2025 | £155k | Annual Benefits |
| National Literacy Trust | FY2025 | £102k | The Portal Primary Library Programme |
| Argoed Lwyd Outdoor Education Centre | FY2025 | £98k | Outdoor Learning Partnership |
| Bayes Business School | FY2025 | £70k | School Engagement Programme (SEP) |
| The Liliesleaf Trust UK | FY2025 | £50k | Anti-Apartheid Legacy: Learning at the Centre of Memory & Learning |
| Oxford Gardens Primary School | FY2025 | £49k | Enhanced provision for children who identify as Travelle of Irish Heritage at Oxford Gardens Primary School |
| People's Palace Projects | FY2025 | £46k | The Verbatim Formula (TVF): Creative Care |
| The Samosa | FY2025 | £45k | Diversifying London's curriculum and Youth Mentoring Workshops |
| King Edward's School Witley | FY2025 | £36k | The Portal Trust Scholarship Scheme |
| Goldsmiths, University of London | FY2025 | £35k | Enhancing education and support for individuals with Criminal Justice System experience at Open Book |
| Single Homeless Project | FY2025 | £34k | Achieving Potential for Young People |
| Young Enterprise | FY2025 | £33k | Enterprising Mindsets in Young People Furthest From Opportunity In London |
| Mayor's Fund for London | FY2025 | £32k | Numbers@work |
| Unite Foundation | FY2025 | £31k | A Home at University |
| The Old Vic Theatre Trust | FY2025 | £30k | Take the Lead |
| Unicorn Theatre for Children | FY2025 | £30k | Schools' Partnership Programme |
| City Year UK | FY2025 | £30k | Transitions Mentoring (TM) |
| Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation | FY2025 | £30k | Apprenticeships Scheme |
| Mulberry School for Girls | FY2025 | £30k | Making Our Girls’ Voices Heard |
| London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art | FY2025 | £29k | LAMDA Pathways |
| Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts | FY2025 | £29k | First Beats: building bridges to music education |
| The Natural History Museum London | FY2025 | £27k | The Portal Trust Internship Programme |
| Generation N*xt | FY2025 | £26k | Transforming Migration Education in London |
| The Urban Nature Project Apprenticeship Programme | FY2025 | £25k | Expansion of CSC Schools' Programme in Nine London Boroughs |
| The Hero’s Journey: Transforming the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged young people in HMPYOI Isis | FY2025 | £25k | Pembroke College and Portal Trust Enhanced Bursaries |
| The Social Mobility Foundation | FY2025 | £25k | APP |
| Arts Emergency | FY2025 | £25k | Arts Emergency: creative mentoring for young Londoners |
| Building Aspiration for Construction Crafts | FY2025 | £25k | Reducing persistent absenteeism in Camden schools |
| The Strand Group: MA Government Studies | FY2025 | £25k | Supporting bright, primarily disadvantaged students' mental health and wellbeing |
| The Right Track Project: empowering disenfranchised young people to reach their potential | FY2025 | £25k | Orient Opportunities Life Skills Coaching |
| Access to further education for young asylum seekers and refugees | FY2025 | £25k | IWAS - Improving Wellbeing at School |
| Flip the Script: Decolonising Local Histories | FY2025 | £25k | Royal National Children's Springboard Foundation bursaries for care-experienced (Looked After & Vulnerable Children) |
| Get Onside | FY2025 | £25k | Youth Violence Intervention Programme at St George's Hospital |
| Beyond the Classroom | FY2025 | £25k | In-school mental health support |
| Building Crafts College | FY2025 | £24k | Future Leaders |
| The Aldgate School | FY2025 | £24k | Emotional Literacy & support costs to Argoed |
| King's College London | FY2025 | £23k | REWIND |
| Oasis Children's Venture | FY2025 | £23k | Speech Bubbles: Alternative Settings |
| Refugee Education UK | FY2025 | £22k | Speech Bubbles CIO |
| Spark Inside | FY2025 | £21k | Theatre Peckham |
| Rich Mix | FY2025 | £20k | Lyric Theatre Hammersmith |
| Harris Westminster Sixth Form | FY2025 | £20k | Theatre Peckham |
| My Big Career | FY2025 | £20k | Connect. Inspire. Make Change. |
| Saracens Sport Foundation | FY2025 | £20k | Speech Bubbles CIO |
| Beyond Food Foundation | FY2025 | £20k | Theatre Peckham |
| JUSTICE | FY2025 | £20k | Speech Bubbles CIO |
| Migration Museum Project | FY2025 | £20k | Theatre Peckham |
| Chess in Schools and Communities | FY2025 | £20k | Lyric Theatre Hammersmith |
| Brandon Centre | FY2025 | £20k | Speech Bubbles CIO |
| Leyton Orient Trust | FY2025 | £20k | Lyric Theatre Hammersmith |
| Sunbeams London Ltd | FY2025 | £20k | Speech Bubbles CIO |
| Pembroke College | FY2025 | £20k | Theatre Peckham |
| Royal National Children's Springboard Foundation | FY2025 | £20k | Lyric Theatre Hammersmith |
| The Place2Be | FY2025 | £20k | Theatre Peckham |
| Theatre Peckham | FY2025 | £20k | Lyric Theatre Hammersmith |
| World Heart Beat Music Academy | FY2025 | £20k | Lyric Theatre Hammersmith |
| Redthread Youth | FY2025 | £20k | Speech Bubbles CIO |
| Lyric Theatre Hammersmith | FY2025 | £20k | Speech Bubbles CIO |
| The Aldgate School | FY2025 | £20k | Paris Residential Trip |
| Speech Bubbles CIO | FY2025 | £19k | Theatre Peckham |
| Greenwich Music School | FY2025 | £18k | Greenwich Music School: widening access and creating music career pathways for learners in Greenwich & Lewisham with financial barriers to music education. |
| King's College London | FY2025 | £16k | K+ Introducing Young people to university with a focus on care-experienced young people |
| First Story | FY2025 | £15k | Empowering young Londoners excluded from mainstream education or at risk of exclusion to find and fulfil their potential through creative writing. |
| British Exploring Society | FY2025 | £15k | British Exploring Society: Overseas Expedition Programmes 2023 - 2025 |
| Eastside Educational Trust | FY2025 | £15k | SPOKEN WORD POWER: Lambeth Pilot |
| Prisoners' Education Trust | FY2025 | £15k | Promoting education opportunities in prison for young people from Inner London |
| Primary Shakespeare Company | FY2025 | £15k | PSC Musical Theatre Festival Project |
| Springboard | FY2025 | £15k | Springboard's Introduction to Hospitality |
| London Music Fund | FY2025 | £14k | London Scholars |
| Roundhouse Trust | FY2025 | £13k | Roundhouse Internships: Opening up Cultural Careers for Young Londoners |
| Islington Giving | FY2025 | £13k | Young and Family Catalyst Programme |
| ecoACTIVE | FY2025 | £13k | ecoACTIVE Forest School: outdoor learning for children living in areas of high deprivation |
| London Youth Choirs | FY2025 | £12k | No Barriers - LYC Support Scheme: South London |
| SOAS University of London | FY2025 | £11k | Scholarships and Junior Researcher programme |
| The University of Oxford, Jesus College | FY2025 | £11k | The Oxford Big Thinking Project |
| Tara Theatre | FY2025 | £10k | Young Creatives Programme – Changing Perspectives Through Creativity |
| Avonmore Primary School | FY2025 | £10k | Year 5 and 6 School Journey |
| Set POINT | FY2025 | £10k | Forest School |
| The Aldgate School | FY2025 | £9k | Support Costs Argoed Lwyd Education Centre |
| HumanettIQ | FY2025 | £9k | HumanettIQ |
| William Davis's Educational Foundation | FY2025 | £8k | Biodiversity Gardening Project |
| University of East London | FY2025 | £8k | UEL student teacher residential trip to Argoed Lwyd Outdoor Education Centre |
| Mossbourne Community Academy | FY2025 | £7k | Argoed Lwyd Outdoor Education Centre Trip |
| Lyric Theatre Hammersmith | FY2025 | £7k | Mossbourne Community Academy |
| Building Crafts College | FY2025 | £6k | Spring - Oxford Gardens Project 2025 |
| Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School | FY2025 | £5k | Support Costs Argoed Lwyd Education Centre |
| Best Carpentry and Joinery Year One | FY2025 | £200 | Best Carpentry and Joinery Year One |
| Victoria & Albert Museum | FY2024 | £250k | Young V&A – Transforming the Museum of Childhood |
| Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School | FY2024 | £214k | Annual Benefits |
| Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School | FY2024 | £89k | Covid Laptops |
| King Edward's School Witley | FY2024 | £71k | The Portal Trust Scholarship Scheme |
| The Samosa | FY2024 | £45k | Diversifying London's Curriculum and BAME Youth Mentoring Workshops |
| The Place2Be | FY2024 | £45k | In-school mental health support |
| Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School | FY2024 | £43k | School Minibus |
| Anne Frank Trust UK | FY2024 | £38k | Anne Frank Youth Empowerment Programme |
| The Federation of London Youth Clubs | FY2024 | £35k | Digital Talent |
| Phosphoros Theatre | FY2024 | £33k | Phosphoros Creative Engagement Programmes |
| Onwards and Upwards | FY2024 | £32k | XO Bikes - Young Ex-Offender Training Programme |
| University of Westminster | FY2024 | £30k | Care Leaver Completion bursaries 2021-2023 |
| The Creative Dimension Trust | FY2024 | £30k | Craft Workshops |
| Unicorn Theatre for Children | FY2024 | £30k | Schools' Partnership Programme |
| Mayor's Fund for London | FY2024 | £30k | Numbers@Work |
| Unite Foundation | FY2024 | £30k | A Home at University |
| The Brilliant Club | FY2024 | £30k | The Scholars Programme in Inner London |
| London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art | FY2024 | £29k | LAMDA Pathways |
| Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts | FY2024 | £29k | Generation N*xt |
| The Natural History Museum | FY2024 | £28k | The Urban Nature Project Apprenticeship Programme |
| Oxford Gardens Primary School | FY2024 | £27k | Enhanced provision for children who identify as Travelle of Irish Heritage at Oxford Gardens Primary School |
| Goldsmiths, University of London | FY2024 | £27k | BAME Bursaries at Goldsmiths, University of London (Equity Awards) |
| Rich Mix | FY2024 | £25k | Flip the Script: Decolonising Local Histories |
| The Aldgate School | FY2024 | £25k | Annual Benefits |
| Spark Inside | FY2024 | £25k | The Hero’s Journey: Transforming the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged young people in HMPYOI Isis |
| St Giles Trust | FY2024 | £25k | SOS+ Embedded Mentor/ Facilitator Embedded within Tower Hamlets Schools |
| The Aldgate School | FY2024 | £23k | Emotional Literacy support and trips to the outdoor centre |
| JUSTICE | FY2024 | £23k | The Portal Trust Internship Programme |
| Migration Museum Project | FY2024 | £21k | Transforming Migration Education in London |
| The Frontline Organisation | FY2024 | £20k | Coaching for newly qualified social workers |
| Harris Westminster Sixth Form | FY2024 | £20k | Supporting bright, primarily disadvantaged students' mental health and wellbeing |
| MyBigCareer | FY2024 | £20k | Connect. Inspire. Make Change. |
| Royal National Children's Springboard Foundation | FY2024 | £20k | Royal National Children's Springboard Foundation bursaries for care experienced (Looked After & Vulnerable Children) |
| Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Ltd | FY2024 | £20k | REWIND |
| Theatre Peckham | FY2024 | £20k | Future Leaders |
| Redthread Youth | FY2024 | £20k | Youth Violence Intervention Programme at St George's Hospital |
| Leyton Orient Trust | FY2024 | £20k | Orient Opportunities Life Skills Coaching |
| Future Frontiers | FY2024 | £20k | Supporting disadvantaged young people in inner London to fulfil their potential (years two and three) |
| Artis Foundation | FY2024 | £20k | Artis Engagement |
| Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School | FY2024 | £19k | Trips to the Outdoor Centre |
| Greenwich Music School | FY2024 | £18k | Greenwich Music School: widening access and creating music career pathways for learners in Greenwich & Lewisham who have financial barriers to music education. |
| The Literacy Pirates | FY2024 | £18k | The Young Authors' Project: Hackney |
| Institute of Education, University College London | FY2024 | £17k | PACL Extension & Additional Funds |
| The Economist Educational Foundation | FY2024 | £17k | Topical Talk |
| Museum of Colour CIC | FY2024 | £17k | A Very British Rhythm: Moving Histories |
| Hackney Empire Limited | FY2024 | £16k | Hackney Empire Young Producers |
| King's College London | FY2024 | £15k | K+ |
| British Exploring Society | FY2024 | £15k | British Exploring Society: Overseas Expedition Programmes 2023 - 2025 |
| Blind in Business | FY2024 | £15k | Blind in Business Training Service - for blind and sight-impaired children aged 13-16 in London |
| The Yard Theatre Limited | FY2024 | £15k | Yard Young Artists |
| The Springboard Charity | FY2024 | £13k | Springboard's Introduction to Hospitality |
| London Music Fund | FY2024 | £13k | LMF Scholarships Programme 2022 |
| First Story | FY2024 | £12k | Empowering young Londoners excluded from mainstream education or at risk of exclusion to find and fulfil their potential through creative writing. |
| Live Music Now South East | FY2024 | £12k | Music Residencies in Special Schools |
| The AHOY Centre Charity | FY2024 | £10k | Sailing For All |
| Pembroke College | FY2024 | £10k | Pembroke College and Portal Trust Enhanced Bursaries |
| Scarabeus Aerial Theatre | FY2024 | £10k | Flying into Physics |
| Tara Theatre | FY2024 | £10k | Young Creatives Programme – Changing Perspectives Through Creativity |
| Prisoners' Education Trust | FY2024 | £10k | Promoting education opportunities in prison for young people from Inner London |
| SETPOINT London East | FY2024 | £8k | Forest School @ the Soanes Centre |
| University of East London | FY2024 | £7k | UEL student teacher residential trip to Argoed Lwyd Outdoor Education Centre |
| Heritage Charity London | FY2024 | £5k | Arts & Crafts after-school clubs |
| Theatre Royal Haymarket | FY2024 | £5k | Introduce & Encourage: Educate and inspire young people about careers in backstage theatre. |
| Fitzrovia Youth in Action | FY2024 | £5k | Peer Education Programme |
| The Wellington Trust | FY2024 | £1k | Future Maritime Engineers |
| Building Crafts College | FY2024 | £200 | Prize Giving |
| Argoed Lwyd Outdoor Education Centre | FY2023 | £120k | Outdoor Learning Partnership 2020 – 2023: to develop the work of the Centre in providing outdoor learning to young people from Trust Schools and other Inner London areas. |
| Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School | FY2023 | £93k | Annual Benefits include uniform support, curriculum enrichment, prizegiving and operational expenses. |
| Argoed Lwyd Outdoor Education Centre | FY2023 | £90k | Outdoor Learning Partnership: to develop the work of the Centre in providing outdoor learning to young people from Trust Schools and other Inner London areas. |
| Argoed Lwyd Outdoor Education Centre | FY2023 | £80k | Strategic Improvements Project: securing adjacent land for accommodation and sustainability improvements, including carbon offsetting. |
| King Edward's School Witley | FY2023 | £71k | Portal Trust Bursary Scheme |
| The Samosa | FY2023 | £55k | Curriculum resources to mentor, support and empower marginalised young people across London |
| Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School | FY2023 | £55k | Covid-19 emergency grant towards laptops for all pupils. |
| National Literacy Trust | FY2023 | £48k | The Portal Primary Library Programme |
| City, University of London | FY2023 | £45k | Schools Engagement programme |
| National Youth Theatre of Great Britain | FY2023 | £40k | Playing Up |
| Institute of Education, University College London | FY2023 | £35k | Promoting the Education, Employment and Training of Care Leavers |
| The Federation of London Youth Clubs | FY2023 | £35k | Digital Talent |
| Future Frontiers | FY2023 | £35k | Supporting disadvantaged young people in inner London to fulfil their potential (years two and three) |
| Phosphoros Theatre | FY2023 | £33k | Phosphoros Creative Engagement Programmes |
| Single Homeless Project | FY2023 | £32k | Achieving Potential for Young People |
| Independent Film Trust | FY2023 | £30k | Talent Led Youth |
| The Brilliant Club | FY2023 | £30k | The Scholars Programme in Inner London |
| University of Westminster | FY2023 | £30k | Care Leaver Completion bursaries 2021-2023 |
| Unicorn Theatre for Children | FY2023 | £30k | Schools' Partnership Programme |
| XLP | FY2023 | £30k | School Exclusion Reduction Programme |
| London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art | FY2023 | £29k | LAMDA Pathways |
| Oxford Gardens Primary School | FY2023 | £27k | Enhanced provision for children who identify as Travellers of Irish Heritage at Oxford Gardens Primary School |
| Goldsmiths, University of London | FY2023 | £27k | Bursaries at Goldsmiths, University of London (Equity Awards) |
| Katherine Low Settlement | FY2023 | £26k | Higher Education and Employability Partnerships Manager for Young People from Refugee Backgrounds |
| The Place2Be | FY2023 | £25k | Supporting in-school mental health services project |
| The Social Mobility Foundation | FY2023 | £25k | Aspiring Professionals Programme - inner London |
| Future Men | FY2023 | £25k | Boys’ Development Programme |
| Spark Inside | FY2023 | £25k | The Hero’s Journey: Transforming the Lives of Vulnerable and disadvantaged young people in HMPYOI Isis |
| Refugee Education UK | FY2023 | £25k | Access to further education for young asylum seekers and refugees |
| Oasis Children's Venture | FY2023 | £25k | The Right Track Project: empowering disenfranchised young people to reach their potential |
| The Arts Emergency Service | FY2023 | £25k | Arts Emergency: creative mentoring for young Londoners |
| St Giles Trust | FY2023 | £25k | SOS+ Embedded Mentor/ Facilitator Embedded within Tower Hamlets Schools |
| Aldgate School | FY2023 | £24k | Annual Benefits, including contributions towards play therapy and counselling. |
| First Star Academies UK | FY2023 | £22k | Annual League Table - Update/Report Card Leaving Care |
| The Big House Theatre Company | FY2023 | £20k | The Open House Project |
| The Frontline Organisation | FY2023 | £20k | Coaching for newly qualified social workers |
| Redthread Youth | FY2023 | £20k | Youth Violence Intervention Programme at St George's Hospital |
| Theatre Peckham | FY2023 | £20k | Future Leaders |
| Battersea Arts Centre | FY2023 | £20k | Life Is What U Make It (LIWUMI) |
| Caritas Anchor House | FY2023 | £20k | Community Partnerships - Education Training and Employment |
| The Literacy Pirates | FY2023 | £18k | The Young Authors' Project: Hackney |
| Streets of Growth | FY2023 | £16k | INSPIRE Fashion Programme |
| Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School | FY2023 | £16k | KS3 Spanish Trip to El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, Spain |
| The Wellington Trust | FY2023 | £15k | Future Maritime Engineers |
| British Exploring Society | FY2023 | £15k | British Exploring Society: Overseas Expedition Programmes 2023 - 2025 |
| Clod Ensemble | FY2023 | £15k | Clod Intensive: programme |
| The Postal Museum | FY2023 | £14k | Sort it! Early Years Maths Programme |
| Number Champions | FY2023 | £14k | Primary school maths support |
| London Music Fund | FY2023 | £13k | LMF Scholarships Programme 2022 |
| Live Music Now South East | FY2023 | £12k | Music Residencies in Special Schools |
| ecoACTIVE | FY2023 | £12k | ecoACTIVE Forest School: outdoor learning for children living in areas of high deprivation |
| Capital Kids Cricket | FY2023 | £12k | Multisports Activities and Life Skills Workshops in Pupil Referral Units |
| Pembroke College | FY2023 | £10k | The Portal Trust Undergraduate Cambridge University Scholarship |
| Tara Theatre | FY2023 | £10k | Young Creatives Programme – Changing Perspectives Through Creativity |
| The Photography Foundation | FY2023 | £10k | Photography Foundation Training Programme |
| The AHOY Centre Charity | FY2023 | £10k | Sailing For All |
| Woolwich Creative District Trust (Woolwich Works) | FY2023 | £10k | Woolwich Works Apprenticeship Scheme |
| Scarabeus Aerial Theatre | FY2023 | £10k | Flying into Physics |
| Face Front Inclusive Theatre | FY2023 | £8k | The digital rollout of three Theatre in Education projects |
| Girls’ Friendly Society (Application for GFS Mile End) | FY2023 | £6k | GFS Mile End Growth Project |
| SETPOINT London East | FY2023 | £5k | Forest School @ the Soanes Centre |
| Fitzrovia Youth in Action | FY2023 | £5k | Peer Education Programme |
| SOAS University of London | FY2023 | £5k | Scholarships and Junior Researcher programme for talented, young, black academics of the future at SOAS |
| The World Reimagined | FY2023 | £4k | The World Reimagined - Learning Programme |
| The Autism Project (CareTrade) | FY2023 | £3k | The Autism Project – Live Music Band |
| Alderbrook Nursery and Primary School | FY2023 | £500 | Primary School Library Survey |
| Aldgate School | FY2023 | £250 | Primary School Library Survey |
| Oxford Gardens Primary School | FY2023 | £250 | Primary School Library Survey |
| Building Crafts College | FY2023 | £200 | Most Improved Student, Year One Carpentry & Joinery |