THE ISABEL BLACKMAN FOUNDATION — grant history
Latest income
£339k
Grants listed (FY2026)
48
Listed grants total
£162k
Accounts grants total
£197k
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2026 accounts
What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- East Sussex
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- Throughout England
- Isle Of Man
- Jersey
- Ireland
- Guernsey
- Kent
What changed: FY2025 → FY2026
| Change | Grantee | FY2025 | FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | Hastings & St Leonards Men's Shed | — | £13k |
| new | Holy Trinity Church | — | £12k |
| new | ARK Alexander Academy | — | £5k |
| new | St Pauls Church of England Academy | — | £5k |
| new | WARMING UP THE HOMELESS | — | £5k |
| new | The ‘Nearly on the Beach Concerts’ | — | £5k |
| new | Dentaid - The Dental Charity | — | £5k |
| new | St Leonards Academy | — | £5k |
| up | Hollington Primary School | £2k | £6k |
| not listed | Hastings Book Festival | £6k | — |
| not listed | DYNASTY REIGN ALLSTARS | £3k | — |
| not listed | Sound Castle | £3k | — |
| not listed | VILLIERS PARK EDUCATIONAL TRUST | £3k | — |
| not listed | Hastings Piano Festival | £3k | — |
| not listed | BAREFOOT OPERA | £2k | — |
| not listed | Hastings Botanic Garden | £2k | — |
| not listed | Hastings Fat Tuesday | £2k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings & St Leonards Men's Shed | FY2026 | £13k | Social Services |
| Holy Trinity Church | FY2026 | £12k | Religion |
| Hollington Primary School | FY2026 | £6k | Education |
| ARK Alexander Academy | FY2026 | £5k | Education |
| Kent, Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance | FY2026 | £5k | Health |
| St Pauls Church of England Academy | FY2026 | £5k | Education |
| Warming Up the Homeless | FY2026 | £5k | Social Services |
| The ‘Nearly on the Beach Concerts’ | FY2026 | £5k | Culture and Recreation |
| Dentaid - The Dental Charity | FY2026 | £5k | Health |
| St Leonards Academy | FY2026 | £5k | Education |
| Hastings Commons CLT | FY2026 | £5k | Youth Organisations |
| Project ArtWorks | FY2026 | £5k | Social Services |
| The Sarah Lee Trust | FY2026 | £5k | Health |
| Christchurch C of E Primary and Nursery Academy | FY2026 | £5k | Education |
| Westerleigh Judokwai | FY2026 | £5k | Culture and Recreation |
| Royal National Lifeboat Institution | FY2026 | £5k | Social Services |
| Progress Network | FY2026 | £4k | Education |
| Dradamus | FY2026 | £4k | Culture and Recreation |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | FY2026 | £4k | Education |
| Hastings Music Festival | FY2026 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hastings International Piano | FY2026 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| SASBAH | FY2026 | £3k | Health |
| Hastings Contemporary Art Gallery | FY2026 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hastings Kelp Project | FY2026 | £3k | Environment |
| Demelza | FY2026 | £3k | Health |
| St John Ambulance | FY2026 | £3k | Health |
| Starlight Children's Foundation | FY2026 | £3k | Health |
| Dens & Signals | FY2026 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| The Eggtooth Project | FY2026 | £3k | Health |
| Children with Cancer Fund | FY2026 | £3k | Health |
| Listening Books | FY2026 | £3k | Social Services |
| HARC - Hastings Advice & Representation | FY2026 | £2k | Social Services |
| The Garden Classroom | FY2026 | £2k | Education |
| Royal Society for the Protection of Birds | FY2026 | £2k | Environment |
| Oasis Community Project | FY2026 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| The Baird Academy | FY2026 | £2k | Education |
| Sussex Housing Trust for the Elderly | FY2026 | £2k | Social Services |
| Kids Cancer Charity | FY2026 | £2k | Health |
| Hastings Old Town Parish Church | FY2026 | £1k | Religion |
| Calibre Audio | FY2026 | £1k | Health |
| The Fisherman's Mission | FY2026 | £1k | Social Services |
| Just Friends | FY2026 | £1k | Culture and Recreation |
| The Ataxia Telangiectasia Society | FY2026 | £1k | Health |
| Archive Resource Centre | FY2026 | £700 | Culture and Recreation |
| PBC Foundation (Primary Biliary Cirrhosis) | FY2026 | £507 | Health |
| Drawing Life | FY2026 | £500 | Social Services |
| Ore Community Library | FY2026 | £500 | Culture and Recreation |
| The Theodora Children's Charity | FY2026 | £207 | Health |
| Hastings Book Festival | FY2025 | £6k | Education |
| Westerleigh Judokwai | FY2025 | £5k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hastings Music Festival | FY2025 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| Dynasty Reign Allstars | FY2025 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| Sound Castle | FY2025 | £3k | Education |
| Villiers Park Educational Trust | FY2025 | £3k | Education |
| Hastings Piano Festival | FY2025 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| Barefoot Opera | FY2025 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hastings Botanic Garden | FY2025 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hastings Fat Tuesday | FY2025 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hollington Primary School | FY2025 | £2k | Education |
| Spun Glass Theatre | FY2025 | £2k | Education |
| Hastings Sinfonia Orchestra | FY2025 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| Sandown Primary School | FY2025 | £1k | Education |
| Grant to 1 individual | FY2025 | £1k | Culture and Recreation |
| Christ Church Ore Treasure Seekers | FY2025 | £1k | Culture and Recreation |
| Prologue Opera | FY2025 | £1k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hastings 4th Brownies | FY2025 | £960 | Youth Organisations |
| Bohemia Walled Garden | FY2025 | £800 | Environment |
| Hastings Academy | FY2025 | £400 | Education |
| Royal National Institute for the Blind | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| Little Gate Farm | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| Family Support Work | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| Fellowship of St Nicholas | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| East Sussex Recovery Alliance | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| 5 Fostering | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| Royal Airforce Benevolent Fund | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| Fare Share Sussex and Surrey | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| Hastings Area Community Trust - RELIEF | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| Winston's Wish | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| Carers UK | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| Project Art Works | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| Just Friends | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| Oasis Community Project | FY2025 | £0 | Social Services |
| Fairlight Hall Riding for the Disabled | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| Listening Books | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| St Michael's Hospice | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| Sensory Soft Play | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| British Wireless for the Blind | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| Chestnut Tree House | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| Culture Shift | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| East Sussex Vision Support | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| PBC Foundation | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| Starlight Children's Foundation | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| Calibre Audio | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| Young Lives vs Cancer | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| Blind Veterans UK | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| Kent, Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| The Sarah Lee Trust | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| SASBAH | FY2025 | £0 | Health |
| Oasis Community Project | FY2024 | £46k | Social Services |
| East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service | FY2024 | £20k | Youth Organisations |
| Grants to 10 individuals | FY2024 | £18k | Education |
| Doms Food Mission | FY2024 | £15k | Social Services |
| Craftimation Factory | FY2024 | £15k | Health |
| Project Rewild | FY2024 | £15k | Environment |
| Cruse Bereavement | FY2024 | £6k | Social Services |
| Young Lives vs Cancer | FY2024 | £6k | Health |
| East Sussex Recovery Alliance | FY2024 | £6k | Social Services |
| The Salvation Army | FY2024 | £5k | Health |
| Warming Up the Homeless | FY2024 | £5k | Social Services |
| Glyne Gap School | FY2024 | £5k | Education |
| Listening Books | FY2024 | £5k | Health |
| Create Music | FY2024 | £5k | Education |
| Ore in Bloom | FY2024 | £5k | Environment |
| Royal National Lifeboat Institution | FY2024 | £5k | Social Services |
| Royal National Institute for the Blind | FY2024 | £5k | Health |
| Project Art Works | FY2024 | £5k | Health |
| Hastings Litfest | FY2024 | £5k | Culture and Recreation |
| Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team | FY2024 | £4k | Social Services |
| Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity | FY2024 | £4k | Health |
| Fare Share Sussex and Surrey | FY2024 | £4k | Social Services |
| British Wireless for the Blind | FY2024 | £4k | Health |
| Westerleigh Judokwai | FY2024 | £4k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hastings International Piano | FY2024 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| Lifesize | FY2024 | £3k | Education |
| St John Ambulance | FY2024 | £3k | Health |
| Kent, Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance | FY2024 | £3k | Health |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | FY2024 | £2k | Education |
| Hastings Fat Tuesday | FY2024 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| Calibre Audio | FY2024 | £2k | Health |
| Family Support Work | FY2024 | £2k | Social Services |
| The Clifton Centre | FY2024 | £2k | Social Services |
| Grant to 1 individual | FY2024 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hastings Storytelling Festival | FY2024 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| PBC (UK) | FY2024 | £2k | Health |
| De La Warr Pavilion | FY2024 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hastings and Rother Furniture Service | FY2024 | £2k | Social Services |
| Hastings and East Sussex Natural History Society | FY2024 | £2k | Environment |
| Chestnut Tree House | FY2024 | £2k | Health |
| Hastings Sinfonia | FY2024 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| Fight for Sight | FY2024 | £2k | Health |
| SASBAH | FY2024 | £2k | Health |
| You Raise Me Up | FY2024 | £2k | Social Services |
| Hastings and Rother Interfaith Forum | FY2024 | £1k | Religion |
| Royal Airforce Benevolent Fund | FY2024 | £1k | Social Services |
| Dentaid - The Dental Charity | FY2024 | £1k | Health |
| The Sarah Lee Trust | FY2024 | £1k | Health |
| Park Road Under Fives | FY2024 | £1k | Education |
| The Parish of St Helens Ore and St Barnabas | FY2024 | £900 | Social Services |
| Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity | FY2024 | £900 | Health |
| Just Friends | FY2024 | £900 | Social Services |
| Christ Church Ore Treasure Seekers Holiday Club | FY2024 | £615 | Culture and Recreation |
| Hastings is Everybody | FY2024 | £400 | Culture and Recreation |
| 24th Hastings Scouts | FY2024 | £242 | Youth Organisations |
| East Sussex Vision Support | FY2024 | £210 | Health |
| Little Gate Farm | FY2024 | £210 | Social Services |
| Grants to 5 individuals | FY2023 | £10k | Education |
| St Michaels Hospice | FY2023 | £7k | Health |
| Family Support Work | FY2023 | £5k | Social Services |
| Create Music - Brighton Dome and Festival | FY2023 | £5k | Culture and Recreation |
| Education Futures Trust | FY2023 | £5k | Social Services |
| Chestnut Tree House | FY2023 | £5k | Health |
| MacMillan Cancer Support | FY2023 | £5k | Health |
| Grassroots Suicide Prevention | FY2023 | £5k | Health |
| East Sussex Recovery Alliance | FY2023 | £5k | Social Services |
| Surviving Christmas | FY2023 | £5k | Social Services |
| Caudwell Children | FY2023 | £5k | Health |
| St John's PCC | FY2023 | £4k | Religion |
| HARC | FY2023 | £4k | Social Services |
| Little Gate Farm | FY2023 | £4k | Health |
| Westerleigh Judokwai Handicapped Children's Action Group | FY2023 | £4k | Health |
| Demelza Children's Hospice | FY2023 | £3k | Health |
| Dens and Signals | FY2023 | £3k | Social Services |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | FY2023 | £3k | Education |
| Hastings and St Leonards Sailing Club | FY2023 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| London Mozart Players | FY2023 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| SASBAH | FY2023 | £3k | Health |
| Kent, Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance | FY2023 | £3k | Health |
| Lifelites | FY2023 | £3k | Health |
| St John Ambulance | FY2023 | £3k | Social Services |
| Villiers Park Educational Trust | FY2023 | £3k | Education |
| Strongbones Children's Charitable Trust | FY2023 | £3k | Health |
| Hastings Music Festival | FY2023 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hastings Storytelling Festival | FY2023 | £2k | Education |
| East Sussex Vision Support | FY2023 | £2k | Health |
| Transom Trust | FY2023 | £2k | Social Services |
| Hastings Citadel Salvation Army | FY2023 | £2k | Social Services |
| Royal National Institute for the Blind | FY2023 | £2k | Social Services |
| National Literary Trust | FY2023 | £2k | Education |
| Oasis Project | FY2023 | £2k | Social Services |
| Police Community Clubs of Great Britain | FY2023 | £2k | Social Services |
| Fairlight Hall RDA | FY2023 | £2k | Health |
| Cleanup UK | FY2023 | £2k | Environment |
| Carers UK | FY2023 | £2k | Health |
| Hastings Litfest | FY2023 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| Christ Church Ore | FY2023 | £1k | Religion |
| Blind Veterans UK | FY2023 | £1k | Health |
| Hands of Hope | FY2023 | £1k | Environment |
| East Sussex Hearing | FY2023 | £1k | Health |
| Missing People | FY2023 | £1k | Social Services |
| Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity | FY2023 | £1k | Health |
| Calibre Audio | FY2023 | £1k | Health |
| CLIC Sargent | FY2023 | £1k | Health |
| British Wireless for the Blind | FY2023 | £800 | Health |
| International Composers Festival | FY2023 | £500 | Culture and Recreation |
| Isabel Blackman Centre, Winding Street | FY2022 | £75k | Social Services |
| Hastings Area Community Trust - Relief at Home | FY2022 | £15k | Social Services |
| East Sussex Recovery Alliance | FY2022 | £5k | Social Services |
| Fellowship of St Nicholas - Family Support Work | FY2022 | £5k | Social Services |
| MacMillan Cancer Support | FY2022 | £5k | Health |
| Little Gate Farm | FY2022 | £5k | Education |
| Sara Lee Trust | FY2022 | £5k | Health |
| HARC Hastings Advice and Representation | FY2022 | £5k | Social Services |
| Surviving Christmas | FY2022 | £4k | Social Services |
| Royal National Lifeboat Institution | FY2022 | £4k | Social Services |
| Guide Dogs for the Blind | FY2022 | £4k | Health |
| Demelza Children's Hospice | FY2022 | £3k | Health |
| St John Ambulance | FY2022 | £3k | Social Services |
| The Seaview Project | FY2022 | £3k | Social Services |
| Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund | FY2022 | £3k | Health |
| Lifelites | FY2022 | £3k | Health |
| Kent, Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance | FY2022 | £3k | Health |
| SAS BAH | FY2022 | £3k | Health |
| London Mozart Players | FY2022 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | FY2022 | £3k | Education |
| Hastings Music Festival | FY2022 | £3k | Culture and Recreation |
| Winston's Wish | FY2022 | £3k | Health |
| Westerleigh Judokwai | FY2022 | £3k | Social Services |
| Warming Up the Homeless | FY2022 | £3k | Social Services |
| Children with Cancer Fund | FY2022 | £3k | Health |
| Listening Books | FY2022 | £3k | Health |
| Fight for Sight | FY2022 | £2k | Health |
| East Sussex Vision Support | FY2022 | £2k | Health |
| Hastings Fat Tuesday Limited | FY2022 | £2k | Youth Clubs and Organisations |
| Cleanup UK | FY2022 | £2k | Environment |
| CLIC Sargent | FY2022 | £2k | Health |
| Police Community Clubs of Great Britain | FY2022 | £2k | Social Services |
| Chestnut Tree House | FY2022 | £2k | Health |
| Starlight Children's Foundation | FY2022 | £2k | Health |
| Archive Resource Centre | FY2022 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hollington Community Centre | FY2022 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| Hastings Storytelling Festival | FY2022 | £2k | Culture and Recreation |
| The Baird Primary Academy | FY2022 | £2k | Education |
| ABF The Soldiers Charity | FY2022 | £2k | Social Services |
| Veterans Growth | FY2022 | £2k | Health |
| Ditch the Label | FY2022 | £2k | Social Services |
| Carers UK | FY2022 | £2k | Social Services |
| Hearing Dogs for Deaf People | FY2022 | £2k | Health |
| Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity | FY2022 | £1k | Health |
| Calibre Audio | FY2022 | £1k | Health |
| Barbarians Swimmers | FY2022 | £1k | Youth Clubs and Organisations |
| Missing People | FY2022 | £1k | Social Services |
| Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity | FY2022 | £1k | Social Services |
| British Liver Trust | FY2022 | £1k | Health |
| Treasure Seekers, Christ Church Ore | FY2022 | £1k | Religion |
| Fare Share Sussex | FY2022 | £1k | Social Services |
| Rob Hill Foundation | FY2022 | £1k | Health |