THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION — grant history
Latest income
£12.4m
Grants listed (FY2025)
68
Listed grants total
£15.5m
Accounts grants total
£15.5m
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: The Foundation does not seek unsolicited proposals and has an invitation-only application process. Organisations are invited to submit a short concept note, which we aim to respond to within four weeks. If a concept note is approved, a full application is invited at which point the formal application process begins.
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Economic/community Development/employment
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Recreation
- Amateur Sport
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- Throughout London
- Throughout England
- Manchester City
- Birmingham City
- Oldham
- Liverpool City
- Buckinghamshire
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | FY2025 | £584k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Young Lives vs Cancer (formerly CLIC Sargent) | FY2025 | £550k | Health and Wellbeing |
| Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (operating as CAST) | FY2025 | £470k | Other |
| Get Further | FY2025 | £460k | Education attainment |
| Young Epilepsy | FY2025 | £424k | Health and Wellbeing |
| Football Beyond Borders | FY2025 | £415k | Education attainment |
| London Youth | FY2025 | £414k | Youth Development |
| Beamish | FY2025 | £400k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| The South East Rivers Trust | FY2025 | £394k | Environmental Conservation |
| Bowel Cancer UK | FY2025 | £391k | Health and Wellbeing |
| Earth Trust | FY2025 | £390k | Environmental Conservation |
| Zarach | FY2025 | £385k | Wellbeing |
| Pallant House Gallery | FY2025 | £383k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| OnSide | FY2025 | £358k | Youth Development |
| The Wave Project | FY2025 | £350k | Wellbeing |
| The Hepworth Wakefield | FY2025 | £350k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Yorkshire Wildlife Trust | FY2025 | £340k | Environmental Conservation |
| MK Gallery | FY2025 | £335k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Learning Through Landscapes | FY2025 | £332k | Environmental Conservation |
| Mercury Theatre | FY2025 | £325k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Institute of Contemporary Arts | FY2025 | £320k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Create | FY2025 | £320k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Adoption UK | FY2025 | £308k | Wellbeing |
| The Fitzwilliam Museum | FY2025 | £305k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Homeless Link | FY2025 | £305k | Health and Wellbeing |
| Resources for Autism | FY2025 | £300k | Health and Wellbeing |
| AllChild (formerly West London Zone) | FY2025 | £289k | Youth Development |
| Bliss - the National Charity for the Newborn | FY2025 | £264k | Health and Wellbeing |
| The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside | FY2025 | £264k | Environmental Conservation |
| Snow Camp | FY2025 | £241k | Employability |
| The Foundling Museum | FY2025 | £237k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| The Orchard Project | FY2025 | £236k | Environmental Conservation |
| Dundee Contemporary Arts Limited | FY2025 | £212k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Sister System | FY2025 | £204k | Youth Development |
| Northumberland Wildlife Trust | FY2025 | £200k | Environmental Conservation |
| Venture Arts | FY2025 | £198k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| The Postal Museum | FY2025 | £187k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales | FY2025 | £179k | Environmental Conservation |
| Youth Options | FY2025 | £150k | Youth Development |
| Earthwatch Europe | FY2025 | £150k | Environmental Conservation |
| The Girls Network | FY2025 | £150k | Employability |
| Ikon | FY2025 | £150k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| The Springboard Charity | FY2025 | £150k | Employability |
| ThinkForward | FY2025 | £150k | Employability |
| Merseyside Youth Association | FY2025 | £148k | Youth Development |
| Auditory Verbal UK | FY2025 | £144k | Health and Wellbeing |
| Battersea Arts Centre | FY2025 | £139k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Youth Focus North East | FY2025 | £135k | Youth Development |
| The Lullaby Trust | FY2025 | £132k | Health and Wellbeing |
| Pause Creating Space for Change | FY2025 | £131k | Wellbeing |
| Project Art Works | FY2025 | £131k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Wiltshire Wildlife Trust | FY2025 | £131k | Environmental Conservation |
| Tender Education & Arts | FY2025 | £130k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Site Gallery | FY2025 | £110k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| CPRE - The Countryside Charity | FY2025 | £105k | Environmental Conservation |
| Turtle Key Arts | FY2025 | £94k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Leukaemia Care | FY2025 | £94k | Health and Wellbeing |
| NMC Recordings Ltd | FY2025 | £75k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Kent Community Foundation | FY2025 | £75k | Other |
| Community Foundation for Surrey | FY2025 | £75k | Other |
| Whitechapel Gallery | FY2025 | £20k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| British Deaf Association | FY2025 | £20k | Health and Wellbeing |
| Birds of Poole Harbour | FY2025 | £20k | Other |
| Old Fire station | FY2025 | £20k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Handel Hendrix House | FY2025 | £20k | Arts, Culture and Heritage |
| Trees for Life | FY2025 | £19k | Environmental Conservation |
| The Friends of St Eadburgha's | FY2025 | £10k | Other |
| Longborough Festival Opera | FY2025 | £10k | Other |
| The London Wildlife Trust | FY2024 | £552k | Towards two posts of Director of Nature Recovery and Chief Operating Officer, alongside a new remote sensing system and CRM upgrades |
| Anna Freud Centre | FY2024 | £430k | Towards appointing three new posts (IT Manager, Head of Digital Learning, Salesforce Administrator) to support the development and launch of the Anna Freud Digital Academy to increase the training for mental health professionals. |
| Street League | FY2024 | £428k | Towards four new posts; Head of Marketing & Communications, Head of Operations and two Functional Skills Tutors in Greater Manchester and Merseyside to support growth. |
| Asthma and Lung UK | FY2024 | £419k | To enhance data and insight approaches and implement a new finance system to build efficiency and enable the organisation to be more data-led. |
| Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust | FY2024 | £400k | Towards phase three of a major site redevelopment project - 'Project Tullie' |
| Chiswick House and Gardens Trust | FY2024 | £400k | Towards phase one of a site redevelopment to increase community access, grow visitor numbers and volunteer engagement and increase earned income |
| The Woodland Trust | FY2024 | £400k | Towards digital and data transformation programme to strengthen cyber security and become more data, evidence and insight led. |
| Teenage Cancer Trust | FY2024 | £400k | Towards a new CRM, data migration and a fixed-term Delivery Manager. |
| The Reach Foundation | FY2024 | £362k | Building organisational capacity and stakeholder engagement through a digital transformation project. |
| Thrive at Five | FY2024 | £353k | Towards new posts of Senior Data and Evaluation Manager and Senior Communications Manager, alongside consultancy support towards business planning and CRM development to expand reach and impact. |
| Mental Health Innovations | FY2024 | £350k | Towards the costs of a merger between Mental Health Innovations and YouthNet UK (operating as The Mix) |
| The Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust | FY2024 | £343k | Towards Nature + Love gallery and garden redevelopment project to widen audiences and support environmental sustainability ambitions |
| Plantlife International - The Wild Plant Conservation Charity | FY2024 | £335k | Building knowledge and skills within Plantlife to influence and effectively harness nature-based markets to improve biodiversity and generate income. |
| Lucy Faithfull Foundation | FY2024 | £330k | Towards new posts of Director of Research and Impact and a Data Analyst. |
| The Roundhouse Trust | FY2024 | £330k | Development of the Roundhouse Digital Platform to build a strong digital offer |
| Greenhouse Sports Limited | FY2024 | £316k | Towards a new Impact Portal and software to improve data collection and evidence of impact. |
| Whitechapel Gallery | FY2024 | £308k | Towards two new fixed term IT roles (IT Systems Manager and IT Technician) and IT equipment updates to improve efficiency and build capacity |
| Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery Trust | FY2024 | £305k | Towards new posts of Venue Hire Sales Executive and an Event Manager, alongside building enhancements to grow commercial hires and earned income |
| FACT Liverpool | FY2024 | £302k | Towards two new posts of Producer and Technologist, business development consultancy, venue facility upgrades and a new CRM. |
| BookTrust | FY2024 | £272k | Development of a new Content Management System and improved website functionality, and appointment of a new fixed-term post of Digital Transformation Project Manager to enhance reach and impact. |
| Society for Horticultural Therapy | FY2024 | £270k | Towards a new post of Business Development Lead and IT Manager, alongside IT system upgrades. |
| The National Literacy Trust | FY2024 | £270k | Towards a new post of Head of Effective Delivery and technology upgrades. |
| Julie's Bicycle | FY2024 | £261k | Towards a new post of Researcher, IT consultancy and a new CRM. |
| Pallant House Gallery | FY2024 | £260k | Towards a new ground source heat pump and air-handling unit upgrades |
| Sir John Soane's Museum | FY2024 | £255k | Towards a new post of Head of IT Operations, alongside the completion of an IT infrastructure upgrade and a Visitor Journey Analytics audit. |
| Kiln Theatre | FY2024 | £255k | Renovating the Kiln Theatre's current cinema space and public toilets, and towards a new post of Event and Sales Manager to grow earned income and increase financial resilience |
| Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Trust | FY2024 | £250k | Reconfiguration and improvements to ground floor to strengthen income and community use |
| Environmental Vision | FY2024 | £249k | Towards three new posts: Partnerships Officer and two Delivery Managers in London and Birmingham to expand reach. |
| The Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust | FY2024 | £236k | New finance system to increase organisational efficiencies and support financial planning. |
| upReach Charitable Company | FY2024 | £232k | Towards new posts of Product Consultant and Senior Product & Operations Manager to transform upReach's technology capabilities. |
| Chance to Shine Foundation Ltd | FY2024 | £232k | Towards a new post of Leadership and Coaching Manager to support growth and an e-learning platform to enhance training efficiencies. |
| The De La Warr Pavilion Charitable Trust | FY2024 | £220k | Towards new posts of Data & Insights Manager and Digital Research & Development Manager to increase digital skills and drive income growth |
| The Public Catalogue Foundation | FY2024 | £218k | Towards a new CRM, website upgrades and consultancy to improve audience data. |
| St | FY2024 | £215k | Towards a new post of Commercial Manager, marketing activity and external consultancy costs to support the development of new events and private hire offer in preparation for the public opening in 2025. |
| Compton Verney House Charity | FY2024 | £212k | Towards two new posts: Data & Evaluation Coordinator and Audience Insight Manager. |
| Trees for Cities | FY2024 | £199k | Towards a new post of IT & Data Manager, and consultancy support to enhance data management. |
| Rewilding Britain | FY2024 | £189k | Towards a new post of Rewilding Landscapes Manager, alongside associated project delivery and communications costs. |
| Chapter (Cardiff) Limited | FY2024 | £150k | Venue facility upgrades to increase capacity to diversify programme activity and generate earned income. |
| South London Fine Art Gallery and Library | FY2024 | £150k | Towards a new post of Partnerships Manager and a new CRM to increase commercial and philanthropic income. |
| XLP | FY2024 | £150k | Enhancing impact measurement through a re-design of Salesforce to support expansion. |
| London Business School | FY2024 | £150k | Scholarships for students commencing a Masters in Financial Analysis programme. |
| Action for M.E. | FY2024 | £150k | Towards a new post of Philanthropy Manager to increase fundraised income and support financial sustainability. |
| Surviving Economic Abuse | FY2024 | £149k | Towards a new post of Data and Operations Officer to enhance data management and compliance, and new financial management and HR tools to enhance operational efficiencies. |
| UK Music Masters Ltd | FY2024 | £149k | Towards new posts of Operations and Systems Manager, Digital Technology Specialist and IT system updates |
| Bumblebee Conservation Trust | FY2024 | £146k | Towards new post of Head of Outreach and Volunteering, and consultancy to establish and implement monitoring and evaluation frameworks. |
| Drive Forward Foundation | FY2024 | £146k | Towards a new post of Impact and Evaluation Manager. |
| Friends, Families and Travellers | FY2024 | £146k | Towards a new post of Fundraising Manager and Donor Management Platform to support organisational sustainability and improve efficiency. |
| Eden Court Highlands | FY2024 | £145k | Enhancing commercial income through the appointment of a new post of Commercial Associate, implementing a new data platform, and improving the layout and facilities of the café-bar |
| Future Men | FY2024 | £145k | Towards a new post of Head of Impact and Evaluation. |
| Empire Fighting Chance | FY2024 | £143k | Towards a new post of Head of Delivery |
| National Centre for Writing | FY2024 | £142k | Towards a new post of Digital Marketing and Content Coordinator to increase digital capacity and to commission new learning content to diversify audiences and generate revenue |
| Action for Conservation | FY2024 | £138k | Towards a new post of Fundraising Officer, alongside consultancy and technology costs to build a new CRM platform and an organisational impact framework. |
| The Difference Education Ltd | FY2024 | £121k | Towards a new post of Research and Impact Officer to support high-quality monitoring and evaluation. |
| Royal Drawing School | FY2024 | £113k | Towards a new CRM to increase and diversify participant reach to build future sustainability |
| The National Museum of Labour History | FY2024 | £110k | Towards a new post of Events Sales Officer, alongside updates to venue facilities, to grow earned income from venue hire. |
| Fulham Palace Trust | FY2024 | £108k | A new CRM, IT and system updates and new conferencing equipment to build earned income through corporate hires and events. |
| The Geffrye Museum Trust | FY2024 | £104k | Towards a new post of Public Programmes Manager to grow earned income through event sales and commercial hires. |
| The Koestler Trust | FY2024 | £101k | Digitisation of |
| Action Tutoring | FY2024 | £94k | Towards independent evaluation of primary school maths programme and migration to a new elearning platform. |
| Outside In Art | FY2024 | £85k | Towards a new post of Commercial Co-ordinator and to build an e-commerce platform. |
| Empire Fighting Chance | FY2024 | £75k | A new case management system and mobile device management system to increase operational efficiencies and cyber security |
| Breaking Barriers | FY2024 | £75k | Towards a new finance system to support operational efficiencies. |
| Painshill Park Trust Ltd | FY2024 | £48k | A new CRM, an integrated sales system and new hardware to improve data collection and analysis to support increased earned and philanthropic income. |
| The Chiltern Society | FY2024 | £20k | Towards repairs to Lacey Green Windmill and towards programme costs. |
| Creative Folkestone | FY2024 | £20k | Appointment of an external consultant to undertake scoping work for the feasibility of developing a new individual giving programme to grow new income streams. |
| The Clore Leadership Programme | FY2024 | £20k | To appoint external consultants to support business planning. |
| Action Tutoring | FY2024 | £20k | Towards appointing a consultant to undertake an audit of digital and IT systems. |
| The Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society | FY2024 | £20k | Towards the Museum's running costs. |
| Parochial Church Council of Ecclesiastical Parish of St. Michael and All Angels, Broadway | FY2024 | £20k | Towards repairs and upgrades to the organ electrical control system |
| Longborough Festival Opera | FY2024 | £20k | Towards the filming of the summer production. |
| The PCC of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Paul, Grove Park, Chiswick W4 | FY2024 | £20k | Upgrading the church s hall, kitchen and garden to increase fundraising revenue. |
| Solutions Not Sides | FY2024 | £20k | Towards the youth Education programme. |
| Springvale Training Ltd | FY2024 | £20k | Towards the Onwards & Upwards Programme. |
| Mental Health Innovations | FY2022 | £576k | Expansion of Data Insights team to support development of data driven insights and services |
| Carers UK | FY2022 | £550k | Development of a new Client Relationship Management system to enhance operations and impact |
| Museum of London | FY2022 | £500k | Towards digital transformation projects, including a new CRM system, digital activity to support fundraising and membership |
| Place2Be | FY2022 | £492k | 'Project Insight' - towards data integration and a new document management system |
| The Fostering Network | FY2022 | £374k | New Content Management System and website to support growth |
| DataKind UK | FY2022 | £373k | Towards new posts of Fundraiser, Head of DataDives and Volunteer Community and Head of DataCorps and SCO Community |
| Career Ready | FY2022 | £310k | Development of digital tools to increase reach and offer more career opportunities for young people |
| Access Your Right To Care (trading as Access Social Care) | FY2022 | £300k | Towards new posts of Chief Technology Officer, Head of Data Insights, and Head of Business Development to support growth of chatbot |
| Speech and Language UK (previously I CAN) | FY2022 | £300k | Digital and technology updates to enhance efficiency, reach, impact and fundraising |
| The Tutor Trust | FY2022 | £298k | Recruitment of a new Digital Product Manager to scope and deliver: a new website; a new portal for tutors; and an online platform for pupils and parents to enhance user experience and support growth |
| Sheffield Museums | FY2022 | £285k | Towards two staff posts (Community Curator and Exhibition Coordinator) to support development of community engagement programmes |
| Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (operating as CAST) | FY2022 | £265k | Development of an online platform for charities to access and re-use relevant, sector specific technology and digital tools |
| Re-engage (previously Contact the Elderly) | FY2022 | £250k | New digital tools to improve volunteer experience and new roles of Marketing Automation Manager & Data Officer |
| The Charleston Trust | FY2022 | £249k | Recruitment of two marketing roles (Marketing and Audience Insight Manager and Festivals Marketing Manager) and associated activities. |
| The Movement for NonMobile Children (trading as Whizz-Kidz) | FY2022 | £245k | New CRM system to enable efficiencies, growth and improve data collection |
| OnSide Youth Zones | FY2022 | £235k | Improving impact measurement through enhanced data capture and rollout of Level 2 Youthwork training |
| Become Charity (trading as Become) | FY2022 | £221k | Towards new role of Director of Operations to support growth and impact |
| Groundswell | FY2022 | £215k | Towards posts of Progression and Participation Director and Head of Operations and a new impact measurement database |
| SHiFT Organisation | FY2022 | £204k | Appointment of a new Director of Business Development to build capacity and support organisational growth and expansion |
| Football Beyond Borders | FY2022 | £202k | Integration of new and updated IT and digital systems |
| Khulisa | FY2022 | £200k | New posts of Head of Partnerships and Data Quality Officer to enhance impact and enable growth |
| The Difference Education Ltd | FY2022 | £190k | Development of a new CRM system and scaling the Inclusive Leadership Course |
| Redthread Youth Limited | FY2022 | £183k | Towards a new CRM system and discovery work for technology development relating to HR, online training and HIVE |
| Leeds Theatre Trust Limited (trading as Leeds Playhouse) | FY2022 | £180k | Towards the PLAY House project to develop a new early years/family offering to enhance reach and sustainability |
| The Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust (Maggie's) | FY2022 | £179k | New Case Management System (CMS) to enable growth and support data management and analysis |
| 42nd Street | FY2022 | £177k | Completion of technology platform delivering online mental health services by adding three new functions and scoping the market for a potential wider roll-out of the platform. |
| Derby Museums | FY2022 | £170k | Towards four new staff posts (Business Administrator, Data Collection and Research Coordinator, and two Programme Coordinators) to expand and enhance learning programmes, data collection and research to engage a wider audience |
| Sistema Scotland | FY2022 | £166k | Towards new post of Director Children and Communities and leadership development |
| Chance (UK) Ltd | FY2022 | £150k | Review and refresh Chance UK’s evaluation methodology to enhance impact |
| North Music Trust (operating as Sage Gateshead) | FY2022 | £150k | Strengthening digital skills and capacity to engage audiences |
| Greater Manchester Arts Centre Limited (trading as HOME) | FY2022 | £150k | Towards refurbishment of three railway arches to support expansion and create a new artist development centre |
| Fair Education Alliance | FY2022 | £149k | Towards new post of Head of Insights and Data |
| Power2 | FY2022 | £147k | Establishment of a new Business Development function to expand reach and impact through securing commissioned income |
| Somerset House Trust | FY2022 | £146k | Towards new post of Business Systems Manager to increase organisational capacity to implement operational improvements. |
| Artichoke Trust | FY2022 | £145k | Digital Transformation Project: CRM, website, membership platform, donation, ticketing and purchase pathways |
| New Horizon Youth Centre | FY2022 | £143k | Towards new post of Clinical Lead to deliver wellbeing programme for young people experiencing homelessness |
| The Old Vic Theatre Trust | FY2022 | £143k | Development of education and community programme, with an emphasis on expanding activity for primary school children |
| ReachOut | FY2022 | £132k | Towards two new administrative roles; Operations Officer and Programme Assistant |
| National Literacy Trust | FY2022 | £130k | Towards new post of Digital Campaigns Manager to enhance digital engagement across the organisation’s regional literacy hubs |
| Action Tutoring Ltd | FY2022 | £125k | Development of the Virtual Programme |
| Birmingham Museums Trust | FY2022 | £125k | Dynamic Collections: Towards a community participation project to improve digital records and access to museum collections |
| Manchester Camerata | FY2022 | £120k | Improving finance function and impact monitoring, including new post of Finance and Data Manager |
| Villiers Park Educational Trust | FY2022 | £118k | Towards four posts (two fixed term contracts and two consultants) to build digital capacity for online coaching |
| Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge | FY2022 | £100k | Towards new post of Enterprise Manager |
| School of Hard Knocks | FY2022 | £96k | Towards new post of Trusts & Foundations Manager role to support bid writing and fundraising. |
| Tender Education & Arts | FY2022 | £72k | Towards new post of Research and Impact Manager to enhance impact measurement and sustainability. |
| CLPE - Centre for Literacy in Primary Education | FY2022 | £68k | New CRM system |
| Fight for Peace | FY2022 | £53k | Developing an IT strategy and establishment of new filing structures |
| Fine Cell Work | FY2022 | £20k | Towards Design & Commissions Manager role |
| The Access Project | FY2022 | £20k | Technology developments to support the scale up of a group tutoring programme |
| XLP | FY2022 | £20k | Towards discovery work to support impact management |
| Youth Access | FY2022 | £20k | Development of funding and income generation model to support sustainability |
| Carers Trust | FY2022 | £20k | Towards discovery phase for new Virtual Carers Centre |
| The Friends of St Eadburgha's | FY2022 | £20k | Restoration and equipment |
| The Federation of London Youth Clubs | FY2022 | £20k | Towards costs of membership development team |
| Empire Fighting Chance | FY2022 | £13k | Consultancy support to enhance data analysis |
| 6th Chiswick Brownies & Guides | FY2022 | £10k | Programme costs for Girlguiding group |
| Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) | FY2022 | £4k | Towards development of convenings for charitable trusts and foundations |