OLD POSSUM'S PRACTICAL TRUST — grant history

Registered charity 328558 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£189k
Grants listed (FY2023)
29
Listed grants total
£3.5m
Accounts grants total
£3.5m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2023 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Summarised from tseliot.com/foundation/old-possums-trust/ 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 (13 grantees)
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (11 grantees)
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (3 grantees)
  • Environment/conservation/heritage (3 grantees)
  • Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (2 grantees)
  • Accommodation/housing (2 grantees)
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
  • Animals (1 grantee)
  • Recreation (1 grantee)
  • Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Where grantees operate
  • Throughout England And Wales (6 grantees)
  • Scotland (5 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (4 grantees)
  • Throughout England (4 grantees)
  • United States (2 grantees)
  • Netherlands (1 grantee)
  • Suffolk (1 grantee)
  • Throughout London (1 grantee)
  • Tower Hamlets (1 grantee)
  • Cardiff (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
The T.S. Eliot FoundationFY2023£3.1mDonation for purchase and renovation of second Writer’s Retreat
Garsington OperaFY2023£50kSecond tranche of £50,000 for Arts Hub capital project
Tomorrow’s Warriors TrustFY2023£30kFirst of 3-year grant for Young Artist Development Programme
The Felix ProjectFY2023£25kThird annual award of 3-year commitment
The National TheatreFY2023£25k3-year grant for New Views programme
British Film InstituteFY2023£20kThird award of 3-year commitment for Festivals Education Programme
The Children’s BookshowFY2023£20kTour support
English National BalletFY2023£15k3-year grant for Ballet Futures
St Stephen’s Church South KensingtonFY2023£15kMusic support
The Anne Frank Trust UKFY2023£15kFirst of 3-year grant for young writers' residential
British LibraryFY2023£10kFinal grant of 3-year commitment for Write Here!
Farms for City ChildrenFY2023£10kThird of 5-year grant
The Book Trade CharityFY2023£10kAnnual grant
Wilton’s Music HallFY2023£8kOne-off grant towards 2022 Christmas Production
Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in TranslationFY2023£5k3-year grant
National Opera StudioFY2023£5kMusic support
Shakespeare Schools FestivalFY2023£5kFirst of 3-year grant
Unicorn TheatreFY2023£5k3-year grant
Holland Park OperaFY2023£5kMusic support
Young Classical Artist’s TrustFY2023£5kMusic support
ArkboundFY2023£5kThird of 3-year grant for writing project for prisoners and ex-offenders
Propel MagazineFY2023£5kFirst of 2-year grant
Sound & MusicFY2023£5kMusic support
Royal CourtFY2023£5k3-year grant
The Big Issue FoundationFY2023£5kPandemic support
RefugeFY2023£5kEmergency funding
UnicefFY2023£5kGeneral support
Royal College of MusicFY2023£5kMusic support
Dalgarno Trust Food BankFY2023£2kFood bank support

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 3474469 vs reference 3527074 (1.5% 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.