Grants we have made

Grants list

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This section lists all grants we have made since 2013. The categories from 2013 to 2018 were Arts, Environment and Welfare. This changed in 2018 when Welfare was replaced with Social Action. There are also separate categories for grants to the Museums and Galleries Fund and to the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) Fund.

From November 2025 the grants listed relate to our current strategy for 2025 to 2030.

Please note that the Visit Website button under each grant listed is a link to the listed grant-holder's website.

BirdLife Cyprus

Core costs funding to continue science and advocacy work related to habitat management and illegal bird-killing and funding towards an expert hydrological and wetland management study in the areas around Akrotiri and Dhekelia UK Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus.

Category
UKOTs Fund
Year awarded
2022
Grant size
£85,000
Duration
2 years
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Blue Marine Foundation

Funding to support the marine team based within St Helena National Trust

Category
UKOTs Fund
Year awarded
2022
Grant size
£149,145
Duration
3 years
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Blue Marine Foundation

Funding to support the establishment of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the waters off Akrotiri, one of two UK Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus.

Category
UKOTs Fund
Year awarded
2022
Grant size
£99,425
Duration
2 years
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Bristol Old Vic and Theatre Royal Trust

Towards supporting the Ferment programme, which is centred on developing, commissioning and co-producing early to mid-career artists

Category
Arts
Year awarded
2022
Grant size
£120,000
Duration
3 years
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Broadway Initiative

Towards core costs

Category
Environment
Year awarded
2022
Grant size
£126,000
Duration
3 years
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Centre for Homelessness Impact

To create an enhanced learning culture in which reliable and actionable evidence enables policymakers, practitioners and commissioners everywhere to make better decisions with regard to homelessness

Category
Social Action
Year awarded
2022
Grant size
£75,000
Duration
2 years
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Challenging Behaviour Foundation

Funding is towards core costs to support its work seeking to improve the way in which legal, health, education and social care systems work to protect the rights and meet the needs of people with severe learning disabilities and their families

Category
Social Action
Year awarded
2022
Grant size
£90,000
Duration
3 years
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Children England

Core costs to support its Young Leaders programme where Young Leaders are leading nationwide peer research and creating a national campaign for a ChildFair state

Category
Social Action
Year awarded
2022
Grant size
£100,000
Duration
3 years
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China Plate Theatre Co.

Core costs to support the Company's new co-creation model which will help them to provide routes for artistic ideas to emerge from communities of place, identity, and interest, and then to reach national stages

Category
Arts
Year awarded
2022
Grant size
£90,000
Duration
3 years
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