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.

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

The Trust for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Towards the costs of their reporting and engagement activities in strengthening the backbone of civil society through information, data and shared learning

Category
Social Action
Year awarded
2021
Grant size
£105,000
Duration
3 years
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Thirty Percy Foundation

Towards the costs of evaluating the learning and development outcomes from the first phase of the Resourcing Racial Justice Fund

Category
Other
Year awarded
2021
Grant size
£30,000
Duration
1 year
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Transform Drug Policy Foundation

Towards the costs of their campaign "Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control" to allow families whose lives have been devastated by current drug laws to campaign for legal control and regulation of the drug market in order to save lives and better protect young people

Category
Social Action
Year awarded
2021
Grant size
£120,000
Duration
3 years
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Two Temple Place

Towards the costs of their "Body Vessel Clay – Women Rethinking Ceramics" exhibition

Category
Other
Year awarded
2021
Grant size
£30,000
Duration
1 year
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University of Oxford

Towards the costs of their Penguin Watch and Seabird Watch projects to monitor seabirds in the UK and Overseas Territories

Category
Environment
Year awarded
2021
Grant size
£65,000
Duration
1 year
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We Belong

Towards core costs of this migrant youth-led organisation, campaigning for the rights of young migrants, developing young leaders by providing advice, support and training

Category
Social Action
Year awarded
2021
Grant size
£90,000
Duration
3 years
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Welsh National Opera

Towards core costs to fulfil WNO's wider strategic vision with a particular focus on the staging of new and updated works

Category
Arts
Year awarded
2021
Grant size
£120,000
Duration
3 years
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Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society

Towards the costs of by-catch audits for five UK supermarket chains or major seafood brands to reduce the destructive impacts of commercial fishing

Category
Environment
Year awarded
2021
Grant size
£100,000
Duration
2 years
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Wildlife and Countryside Link

Contribution towards the costs of a joint project by Wildlife and Countryside Link and Natural England to improve diversity in the Conservation Sector, with match-funding provided by Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Category
Other
Year awarded
2021
Grant size
£15,000
Duration
1 year
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