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.

English Symphony Orchestra

Towards the costs of a new Chief Executive post

Category
Arts
Year awarded
2020
Grant size
£120,000
Duration
3 years
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Environmental Funders Network

Towards costs of "Safeguarding the environments of the British Overseas Territories", a joint EFN/RSPB project to increase funding sources for the UKOTs

Category
Other
Year awarded
2020
Grant size
£29,854
Duration
1 year
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Friends, Families & Travellers 

Towards the costs of policy work on access to health and care services in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities

Category
Social Action
Year awarded
2020
Grant size
£149,943 
Duration
3 years
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Glasgow Women's Library

Towards the "Curating in Partnership Project"

Category
Museums and Galleries
Year awarded
2020
Grant size
£81,423
Duration
2 years
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Global Action Plan

Towards salary costs of their air quality team and associated campaigning costs

Category
Environment
Year awarded
2020
Grant size
£120,000
Duration
3 years
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Global Canopy Programme

Towards core costs in support of their work with companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide to identify the systemic market forces destroying the world's natural capital

Category
Environment
Year awarded
2020
Grant size
£150,000
Duration
3 years
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Green Alliance 

Towards the costs of their Natural Environment Programme which seeks to curb the long-term decline in the health of the UK’s natural environment

Category
Environment
Year awarded
2020
Grant size
£100,000
Duration
3 years
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Human Trafficking Foundation

Towards core costs and policy change in the modern slavery sector on a local and national level

Category
Social Action
Year awarded
2020
Grant size
£120,000
Duration
3 years
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Institute for Public Policy Research

Towards their Environmental Justice Commission to build public support for action on climate change by connecting it with people's wider economic and social injustices

Category
Environment
Year awarded
2020
Grant size
£100,000
Duration
1.5 years
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