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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.
Thirty Percy Foundation
Towards the costs of evaluating the learning and development outcomes from the first phase of the Resourcing Racial Justice Fund
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
Two Temple Place
Towards the costs of their "Body Vessel Clay – Women Rethinking Ceramics" exhibition
University of Oxford
Towards the costs of their Penguin Watch and Seabird Watch projects to monitor seabirds in the UK and Overseas Territories
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
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
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
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
Wildlife and Countryside Link
Towards core costs, galvanising the environment movement behind strong, shared policy ideas to influence UK law and policy
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