Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. Their new strategy focuses on three aims: Improving Our Natural World; Tackling injustice to deliver A Fairer Future; and Nurturing Creative, Confident Communities.

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Major Grants

Funds organisations working directly with families in need. Organisations should have a focus on Family Support including early intervention, families coping with addiction, and prisoners' families.

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Small Grants

Trusthouse gives grants for running costs to charities and not-for-profit organisations under the overarching themes are Rural Issues and Urban Deprivation. Their preference is for front line organisations working directly with people in need.

Garfield Weston Foundation

The Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence.

McCarthy Stone Foundation: Small Grants Programme

The Foundation awards one-off grants to registered charities and community organisations working towards the primary focus of their charitable outcomes: health & wellbeing of older people, young people's education, and community spaces.

The Murdoch Charitable Trust

The Murdoch Trust exists to provide financial relief and support for amateur and professional scientists, who have a practical interest in the pursuit of science in any of its forms.

Next deadline: 3 Nov 2023

The Seafarers' Charity

The Seafarers' Charity makes a life-changing impact in troubled times. They award grants to organisations support those who work – or have worked – at sea, and their families.

SIB - Recovery Loan Fund

The Recovery Loan Fund is for UK charities and social enterprises who are improving people’s lives, or the environment they live in. It is designed to support access to finance for UK small business as they look to invest and grow.

The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts

The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts is the operating office of 17 grant-making trusts established by three generations of the Sainsbury family. Each trust works autonomously as an independent legal entity with a separate board of trustees.

Greggs Foundation - Breakfast Clubs

The Greggs Breakfast Club Programme helps primary school children get a nutritious start to their school day. Every school is provided with fresh bread from their nearest Greggs shop, and a grant to support start-up and ongoing costs.