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100+ free lists of UK charitable trust & foundations, including lists of grant making trusts for core funding and small charities & community groups. Better still, use Funding Finder, to find a huge range of grant giving organisations and Help Finder to find companies with corporate foundations.
These UK charitable trust and foundation lists of grant giving organisations are listed by subject area and can be downloaded from the Charity Excellence income questionnaire statement on finding new grant making trusts. It has FUNDER LISTS in the text, so you can't miss it. To join the community Register now; everything is free. Watch this short video on how to download resources.
| Animals - 40+ | LGBTQI+ - 20+ |
| Armed Forces - 30+ | Mental Health & Wellbeing - 50+ |
| Capital (Buildings & Equipment) - 130+ | Music & Musicians - 100+ |
| Companies - 230+ | Older People - 50+ |
| Core (Running) Costs - 80+ | Small Charities & Community Groups - 70 |
| Crisis & Growth - 30 | Social Enterprises - 120 |
| Disability - 130 | Social Welfare - 130+ |
| Education - 90+ | Sport & Leisure - 60 |
| Environment & Horticulture - 110+ | Start-ups & New Ideas - 30+ |
| Feasibility Studies - 9 | Supermarkets - 20+ |
| Less popular Causes (including BAME) - 90+ | Unregistered Charities - 60+ |
| Heritage & Churches - 180 | Vehicles - 11 |
| Health - 80+ | Women & Girls - 80+ |
| Hospices - 30+ | Young People - 130 |
| Help and Funding for IT and Tech - 30+ | Young People - Music 30+ |
| Individuals & Families - 50+ | Cost of Living Crisis |
Register (everything is free), then login and click the in-system AI bunny icon in the bottom right of your screen. Click the Funding Bid button and have a chat with it. It'll write a case for support to submit to grant making charitable trusts and foundation.
It's better to start with the charitable trusts and foundations lists above, as Funding Research Lists contain less detail, but they do have substantially more trusts and foundations. Download these from the income questionnaire. Watch this short video on how to download resources.
| Accommodation & Housing - 200 | Africa - 500 | Africa (East) - 400 |
| Animals - England & Wales - 240 | Animals (International) | Afghanistan |
| Arts, Culture, Heritage & Science - 440 | Armed Forces - 100 | Christian - 175 |
| Disability - 900 | Economic & Community Development - 300 | Education & Training - 1100 |
| Environment, Conservation & Heritage - 400 | Health & The Saving Of Lives - 800 | Human Rights & Equality - 180 |
| Jewish - 220 | Kenya | Overseas Aid & Famine Relief - 900 |
| Older People - 800 | People of a Particular Ethnic Origin - 380 | Recreation - 80 |
| Relief Of Poverty - 800 | Religious Activities - 520 | Research Sponsors - 560 |
| Somalia - 100 | South East Asia - 370 | Sport - 200 |
| Ukraine | Young People - 1100 | Zambia |
Download these charitable trust and foundation lists from the income questionnaire statement with DOWNLOAD LOCAL GRANT MAKING LISTS in the text. Watch this short video on how to download resources.
| London - General | London Boroughs - Barking to Ealing |
| London Boroughs - Enfield to Islington | London Boroughs - Kensington to Wandsworth |
These are lists of grant giving charitable trusts and foundation funding for UK countries, cities and counties. Download these from the income questionnaire statement with DOWNLOAD LOCAL GRANT MAKING LISTS in the text. Watch this short video on how to download resources.
| Bedfordshire | Berkshire | Birmingham | |
| Cambridgeshire | Cheshire | Cornwall | Cumbria |
| Derbyshire | Devon | Dorset | Durham |
| Essex | Gloucestershire | Hampshire | Herefordshire |
| Hertfordshire | Isle of Wight | Kent | Lancashire |
| Leicestershire | Lincolnshire | Liverpool | Oxfordshire |
| Manchester | Norfolk | Northamptonshire | Northumberland |
| Rutland | Shropshire | Somerset | Staffordshire |
| Suffolk | Surrey | Sussex | Tyne & Wear |
| Warwickshire | West Midlands | Wiltshire | Yorkshire |
| Scotland | Wales |
Most grant funding directories are paid for. Funding Finder is not only completely free, it's very simple to use and also connects you to 100s of other free funding databases and online funding lists, making searching for grant making organisations even easier, with click through to a huge range of charitable trusts and foundations.
Register now - everything is completely free.
New UK grant making trusts that recently registered with the Charity Commission. You can find 40+ here, or download the full list from the income questionnaire.
Trusts and foundations making grants for General Charitable Purposes, have no specific criteria for funding, so any charity can apply to them. This list includes the UK location of each grant funder and, as with other research lists, details of their activities, website, e mail and phone number.
It can be used by small charities to find local general funders they may be unaware of and larger ones to create a mailing list of cold bids.
Download it from the income questionnaire statement on identifying and engaging new funders. It has FUNDER LISTS typed in the text of the statement, so you can't miss it.
Our Help Finder online directory enables any charity to find companies with charitable foundations, using its Donations - Funding search category, including corporates that make match and product donations and provide other support.
A registered charity ourselves, the CEF works for any non profit, not just charities.
Plus, 100+downloadable funder lists, 40+ policies, 8 online health checks and the huge resource base.
Quick, simple and very effective.
Find Funding, Free Help & Resources - Everything Is Free.
To access help and resources on anything to do with running a charity, including funding, click the AI Bunny icon in the bottom right of your screen and ask it short questions, including key words. Register, then login and the in-system AI Bunny is able to write funding bids and download 40+ charity policy templates as well.
