Trusts That Fund Buildings and Equipment

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Ian McLintock

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CharityConnect: Trusts That Fund Buildings and Equipment
This is a Charity Excellence Framework resource, from the largest resource base in the sector. The online toolkit, its resources and the Quality Mark are completely free.
If you wish to search for more funders, you’ll find more funder lists, links to a significant number of free funding finders and lots of tools and guides on the Charity Excellence Resource Hub. 
  1. 29 May 1961 Charitable Trust – UK organisations, with priority to those in Warwickshire and London. 
  2. AHF Transforming Places Through Heritage Programme - charities and social enterprises in England, various grant programmes for community-owned historic buildings in town centres.
  3. Albert Hunt Trust – charities with income under £250k, capital, core/running costs, hospice, homeless, health & wellbeing, UK wide, not overseas.
  4. Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust – Veterans Community Centres Programme - Armed Forces charities for community centres used by veterans and their communities.
  5. Arts Council – small capital grants.
  6. Arts Council – large capital grants.
  7. Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation - registered charities in England and Wales, community, education, health and social welfare projects.
  8. Biffa – community buildings within 5 miles of Biffa operations/sites.
  9. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust - registered charities for work in the fields of medicine, education and welfare, especially for capital projects, particularly for the Jewish community.
  10. Carling Made Local Fund – local community action anything from revamping a local community centre to fixing the facilities of an amateur sports team.
  11. Children in Need – 2 grant programmes for children and young people up to 18 yrs old.
  12. CLA Charitable Trust - for organisations in England and Wales to provide facilities for the disabled to take part in country sports and recreation.
  13. Clothworkers Foundation - UK registered charities, CICs, and other registered UK not-for-profit organisations (including special schools).
  14. Community Housing Fund - community-led organisations to support delivery of new affordable homes across England (excluding London) up to March 2020.
  15. CRASH – construction projects, homelessness and hospices, grants and other support.
  16. Duke of Devonshire's Charitable Trust - registered charities for local capital projects.
  17. Entrust: Landfill Communitires Fund - public parks, amendities, land restoration, places of worship, habitats, places of architectural importance.
  18. F M Global – grants for fire prevention.
  19. Football Foundation - Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund Small Grants Scheme -  capital items, or to refurbish/improve football facilities in England.
  20. Foyle Foundation – capital and equipment.
  21. Garfield Weston – community grants, revenue and capital.
  22. Glaziers Trust – churches and other public buildings to restore of preserve stained glass.
  23. Heat Networks investment Project - grants and loans to increase the uptake of low carbon heating network projects for domestic/public buildings in England and Wales.
  24. Help the Homeless Grant Scheme - small and medium-sized registered UK charities to assist homeless people.
  25. Hospital Saturday Fund - registered UK health charities for medical capital projects.
  26. Key Fund – Northern Impact Fund - Unsecured lending (a loan and grant) is available for new and early stage social enterprises based in the North or the Midlands to purchase or renovate buildings.
  27. London Marathon Charitable Trust – facilities grants programme, major grants, range of organisations to build, renovate or modernise facilities in London or Surrey which enable people to become and remain physically active.
  28. London Marathon Charitable Trust – facilities grants programme, small grants, renovation, modernisation or creation of local facilities in London or Surrey to support in being physically active.
  29. London Small Theatres Grants Scheme – for urgent building repairs, improve operational viability, introduce environmental improvements, and enhance physical accessibility in London/Greater London.
  30. More than a Pub: The Community Pub Business Support Programme - finance package of loans and grants is available to community groups in England that want to take on the ownership of their local pub.
  31. Morrisons Foundation – doesn’t say so on their website, but has funded capital items.
  32. Power to Change - Homes in Community Hands - Grants and support to help community business groups to build or refurbish homes designed around the needs of local people.
  33. Quaker Housing Trust - registered charities carrying out housing projects providing homes for those in need in the UK.
  34. Reaching Communities - £10k+, communities, voluntary and community organisations or social enterprises for up to 5 years; project activities, operating costs, organisational development and capital costs.
  35. Screwfix Foundation – up to £5k, repairing buildings and improving facilities.
  36. Seafarers UK - new equipment or refurbishing or building premises.
  37. Skinners Company - Lady Neville Charity - grassroots UK charitable organisations: local heritage, local community; and performing arts and visual arts.
  38. Sport England - Community Asset Fund - to enhance local community spaces which encourage people to play sport and get active.
  39. Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust – core or capital funding for hospices.
  40. St James Place Foundation – UK registered charities with income under £1million pa.
  41. The Bailey Thomas Charitable Fund – learning disability.
  42. The Bradbury Foundation – Hong Kong based, but funds UK charities working with the elderly and the blind. 
  43. The National Hockey Foundation - capital and operational funding to the sport through clubs and educational establishments in England and by support to England Hockey's youth development activities.
  44. The Rank Foundation – registered charities and churches, where total cost under £1m, average award £1000. 
  45. The Rayne Foundation - to ‘understand and engage with the needs of UK society, and to find ways and means to help address those needs’. Funding for salaries and project costs, running costs and capital costs of building and equipment.
  46. The Wolfson Foundation – new buildings, refurbishment and equipment for hospices.
  47. Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - charities and charitable organisations, and provide grants for both general running costs and capital projects.
  48. The Tudor Trust – running costs, unrestricted and capital.
  49. Universal Music UK Sound Foundation – instruments and equipment.
  50. UK Theatres Small Grants Scheme - charities and not-for-profit groups for work with local communities.
  51. Van Scrappage Fund - charities and small businesses in Greater London switch older, polluting vans for cleaner vehicles.
  52. Village Hall Improvement Grant Fund - rural village and community halls in England.
  53. Whole House Retrofit (WHR) Innovation Competition - projects that reduce the cost of retrofitting domestic properties in the UK to the same standard as new builds.
  54. Wolfson Foundation - science and medicine, arts and humanities, education, and health and disability.
  55. Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust - churches of all Christian denominations in Yorkshire with their maintenance, repair and restoration.
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Sources: Google, Charity Commission, Esmee Fairbairn website, Get Grants, Funding Central, FB Trust Hub, Twitter, Julie Eason, Sean Tully.
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