Unrestricted grants to support small and medium-sized local charities, with a proven track record of helping people in England and Wales with complex social issues, to recover and renew beyond the COVID-19 crisis. There is a total of £9.5 million for 2021. Unrestricted grants of £50,000 over two years. The Foundation expects to fund around 190 charities in 2021.

The Steel Charitable Trust was established in 1976 by Mr Walter Reginald Steel and Mrs Marjorie Steel.

The Pilgrim Trust was founded in 1930 by Edward Stephen Harkness of New York, with an endowment of just over £2 million, in order to promote the future well being of the United Kingdom. For nearly eight decades The Pilgrim Trust have been giving grants to charitable organisations operating in the heritage and social welfare arenas in Britain. Their aim is to preserve and promote Britain's historical and intellectual assets and to provide assistance to vulnerable members of society.

The Thompson Family Charitable Trust provides grants to registered charities for general charitable purposes.

Previous grants have been given in the following areas:

• Health and social welfare.
• Medical research.
• Animal welfare.
• The arts.
• Sports.
• Education.

Funding is provided at the discretion of the Trustees.

Funding for registered charities in the UK for projects in the following areas: arts and heritage UK, cathedrals and major churches, parish churches, arts and heritage overseas, developing countries, education, and health and social welfare.

The trust is particularly interested in supporting charitable causes in the arts, community groups and projects, cultural and environmental causes, disability groups and charities supporting people with disabilities, educational projects, welfare causes to include hardship alleviation, and medical charities encompassing treatment, care and support.

The Trust was established to encourage and assist the provision of leisure activities for the disabled.

The Trustees will consider grant applications related to the provision of leisure activities for the disabled but favour particularly applications whereby the potential beneficiaries meet one or all of the following criteria:

Please note: this fund wa paused in May 2021 due to high demand, but will open at the end of January 2022.

Grants are available for UK-based charities and community interest organisations to support projects that promote the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults.

The Ashley Family Foundation is an independent family Trust Fund set up in 1986, in memory of Laura Ashley, the designer, who died the year before.

The Foundation awards funding to charities and community groups for good small-scale arts and community projects in England and Wales that fit with the Foundation's ethos of protecting rural communities and encouraging participation in the arts.

It welcomes proposals from community museums, organisations, farms and gardens for funding for arts subjects

Funding available is intended to support Christian charities and churches that are serving their local community. Projects which spark interest and passion are favoured.

The Trustees consider the following factors in the decision process: