The Grocers Company has a tradition of dispensing monies to charitable causes and in 1968 it founded the Grocers' Charity, through which it offers financial support a wide range of charitable causes.

The Charity provides one-off grants for UK registered charities to support the following areas:

• Relief of poverty.
• Children and young people.
• The elderly.
• Disability.
• Health.
• Military.
• Heritage and the arts.
• Environment.

Community Grants

 Our Community Grant Scheme is available to constituted not-for-profit organisations and local authorities. Grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 are available to create or improve buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community. Please read our criteria document for further details by following the link to the website.

Warburtons Community Grants provides small grants up to £400 to support charitable organisations towards broader activities which improve Health, Place or Skills for families in their community.

Based on our localism approach, our community investment funds are allocated to our local bakeries and depots. This helps our Community Champions to make the best decisions for our local communities. We will use your postcode to understand which of our sites is closest to you and they will then receive the application and make a decision.

Family Fund Business Services are working in partnership with BBC Children in Need to deliver their Emergency Essentials Programme (previously the Buttle UK Families Programme). Donations received during the BBC's Big Night In appeal are being used to support families facing financial hardship due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis.

This programme provides items for the most basic needs of vulnerable children and young people who may be:

The BlueSpark Foundation is a registered charity whose objective is to fund or part-fund projects that aim to improve the education and development of children and young people by means of educational, cultural, sporting or other activities.

The funding is intended to support projects that have the following objectives:

The Albert Hunt Trust is a grant giving charitable trust that provides grants to UK registered charities that are based and working locally in the UK.

Applications will be considered from local charities that:

The National Lottery Grants for Heritage funding programme has been created as part of National Lottery Heritage Fund Strategic Funding Framework 2019 to 2024.

The funding will support a broad range of heritage projects and activities, such as industrial sites, castles and historic places of worship, to the stories and memories of communities, and through to public parks, natural landscapes and native wildlife 

During 2021-22, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, priority will be given to at least one or more of the following outcomes:

The charity provides grants towards capital expenditure in the following categories :-

The Adamson Trust provides financial help towards the cost of holidays or respite breaks for disabled children between 3 and 17, with physical mental or emotional impairments.

For full details please follow the link to the website.The Adamson Trust is a long established Perthshire charity based in Crieff.

The Ragdoll Foundation’s Open Grants Scheme supports the cultural sector’s work with children and young people. Our vision is to support high quality, innovative arts engagement projects where the concerns of childhood can be heard. All applications are expected to contribute to the Ragdoll Foundation’s primary purpose.  There are two strands: Small Grants and Main Grants.