is a grant making charity that supports causes in the UK and Africa, with a focus of offering grants to small organisations delivering programmes that benefit children and their families, in particular children with disabilities.

The Trust has a number of grant programmes, however only two of these are open for unsolicited applications, these being the Small Grants UK and Small Grants Africa programmes. Across all of their programmes the Trust provides grants of around £2 million each year.

Within the small grants programmes the Trust only supports registered charities.

The Newby Trust was formed with aim of achieving improvements in the areas of education and social and medical welfare. In recent years the Trust has given around £300,000 a year in grants to achieve these aims. Its grant programmes supports both charities and individuals (with grants to individuals made via providing funds to a local organisation rather given directly to the individual)

The Trust grant programme supports the following areas:

The Toy Trust grant scheme is provided and administered by the British Toy and Hobby Association. It is available to registered charities working with children in the UK and throughout the world.

The funding is intended to help disadvantaged children under the age of 13 years and their families to:

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.

In 2020, £6.9 million was awarded in grants that individually ranged from £500 to £600,000 in value.How To Apply

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 Headley Trust Grant is provided and administered by The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts and is available to registered charities throughout the UK

Funding is available for registered charities in the UK or activities with clearly defined charitable purposes

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.

Last year, 152 grants, totalling around £672,000, were awarded to the charitable sector.

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: