Corporate report

Grants awarded under Section 70 of the Charities Act 2006

Updated 29 November 2022

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 70 of the Charities Act 2006

Laid before Parliament on 24 November 2022

Overview

Section 70 of the Charities Act 2006 (‘the Act’) sets out the powers for Ministers to give financial assistance to charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institutions and requires that payments made under this power are reported.

The funding matched both the aims and objectives of the department. This spending does not represent the total amount of grant funding provided by DCMS to the Voluntary and Community Sector, as many other grants have been paid to this sector under the powers conferred by alternative legislation.

During 2021-22, the department made grant payments totalling £1,031.1 million under the provisions of the Act.

See amounts of financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2021-22.

During 2020-21, the department made grant payments totalling £1,462.6 million under the provisions of the Act.

See amounts of financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2020-21.

During 2019-20, the department made grant payments totalling £546.3 million under the provisions of the Act.

See amounts of financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2019-20.

During 2018-19, the department made grant payments totalling £758.6 million under the provisions of the Act.

See amounts of financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2018-19.

2021 to 2022

The table below sets out the financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2021-22.

Grant recipient Payments £’000 Description
Arts Council England 867,695 Grant-in-aid funding.
British Film Institute 74,310 Grant-in-aid funding.
Festival 2022 Ltd 32,600 The development, planning, organisation, presentation, management, production, curatorial co-ordination and promotion of Festival 2022 Ltd.
Youth Investment Fund Phase 1 - BBC Children in Need 12,000 YIF Phase 1 spending objective is to improve the effectiveness of youth services in order to drive positive outcomes for young people such as improved health and wellbeing, equipping them with skills for work and life, and empowering them to be active members of their communities and society. YIF Phase 1 will work with left-behind areas in England, assessing and distributing grants for capital proposals which meet the objective of improving the effectiveness of youth services.
The National Lottery Community Fund- Life Chances Fund 9,230 The Life Chances Fund (LCF) is a fund, committed by central government to help people in society who face the most significant barriers to leading happy and productive lives. It provides top up contributions to outcomes-based contracts involving social investment, referred to as Social impact Bonds (SIBs) in this FAQ. These contracts must be locally commissioned and aim to tackle complex social problems.
Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust 4,619 Grant-in-aid funding.
Historic Royal Palaces Maintenance Award 3,151 The purpose of this funding is to enable Arm’s Length Bodies to undertake essential maintenance works on their estates, thus preventing further deterioration of these assets, as well as safeguarding people and collections. Public Bodies are eligible to apply for grants to carry out urgent, priority maintenance works which are necessary. HRP grant is for urgent critical maintenance works: 1. Kensington Palaces - King’s State Apartments Electrical Re-wiring Programme; 2.Hampton Court Palace - Mains Electrical Infrastructure Replacement Programme; 3.Critical Systems (Tower of London electric supply and all palaces fire alarms).
National Film and Television School 2,360 To contribute general business as usual eligible expenditure itemized in the organizations annual delivery plan provided.
Geffrye Museum 2,106 Grant-in-aid funding.
The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) #iwill 2,000 To deliver the #iwill Fund - a joint investment between DCMS and TNLCF which creates social action opportunities for young people across England.
Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership 1,857 The British Red Cross is already subsidising the costs of the VCSEP with its own funding, and will continue to do so alongside Government grant funding. By funding dedicated staff time, we enable the VCSEP staff to focus on delivery of the VCSEP’s COVID-19 coordination only, rather than delivering this in a part time capacity alongside their regular charity (British Red Cross and others) work.
Rosa UK 1,564 The UK Women’s Fund will deliver support to 27,000 women and girls via awarding funding to 80 small women’s organisations and 50 medium-large women’s organisations.
Youth Workforce 1,153 The overarching strategic goal of this work is to upskill those adults working with young people and support youth sector organisations to ensure safeguarding and quality delivery in community based youth provision. The funds will be invested in sector infrastructure, ensuring the youth sector is supported to meet the needs of young people, particularly those needs caused or exacerbated by the pandemic. It will also encourage a pipeline of qualified youth workers, bolstering numbers of professionals able to support and safeguard young people.
Audio Content Fund Ltd 1,121 The Audio Content Fund, will support a broad range of public service audio content, for all ages, on a wider spectrum of UK radio stations. The Fund aims to create new opportunities for producers to make public service content that adds to viewer and listener choice.
Comic Relief 1,117 Comic Relief’s Supporting & Sustaining Specialism project will centre on a competitive, open grants programme for organisations led by ethnic minority women for ethnic minority women to address violence against women and girls in all four nations of the UK. Approximately 15 onward grants of between £40,000 and £250,000 for up to 18 months will be awarded and managed by Comic Relief.
Advancing the Global Partnership on AI’s (GPAI) Data Governance research programme in partnership with UK institutions 1,046 Funding to advance GPAI’s Data Governance research programme on data justice and data trusts. This grant aims to strengthen collaboration between GPAI, the UK Government and UK research institutions, whilst translating the two projects into practical interventions by partnering with the Open Data Institute, Alan Turing Institute and Cambridge University.
The Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College grant funding 2021-22 779 Grant funding to the Greenwich Foundation for The Old Royal Naval College (ORNC) for FY 21/22 in support of the delivery of its core objectives which are to conserve the buildings, interiors and grounds for present and future generations and to provide opportunities for wide and diverse audiences to enjoy and share its significance.
Blavatnik School of Government 750 To conduct research and engagement work to enhance and share evidence on outcomes-based contracting and partnership working.
The Medaille Trust 677 The Moving on Project focuses on meeting the long-term needs of women affected by trafficking and modern slavery. To do this, The Medaille Trust will establish eight new delivery hubs across England, each staffed with experienced caseworkers.
Solace Women’s Aid 661 This project aims to ensure that all women have access to the support they need in the spaces most appropriate for them. It will provide joined-up partnership support with the aim of empowering all women across legal and other structures and across urban and rural environments. By developing a Centre of Excellence, with the focus on removing silos across the three spaces in three nations, Solace Women’s Aid will provide a sustainable online space to support women’s organisations in the future.
YMCA England and Wales 654 The “Y’s Girls Mentoring” project is a community led Mentoring initiative based on Early and Effective Intervention principles. They will identify young people at risk of developing mild to moderate mental health issues and match them with a trained community based volunteer mentor.
NHS Charities Together 624 The Volunteering Futures Fund aims to support high quality volunteering opportunities for young people and people who experience barriers to volunteering in DCMS sectors and across the Voluntary and Community sector.
Addendum to Youth Work Bursary Grant Renewal - National Youth Agency 610 The additional funding for the Youth Worker Bursary Fund will aim to enhance the infrastructure capacity in the sector through Internal Quality Assurance and Assessor Training Qualifications (Level 3 and 4) and a Pilot Leadership and Management Programme.
SafeLives 573 The ‘Your Best Friend’ project will empower 10,000+ young women with knowledge and confidence to act before someone harms or is harmed, to keep themselves and their friends safe. Activities will be carried out in three complementary waves, with evaluation, analytics and learning shared throughout. The waves are research; test and develop; launch tools and grants programme.
Volunteering Futures Fund - Pears Foundation 550 The Volunteering Futures Fund aims to support high quality volunteering opportunities for young people and people who experience barriers to volunteering in DCMS sectors and across the Voluntary and Community sector.
Ovarian Cancer Action 535 This project will spearhead equal access to clinical excellence for all women with ovarian cancer regardless of where they live, their age or ethnicity. Ovarian Cancer Action will bring together an expert group of partners to award onward grants for best-practice pilots, where they will match the highest-performing centres with the lowest to share learnings and address inequalities in care.
The Federation of London Youth Clubs 496 The programme will support ethnic minority young women aged 10-14, and a cohort of 30+ youth workers. Young women will access high-quality activities in their youth organisation to promote positive mental health and challenge stigma. Meanwhile, youth workers will be up-skilled through training and peer support, so they can better support young women.
Beat (formerly Eating Disorders Association) 483 To provide better health outcomes through their carers for girls and young women suffering from eating disorders.
Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse 480 This project will fund both IDVAs and Coordination in the Mentor Court areas to support the CJS response and embed the SDAC model. This will also support a national mapping and capacity building exercise to enable the SDAC model to roll out across the country.
Women in Prison 462 The Creating Community Connections project connects prisons and women in prison to a network of local women’s centres to aid resettlement and engagement with holistic support to meet women’s needs, address root causes of offending, improve outcomes on release and intercept cycles of trauma, disadvantage and abuse.
UK Safer Internet Centre 318 The UK Government has committed to legislating via the Online Safety Bill to make the UK the safest place in the world to go online and to protect children from online abuse and harms. Before the legislation is in effect, this will support activities that improve children’s safety online, including activities to improve media literacy amongst young people, research, training and a helpline for those working with children and reducing the availability of harmful content for target audiences.
St Giles Trust 307 To enable disadvantaged women to create positive change for themselves and other women in their communities. We will work with local women’s organisations in 3 priority areas to test if a lived experience, Community Champions model at grassroots level has impact and provides solutions to social, economic, and digital exclusion.
National Youth Agency Census Grant 285 The purpose of this grant is to support the National Youth Agency to deliver the youth sector census, through part-funding the project and contains 2 elements: Building an online, open access platform for self-reporting and mapping the youth sector provision; Delivering 6 deep dives in different archetype locations, across the country, to be agreed with DCMS.
Best Beginnings and White Ribbon Alliance UK 278 Safer Beginnings aims to improve maternity outcomes and the postpartum safety of 70,950 women of whom 13,350 are women from ethnic minority communities in England, Wales and Scotland by 2023, by developing specialist information, services and interventions that enable self-advocacy in maternal safety from obstetric and domestic abuse/violence and FGM/FGC.
Trevi 271 This project - Spark, provides a myriad of mechanisms to prevent violence towards women and girls: from educational prevention work in schools (addressing attitudes, pyramid of violence, out-of-hours support and access to safe, secure, women only accommodation.
Tampon Tax Fund- Women in Sport 271 To breakdown entrenched barriers to healthy, happy and active lives through a supportive eco-system of ‘Big Sister’ peers and coaches mobilising participation in sport for young women and girls. Targeting those areas characterised by deprivation, our aim is ensuring no one is excluded from the lifelong empowerment of physical activity.
UK Youth Parliament and associate programmes grant 234 To promote and embed UK Youth Voice in Policy Making. To promote and support UK wide engagement in political and parliamentary processes, including through running UK Youth Parliament and Make Your Mark Ballot.
Chatham Historic Dockyard grant funding 196 Grant funding to Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust for FY 21-22 in support of the delivery of its core objectives which are to preserve and study the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections, and to deliver exhibits and education services.
Tech Talent Charter 191 The grant will move Tech Talent Charter into its third phase of development, ensuring it is a fast scaling, sustainable organisation working in partnership both with major employers but also key organisations across the D&I space, across the talent pipeline and across all lenses of underrepresentation.
Youth Civic Journey Research Project 189 To deliver the Youth Civic Journey research project, which will generate specific insights related to volunteering, focusing on identifying the key factors influencing take up, withdrawal and momentum in volunteering for young people. It will also capture the synergies and interoperability between volunteering and other aspects of the youth civic journey, supporting the Youth team’s evidence base around youth volunteering.
Tampon Tax Fund- The Big Give Trust 160 The grant will help raise £5m for the Women & Girls sector through two match funding campaigns whilst increasing the resilience, skills and profile of Women & Girls charities. The project will also help to create a long-term philanthropic legacy for giving to Women & Girls organisations.
Tampon Tax Fund- South West Grid for Learning Trust 158 To fund an AI tool designed to support W&G who are victims of intimate image abuse. The tool will give information about the types of abuse suffered (on and offline), give tools to remove intimate content, report crimes and regain hacked accounts. Information about the types of abuse will be used in the future with support organisations to reduce PTSD and other mental health issues.
Memorials Grant Scheme 150 A fund to reimburse VAT on works done on national memorials of importance.
The Platinum Jubilee Pageant Limited 150 To cover the essential start- up costs incurred by the delivery organisation enabling the organisation to commence the integral fundraising process early in the next financial year.
Allow the delivery organisation to build capacity to fundraise and generate philanthropic support.
Enable the delivery organisation to use own funds, once raised, to support itself in delivering a large scale public event for the bank holiday weekend, maximising the time for the development of plans to mark the Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Imkaan 137 To deliver onward grants to specialist Black minoritised women’s organisations working to end violence against women and girls to support their frontline operational and long-term sustainability work in ways that elevates and empowers them through social value-based grant making considering intersectional needs and social justice aims.
University of Bath- Institute of Coding 108 Delivery of Initial Industrial AI Masters cohort 2019/20.
Tampon Tax Fund- AVA (Against Violence and Abuse) 102 To ensure that VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) survivors have access to high quality trauma informed support to help them rebuild their lives after abuse, through supporting specialist women’s organisations to build and demonstrate a consistent, survivor led, holistic trauma informed approach.
National Literacy Trust 100 Game Changers was developed in response to demand from Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) requesting a more tailored offer, which supported their pupil’s deep feelings of exclusion. Game Changers: Trailblazing Women uses the excitement and passion of sport to inspire and motivate excluded girls who have experienced violence and trauma, to develop their communication skills, improve their confidence and resilience, enabling them to make better choices with stronger relationships for safer futures.
Devon Air Ambulance Trust 90 The grant is a contribution towards the costs of undertaking the professional installation and commissioning of equipment to allow Air Ambulances to operate at night in Devon.
Centre for Youth Impact 89 To embed the use of evidence and increase understanding of impact measurement across the youth sector.
Media Literacy Train the Trainer Grant Scheme- Economist Educational Foundation 76 This grant will be used to support this organisation to adapt their media literacy resources to be tailored for schools and teachers working with children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities). This supports the DCMS Online Media Literacy Strategy objectives to improve access to media literacy resources for audiences who are vulnerable online.
Tampon Tax Fund- The Central Jewish Fund for World Jewish Relief 73 Step Forward will address key barriers to integration specific to women refugees in line with the Home Office’s Integration Framework. Through this holistic, tailored programme, women refugees will be empowered to gain independence, make informed decisions, improve health outcomes, and move towards employment, and a fully integrated life in Britain.
The Alan Turing Institute 70 Grant to contribute to the development of an online platform to deliver free training to companies executives/ managers in data science
Media Literacy Train the Trainer Grant Scheme- Parent and Family Consulting Ltd 65 This grant will be used to support this organisation to adapt their media literacy resources to be tailored for schools and teachers working with children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities). This supports the DCMS Online Media Literacy Strategy objectives to improve access to media literacy resources for audiences who are vulnerable online.
Tommy’s 21/22 60 Our project aims to tackle the unjust miscarriage inequalities facing disadvantaged and underrepresented women across England. By supporting them with personalised advice and empowering them to advocate for their own care, we will give these groups equity in access to care, otherwise unavailable, and reduce their risk of miscarriage.
Media Literacy Train the Trainer Grant Scheme- Media Smart UK 58 This grant will be used to support this organisation to adapt their media literacy resources to be tailored for schools and teachers working with children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities). This supports the DCMS Online Media Literacy Strategy objectives to improve access to media literacy resources for audiences who are vulnerable online.
Youth Engagement Grant 58 The key objective of the Youth Engagement grant is to support young people across England to participate in the development of policy affecting them, enabling more young people to have their voices heard and participate in decision making on a national policy level. DCMS remains committed to funding this important programme, enabling young people to express their voices and be heard on issues that matter to them. This programme continues to represent a key mechanism for supporting meaningful engagement between young people and decision makers at all levels.
Creative Good Work Strategy - Nesta 50 The objectives of the independent review will be to: Establish a robust baseline picture of job quality; Identify the key challenges and opportunities for promoting quality work; Set out a vision for Good Work in the Creative Industries and articulate a set of high-level priorities and detailed policy recommendations for Government and industry.
Loneliness Engagement Fund - RNIB 50 Create new content on loneliness signposting towards support services and sharing experiences. Develop resources to support volunteers to engage with their networks on loneliness. Identify gaps in existing resources and create new resources to fill gaps. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others.
Loneliness Engagement Fund - Mencap 45 Conduct research into the experiences of people with learning disabilities in the pandemic in terms of their mental health and their perceptions of loneliness to inform their 2022 mental health campaign. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others.
British Youth Council 42 A grant to continue supporting young people to be involved in policy development across government, through co-creation, inspections, consultation and advisory approaches as part of the Youth Steering Group and The Young Inspectors.
Comic Relief 37 This project aims to invest in projects working to end VAWG particularly those who are more at risk due to multiple and complex needs.
Loneliness Engagement Grant - Jo Cox Foundation 34 As part of the Great Winter Get Together campaign, Jo Cox Foundation will carry out content testing, create a toolkit, and conduct research to improve the campaign’s reach amongst 16-24 year olds. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others.
Alan Turing Institute 30 Project 1: AI Regulation - To scope and build a work programme that will develop the UK’s regulators’ AI capabilities. This meets a longstanding government commitment.
Project 2: AI Ethics Guide - To iterate existing public sector ethics guidance for the use of AI with a view to making it more practicable.
Loneliness Engagement Fund - National Autistic Society 30 Develop new content on autism and loneliness to support a loneliness campaign on social media. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others.
Media Literacy Train the Trainer Grant Scheme - The Student View 29 This grant will be used to support this organisation to adapt their media literacy resources to be tailored for schools and teachers working with children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities). This supports the DCMS Online Media Literacy Strategy objectives to improve access to media literacy resources for audiences who are vulnerable online.
Media Literacy Train the Trainer Grant Scheme- The Guardian Foundation 28 This grant will be used to support this organisation to adapt their media literacy resources to be tailored for schools and teachers working with children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities). This supports the DCMS Online Media Literacy Strategy objectives to improve access to media literacy resources for audiences who are vulnerable online.
Digital Boost: Boosting Digital Capability of SMEs and Charities 27 Funding to support the additional development costs of the Digital Boost platform until June 2021. This funding will allow the Digital Boost platform to further help small and micro businesses and charities across the UK improve their digital capability free of charge and build an online presence.
Loneliness Engagement Fund - Made by Mortals 25 Co-create podcasts, an activity pack and online workshops with people with lived experience of loneliness (targeting people with mental health issues, living alone, and disabilities) to reduce loneliness through creative activities and share real stories. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others.
ScreenSkills 25 To enable ScreenSkills to offer apprenticeships in film and HETV to a cohort of 20, providing high quality placements and recruiting from diverse groups currently underrepresented in the industry.
Loneliness Engagement Fund - National Youth Theatre 23 Develop creative work about loneliness with young people at risk of loneliness and share it with a wider audience across existing channels. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others.
Loneliness Engagement Fund - British Deaf Association 21 Deliver 4 live-streamed events, 3 videos and 14 information sessions in BSL to raise awareness of loneliness and support options within the deaf community. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others.
Pete’s Dragons 20 In collaboration with emergency services the charity will develop sustainable organisational capacity to help staff at risk of suicide and train Suicide First Aid lead trainers to provide training across emergency services.
Media Literacy Upskilling Library Workers 20 This grant forms part of the Online Media Literacy Strategy which aims to support the media literacy sector to empower users to be safe online, with a particular focus on vulnerable and hard-to-reach users. This grant will allow Libraries Connected to create and deliver a training module to train library workers in media literacy so that they are able to support the people who use their libraries with to keep themselves safe online.
Loneliness Engagement Fund - Shift.MS 20 Conduct research to understand the triggers of loneliness for people with MS, to inform a report with findings disseminated across sector and engaging digital content shared on social media. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others.
Media Literacy Upskilling Youth Workers 18 This grant forms part of the Online Media Literacy Strategy which aims to support the media literacy sector to empower users to be safe online, with a particular focus on vulnerable and hard-to-reach users. This grant will allow National Youth Association (NYA) to create and deliver a training module as part of their youth work curriculum to train youth workers in media literacy so that they are able to support the young people they work with to keep themselves safe online.
Loneliness Engagement Fund - Gaydio 17 Deliver online podcasts and audio packages exploring LGBTQ+ loneliness. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others.
Community Media Association 15 To support a number of initiatives led by the Community Media Association to help community radio stations take advantage of the opportunities offered by small-scale digital audio broadcasting (SSDAB).
The Poetry Society 15 To ensure that DCMS, as the Government department for supporting culture in the UK, can provide support to the Poet Laureate, via a host organisation, so they are able to undertake activities and projects suited to the role as they see fit.
Grant for research into market readiness of privacy enhancing technologies 10 This grant will fund research to identify the challenges, barriers, and limitations of adopting privacy-enhancing technologies. This will enable greater, trustworthy data sharing that will drive innovation across the economy, in line with Mission 1 of the National Data Strategy.

2020 to 2021

The table below sets out the financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2020-21.

Grant recipient Payments £’000 Description
Arts Council England 1,048,602 Grant-in-aid funding.
TNLCF 188,176 The fund aims to:

1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.

2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations.
British Film Institute 53,992 Grant-in-aid funding.
Charities Aid Foundation 19,792 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
National Emergency Trust 18,600 To provide a match fund grant to the National Emergencies Trust for onward grant to the UK Community Foundation an umbrella organisation to provide to its 50 UK Partner organisations to disburse to voluntary and community organisations responding to the needs of their communities’ affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Youth Sector Fund (multiple recipients) 12,581 To mitigate the impact of lost income in the Youth Sector during the winter period due to the coronavirus pandemic, and ensure services providing vital support can remain viable.
Steve Morgan Foundation 10,000 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Comic Relief 7,900 To provide a match fund grant to Comic Relief for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations, to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Children In Need 7,900 To provide a match fund grant to BBC Children in Need (CiN) to disburse monies to voluntary and community organisations across the UK who are responding to the needs of their communities affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Festival 2022 Ltd. 7,402 The development, planning, organisation, presentation, management, production, curatorial co-ordination and promotion of Festival 2022.
The OnSide Foundation 6,000 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Pears Foundation 5,500 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
The National Lottery Community Fund- Life Chances Fund 5,380 The Life Chances Fund is a Social Impact Bond (SIB) top-up fund, encouraging commissioners to use SIBs in the pursuit of improve outcomes for those who need help the most.
Rank Foundation 5,000 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Comic Relief 5,000 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Lloyds Bank Foundation 4,964 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Horniman Public
Museum and Public
Park Trust
4,661 Grant-in-aid funding.
The National Lottery Community Fund - I will fund 4,645 The #iwill Fund aims works in partnership with major funders to create new opportunities for young people to participate in social action.
Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership 4,405 The British Red Cross is already subsidising the costs of the VCSEP with its own funding, and will continue to do so alongside Government grant funding. Funding from DCMS is critical in enabling the VCSEP to scale up its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing vital coordination and support to a wider network of charities and communities on the ground. By funding dedicated staff time, we enable the VCSEP staff to focus on delivery of the VCSEP’s COVID-19 coordination only, rather than delivering this in a part time capacity alongside their regular charity (British Red Cross and others) work. This will facilitate a much more effective and efficient response which is necessary in the face of a fast-moving emergency.
Church Revitalisation Trust 4,000 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
UK Community Foundations 2,500 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Digital Lifeline - Digital Inclusion for Disabled People - Good Things Foundation 2,500 The Digital Lifeline Fund’s aim is to reduce the digital exclusion of people with learning disabilities, who have been disproportionately impacted by Covid-19. The grant will be allocated to Good Things Foundation, a leading digital inclusion charity. This emergency funding will provide devices, data and digital support to support people with learning disabilities stay well and connected, and help mitigate the disproportionate impact of Covid-19. The grant will be paid at point of need and in arrears.
Stefanou Foundation, 2,439 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
National Film and Television School 2,360 To contribute to eligible expenditure itemized in the organizations annual delivery plan.
Smallwood Trust 2,100 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Vardy Foundation 2,000 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
The Henry Smith Charity 2,000 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Local Connections Fund (Loneliness Microgrants) -The National Lottery Community Fund 2,000 Grant funding to help tackle loneliness in England working with specific target groups and aligning with cross Government objectives to add to the evidence base and encourage partnership working.
Geffrye Museum 1,889 Grant-in-aid funding.
Audio Content Fund Ltd 1,802 The Audio Content Fund, will support a broad range of public service audio content, for all ages, on a wider spectrum of UK radio stations. The Fund aims to create new opportunities for producers to make public service content that adds to viewer and listener choice.
Global Charities 1,500 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Police Treatment Centres 1,500 To expand the Police Treatment Centre in Harrogate, providing increased Psychological Wellbeing support to the Police and other Emergency Services personnel.
National Youth Agency 1,400 To ensure the youth worker qualifications and curriculum remain current.
Founders Pledge 1,310 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
English Football League 1,310 The English Football League Trust will receive funding to make onward grants to its Football Club Community Organisations in 32 deprived locations across England, with the aim of connecting more older people at risk of loneliness. Activities include befriending phone calls, online social groups, a pen-pal scheme, social action from young people taking part in the National Citizen Service and socially distanced ‘garden gate’ conversations.
Localgiving Foundation 1,000 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
The Greggs Foundation 1,000 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust 1,000 This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Nesta 951 The grant will run a Challenge Prize until the end of March 2020. The Challenge Prize aims to stimulate tech innovation in civil society organisations by challenging charities, social ventures and social enterprises to design solutions to specific problems. The prize will also tackle loneliness and social isolation, and build community cohesion.
SSAFA 950 The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen And Families Association - Forces Help (SSAFA) will use funding to support veterans experiencing loneliness and their families across the UK. The funding will support a new socially-distanced visiting service, expansion of telephone helpline, a one-to-one mentoring service and targeted activities for groups more at risk of loneliness.
Spirit of 2012 864 To fund, co-create and evaluate projects that engage girls and women with caring responsibilities in music-making to reduce loneliness. This is achieved through connection to others with shared experiences, improve wellbeing through creative musical expression, challenge and change gendered perceptions of caring and identify and share best practice by ‘testing and learning’ new approaches.
Homeless Link 862 The project aims to provide direct support to women who are, or are at risk of, homelessness across England. This is achieved by producing and disseminating evidence-based learning and resources to homelessness and women’s services, supporting them to deliver collaborative gender and trauma-informed solutions to supporting women out of homelessness.
Old Royal Naval College Greenwich 779 The grant will be used towards the conservation, presentation and interpretation of the collection of buildings, paintings and other artefacts set out across the Old Royal Naval College site.
Home-Start uK 750 The grant for Home-Start UK will help them provide onward grants to local Home Starts to support new mums at risk of loneliness. Their service will include regular telephone calls, online groups to connect families with each other and working with local partners to support crisis response.
RNIB 750 The Royal National Institute of Blind People has received funding to further support blind and partially sighted people through adapting and expanding telephone groups, online resources and piloting socially-distanced face to face support.
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 750 The aim of this Project is to support the scoping and piloting of a new cultural heritage protection workstream focused on the impacts of natural disasters and climate change on cultural heritage in developing countries.
GamCare 717 To facilitate help-seeking by the most vulnerable women and girls affected by problem gambling to create a step change in levels of support and to provide an evidence base for the links between gambling and domestic abuse.
Alzheimer’s Society 700 The grant will go to the Alzheimer’s Society who will continue to support people with dementia and their carers through welfare and companion calls to support their wellbeing and provide informal chats and weekly ‘singing for the brain’ sessions - vocal exercises that help improve brain activity and well-being.
Mind 700 The grant will be allocated to Mind who will make onward grants to local groups to provide mental health support for older people, new parents, those who are disabled, digitally excluded and young people. This will include listening, befriending and wellbeing support services targeting these groups.
Carers Trust 650 The Carers Trust will receive funding to make onward grants to local charities in their network.
British Red Cross 610 The grant will support young people, ethnic minority communities, refugees, the digitally excluded and people more at risk of loneliness because of their health issues. It will enable them to expand their connecting communities work, with a focus on virtual group activities and 1:1 support to digitally excluded people, helping to get them online. People living in Durham, Barking and Dagenham, Stockport and Plymouth will be among the first to benefit.
Changing Lives 608 To provide trauma-informed support for vulnerable women who have been groomed by groups of men for sexual exploitation in locations across the North East and Yorkshire.
Crisis UK 595 To gather UK-wide data to understand the links between female homelessness and modern slavery. Subsequently, to develop a model for the identification, support, recovery, accommodation and integration of women who have escaped modern slavery and who are homeless or precariously housed.
National Youth Agency 586 To administer around 450 financial bursaries to students undertaking youth work qualifications.
Southall Black Sisters 505 Make effective/essential support/protections available to abused No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) women by providing safe accommodation, subsistence and respond to emerging new issues through holistic intervention including counselling/therapy, immigration advice, community awareness-raising.
Youth Access 501 To tackle rising mental health need amongst young women aged 16-25 by increasing access to high quality, gender-informed, young person-centred services in local communities, including targeted access through Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS) to psychological therapies, advice and groupwork interventions, particularly for those from ethnic minority backgrounds and/or with experience of violence or insecure housing.
Impact Investing Institute 500 The Impact Investing Institute is being set up in FY 2019/20 and this grant will act as cornerstone funding leveraging further co-funding from Department for International Development (DfID) and others to deliver the institute’s 3-year business plan. The objective of the Institute is to ‘’accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the UK impact investing market, by mobilising more capital that contributes to solving social challenges’’.
Memorials Grant Scheme - Various 500 Scheme to reimburse VAT charges for Memorial repairs.
Sense 500 To support blind and partially sighted people through adapting and expanding telephone groups, online resources and piloting socially-distanced face to face support.
Key Fund Investments 472 The grant is to be used for onward social impact investment in cultural and creative organisations in the North of England.
The Ambulance Staff Charity (TASC) 407 The charity will establish: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rehabilitation services complementing existing physical rehabilitation services; the means to take TASC on the road to promote the support services available, membership and raise public awareness; and sustainable income from supporters in the ambulance services and their families.
National Youth Agency 300 To administer financial bursaries to students undertaking youth work qualifications.
Step Up To Serve 300 The #iwill campaign is a UK-wide, time limited campaign that aims to make social action part of life for all young people aged 10-20. The campaign aims to increase participation in meaningful social action, reduce the socio-economic gap in those taking part and create sustainable change for young people, their communities and wider society.
Comic Relief (3rd TTF grant) 291 This project aims to invest in projects working to end VAWG particularly those who are more at risk due to multiple and complex needs.
British Red Cross Society 262 The proceeds from LIBOR fines are used to support Armed Forces and Emergency Services charities and other related good causes that represent those that demonstrate the very best of values.
British Youth Council 233 To support young people to engage in the democratic process and to get their voices heard at all levels of Government, by contributing to British Youth Council’s (BYC) programme of work that delivers:
The UK Youth Parliament (including the Summer Sitting and the Annual Sitting in the House of Commons);
The Make Your Mark Ballot (including the Make Your Mark report);
The Youth Select Committee (including the Youth Select Committee report); and (on hold due to Covid-19)
Training conventions for young representatives and participants (e.g Members of Youth Parliament).
Devon Air Ambulance Trust 223 The grant is a contribution towards the costs of undertaking the professional installation and commissioning of equipment to allow Air Ambulances to operate at night in Devon.
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust 196 The grant will be used towards the preservation, conservation and maintenance of the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections.
The Young Foundation 196 Funding for a scale up programme that supports the growth of social innovators with proven solutions to social challenges.
Tech Talent Charter CIC 190 Funding to ensure Diversity & Inclusion remains at the heart of post-Covid recovery, particularly in the areas of retraining and career conversion. Increase engagement through accelerated growth of a digital first model, with deeper online engagement through virtual events content, communications and our TTC Toolkit.
Solace Women’s Aid 179 This project aims to ensure that all women have access to the support they need in the spaces most appropriate for them. It will provide joined-up partnership support with the aim of empowering all women across legal and other structures and across urban and rural environments. By developing a Centre of Excellence, with the focus on removing silos across the three spaces in three nations, Solace Women’s Aid will provide a sustainable online space to support women’s organisations in the future.
SafeLives 171 The ‘Your Best Friend’ project will empower 10,000+ young women with knowledge and confidence to act before someone harms or is harmed, to keep themselves and their friends safe. Activities will be carried out in three complementary waves, with evaluation, analytics and learning shared throughout. The waves are research; test and develop; launch tools and grants programme.
Federation of London Youth Clubs (aka. London Youth) 140 The programme will support ethnic minority young women aged 10-14, and a cohort of 30+ youth workers. Young women will access high-quality activities in their youth organisation to promote positive mental health and challenge stigma. Meanwhile, youth workers will be up-skilled through training and peer support, so they can better support young women.
University of Bath- Institute of Coding 130 Increase growth in provision of UK AI Masters through industry sponsorship and collaboration with UK universities.
University of Bath- Institute of Coding 122 Increase growth in provision of UK AI Masters through industry sponsorship and collaboration with UK universities.
The Medaille Trust 102 The Moving on Project focuses on meeting the long-term needs of women affected by trafficking and modern slavery. To do this, The Medaille Trust will establish eight new delivery hubs across England, each staffed with experienced caseworkers.
British Youth Council 100 A grant to continue supporting young people to be involved in policy development across government, through co-creation, inspections, consultation and advisory approaches as part of the Youth Steering Group and The Young Inspectors.
Impact Investing Institute 100 The grant will fund a collaborative research project on the potential to mobilise greater flows of institutional investment into place-based impact investment (PBII), which delivers both financial returns and positive impacts for communities afflicted by long-term under-investment. This will result in a white paper which raises awareness, addresses the barriers and increases confidence in place-based impact investing. It will also aim to develop a standardised approach to PBII impact measurement and reporting that is taken forward for widespread consultation and adoption.
British Youth Council 100 To meet the youth voice commitments in the Civil Society Strategy, by setting up and running the Civil Society Youth Steering Group and national Young Inspectors and Commissioners Group and to undertake youth-led research into options for a digital solution to engage young people in national policy making.
Social Investment Business 99 The Equality Impact Investing Project aims to make the social impact investing sector better at addressing inequality through supporting investors, infrastructure organisations, policy makers and equality sector organisations to reform policies and processes to set, measure and deliver equality goals.
Turing Institute 70 Grant to contribute to the development of an online platform to deliver free training to companies executives/ managers in data science.
YMCA England and Wales 63 The “Y’s Girls Mentoring” project is a community led Mentoring initiative based on Early and Effective Intervention principles. They will identify young people at risk of developing mild to moderate mental health issues and match them with a trained community based volunteer mentor.
The Platinum Jubilee Pageant Limited 48 To cover the essential start- up costs incurred by the delivery organisation enabling the organisation to commence the integral fundraising process early in the next financial year.
Allow the delivery organisation to build capacity to fundraise and generate philanthropic support.
Enable the delivery organisation to use own funds, once raised, to support itself in delivering a large scale public event for the bank holiday weekend, maximising the time for the development of plans to mark the Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Regenerate Trust 40 The aim is to support ReGenerate to carry out and publish research on systemic reforms to help social entrepreneurs to scale and have more impact, building demand for impact investment to match wider departmental goals.
Alan Turing Institute 30 Project 1: AI Regulation - To scope and build a work programme that will develop the UK’s regulators’ AI capabilities. This meets a longstanding government commitment. Project 2: AI Ethics Guide - To iterate existing public sector ethics guidance for the use of AI with a view to making it more practicable.
Youth Sports Trust 26 The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls.
Jo Cox Foundation 25 Support the Jo Cox Foundation (JCF) to undertake communications activity that will support the objectives of the Let’s Talk Loneliness campaign at a critical time over winter during Covid-19, and looking forward to 2021-22. These grants will support JCF to amplify the conversation around loneliness in the immediate term, and carry out focussed sessions to upskill community organisers on loneliness. This will support our wider efforts to reduce stigma, raise awareness of the importance of social connections, and encourage people to take action.
The National Lottery Community Fund 23 The grant will enable TNLCF, through an external provider, to carry out a review into the operational health and long term sustainability of business models for projects funded by the Life Chances Fund. The review’s recommendations will allow DCMS to ensure the support provided by DCMS and TNLCF is targeted appropriately.
Cyber Cheltenham Cic (Cynam) 20 This grant will allow DCMS to run a pilot activity with the Cheltenham Cyber Cluster (Cynam) ahead of a larger roll out of cyber cluster funding in FY 21/22. The Cheltenham cyber cluster will undertake work to formalise the governance of the UK cyber clusters and the relationship between the clusters and government.
Co-Op Foundation 20 To support the Co-op Foundation to undertake communications activity that will support the objectives of the Let’s Talk Loneliness campaign at a critical time over winter during Covid-19, and looking forward to 2021-22. The Co-Op Foundation will undertake research and strategy development activity to inform future campaign activity. This will support our wider efforts to reduce stigma, raise awareness of the importance of social connections, and encourage people to take action.
Child Bereavement UK 17 Deliver a bereavement education programme to air ambulance crews over three years.
Community Media Association 15 To support a number of initiatives led by the Community Media Association to help community radio stations take advantage of the opportunities offered by small-scale digital audio broadcasting (SSDAB).
The Poetry Society 11 Funding to provide support to the Poet Laureate, via the Poetry Society so they are able to undertake activities and projects suited to the role as they see fit.
UK Community Foundations (2nd TTF grant) 9 To make grants across the UK that benefit women and girls, investing in a wide variety of projects, large and small, that make a tangible and long-term difference to health, well-being, confidence and social/economic activity.
Comic Relief (4th TTF grant) 9 Comic Relief’s Supporting & Sustaining Specialism project will centre on a competitive, open grants programme for organisations led by ethnic minority women for ethnic minority women to address violence against women and girls in all four nations of the UK. Approximately 15 onward grants of between £40,000 and £250,000 for up to 18 months will be awarded and managed by Comic Relief.
Dynamo North East CIC 5 This £5,000 pilot will explore ways in which Cyber Security Clusters can support the development of cyber skills in the local workforce of the region in which they operate. The pilot activity will be run out of the NE Dynamo Cluster.

Annex – Section 70 grants by DCMS in 2020-21 under the Youth Sector support for COVID-19

Grant recipient Payments £’000
The Prince’s Trust 3600
Girlguiding 2858
The Scout Association 2147
London Youth 523
Northamptonshire Association of Youth Clubs (NAYC) 289
Jewish Lads’ & Girls’ Brigade (JLGB) 217
Girlguiding North West England 148
Newcastle upon Tyne Y.M.C.A. 101
Diane Modahl Sports Foundation 71
Adventure Under Sail 69
The Warren Youth Project 67
The Wheels Project 62
SPID Theatre Company Ltd 60
Essex Boys and Girls Clubs 59
Litherland Youth and Community Centre 54
Our Barn Community 53
The Pump (East Birmingham) Ltd. 52
The Horse Rangers Association (Hampton Court) Limited 51
Switch Up CIC 50
Youth First Ltd 49
Youth United Foundation 44
The Guide Association Derbyshire 42
S Pinter Youth Project 41
Centre 63 40
Gorse Hill Studios Creative Community 39
Linx Youth Project 35
St Werburghs City Farm 35
Mouth That Roars 34
Lindley Educational Trust 34
Kidz Konnekt 34
Kentish Town City Farm 32
Element Society 31
Get Set Girls 31
Masorti Judaism - Noam 30
Disability Challengers 29
Baby People 28
YOH 28
The Leeds Judean Clubs For Boys And Girls T/A The Zone 27
Parenting 2000 27
BBYO 27
Community Education Foundation & Lyncx (CEF Lyncx) 26
OMG Education 26
Eastern Ravens Trust 25
Red Balloon Foundation 25
Hersham Youth Trust 25
Action4Youth 24
Isleworth Explorers Club 24
Young Asian Voices 23
YMCA Essex 23
Knowsley Youth Mutual Ltd (Vibe) 23
Tall Ships Youth Trust 22
Humberside County Scouts Council 22
Endeavour Training Limited 21
Halewood Youth In Community Centre 21
The Source Young People’s Charity 21
Friends of the Rose Bowl 19
Windsor Horse Rangers Ltd 18
P.H.O.E.B.E Centre 18
Toranj Tuition 18
Tomer Devorah Seminary 18
free@last 17
Community First 17
SoCo Music Project 17
Edge Hill Youth and Community Centre 17
Flash Musicals 17
The Church Lads & Church Girls Brigade 17
The British Youth Council 17
BMYG Youth Work cic/ Youth Connect 17
Clevedon YMCA 15
Whitehaven Harbour Youth Project 15
Rooted In 15
InSpire at St Peters 14
Alford House 14
the future forward trading name of camp knak 14
Water Adventure Centre 13
Kidderminster & District Youth Trust 13
Strength and Learning Through Horses 12
Azamrah youth club 11
Award Solutions 11
RJ Working CIC 11
Incredible Kids 11
Vision Youth & Community 10
YMCA White Rose 10
Perdiswell Young People’s Leisure Club 10
Training Ship Broadsword 10
Success4All CIO 10
8th Norwich Sea Scouts 10
Bridport Youth and Community Centre 10
Hinckley Club For Young People (Green Towers) 9
Fox Hollies Community Association CIO 9
UK Youth Circus Network T/A CircusWorks 9
Chichester City Centre Drop-In 9
What’s Your Point? 9
Young Adult Respite Service C.I.C. 8
The Wickers Charity 8
Rise:61 8
2nd Leyland Scout Group 7
Play in Newcastle - Inspire Youth Tyne & Wear 7
2nd. Witham Boys’ Brigade, working name Witham BB / Witham Boys’ & Girls’ Brigade Association 6
First Luton Sea Scout Group 6
123rd Manchester Scouts 6
East End Youth & Community Centre 6
Springs Family Centre 6
Avon Youth Club 6
1st Stokenchurch Scout Group 6
Shadwell Community Project 5
Cornwall Guide Association 5
The Mentoring Lab Community C.I.C 5
Liberty Jamboree 5
Southside Young Leaders’ Academy 5
7th Petts Wood Scout Group 5
Birkenhead Sea Cadets (TS Blackcap) 5
St Francis Church 5
Chichester Boys Club CIO 5
1st Reading YMCA Sea Scout Group 5
Melton Mowbray & District Scout Council 4
Sandwell Asian development Association 4
Autism Bedfordshire 4
Sawston Youth Group 4
Cleeve, Claverham & Yatton Scout Group 4
1st Green Street Green Scout Group 4
1st Knutsford Scout Group 4
186th Sheffield (Manor) Scout Group 4
City of Liverpool sea cadets 4
Cheshire Forest Girl Guides 4
Mid Yorkshire Community Foundation 4
1st Wellesbourne Scout Group 3
Wyre District Scouts 3
Passion 3
9th Ampthill & Woburn [Badgerhill] Scout Group 3
Morecambe and Heysham Sea Cadets 3
!st Castle Canyke (4th Bodmin) Scout Group 3
2375 (Neston) Squadron Air Cadets 3
Sutton Coldfield Adventure Unit 3
Artz for All C.I.C 3
Ashfield District Scout Council 3
Savernake Forest Scout Group 3
9th Kenton Scout Group 3
1st North Tawton Scout Group 3
2nd Cranham Scouts 3
8th Ellesmere Port Scout Group 3
1st Greasley Scouts Group 3
Integrate Youth for Christ 3
Waverton 1st Scout Group 3
Timestap Academy of Dance 3
2nd Shepperton Rainbows and Brownies (Butterflies) 2
Mentor Wise 2
14th Royal Tunbridge Wells (Calverley) Scout Group 2
9th Colchester Guides 2
255th Bristol Channel Sea Scouts 2
Eastleigh District Scout Council 2
10th Cheltenham (All Saints) Scout Group 2
Beech Hill Scouts 2
1st Albrighton Scout Group 2
1st Fazeley Scout Group 2
7th Crosby Guides 2
1st Stalham Scout Group 2
6th Barking & Dagenham Scout Group (St Mary’s) 2
1st A Porchester Brownies 2
1st Lowton Guides 2
1st Lower Morden Scout Group 2
5th Frome Scout Group 2
Overchurch Upton Scout Group 2
SONshine Club 2
6th Sidcup (St. Lawrence) Scout Group 2
1st Sunderland Girl’s Brigade 2
1st Prudhoe Scout Group 2
1st Corby Scout Group 2
North Mymms Youth Project 2
28th Hammersmith Scout Group 2
2nd St Helens (Eccleston Park) Scout Group 2
Sharon Youth Association 2
16th Barking & Dagenham Scout Group 2
The Tribe Youth Group 2
1st Guilden Sutton Scout Group 2
19th Swindon Scout Group 2
173rd Derby (Heatherton) Scouts 2
1st Huthwaite scout group 2
Earl Shilton Scout Group 2
20th St Albans Ansar Scouts 2
8th Hendon Scouts 2
Clubs for Young People Northamptonshire (CYPN) 2
1st Redditch Scout Group 2
20th Whitley Bay Scout Group 2
1st Christchurch (Town) Scout Group 2
2nd Mildenhall Guides 1
1st Shipley (Windhill) Scout Group 1
1st Swindon Village Scout Group 1
1st Chew Stoke Scout Group 1
12th Bolton (Rosehill) Scout Group 1
1st Tyne Sea Scouts 1
Friends of Young Carers (West Berkshire) 1
1st Wensleydale Scout Group 1
1st Bude Scout Group 1
Claybrooke & Ullesthorpe Scout Group 1
Stannington Ridley Scout Group 1
9th Orpington Air Scout Group 1
218th Woodgate Valley (Birmingham) 1
51st Ipswich Scout Group 1
1st Wargrave Guides 1
St Joseph and St Helen Cub Scouts 1
173rd Sheffield (Woodhouse) Scout Group 1
Hessle Scout Group 1
1st Hampton-in-Arden Brownies and Guides 1
16th epping forest scout group 1
5th Hornchurch Guides 1
23rd Colchester Brownies 1
1st Beverley Scout Group 1
1st Clavering Scout Group 1
Empowering People In Change (EPIC) Youth CIC 1
1st Bradley Stoke Guides 1
Chilvers Coton Scout Group 1
The Boys’ Brigade, 5th Scarborough Company 1
3rd Barton Seagrave Brownies 1
1st Wetheral Brownies 1
1st Busbridge Scout Group 1
8th Swindon Guides and Rangers 1
11th Enfield Boys’ Brigade 1
1st Abbey Meads Rainbows 1
1st Colwich Guides 1
1st Berrow Scout Group 1
Wallace House Community Centre 1
7th Manchester Scouts 1
37th Sunderland Brownies 1
1st Wheldrake Brownies 1
5th Sholing Brownies 1
Welwyn & Hatfield Sea Cadets 1
5th/8th Kendal Scout Group 1
Bentham Youth Cafe & Community Youth 1
Romsley ( St Kenelms) Guides 1
1st Duffield Brownies 1
238th Northfield Methodist Scout Group 1
18th Worcester Park Company, The Boys’ Brigade 1
1st Shoeburyness Girls’ Brigade 1
1st Weeley/Lt Clacton Scout Group 1
Sea Mills Boys and Girls Club 1
1st Saint Briavels Scout Group 1
22nd Sunderland Guides 1
2nd Plympton Boys’ Brigade 1
6th Marlow Brownies 1
1st Allerton Scout Group 1
5th Hartford Guides And Rangers 1
1st Kempston Girls Brigade 1
Girlguiding – Hornchurch Division 1
1st Usworth Guides and Rangers 1
1st Wallsend Girls’ Brigade 1
1st Kettering (Parish Church) Scout Group 1
87th Nottingham Guides 1
1st Westlands Brownies 1
24th Doncaster(1st Mexborough) Scout Group 1
4th Lower Earley Guides 1
1st Donisthorpe and Moira Guide Unit 1
2nd Nanpantan (Holywell) brownies 1
2nd Didcot (Methodist) Scout Group 1
1st Haydon Bridge Scout Group 1
1st Great Horwood Scouts and Guides Combined Fund 1
1st Royal Forest Scout Group 1
6th Castle Mount West (SA) Brownies 1
1st Shetlon Lock Brownies 1
17th Barking (St Erkenwald) Scout Group - Now 17th Barking & Dagenham Scout Group 1
2nd Toton Scout Group 1
2nd Claines Brownies 1
1st Hythe Guides 1
1st Wallingford Boys Brigade 1
First Flamstead Scout Group 1
1st Leasingham Scout Group 1
Deane Scout and Guide Supporters Association 1
7th Preston Scout Group 1
1st Tackley & Heyford Scout Group 1
2nd West Wellow Brownies 1
1st Ketton Guides 1
2nd Stewkley Brownies 1
4th Rossendale (Newchurch Methodist) Guides 1
2nd Horndean Brownies 1
1st Guildford Boys’ Brigade 1
4th Rossendale (Newchurch Methodist) Rainbows 1
1st Muxton Guides 1
1st Westlands Guides 1
Girlguiding 1st Hatherleigh Brownie Unit 1
87th Nottingham Brownies 1
Meole Brace Scout Group 1
1st Gayton Guides 1
30th Newcastle Rainbows 1
19th City of Coventry South Guides 1
4th Uckfield Guides 1
6th Penkridge Brownies 1
2nd Shildon Guides 1
1st Knaresborough Brownies 1
1st Clipstone All Saints Brownies and Guides 1
21st City of Coventry South Guides 1
16th Portsmouth Guides 1
1st Colwich Brownies 1
1st Broadstairs (Holy Trinity) Guides 1
1st Ashby De La Zouch Rainbow Unit 1
14th Basford (Newcastle) Scout Group 1
1st Drighlington Girls’ Brigade 1
2nd Great Sutton Guides & Rangers 1
1st Yapton Guides 1
1st Aldbourne Guides 1
1st Heddon-on-the-Wall Brownies 1
8th Maghull St Andrew’s Brownies 1
1st Fremington Scout Group 1
9th Bath Brownies 1
1st Keelby Brownies 1
1st Strawberry Line Brownies 1
Mackworth Guides 1
1st Halling Guides 1
1st Halling Brownies 1
3rd St Budeaux Scout Group 1

There are a number of additional grants awarded below £500 that have not been included above, as these would have rounded to £0 in £000’s.

2019 to 2020

The table below sets out the financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2019-20.

Grant recipient Payments £’000 Description
Arts Council England 433,021 Grant-in-aid funding.
British Film Institute 34,925 Grant-in-aid funding.
Tampon Tax Fund (multiple recipients) 16,401 The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls.
British Council 9,220 The outcomes of the Cultural Protection Fund are cultural heritage protection, training and capacity building and advocacy and education.
The National Lottery Community Fund - Youth Investment Fund 5,000 The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It also expands the evidence base of the open access youth provision, through a £1m evaluation.
Access Foundation 5,000 Capacity building for social sector organisations.
The National Lottery Community Fund - I will fund 4,606 The #iwill Fund aims works in partnership with major funders to create new opportunities for young people to participate in social action.
Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust 3,970 Grant-in-aid funding.
National Film and Television School 2,425 NFTS’ core objective is to provide world class training and education for film, television and media industries. The overall aim of the grant is to support this, and in particular it covers funding for student fees and bursaries, overhead and project admin costs, as well as capital funding for equipment, general maintenance and repairs.
The National Lottery Community Fund - Building Connections (Loneliness) 2,300 The purpose of the Fund is to help individuals, communities and local services connect in a variety of ways and consolidate learning that can support future policy and funding decisions. The Fund will specifically support projects that already are, or with additional support, could tackle loneliness.
Geffrye Museum 2,196 Grant-in-aid funding.
Nesta 2,000 The Future News Fund pilot will welcome new ideas to address the challenges facing the journalism industry outlined in the Cairncross Review. It will use a number of different approaches to fund innovation, which are due to include a collaboration fund, accelerator prizes and experimentation with existing local news provision.
The National Lottery Community Fund- Life Chances Fund 1,953 The Life Chances Fund is an £80m Social Impact Bond (SIB) top-up fund, encouraging commissioners to use SIBs in the pursuit of improve outcomes for those who need help the most.
Key Fund 1,540 The grant is to be used for onward social impact investment in cultural and creative organisations in the North of England.
The National Lottery Community Fund - Place Based Social Action 1,408 National Lottery and government funding is to increase the capacity of communities, civil society organisations, public sector bodies and businesses to work together to address priorities which matter to people locally through providing grants, planning and implementation support and evaluation.
Nesta 1,180 To develop and manage a series of funds designed to find, test and grow innovations which harness the time and talents of 10,000 volunteers (75% of which will be people over 50).
Great North Air Ambulance Service 1,000 To support the capital costs of acquiring and refurbishing an existing building and building a hangar/helipad.
Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST) 1,000 This grant will be used to fund the set-up and growth of an innovation cluster focused around growing Tech for Good, social innovation, and digital skills in the social sector. The programme will work to deliver the cross-government aim to champion technology as a real force for social good and to make the UK a world leader in Tech for Good.
British Council 984 A soft power initiative to be delivered across the GCC, designed to encourage youth participation in Culture and Sports activities particularly targeting young women and girls.
Nesta 954 DCMS will sponsor NESTA to run a Challenge Prize until the end of March 2020. The Challenge Prize aims to stimulate tech innovation in civil society organisations by challenging charities, social ventures and social enterprises to design solutions to specific problems. The prize will also tackle loneliness and social isolation, and build community cohesion.
Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust 838 Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust will purchase a new generation air ambulance helicopter to deliver vital pre-hospital emergency services to seriously sick and injured people in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Co-op Community Investment Foundation - Building Connections 800 To support activity in community spaces, with the aim of promoting social connections in deprived areas across England. Co-operative Foundation will make onward grants to community space projects run by VCSE organisations in England.
Old Royal Naval College Greenwich 768 Towards the conservation, presentation and interpretation of the collection of buildings, paintings and other artefacts set out across the Old Royal Naval College site.
The Fire Fighters Charity 763 To establish a ‘Recovery Centre’. A centre of excellence providing high quality emotional wellbeing services for fire and rescue services personnel.
Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance Charitable Trust 700 This grant is a contribution to the purchase of suitable office premises or if suitable office premises are not available, to secure a suitable site and commission a purpose build, to accommodate 40 Staff and Volunteers, in order to provide the charity with a new operations base.
Co-op Community Investment Foundation 696 The purpose of the Fund is to help individuals, communities and local services connect in a variety of ways and consolidate learning that can support future policy and funding decisions. The Fund will specifically support projects that already are, or with additional support, could tackle loneliness.
The Ambulance Services Charity (TASC) 656 The charity will establish: rehabilitation services complementing existing physical rehabilitation services; the means to take TASC on the road to promote the support services available, membership and raise public awareness; and sustainable income from supporters in the ambulance services and their families.
Blavatnik School of Government 500 To conduct research and provide support to local commissioners on outcomes based commissioning.
Impact Investing Institute 500 The Impact Investing Institute is being set up in FY 2019/20 and this grant will act as cornerstone funding leveraging further co-funding from DfID and others to deliver the institute’s 3-year business plan. The objective of the Institute is to ‘’accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the UK impact investing market, by mobilising more capital that contributes to solving social challenges’’.
Cruse Bereavement Care 371 To develop a bereavement support service for UK police, ambulance and fire/rescue personnel and their families, called ‘Here for You’. This will include providing direct face-to-face and telephone support, and disseminating information via facilitated training, paper leaflets/packs and website information.
British Youth Council 341 To carry out a programme of work to deliver the UK Youth Parliament and associated youth voice activities.
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) 300 The Growing Place-based Giving Programme aims to support the development of six place-based giving schemes (PBGSs) work towards becoming sustainable, resilient, and are able to engage local communities and encourage donations to projects that benefit local people and their area.
Step Up to Serve 300 Supporting partners to continue to collaborate within and across sectors post-2020. Progress in supporting key system leaders in education, environment and health & social care to further embed youth social action. Progress on securing long-term investment for youth social action that supports the four campaign priorities (quality, sustainability, starting younger, and reaching low-income young people).
The Western Front Way 293 Funds to create a new, continuous, permanent, way marked walking path following the line of the 1914-18 Western Front.
Nesta 280 To provide funding to Nesta to distribute grants through the Enhancing Impact Fund to a small portfolio of high performing, high impact organisations from the existing portfolio of projects, in accordance with the aims and objectives of the Centre for Social Action. Grantees will be selected, from the existing portfolio from the Second Half Fund, the Connected Communities Innovation Fund, the Early Years Social Action Fund and the Saver Support Fund. Criteria for award of the additional funding will be subject to final agreement between OCS and Nesta and shall include impact to date or impact potential, performance to date, capacity of the team to scale further, demand for services and sustainability.
Memorial Grant Scheme 269 Reimbursement of VAT for multiple repairs to National Memorials.
Nesta 268 To develop and manage a series of funds which find, test and grow social action initiatives which improve public service outcomes. The funds will have to increase the number of volunteers to 10,000 - 7,500 of which will be over the age of 50. The 2 funds covered under this grant agreement are the Connected Communities Innovation Fund and the Give More Get More Follow On Fund.
UK Youth 254 To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the financial year 2019/20.
Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust 253 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries.
Museum of East Anglian Life 250 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries.
British Red Cross Society 243 The proceeds from LIBOR fines are used to support Armed Forces and Emergency Services charities and other related good causes that represent those that demonstrate the very best of values.
Hull City Council Museums and Galleries 231 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
Involve 230 DCMS will be providing funding and support to 8 local authorities to pilot opportunities to open up some of their policy decisions to citizen deliberation. As part of the programme, the Democracy Support Contractor (DSC), Involve et al., will make funding available to the eight selected local authorities and will make payments for the benefits of all LAs, supporting the delivery of the citizens’ assemblies.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council 210 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
Devon Air Ambulance Trust 208 The grant is a contribution towards the costs of undertaking the professional installation and commissioning of equipment to allow Air Ambulances to operate at night in Devon.
Bucks County Museum Trust 200 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries.
Nottingham City Council - Museums & Galleries 200 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries.
Manchester Museum 190 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries.
Tech Talent Charter 189 The proceeds will increase their growth in number of signatories and ensure they fully engage existing members. Establish their sustainable business model, securing funding for all project work (National and Regional Events, TTC Toolkit) and developing a “Foundation” partner model, supported by techUK. Launch their first consumer-focused comms campaign to encourage more working-age women to consider a career in tech.
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust 184 Towards the preservation, conservation and maintenance of the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections.
Social Investment Business 179 This grant fund is for Social Investment Business to pay for the activities of the PM-Commissioned Implementation Taskforce on Growing a Culture of Impact Investing, in pursuit of their objectives.
Chetham’s Library 173 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
Edith Cavell Fund for Nurses 170 The new Cavell Nurses’ Trust project will support nursing professionals and their families by targeting those with children under 18.
Sunderland City Council 156 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries.
Big Lottery Fund 156 To develop and distribute safeguarding training for charities through partnership with a recognised provider and within communities.
Tank Museum 137 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
University of Bath 121 Delivery of Initial Industrial AI Masters cohort 2019/20.
Tyne & Wear Archive & Museums 116 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL
Museums & Collections, UCL Culture
103 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
The Courtauld Institute of Art 100 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries.
The Imperial War Museum Development Trust 100 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries.
Luton Culture 100 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries.
Centre for Youth Impact 100 To embed the use of evidence and increase understanding of impact measurement across the youth sector.
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust 99 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
Southampton City Art Gallery - Southampton City Council 98 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries.
National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust 97 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries.
Dorset County Museum 95 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum 93 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
Jon Burchell (Sheffield University) 92 Research and Innovation to enable Social Action.
Derby Museums Trust 90 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
The Geffrye Museum Trust 90 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
The Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust 90 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
Black Country Living Museum 90 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
London Transport Museum 83 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
ScreenSkills 75 To enable ScreenSkills to offer apprenticeships in film and HETV to a cohort of 20, providing high quality placements and recruiting from diverse groups currently underrepresented in the industry.
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford 71 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
Tate Britain 71 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
Science Museum Group 70 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
British Red Cross 70 To help create a new independent charity, the National Emergency Trust, which will activate during a national emergency to raise and distribute funds.
Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust (Weston Park) 56 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 54 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
University of Durham 50 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
SS Great Britain Trust 50 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
The Big Society Trust 42 To allow The Big Society Trust, an independent governance body that acts to ensure independent organisations act in the public interest, to be able to secure appropriate professional advice to evolve their mandate and take on a wider set of oversight responsibilities.
Pete’s Dragons 40 In collaboration with emergency services the charity will develop sustainable organisational capacity to help staff at risk of suicide and train Suicide First Aid lead trainers to provide training across emergency services.
ACEVO 37 Research into bullying amongst senior leaders in the charity sector.
The Cheltenham Trust 37 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
Beth Shalom Ltd, trading as The National Holocaust Centre and Museum 31 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
DotEveryone 31 To enable DotEveryone to conduct discovery phase research into the needs of SMEs and civil society organisations in the online harms ecosystem, focusing on redress and digital rights.
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association 30 Plan to expand the Guide Dogs’ Digital Transformation programme to digitally upskill their trustees and senior leadership. Includes e-learning and face to face workshops. Will enable Guide Dogs to provide meaningful digital services to 500,000 visually-impaired citizens, which leaders currently lack expertise to do.
Kensington and Chelsea Citizens Advice 30 Assist with Citizens Advice funding post Grenfell disaster.
Stepping Out Foundation 30 Grant recipient (Stepping Out Foundation) will receive funding, which in turn will be used to fund a research piece that is being carried out by an organisation who Stepping Out are being incubated. The research piece will focus on the public’s views on purpose-driven business and the role that it can play in society. It is expected that by funding this piece, the case for championing purpose-driven business will be strengthened, and the Government will gain a clearer understanding as to how their messaging in this area will be more attuned to the views of the public.
Chatham Historic Dockyard 30 Towards the preservation, conservation and maintenance of the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections.
People’s History Museum 25 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections.
YouthFed 24 The Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund pilot aims to increase the diversity and numbers of those working in the UK’s booming cyber security sector.
UK Community Foundations 20 To cover UKCF’s staffing costs to administer the Revitalising Trusts programme.
Newcastle University Ways to Wellness 18 Assessment of Ways to Wellness Campaign.
Child Bereavement UK 16 Deliver a bereavement education programme to air ambulance crews over three years.
Big Society Capital 14 The objective of this grant will be to raise awareness of SITR (Social Investment Tax Relief) with investors and organisations; provide guidance and materials to help organisations and investors access the scheme; and to improve the understanding of SITR and its uses among Independent financial advisors and wealth managers.
Big Society Capital 8 The objective of this grant will be to raise awareness of SITR (Social Investment Tax Relief) with investors and organisations; provide guidance and materials to help organisations and investors access the scheme; and to improve the understanding of SITR and its uses among Independent financial advisors and wealth managers.
Media Trust 6 Media Trust’s Digital Skills programme is free to charities. Funding from Google.org and Marketing Trust enables Media Trust to provide this for free, ensuring it is accessible to charities regardless of their size and income.
The Alan Turing Institute 5 Run a project to develop an online tool designed to help SMEs develop their data science capabilities.
Good Things Foundation 5 The grant will fund 0.5FTE work for the LDSP Delivery Group by a digital inclusion officer within the Digital Inclusion Team at Good Things Foundation. The digital inclusion officer will undertake work to further the aims and objectives of the LDSP Delivery Group. This includes providing secretariat services to the Delivery Group and assisting with the co-creation of the LDSP framework by Delivery Group members, DCMS, and local partners.
ThinkForward 4 The development of a digital tool that will support delivery organisations in their development of social impact bonds.
Kingston Voluntary Action (Superhighways project) 2 Superhighways is a Kingston Voluntary Action project that supports small local charities and community groups in London to do more with digital. They work via local infrastructure organisations to co-design services and reach those who need support. To expand their existing training, aimed at charity CEOs and Trustees of small organisations with less than £1.5m turnover, Superhighways would partner with London Plus, NAVCA and the FSI. Training covers everything from basic software skills through to helping leaders understand how to improve their organisational strategy by embedding digital tools and services.

Annex – Section 70 grants by DCMS in 2019-20 under the Tampon Tax Fund

Grant recipient Payments £’000
UK Community Foundations 2,891
Comic Relief second grant 1,650
Homeless Link 1,138
Brook Young People 1,026
St Giles Trust 689
The RCJ Advice 650
Southall Black Sisters 585
Mind - The National Association for Mental Health 572
Youth Access 499
Hestia Housing and Support 486
Spirit of 2012 486
GamCare 475
Crisis UK 459
Comic Relief 19/20 446
Arhag Housing 384
Changing Lives (The Cyrenians Ltd T/A Changing Lives) 365
Standing Together Against Domestic Violence 323
Women’s Aid Federation of England 230
Rape Crisis England and Wales 212
Youth Sport Trust 162
Comic Relief 149
Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (CRASAC) 115
Karma Nirvana 112
Plan International UK 110
Stepping Stones (Luton) 94
Money Advice Plus 94
The YOU Trust 90
Black Country Women’s Aid 88
Life Charity 88
Womens Health Matters (WHM) 84
IKWRO - Women’s Rights Organisation 82
Brighton Oasis Project 79
Shared Lives Plus 75
Forward Assist 73
Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, Cornwall (WRSAC) 73
Angelou Centre 70
Smallwood Trust 70
Step Together Volunteering 63
Children’s Society 59
Manor Gardens Welfare Trust 59
Adfam National 58
CREST 54
The Baytree Centre 50
SignHealth 49
Relate 48
Faith Regen Foundation 46
Jacksons Lane 46
Shelter, The National Campaign For Homeless People Ltd 44
Suzy Lamplugh Trust 43
Tender Education & Arts 43
The Bike Project 39
SATEDA 37
Children North East 36
Refuge 36
Hestia Housing and Support 33
The Proud Trust 33
UK Community Foundations 33
Surviving Economic Abuse 32
Southall Black Sisters 31
Girl Guiding 30
Joanna Leeds 28
Advance Charity 25
Sikh Community & Youth Service 20
Us in a Bus 15
Citizens Advice Lancashire 13
Women at the Well 10
Yorkshire Cancer Research 8
MumsAid 6

2018 to 2019

The table below sets out the financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2018-19.

Grant recipient Payments £’000 Description
Arts Council England 508,119 Grant-in-aid funding.
National Citizen Service CIC 121,762 To fund NCS Trust to deliver the National Citizen Service programme.
NB. Payments are for funding to December 2018 only. From January 2019, the new National Citizen Service Trust incorporated by Royal Charter, took over delivery of the programme with funding under the authority of the National Citizen Service Act 2015.
Birmingham Organising Committee for the Commonwealth Games 2022 26,093 Grant-in-aid funding.
British Film Institute 21,718 Grant-in-aid funding.
Tampon Tax Fund
(multiple recipients)
15,239 The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls.
British Council 9,350 Funding for the Cultural Protection Fund. The intended outcomes of the fund are cultural heritage protection, training and capacity building and advocacy and education.
National Lottery Community Fund - Youth Investment Fund* 5,000 Grant funding to support youth organisations in disadvantaged areas to expand frontline open access youth provision and invest in organisational development to secure their futures.
Youth United Foundation 5,000 To increase places in uniformed youth groups to reach vulnerable young people and allow for expansion in deprived areas.
National Lottery Community Fund - #iwill * 4,645 Grant awarded to National Lottery Community Fund, who match funded Government’s investment to support Step Up To Serve’s #iwill campaign. The fund aims to ensure that all young people have the opportunity to develop essential skills for life and work through meaningful social action.
Access Foundation 3,900 Capacity building for social sector organisations.
Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust 3,820 Grant-in-aid funding.
National Film and Television School 2,412 To contribute towards eligible expenditure itemized in the organization’s annual delivery plan.
British Council 2,347 Integrated Activity Fund: a soft power initiative to be delivered across the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), designed to encourage youth participation in culture and sports activities particularly targeting young women and girls.
Geffrye Museum 2,096 Grant-in-aid funding.
The National Lottery Community Fund - Building Connections (Main Fund) * 2,046 The purpose of the fund is to help individuals, communities and local services connect in a variety of ways and consolidate learning that can support future policy and funding decisions. The fund will specifically support projects that are already tackling, or with additional support could tackle, loneliness. The main fund is open to a wide range of organisations and will support 85 - 285 applicants who will receive funding of between £30,000 - £100,000.
NewcastleGateshead Initiative 1,929 Funding for the Great Exhibition of the North. The Exhibition celebrated the great art, design and culture of the North of England, showcasing innovative and ambitious cultural and creative activity, and engaging a wide range of audiences and participants.
Co-op Foundation - Building Connections (Youth Strand) 1,651 The purpose of the fund is to help individuals, communities and local services connect in a variety of ways and consolidate learning that can support future policy and funding decisions. The fund will specifically support projects that are already tackling, or with additional support could tackle, loneliness. The youth strand is open to organisations working with vulnerable young people and will support approximately 20 organisations receiving funding averaging £80,000. Further grants of up to £10,000 were available for additional organisations to pilot innovative approaches to maximise underused community spaces that help improve access for young people.
Mind 1,517 Building on the learning from the existing Blue Light Programme, Mind will work with emergency services throughout England and Wales to embed key project delivery strands into their core activities, supporting the mental health and wellbeing of staff throughout England and Wales.
Nesta 1,382 To develop and manage a series of funds designed to find, test and grow innovations which harness the time and talents of 10,000 volunteers (75% of which will be people over 50).
Nesta 1,348 To develop and manage a series two funds designed to respectively find, test and grow innovations which help children achieve developmental milestones and help people improve their money management skills.
First World War Centenary Cathedral Repairs Fund - Various beneficiaries 1,115 To allow cathedrals to undertake urgent repair work.
National Lottery Community Fund - Life Chances Fund * 1,043 To finance grants to support development of Life Chances Fund proposals.
Festival.org 1,043 Funding for the Great Exhibition of the North closing ceremony.
Virgin Money Foundation 1,000 To support local charities in the North East of England whose beneficiaries are young people, young homeless people and charitable organisations promoting social enterprise.
Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College 901 To contribute towards the conservation, presentation and interpretation of the collection of buildings, paintings and other artefacts set out across the Old Royal Naval College site.
Ambulance Services Charity 763 The charity will establish: PTSD rehabilitation services complementing existing physical rehabilitation services; the means to take TASC on the road to promote the support services available, membership and raise public awareness; and sustainable income from supporters in the ambulance services and their families.
University of Oxford: Blavatnik School of Government - Government Outcomes Lab 750 To conduct research and provide support to local commissioners on outcomes based commissioning.
The Fire Fighters Charity 654 To contribute towards establishing a Recovery Centre, to provide a centre of excellence delivering high quality emotional wellbeing services for Fire and Rescue Services personnel.
Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST) 600 This grant will be used to fund the set-up and growth of an innovation cluster focused around growing Tech for Good, social innovation, and digital skills in the social sector.
The National Lottery Community Fund * 525 Place based social action grant. The funding will increase the capacity of communities, civil society organisations, public sector bodies and businesses to work together to address priorities which matter to people locally through providing grants, planning and implementation support and evaluation.
Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, The University of Manchester 500 Match funding towards the HLF-funded First Light Project for enhanced visitor experience, focusing on the heritage of the site.
Coventry City of Culture Trust 500 Preparations for Coventry’s term as UK City of Culture 2021 Funding will be split across two strands. Strand one will support capacity enhancement including earlier recruitment of director of engagement and two producers, and work to plan for 2021 with key partners such as Coventry Cathedral, Historic Coventry, Belgrade Theatre and key cultural organisations. Strand two will support digital acceleration.
National Lottery Community Fund * 445 To develop and distribute safeguarding training for charities through a partnership and within communities.
Community Organisers 416 For 10 Social Action Hubs and Member Support Organisers to deliver Community Organisers Expansion programme objectives (recruit and train 3,500 new organisers, support existing organisers and develop peer support network).
Commonwealth War Graves Commission 400 Investment to support costs for 2018/19 in order to enable CWGC to recruit new interns for 2019 as well as developing plans to secure the scheme beyond 2019 (including building the capacity to develop and generate future fundraising).
Cyber Security Challenge UK 628 Cyber Security Challenge UK is established to bolster the national pool of cyber skills. It offers a unique programme of activities to introduce sufficient number of appropriately skilled individuals to learning and career opportunities in the profession.
Step up to Serve 300 The #iwill campaign’s goal is to make meaningful social action part of life for 10-20 year olds in the UK.
Social Tech Trust 300 This £300k grant is to support Social Tech Trust in the establishment of their equity investment fund, supporting the fund’s setup costs and establishing the technical assistance function to provide startup ventures with business support.
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) 300 The Growing Place-Based Giving programme aims to support development of the work of six place-based giving schemes towards becoming sustainable, resilient, and able to engage local communities and encourage donations to projects that benefit local people and their area.
Memorials Grant Scheme - Various beneficiaries 264 Financial assistance for the repair of memorials.
Centre for Ageing Better 250 To stimulate and test innovative models of age-friendly, flexible volunteering and social action opportunities that are responsive to life events and fit around people’s life circumstances.
Oxford Internet Institute 250 For the Oxford Internet Institute to conduct the Oxford Internet Survey between November 2018 - March 2019 and publish the results to improve the evidence base on digital skills and inclusion.
Cruse Bereavement Care 248 To develop a bereavement support service for UK police, ambulance and fire/rescue personnel and their families, called ‘Here for You’.
Devon Air Ambulance Trust 247 The grant is a contribution towards the costs of undertaking the professional installation and commissioning of equipment to allow Air Ambulances to operate at night in Devon.
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust 206 To contribute towards the preservation, conservation and maintenance of the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections.
British Youth Council 206 To deliver the UK Youth Parliament and associated activities for the period 2018-19. This includes the UK Youth Parliament, the Make Your Mark ballot, the Youth Select Committee and training conventions for young representatives and participants.
Social Investment Business 200 This grant fund is for Social Investment Business to pay for the activities of the PM-commissioned Implementation Taskforce on Growing a Culture of Impact Investing, in pursuit of their objectives.
Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust 163 Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust will purchase a new generation air ambulance helicopter to deliver vital pre-hospital emergency services to seriously sick and injured people in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Centre for Youth Impact 150 Supporting CYI’s leadership of the youth sector in developing greater evidence of impact and understanding of outcomes.
British Red Cross Society Royal Charter 144 To support the ‘Resilient Responders’ programme providing resilience and improved wellbeing of Emergency Services personnel at British Red Cross and Fire and Rescue Services of South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
Social Misfits Media 129 The fund will build upon already successful programmes to provide digital learning for social sector leaders. ‘Digileaders360’ would equip 360 leaders across 120 organisations and 5 regions to leverage the power of technology to being able to fundraise online, making their organisations more resilient and sustainable.
Edith Cavell Fund for Nurses 121 The new Cavell Nurses’ Trust project will support nursing professionals and their families.
Sheffield University 111 Research and innovation by Dr Jon Burchell.
Age UK 109 Funding to help expand upon the already successful ‘Be Digital’ programme which comprises a series of webinars, workshops, strategy days and resource sharing on their ‘Be Digital’ hub.
Citizens Online 102 The Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund aims to support initiatives designing, researching or delivering digital inclusion programmes with a focus on older and/or disabled people, in a new, creative and innovative way. It aims to improve essential digital skills and demonstrate how digital inclusion can improve the lives and well being, of older and/or disabled people.
British Youth Council 100 To meet the youth voice commitments in the Civil Society Strategy, by setting up and running the Civil Society Youth Steering Group and national Young Inspectors and Commissioners Group and to undertake youth-led research into options for a digital solution to engage young people in national policy making.
Tech Talent Charter 98 This grant to Tech Talent Charter aims to increase the numbers of signatories to the Charter, in turn affecting real change in improving representation of women in tech roles across all sectors. The grant will also allow regional expansion for TTC outside of London, bringing the message of diversity in tech and how to improve practice on the issue, to new employer groups.
Code4000 CIC 98 To support Code4000 CIC’s aims to train prisoners in coding and support graduates of their coding workshops upon release with finding employment.
Media Trust 95 Funding will enable provision of digital skills training to a further 160 senior charity leaders throughout England.
School for Social Entrepreneurs 93 The funding will enable the Third Sector Digital Leaders course to be delivered to a wider cohort of recipients.
Cosmic 91 Cosmic will host 10 three-day Digital Leadership workshops and produce an e-learning platform for south west charity leaders. The funding enables Cosmic to redesign their programme to specifically target charities, rather than SMEs more broadly. Culminates in a Digital Charities Summit in March 2019 to share learning.
Doteveryone 87 The fund money will will enable content from the existing learning programme to be shared with groups of participants in venues in London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Bristol.
Foundation for Social Improvement 73 The aim of the grant award is to build the a more independent, resilient, sustainable civil society by providing subsidised fundraising training for small, local charities.
Lord Mayor of Manchester’s Charity Appeal Trust 65 This grant is the equivalent of VAT receipts from the ‘We Are Manchester Concert’ and will be awarded to the Lord Mayor of Manchester’s Charity Appeal Trust (also known as ‘We Love Manchester’) for the Manchester Memorial Fund. The money will be used to contribute to the building a permanent and fitting memorial to the victims of the terror attack on the Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017.
Kensington and Chelsea Citizens Advice 60 To provide financial guidance to survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster as part of Kensington and Chelsea Citizens Advice’s current wrap-around-support.
The Alan Turing Institute 60 Funding towards a project to develop an online tool designed to help SMEs develop their data science capabilities.
British Red Cross 60 To help create a new independent charity, the National Emergency Trust, which will activate during a national emergency to raise and distribute funds.
Kingston Voluntary Action (Superhighways project) 58 Superhighways is a Kingston Voluntary Action project that supports small local charities and community groups in London to do more with digital.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Ambulance Service NHS Trust 50 Supporting more patient facing volunteering, improving health outcomes and reducing pressure on publicly funded health and care services.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 50 To sustain and spread high-quality volunteering in health and social care.
TeenTech CIC 50 To grow sustainable and long term relationships between education providers and industry to support young people’s engagement with STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
British Computer Society 50 Support development of an AI Masters programme as per the AI sector deal under the industrial strategy.
The Western Front Way 50 Funds to create a new, continuous, permanent, way marked walking path following the line of the 1914-18 Western Front.
Involve 50 DCMS will be providing funding and support to 8 local authorities to pilot opportunities to open up some of their policy decisions to citizen deliberation.
Voscur Limited 47 Funding towards the Responsible Digital Governance programme, which enables organisations to understand how to embed digital tools and platforms sustainably to meet their needs.
YouthFed 45 The Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund pilot aims to increase the diversity and numbers of those working in the UK’s booming cyber security sector.
Cyber Security Challenge UK 44 A top-up grant for the recruitment of a new CEO, and to fund the initial costs of the European Cyber Security Challenge.
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust 36 Supporting more patient facing volunteering, improving health outcomes and reducing pressure on publicly funded health and care services.
Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust 36 A new development of welfare and pastoral accommodation including quiet room, overnight accommodation and improved space for paramedics, doctors and other air crew.
ACEVO 36 Research into bullying amongst senior leaders in the charity sector.
The Tech Partnership 35 Funding towards a guide to help develop a common language so that students and universities better understand the digital skills employers require.
Doteveryone 34 To explore the concerns of those working with technology, where they see opportunities to create solutions to potential harms, and the challenges they see in realising these opportunities.
Tech Trust 33 Fuding to help expand the Charity Digital Tech Conference.
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust 30 Supporting more patient facing volunteering, improving health outcomes and reducing pressure on publicly funded health and care services.
SE UK 30 To facilitate ‘Social Saturday’, a leading event that promotes social enterprises.
ThinkForward 30 The development of a digital tool that will support delivery organisations in their development of social impact bonds.
Social Enterprise UK 30 This years campaign will focus on the Buy Social branding. The campaign will educate and encourage consumers to buy from social enterprises, boosting their local communities and leading to more positive social outcomes.
Social Enterprise Kent CIC 29 Funding for two-day Digital Leadership workshops for local social enterprises, and 15 social sector courses, reaching 105 social enterprise leaders.
Child Bereavement UK 25 Deliver a bereavement education programme to air ambulance crews over three years.
Co-op Foundation 25 To part fund a youth-focused campaign to tackle loneliness.
Church Urban Fund 21 LifeSavers is a programme which supports the delivery of values-based financial education within primary schools, combined with the involvement of the local credit union in establishing a school savings club.
National Autistic Society 21 The Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund pilot aims to increase the diversity and numbers of those working in the UK’s booming cyber security sector.
Peterborough Council for Voluntary Service 21 To enhance and complement community integration and counter extremism work in Peterborough, one of five government priority ‘Integration Areas’.
Bevan Healthcare CIC 20 To support Bevan Healthcare CIC to grow as a public service mutual.
Big Society Capital 20 To provide support for charities and social enterprises across the country in understanding and accessing investment through social investment tax relief, with specific focus on the recent legislative amendments to the policy area.
Pete’s Dragons 20 Funding to build a suicide-safer community for emergency service personnel across the South West.
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association 20 Funding to help expand the Guide Dogs’ digital transformation programme to digitally upskill their trustees and senior leadership.
Good Things Foundation 17 Funding towards staff in the Digital Inclusion Team at the Good Things Foundation.
Age UK South Lakeland 11 Funding to expand digital programme delivery across Cumbria, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside.
Chiltern Rangers 10 To support the growth and development of Chiltern Rangers as a young public service mutual.
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust 10 Supporting more patient facing volunteering, improving health outcomes and reducing pressure on publicly funded health and care services.
One Walsall 10 To enhance and complement community integration and counter extremism work in Walsall, one of five government priority ‘Integration Areas’.
University of Cambridge 7 Supporting the 2018 delivery of a cyber skills initiative.
Westbank Community Health and Care 6 To scale a successful programme previously funded by the Office for Civil Society.
National Lottery Community Fund * 6 Programme management of the final year of the Social Incubator Fund.
University of Leeds 6 To lead the Crowdfunding Public Infrastructure pilot fund and associated research project.
Centre for Ageing Better 5 To convene an analysis review on how to increase social action by people aged 50 and over.
The Active Wellbeing Society 5 To support The Active Wellbeing Society to purchase professional advice to implement a public service mutual for their leisure services.
South Central Ambulance Charity 5 Supporting more patient facing volunteering, improving health outcomes and reducing pressure on publicly funded health and care services.
Big Society Capital 0 To fund the first stage in a research project evaluating the evidence base in the social investment market.

*In January 2019, the Big Lottery Fund, which has the power to distributes grants from both the national lottery and other public funders including DCMS, changed its operating name to The National Lottery Community Fund.

Annex – section 70 grants by DCMS in 2018-19 under the Tampon Tax Fund

Grant recipient Payments £’000
UK Community Foundations 2,752
Rape Crisis England and Wales 1,188
Comic Relief - round one funding 1,180
Comic Relief - round two funding 845
Rosa 826
Mind - The National Association for Mental Health 713
Brook Young People 655
Women’s Aid Federation of England 619
Arhag Housing 522
Hestia Housing and Support 513
St Giles Trust 508
The RCJ and Islington Citizens Advice Bureaux 441
Standing Together Against Domestic Violence 355
Greater Manchester Women Offender Alliance (GMWOA) 152
Plan International UK 140
Yorkshire Cancer Research 139
Hestia Housing and Support 137
Refuge 137
Children’s Society 125
Faith Regen Foundation 125
Southall Black Sisters 125
Girlguiding 120
Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (CRASAC) 116
Karma Nirvana 112
Advance Charity 100
Black Country Women’s Aid 100
Suzy Lamplugh Trust 100
SignHealth 95
Life Charity 91
Relate 91
The YOU Trust 90
Housing for Women 83
Shared Lives Plus 83
Womens Health Matters (WHM) 80
Brighton Oasis Project 79
Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation 78
Stepping Stones (Luton) 78
Youth Sport Trust 77
Standing Together Against Domestic Violence 75
Forward Assist 74
Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, Cornwall (WRSAC) 71
Smallwood Trust 70
Angelou Centre 69
Money Advice Plus 67
Adfam National 57
Heart of England Community Foundation 55
CREST 54
Magdalene Group 53
The Baytree Centre 50
Citizens Advice Lancashire 50
Step Together Volunteering 50
Womenzone 48
Shelter, The National Campaign For Homeless People Ltd 45
Women’s Therapy Centre 45
Women@thewell 40
White Ribbon Campaign 38
Jacksons Lane 38
SATEDA 37
Children North East 36
Tender Education & Arts 35
Surviving Economic Abuse 34
The Proud Trust 33
Birth Companions 30
Shaping Our Lives 29
Joanna Leeds 28
The Bike Project 27
Street Talk 26
Fixers 24
MumsAid 23
Norfolk Community Foundation 22
Sikh Community & Youth Service 21
Us in a Bus 15