A Glimmer of Hope UK is an independent funder. The trust seeks to make a significant and lasting improvement to the lives of excluded young people through funding community-led projects that show an enterprising approach and which focus on building self-esteem and skills through equality of opportunity and respect.

Since its launch in 2001, the trust has contributed more than £2.25 million to organisations that share the trustees' vision of enabling young people to raise their aspirations and make choices towards fulfilling lives.

For further information on this grant making trust and application process for funds visit their website

A Glimmer of Hope UK is an independent funder. The trust seeks to make a significant and lasting improvement to the lives of excluded young people through funding community-led projects that show an enterprising approach and which focus on building self-esteem and skills through equality of opportunity and respect.

Since its launch in 2001, the trust has contributed more than £2.25 million to organisations that share the trustees' vision of enabling young people to raise their aspirations and make choices towards fulfilling lives.

For further information on this grant making trust and application process for funds visit their website

Cripplegate Foundation is a local, independent charity. They make grants and only work in South Islington and parts of the City of London.

For further information on their grants please visit the website.

The Chelsea Building Society Charitable Foundation is a registered charity established by Chelsea Building Society. They make donations of anything from £250 to £5,000 to a variety of charitable causes who aim to relieve suffering and disadvantage and to benefit local communities like yours.

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EDWARD STEPHEN HARKNESS of New York founded the Pilgrim Trust in 1930 by endowing it with a capital sum of just over two million pounds. The donor, as stated in the preamble to the Trust Deed, was prompted by his admiration for what Great Britain had done in the 1914-18 war, and by his ties of affection for the land from which he drew his descent. He desired that the gift should be used to give grants for some of the country's more urgent needs and in promoting her future well-being.

Current grant priorities are social welfare, art and learning, and preservation

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Grants seek to benefit sick and disabled adults, including those with mental health problems, and their carers. The themes are: community transport, special equipment, respite breaks and holidays, start up costs, supporting volunteers, arts and health.

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The Foundation is one of London's oldest and largest education charities. Founded in 1748, it supports education for young people under the age of 25 in inner London through its grant programmes for individuals, schools and organisations, and its support for a number of institutions bearing Sir John Cass's name.

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The Trust wishes to support disadvantaged people through: Education and training, partnership working across communities, financial advice that helps disadvantaged people take control of their money.

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Founded in 1958 the Garfield Weston Foundation is a UK based, general grant-giving charity endowed by the late W Garfield Weston and members of his family. In the year to 5 April 2006, the Foundation supported 1,533 applications with grants totalling over £38 million.

The Garfield Weston Foundation has helped a wide range of organisations with grants of varying sizes. Their recent rounds of funding have helped projects in the following categories: Arts, Community, Education, Welfare, Medical, Social, Religion, Youth and Environment.

For further information on their grants and the application process please visit their website.

The Foundation has a history of offering support to those most in need in the UK, with a focus on targeting social exclusion. Grants totalling over £26m have been made to such causes since 1997, benefiting thousands.

This has included small grants, and large grants under the New Generation Initiative and the Investor Programme.

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The Charles Wallace Trusts were established in 1981 with money bequeathed by Charles Wallace, a British businessman in nineteenth century India. He left his estate to be divided, after provision for his children, between the British Treasury and the Treasury of British India. In his will, he directed that ‘all possessions great and small being acquired through the people as mine should return to the people’. As a result of this, trusts were set up in Britain for each of the four countries of former British India — India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and for Burma/Myanmar, to assist nationals, normally resident in those four respective countries, to obtain education or training in Britain.

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The Foyle Foundation is an independent grantmaking trust that distributes grants to UK charities whose core work is in the areas of Learning, the Arts and Health.

Since it became operational in November 2001 The Foundation has already disbursed over £26.2m in grants.

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The Woodward Charitable Trust is one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. The Trusts share a common administration, but are otherwise independent of each other.

The Trustees favour small-scale, locally based initiatives. Funding is primarily for one-off projects, but the Trustees are willing to consider funding for core costs. The Trustees operate a reactive and flexible grant-making strategy and are currently giving priority to the areas listed below. All applicants are encouraged to discuss their application with the administrator.

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The Hedley Foundation was set up in 1971 and endowed from a family trust of which the principle asset was the compensation received on nationalisation.  It has assets of some £20 million. It is a registered company and a charity.

The main objective of the Trustees' grant-making is to assist and encourage development and change.  It follows that most grants will be of capital or one-off nature, but the Trustees sometimes agree to help fund the introduction of new and innovative projects with a series of up to 3 annual grants.  Few grants exceed £5,000 and most of them go to charities where they can make an impact.

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The James Tudor Foundation was established for the relief of sickness and covers six main programmes:

Palliative care
Medical research;
Health education, awards and scholarship;
The direct relief of sickness;
The UK independent healthcare sector;

The fulfilment of their charitable objects by other means.

For further information on the application process for their grants please visit their website.

The Elephant Trust was created in 1975 by Roland Penrose and Lee Miller to develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the fine arts in the UK.

The Trust was set up to help artists present their work and undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds. It is committed to helping artists and institutions that depart from the routine and signal new, distinct and imaginative sets of possibilities.

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VolResource aims to make it quick and easy to get to useful information on anything to do with running a voluntary organisation (whether a community group, charity or other non-profit body).

The London Voluntary Sector Training Consortium (LVSTC) was set up by a number of voluntary sector training providers in 1989 as a registered Charity and Company Limited by Guarantee.

Founding members were training providers who identified the need for in-depth advice in accessing the European Funds to support their work in delivering quality training for unemployed people.

Businessballs is a free ethical learning and development resource for people and organizations, run by Alan Chapman, in Leicester, England.

Businessballs.com launched at the end of 1999. The concept began a few years earlier as an experimental online collection of learning and development ideas.

Alan originally created the Businessballs name for juggling balls which he used in his training and development business.

The philosophy of the website is intended to be ethical, practical, innovative, compassionate and enjoyable.

Website functionality and services will improve progressively, with the continuing aim of enabling positive ethical change in work and life, and beyond.

The Wakeham Trust provides grants to help people rebuild their communities. It is particularly interested in neighbourhood projects, community arts projects, projects involving community service by young people, or projects set up by those who are socially excluded.

It does not favour any particular areas of activity, but have the following criteria:

- Your project is something new for your particular area
- It is small (it normally gives grants to projects where an initial £75 to £750 can make a real difference to getting the project up and running)
- It does not employ staff
- It is not well established
- It has the potential to become self-supporting
- It is outward looking and helps a lot of people
- It has a UK charity number, or can find a charity to accept funds on its behalf