Previous Year's Grants


Since the Trust started to make donations in 1998, a total in excess of £2,816,764 has been offered to over 1,716 charitable causes based in Merseyside and Wirral.


In the year 2024/25, grants totalling £116,356 were made to 68 charitable organisations in Merseyside and Wirral.

The recipients received donations of between £1,000 and £5,000.
Not all grants awarded were paid during the year but were carried forward pending matched funds and performance reviews.

The receiving Charities are listed below;

Age Concern Liverpool & Sefton · Al Ghazali MultiCultural Centre · Amy & Friends · Be Free Campaign
Bipolar UK Ltd · Blind Veterans UK · Bloom Appeal Merseyside Against Blood Cancers · Blue Coat
Bobby Colleran Trust · Brain Charity · Brunswick Youth & Community Centre · Callister Trust
Caudwell Children · Charlottes Brightside · Chess in Schools and Communities · Christ Church Walton Breck
Claire House Children’s Hospice · Compass Counselling Service · Compassion Acts Ltd
Congolese Association of Merseyside · Crosby Guides · Crownway Community Centre
Evolve Tracking the Impact of Substance Misuse
Dar al Zahra · Faiths4Change · Fallen Angels · Fighting to be Heard · Forward Trust
Girls Friendly Society · Give a Duck Foundation · Give it Your Max · Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
Henshaw’s · Holistic Cancer Centre · Huyton with Roby Sea Cadets · Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital Charity · Living Paintings Trust · Long Lane Church
Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centre Trust · Making Space · Marine Conservation Society
Martin Gallier Project · Merseyside Crimestoppers · Neuromuscular Centre
Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children · Osun Art Foundation · Ovacome
PBC Foundation (UK) Ltd · Peertalk Charitable Foundation · Readeasy Merseyside
Ronald McDonald House Charities · Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society · Send a Child to Hucklow
Shrewsbury House · Sports Alive North West · St Michaels & Lark Lane Community Association
St Vincent de Paul Society · Tate Liverpool · Unity Community Association · Unity Theatre
Windows Project · Wirral Community Narrowboat Trust · Wirral Hospice St Johns
Women’s Technology Training · Your Edge North West


In the year 2023/24, grants totalling £105,677 were made to 55 charitable organisations in Merseyside and Wirral.

The recipients received donations of between £1,000 and £5,000.
Not all grants awarded were paid during the year but were carried forward pending matched funds and performance reviews.

The receiving Charities are listed below;

1st Lydiate Scout Group · Ainsdale Lunch & Leisure · Apex Charitable Trust
Asthma Relief · Ataxia Telangiectasia Society · Bluecoat Display Centre · Bright Park
British Wireless for the Blind · Cells Project CIO · Child Brain Injury Trust
Chrysalis Holidays (The Epiphany Trust) · Clatterbridge Cancer Charity
Crosby Group Riding for Disabled · Dar ak Zahra · Deafblind UK
Dementia Together Wirral · Edge Hill Youth & Community Centre Ltd · Fields in Trust
Freshfields Animal Rescue · Go Beyond · Happy Days Children’s Charity
Hive Youth Zone · Kind · Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK · Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Ltd
Liverpool Cares Ltd. · Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine · Marine in the Community
Meningitis Now · Merseyside Play Action Council · Music in Hospitals & Care
North West Air Ambulance · Opening Doors · Porchfield Community Association · Positivitree
Rapid Response North West · Re-engage · Rotunda · Royal Court Liverpool Trust
Sam’s Diamonds (Cancer Care Charity) · Sefton Women’s & Childrens Aid · Sense
Shaftesbury Youth Club · Shakespeare North Playhouse · Speke Baptist Church · Spinal Injuries Association
Stick N Step · Support Through the Court · Tall Ships Youth Trust · Teenage Cancer Trust
Toxteth Women’s Centre · Williamson & Priory Friends · Willowbrook Hospice · Yellow House · Ykids


In the year 2022/23, grants totalling £96,283 were made to 54 charitable organisations in Merseyside and Wirral.

The recipients received donations of between £500 and £5,000.
Not all grants awarded were paid during the year but were carried forward pending matched funds and performance reviews.

The receiving Charities are listed below;

Alder Hey Children's Charity · Belvidere Centre · Bipolar UK · Bradbury Fields · Chapter · Cherish Reach & Connect
Children Heard & Seen · Children with Cystic Fibrosis Dream Holidays · City of Liverpool Sea Cadets
Croxteth Gems Community Association · Cruse Bereavement Support Wirral Branch
Evolve Tackling the Impact of Substance Misuse · FACT · Fallen Angels Dance Theatre North West · Hooves for Healing
Kindfulness Coffee Club · Leadership through Sport & Business Life Church · Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool Sun Flowers · Living Paintings Trust · Lucilla Dramatic Society · Macular Society
Mencap Liverpool & Sefton · Merseyside Crimestoppers · Merseyside Dance Initiative · Merseyside Lowland Search & Rescue
Merseyside Water Rescue · Methodist Centre · Motor Neurone Disease Association · Neuromuscular Centre
New Brighton Community Centre · Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children · North West Cancer Research
Osun Arts Foundation · PBC Foundation · Rainbow Hub NW
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation · Sailors Children's Society · Seafarers Charity
Shy Lowen Horse & Pony Sanctuary · South Liverpool Sea Cadets · Street League
Support After Murder & Manslaughter · SVP Ozanam Camp Wirral · Team Oasis
The Forward Trust · The Reader · Tuebrook Hope Group · West Coast Crash Wheelchair Rugby Club
West Everton Community Council · Willow Foundation · Wirral Mencap · Young Lives vs Cancer



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