The Directory of Grant Making Trusts 2024/25

With this guide, you'll have access to key information on about 2,000 grant-makers, each with the potential to give around GBP50,000 or more per year. The UK's best-selling guide to funding from grant-making charities is back in its 28th edition. The Directory of Grant Making Trusts offers the information you need to seek your charity's share of over GBP5.6 billion - the annual total awarded by the 2,000 funders featured in this edition. With data sourced from grant-making charities, each with the potential to give around GBP50,000 or more per year, no charity - big or small - should be without it. This is the key information source for fundraisers, with which you can save time on finding funding prospects, target the grant-makers most relevant to your charity and discover funders you might not have known existed. What does it cover? This flagship guide to grant-makers includes: Concise information and contact details for every entry Total amounts of funding available for each grant-maker Examples of beneficiaries in each listing, for guidance on the types of projects previously funded Extensive indexes divided by geographical area, field of interest and type of beneficiary, type of organisation, and type of grant available Each grant-maker's description of project types that can or cannot qualify for funding

Review :
'The Directory of Grant Making Trusts is a brilliant one-stop-shop for charities and grants fundraisers. There is no need to replicate the research and insight, as here it is - all prepared so you can dive in whenever you need. Combine your boundless passion with this excellent resource. Good luck!' Laurie Boult, Executive Fundraising and Engagement Director, Age UK [from the foreword] ; 'It's often hard to know where to start when you're looking for funders, and The Directory of Grant Making Trusts has been incredibly helpful for our charity. The book is well presented and very easy to navigate. It sits on our desk and gets used every time we need to fund a project for our rescue centre!' Lisa Smart, Trustee and Founder of Happy Paws Puppy Rescue ; 'In my work with small charities that help those most vulnerable, DSC's The Directory of Grant Making Trusts gives me the information I need to identify potential funders easily and quickly. I couldn't manage without it when time and resources are tight!' Adam Wilson, Development Manager, The Stuart Low Trust and Healthy Generations ; What they said about previous editions: 'The Directory of Grant Making Trusts is a resource which is invaluable to both fundraisers new to trust funding and also the more seasoned fundraisers among us. In a highly competitive and difficult to navigate space, this guide is a key tool to get you started and help stay on the right track. Most importantly, it gives you the information to ensure that your approaches tick all the boxes for success and you're the right fit for funding.' ; Claire Rowney, Executive Director of Fundraising, Marketing and Innovation, Macmillan Cancer Support [from the foreword] ; 'This directory is a truly valuable resource. It has been really helpful as it has enabled us to identify funders with an interest in animal welfare. We will definitely be buying this helpful source of potential grant-makers again.' Deborah Scott, Trust Fundraising Manager, The Donkey Sanctuary ; 'The Directory of Grant Making Trusts has helped me considerably to streamline my grant fundraising. It is easy to navigate, contains all the essential information I need and lives on my desk at all times.' Josh Walker, Fundraising and Projects Officer, YMCA Crewe