Grant-making trust or foundation · Registered charity 275067
Haberdashers' Company: grants and who they fund
Haberdashers' Company published 317 grants to organisations from 4 Oct 2023 to 6 Aug 2025, worth £1.9m in total. The typical (median) grant was £2,000, and Lewisham was the area funded most often.
Stated aims
What the charity says it does (Charity Commission register):
Grants for charitable purposes at the discretion of the trustee, the current focus being on education and the current aim being to support a small number of educational projects in England and Wales.
Charitable objects (governing document):
Such charitable purposes charitable institutions and charitable foundations as the Trustees shall from time to time determine.
Where it operates (Charity Commission register):
- Throughout England and Wales
Grant sizes
Grants to organisations from 4 Oct 2023 to 6 Aug 2025. Smallest £19, largest £51k, average £5,843.
| Grant size | Grants | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under £1,000 | 91 | 29% |
| £1,000 to £4,999 | 115 | 36% |
| £5,000 to £9,999 | 59 | 19% |
| £10,000 to £49,999 | 43 | 14% |
| £50,000 to £99,999 | 9 | 3% |
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 123 | £792k |
| 2024 | 180 | £1m |
| 2023 | 14 | £49k |
Grant programmes
Programmes named most often in the published grants.
| Programme | Grants | Median grant |
|---|---|---|
| Restricted Grants Programme | 158 | £2,027 |
| Regular Grants Programme | 57 | £2,000 |
| One-off award | 56 | £500 |
| Small Grants Programme | 35 | £5,000 |
| Major Grants Programme | 11 | £50k |
Example recipients
Registered organisations that received grants, largest first. Organisations only: grants to individuals are never shown.
| Organisation | Grants | Total | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haberdashers' Abraham Darby Academy | 7 | £132k | 9 Jun 2025 |
| Home Start Southwark & Lewisham | 4 | £121k | 6 Aug 2025 |
| Monmouth School for Boys | 18 | £115k | 4 Jul 2025 |
| The EY Foundation | 4 | £103k | 28 Oct 2024 |
| New Horizon Youth Centre | 3 | £101k | 8 Apr 2025 |
| School-Home Support | 3 | £92k | 28 Jan 2025 |
| Haberdashers' Girls' School | 9 | £83k | 3 Jul 2025 |
| Haberdashers' Boys' School | 13 | £79k | 3 Jul 2025 |
| Royal College of Art | 3 | £70k | 2 Jul 2025 |
| Haberdashers' Adams School | 13 | £64k | 3 Jul 2025 |
| Construction Youth Trust | 2 | £51k | 20 Jun 2024 |
| Cockpit Arts | 2 | £49k | 2 Jul 2025 |
| Guildhall School Trust | 3 | £45k | 2 Jul 2025 |
| London College of Fashion | 2 | £37k | 2 Jul 2025 |
| Home-Start Telford & Wrekin | 1 | £35k | 28 Jan 2025 |
Areas funded
Beneficiary locations given in the grant data, by number of grants.
| Area | Grants |
|---|---|
| Lewisham | 48 |
| City of London | 33 |
| Southwark | 29 |
| Monmouthshire | 29 |
| Hertsmere | 22 |
| Telford and Wrekin | 19 |
| Bexley | 18 |
| Shropshire | 13 |
| Westminster | 11 |
| Camden | 10 |
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Source: grants data published by Haberdashers' Company through 360Giving (GrantNav data, fetched 23 Oct 2026), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Figures are our own summary of that data: 317 grants to organisations awarded 4 Oct 2023 to 6 Aug 2025. Stated aims, charity number and areas of operation are from the Charity Commission register.
Licence: Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Open Government Licence v3.0. Grants data from Haberdashers' Company, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated: 23 October 2026. Information only, not funding advice; check the funder's own guidance before applying. Brightbench is not connected to Haberdashers' Company.