Gower Street

Who they support

Gower Street makes grants to organisations involved in combating the global climate emergency, and to organisations working to improve school education outcomes in Ghana. Occasionally grants are made for other purposes at the trustees' discretion. Unsolicited applications for funding are not accepted.

The average annual spending of grantees has been £2 million
The average age of charities supported has been years.

Grant criteria

Gower Street (formerly The Marple Charitable Trust) is a small family foundation that was set up by Nick and Sophie Marple to fund education work in the UK and Ghana, In 2018 Gower Street pivoted the majority of its funds to addressing the climate crisis and in recognition of the urgency of the situation decided to disperse all their funds by 2030. The trust focuses their funding on small organisations, supporting them to scope and validate their ideas, enabling them to approach larger funders to help them further scale.

https://www.gowerstreet.org/

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3 DOWNSHIRE HILL
LONDON
NW3 1NU

Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 1183461

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Analysis of Grants Made

In this period 127 donations have been made totalling £4,643,445 to 90 organisations

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Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)

Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?

	By Value	By Number
Gower Street	58%	42%
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation	19%	14%
Paul Hamlyn Foundation	17%	8%
Friends Provident Foundation	15%	8%
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch	14%	6%
Lankelly Chase Foundation	13%	3%
John Ellerman Foundation	12%	11%
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust	11%	11%
ZING	10%	2%
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity	10%	2%

Sole supporter: 58% by number, 42% by value.

Individual Grants Made

When	Amount	Annual Spending	Grantee	To be used for
01/12/2023	£5,000		COAL ACTION NETWORK	Judicial Review
01/12/2023	£20,000		FUTURE ECONOMY SCOTLAND	Core funding
01/11/2023	£6,000		SUSTAINABLE WELLBEING ENVIRONMENT NETWORK	Core funding
01/11/2023	£25,000		INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS	Core funding
01/11/2023	£15,000		FUEL POVERTY ACTION	Core funding
01/10/2023	£1,335		SOS TEACH THE FUTURE	Programme funding
01/10/2023	£20,000		FOSSIL FREE PRIDE	Core funding
01/10/2023	£10,000		GREENER AND CLEANER	Core funding
01/10/2023	£45,000		BCAN - GHANA	Continuation funding for work in Ghana
20/09/2023	£25,000		CLIMATE SPRING	Core funding
20/09/2023	£100,000		LIVELY MINDS	Programme funding
20/09/2023	£25,000		RUBBER REPUBLICS LAB	Project funding
01/09/2023	£12,500		CENTRE FOR EXTRACTIVES AND DEVELOPMENT AFIRCA	Research funding
01/09/2023	£5,000		CLIMATE JUSTICE CAMP	programme funding
01/09/2023	£25,000		GREENFAITH	Programme Funding
01/09/2023	£103,819		REGIONAL ADVISORY INFORMATION NETWORK SYSTEM (RAINS)	Programme funding
01/09/2023	£90,000		WILD CARD	Core funding
01/09/2023	£5,000		CLIMATE JUSTICE CAMP	programme funding
01/07/2023	£5,000		AGROINTRODUCTIONS	Capacity Building
01/07/2023	£10,000	£41,684	ANOTHER WAY	Core funding
01/07/2023	£61,000		ARDO	Programe funding
01/07/2023	£10,000		CENTRE FOR DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS	UK Rights of Nature
01/07/2023	£68,225		COAL ACTION NETWORK	Core funding
01/07/2023	£20,000		CONSERVATIVE ENVIRONMENT NETWORK	Core funding
01/07/2023	£60,000	£2,727,977	IPPR	Fairer and greener Transport system in UK
01/07/2023	£20,000		LABOUR CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT FORUM	Core funding
01/07/2023	£40,000		ORGIIS	Programme funding
01/07/2023	£10,000		ORGIIS	Capacity Building
01/07/2023	£10,000		RAPID RESPONSE UNIT	Programme funding
01/07/2023	£60,000		RIGHTS AND ADVOCACY INITIATIVES NETWORK (RAIN)	Programme funding
01/06/2023	£50,000		WACAM	Core fundng
01/05/2023	£5,000		ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INTERVENTION	Capacity building
01/05/2023	£32,501		CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE	Methane work in UK
01/05/2023	£5,000		GHANA YOUTH ENVIRONMENT MOVEMENT (GYEM)	Capacity Building
01/05/2023	£14,864	£2,366,683	GREEN ALLIANCE	Methane work in UK
01/05/2023	£5,000		SIX INCHES OF SOIL	Programme funding
01/05/2023	£22,800		SUNG FOUNDATION	Core funding
01/05/2023	£5,000		UNITED FORCE FOR DEVELOPMENT	Capacity Building
01/05/2023	£10,000		WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES UNIT	capacity building
01/04/2023	£50,000		STRATEGIC YOUTH NETWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT (SYND)	Capacity building
01/04/2023	£50,000		TIPPING POINT UK	Core
01/03/2023	£5,075	£1,870,731	AFRIKIDS	Project funding
01/03/2023	£100,000		CAMFED ASSOCIATION	Programme funding
01/03/2023	£20,000		MUNTAKA CHASANT	Media Content
01/03/2023	£15,000		TAX JUSTICE UK	Core
02/02/2023	£20,000		ELLA SALTMARSHE	Narrative strategy review
01/02/2023	£12,000		CAMFED ASSOCIATION (ON BEHALF OF CAMA)	To suppor CAMA Association members in Ghana who are already planning or running small businesses with training and management skills.
01/02/2023	£10,000		POWER FOR PEOPLE	Energy bill amendment project funding
01/01/2023	£46,800		BE THE CHANGE AFFINITY NETWORK	Core funding
01/01/2023	£10,000		FUEL POVERTY ACTION	Funding towards salary costs
01/12/2022	£8,160		JO MUSKER SHERWOOD	Capacity building
23/11/2022	£15,000	£649,131	THE ECOLOGY TRUST (UNCHECKED UK)	Core cost support
23/11/2022	£50,000	£375,561	PEOPLE & PLANET	Fossil Fuel Free Careers programme
23/11/2022	£35,000	£614,234	ON ROAD MEDIA	Continuation funding (23-24) for climate programme.
23/11/2022	£20,000		FUTURE ECONOMY SCOTLAND	Start-up funding
23/11/2022	£28,500		KASA INITIATIVE	Car funding
23/11/2022	£5,000		RUBBER REPUBLICS LAB	Developing positive visioning project
23/11/2022	£1,800		MUNTAKA CHASANT	Paid content for media climate issues
19/10/2022	£5,000	£1,103,279	STUDENTS ORGANISING FOR SUSTAINABILITY	Track Changes project
19/10/2022	£4,729		STRATEGIC YOUTH NETWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT (SYND)	COP 27 costs
05/10/2022	£10,000	£13,505	THE MOVEMENTS TRUST	Core capacity funding
01/10/2022	£6,000		CLIMATE EMERGENCE (JO MUSKER SHERWOOD)	SWEN pilot year contribution
21/09/2022	£30,000	£6,435,318	CITIZENS UK	Funding for the salary costs of the Senior Project Manager and Lead Organizing over a 12 month period.
21/09/2022	£25,000		COMMON WEALTH	Support for a project to examine the case for a publicly-owned renewable energy generation company, Great British Energy (GBE) to build a 100% renewable energy system by 2035
21/09/2022	£50,000		FOSSIL FUEL NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY (FFNPT)	Recruitment of key staff
21/09/2022	£50,000	£211,411	RIVER ACTION UK	Community led, systemic, collaborative action aimed at saving rivers
21/09/2022	£30,000		GHANA SEED GRANTS	Seed funding for climate work in Ghana
20/07/2022	£250,000	£1,525,805	AFRIKIDS	No Child Left Behind’ programme
20/07/2022	£12,000		BCAN - GHANA	To deliver specific climate, people and movement, project work in Ghana via the BCAN team
20/07/2022	£18,000		BCAN - GHANA	7X project via BCAN
20/07/2022	£25,000		CLIMATE SPRING	Continuation of initial grant
20/07/2022	£75,000	£74,548	EDUSPOTS	general support towards Eduspots’ operations budget
20/07/2022	£60,000		STOP ECOCIDE INTERNATIONAL	Diplomatic development, advocacy and public narrative communication
20/07/2022	£15,000		THE CULTURE INITIATIVE	How to talk about the cost of living and climate crises at the same time
20/07/2022	£25,000		TIPPING POINT UK	Fundraising support
01/07/2022	£3,500		STRATEGIC YOUTH NETWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT (SYND)	software costs
01/07/2022	£263,774	£7,069,278	PEAS	Project funding
01/06/2022	£1,771		STRATEGIC YOUTH NETWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT (SYND)	retreat costs for policy development
11/05/2022	£9,524		COAL ACTION NETWORK	Judicial Review of Coal Authority and Welsh Government’s approval of 42 million tonne coal mine
01/05/2022	£40,000		CULTURE UNSTAINED	Campaign against the fossil fuel industry’s involvement (mainly sponsorship) of the arts and culture sectors
29/03/2022	£35,000	£614,234	ON ROAD MEDIA	To support the core costs of On Road Media’s climate work
21/03/2022	£145,510		KASA INITIATIVE	capacity building support for Kasa
21/03/2022	£32,501	£2,366,683	CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE / GREEN ALLIANCE	Raising the salience of methane in UK decarbonisation
21/03/2022	£13,463	£2,366,683	GREEN ALLIANCE	Raising the salience of methane in UK decarbonisation
21/03/2022	£145,510		KASA INITIATIVE	Core funding
16/03/2022	£100,000		BREATHE CLIMATE JUSTICE COMMUNITY ORGANISING	Core funding to build community-led organising projects focusing on climate justice in 5+ localities across the UK
16/03/2022	£50,000		CLIMATE EMERGENCY UK	Rate the effectiveness of local council climate action plans
16/03/2022	£50,000		ECOCARE GHANA	this is continuation funding for the cocoa advocacy project
16/03/2022	£10,000		GEORGE MONBIOT	Soil ecology film
16/03/2022	£40,000		GREEN NEW DEAL	Employ a campaigner for two years
16/03/2022	£60,000	£485,157	THE COMMITMENT	Continue funding the core running costs of The Commitment
07/03/2022	£8,000		TARIAN HAFREN SEVERN SHIELD CYF	To support PR campaign RE toxic waste from Hinkley Nuclear station
31/01/2022	£5,000		RUBBER REPUBLICS LAB	work contesting the policing bill
25/01/2022	£30,000		CLIMATE COUNSEL (STICHTING)	Supporting Brazilian Parliamentarians and Lawyers to Develop Laws on Ecocide
25/01/2022	£50,000	£3,851,441	GREEN MATCH FUND - THE BIG GIVE	Match Funding
25/01/2022	£10,000		MOTHERS CAN	To support Mothers CAN work to grow the network and increase capacity
25/01/2022	£60,000		NATURE FRIENDLY FARMING NETWORK	Match Funding
25/01/2022	£150,000		PEERS FOR THE PLANET	Funding towards core salary costs
25/01/2022	£25,000	£841,477	REWILDING BRITAIN	Match Funding
25/01/2022	£5,000	£1,103,279	STUDENTS ORGANISING FOR SUSTAINABILITY	PR support for the second phase of work on govt climate strategy
25/01/2022	£400,000		UPLIFT	The overall goal of ending offshore oil and gas production in the UK
24/01/2022	£32,000		GAIL BRADBROOK & SKEENA RATHOR	Core Living Costs
24/01/2022	£75,000		STRATEGIC YOUTH NETWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT (SYND)	Capacity Building
01/01/2022	£4,000		ORGIIS	Education support programme
24/11/2021	£90,000	£1,099,967	GLOBAL JUSTICE NOW	A campaign to stop destructive trade deals and promote positve alternatives
24/11/2021	£50,000	£2,366,683	GREEN ALLIANCE	A three pronged project approach to embed green in government’s new economic and innovation strategy
22/11/2021	£5,000	£4,731,495	CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY	EFN Rapid Response Fund
17/11/2021	£13,683		CAMFED ASSOCIATION (ON BEHALF OF CAMA)	To support CAMFED Association members in Ghana who are already planning or running small businesses with training and management skills.
17/11/2021	£25,000		CLIMATE EMERGENCE (JO MUSKER SHERWOOD)	Scoping work for Institute
17/11/2021	£20,000	£1,103,279	STUDENTS ORGANISING FOR SUSTAINABILITY	Phase 2 of influencing DFE
01/10/2021	£1,500		KASA INITIATIVE	Cover core costs for COP26
07/09/2021	£5,000		CHRISTCHURCH SCHOOL	Towards school climate activity
12/07/2021	£25,000		CLIMATE SPRING	Seed funding for inaugural projects
12/07/2021	£10,000		CULTURE UNSTAINED	Ending oil sponsorship of the science museum
12/07/2021	£25,000		STOP ECOCIDE FOUNDATION	Core Cost Support
12/07/2021	£1,500	£668,107	CANON COLLINS TRUST	Climate Scholarship Fund
24/05/2021	£50,000		XR	General Costs
16/04/2021	£10,000		UPLIFT	Costs of legal challenge
07/04/2021	£25,000		KASA INITIATIVE	To enhance the capacities of civil society and other district-level stakeholders to actively participate in important climate change process
29/03/2021	£25,000	£286,397	BEAVER TRUST	Core funding to support healing the national network of rivers with the help of beavers
29/03/2021	£25,000	£5,630,941	CITIZENS UK	Citizens-led campaign for the creation of 60,000 new Living Wage, Green Jobs in London along with the upgrading of 100,000 homes to meet higher energy-efficiency standards and end the blight of fuel poverty.
29/03/2021	£32,751	£614,234	ON ROAD MEDIA	Communications messaging on CC
15/03/2021	£25,000		ECOCARE GHANA	Advocacy for reform in Ghana’s coca sector
26/02/2021	£25,000	£160,257	CLIMATE CRISIS FOUNDATION (GLOBAL RETURNS PROJECT)	Investors’ % donation to climate
08/02/2021	£3,350	£3,577,190	NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION	airport expansion
08/02/2021	£15,000	£492,626	THE COMMITMENT	Contribution towards project salary costs
01/02/2021	£25,000	£3,851,441	THE BIG GREEN GIVE	Match Funding

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Cumulative Grants

Amount	Grantee
£400,000	UPLIFT
£346,020	KASA INITIATIVE
£263,774	PEAS
£255,075	AFRIKIDS
£150,000	PEERS FOR THE PLANET
£135,000	STRATEGIC YOUTH NETWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT (SYND)
£125,683	CAMFED ASSOCIATION
£121,800	BCAN - GHANA
£110,828	GREEN ALLIANCE
£103,819	REGIONAL ADVISORY INFORMATION NETWORK SYSTEM (RAINS)
£102,751	ON ROAD MEDIA
£100,000	LIVELY MINDS
£100,000	BREATHE CLIMATE JUSTICE COMMUNITY ORGANISING
£90,000	WILD CARD
£90,000	GLOBAL JUSTICE NOW
£77,749	COAL ACTION NETWORK
£75,000	TIPPING POINT UK
£75,000	THE COMMITMENT
£75,000	GREEN MATCH FUND - THE BIG GIVE
£75,000	EDUSPOTS
£75,000	ECOCARE GHANA
£75,000	CLIMATE SPRING
£61,000	ARDO
£60,000	STOP ECOCIDE INTERNATIONAL
£60,000	RIGHTS AND ADVOCACY INITIATIVES NETWORK (RAIN)
£60,000	NATURE FRIENDLY FARMING NETWORK
£60,000	IPPR
£55,000	CITIZENS UK
£50,000	XR
£50,000	WACAM
£50,000	RIVER ACTION UK
£50,000	PEOPLE & PLANET
£50,000	ORGIIS
£50,000	FOSSIL FUEL NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY (FFNPT)
£50,000	CULTURE UNSTAINED
£50,000	CLIMATE EMERGENCY UK
£40,000	GREEN NEW DEAL
£35,000	RUBBER REPUBLICS LAB
£32,501	CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE
£32,000	GAIL BRADBROOK & SKEENA RATHOR
£31,000	CLIMATE EMERGENCE (JO MUSKER SHERWOOD)
£30,000	STUDENTS ORGANISING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
£30,000	GHANA SEED GRANTS
£30,000	CLIMATE COUNSEL (STICHTING)
£25,000	STOP ECOCIDE FOUNDATION
£25,000	REWILDING BRITAIN
£25,000	INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS
£25,000	GREENFAITH
£25,000	FUEL POVERTY ACTION
£25,000	COMMON WEALTH
£25,000	CLIMATE CRISIS FOUNDATION (GLOBAL RETURNS PROJECT)
£25,000	BEAVER TRUST
£22,800	SUNG FOUNDATION
£21,800	MUNTAKA CHASANT
£20,000	LABOUR CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT FORUM
£20,000	FUTURE ECONOMY SCOTLAND
£20,000	FUTURE ECONOMY SCOTLAND
£20,000	FOSSIL FREE PRIDE
£20,000	ELLA SALTMARSHE
£20,000	CONSERVATIVE ENVIRONMENT NETWORK
£15,000	THE ECOLOGY TRUST (UNCHECKED UK)
£15,000	THE CULTURE INITIATIVE
£15,000	TAX JUSTICE UK
£12,500	CENTRE FOR EXTRACTIVES AND DEVELOPMENT AFIRCA
£10,000	WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES UNIT
£10,000	UPLIFT
£10,000	THE MOVEMENTS TRUST
£10,000	RAPID RESPONSE UNIT
£10,000	POWER FOR PEOPLE
£10,000	MOTHERS CAN
£10,000	GREENER AND CLEANER
£10,000	GEORGE MONBIOT
£10,000	CLIMATE JUSTICE CAMP
£10,000	CENTRE FOR DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS
£10,000	ANOTHER WAY
£8,160	JO MUSKER SHERWOOD
£8,000	TARIAN HAFREN SEVERN SHIELD CYF
£6,000	SUSTAINABLE WELLBEING ENVIRONMENT NETWORK
£5,000	UNITED FORCE FOR DEVELOPMENT
£5,000	SIX INCHES OF SOIL
£5,000	GHANA YOUTH ENVIRONMENT MOVEMENT (GYEM)
£5,000	COAL ACTION NETWORK
£5,000	CHRISTCHURCH SCHOOL
£5,000	CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
£5,000	ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INTERVENTION
£5,000	AGROINTRODUCTIONS
£4,000	ORGIIS
£3,350	NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION
£1,500	CANON COLLINS TRUST
£1,335	SOS TEACH THE FUTURE