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Brian Mercer Trust

Who they support

The BMCT awards grants to charities and organisations whose aims are: a) Prevention of, or relief from, disadvantage and suffering resulting from poverty, ill-health, or other causes globally.b) Promotion of visual arts, and artistic talent especially in the North West of England.c) Support for charitable community initiatives local to Blackburn, Lancashire

  • The average annual spending of grantees has been £14 million
  • The average age of charities supported has been years.

www.brianmercertrust.org

info@brianmercertrust.org

01254686600

Suit 9b
The Beehive
Lions Drive
Shadsworth Business Park
Blackburn
Lancashi

Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 1076925
Charity Commission for England and Wales
Analysis of Grants Made
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In this period 67 donations have been made totalling £2,022,350 to 51 organisations

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Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)
Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?
By ValueBy Number
The National Lottery Community Fund 33% 27%
Comic Relief 23% 10%
Foundation Scotland 20% 6%
Pears Foundation 20% 4%
ARCADIA 16% 4%
LUND TRUST 16% 4%
Garfield Weston Foundation 14% 16%
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation 13% 16%
The Henry Smith Charity 12% 8%
Charles Hayward Foundation 11% 16%
Sole supporter: 41% by number, 41% by value.
Individual Grants Made
When Amount Annual
Spending		 Grantee To be used for
08/03/2024 £45,000 £1,025,243 HELLO WORLD Unrestricted grant for building solar-powered internet hubs in Uganda and Nepal
08/03/2024 £10,000 £473,596 ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS NETWORK Sponsorship of Climat Activist Speaker Fund for youth activists in MAPA countries
08/03/2024 £30,000 £272,470 RE-CYCLE Unrestricted grant for recycling bicycles to African countries
11/12/2023 £6,500 £787,554 CASTLEFIELD GALLERY Funding NW painters exhibited in gallery's 40th year celebration exhibition
19/07/2023 £20,000 THE FESTIVAL OF MAKING Uplift of current grant for Blackburn Festival of Making with additional funding for the next two years
19/07/2023 £30,000 £36,372 KAIROS HOUSING Funding housing and support centre for refugees
19/07/2023 £5,000 £7,533,246 HOME MANCHESTER Part funding the Manchester Open art exhibition 2024 at Home, Manchester
13/04/2022 £26,000 THE WHITAKER MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Funding exhibition programme and purchase of artwork
13/04/2022 £45,000 £452,203 KIDS CLUB KAMPALA Unrestricted grant for work with children and families in Uganda
13/04/2022 £10,000 £326,471 LEGS 4 AFRICA Supply or recyled prosthetic legs to African countries
13/04/2022 £25,000 £16,850,235 CLIENT EARTH Funding legal cases regarding climate change
13/04/2022 £25,000 £368,800,000 OXFAM Funding climate change campaigns
13/04/2022 £25,000 £10,591,940 GREENPEACE Funding environmental and climate change campaigns
13/04/2022 £4,500 £442,714 ENVIRONMENTAL FUINDER NETWORK Unrestricted grant for environment networking
13/04/2022 £75,000 £856,070 NIGHTSAFE Funding night shelter for homeless in Blackburn
13/04/2022 £3,000 £210,687 CLEANUPUK Funding community clean up group in Blackburn
13/04/2022 £75,000 £1,339,504 BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE Funding Blackburn Youth Zone
13/04/2022 £30,000 THE FESTIVAL OF MAKING Funding Blackburn Festival of Making
13/04/2022 £2,000 £441,170 LIVING PAINTINGS TRUST Making art accessible to visually impaired and blind
26/01/2022 £50,000 £1,042,472 AGE UK BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN Unrestriced grant to Age UK Blackburn with Darwen
26/01/2022 £300,000 £250,405,000 SIGHTSAVERS Unrestricted grant to Sightsavers
26/01/2022 £30,000 £267,066 RE-CYCLE Re-cycling bicycles collected and restored in UK and sent to Africa
26/01/2022 £30,000 £564,328 CHASE AFRICA Enhancing family planning/contraception services in rural Uganda
26/01/2022 £30,000 £92,642 POWER FOR THE PEOPLE Unrestricted grant for Installing solar-powered electicity and water systems in Northern Uganda
26/01/2022 £30,000 £300,614 HELLO WORLD Provision of solar-powered, Wi-Fi enabled education huibs in Uganda
26/01/2022 £30,000 £1,024,765 INTERCARE Recycyling drugs and medical equipment from UK to sub-Saharan Africa
26/01/2022 £30,000 £326,471 LEGS 4 AFRICA Recycling prosthetic limbs from UK to Africa
22/10/2021 £43,800 THE MAKING ROOMS BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN Grant to community creative technology centre
22/10/2021 £6,050 £5,595 LANCASHIRE SCHOOLS SAILING ASSOCIATION Grant to purchase new boat
15/07/2021 £2,500 £654,753 HOPE HEALTH ACTION Funding community health workers and volunteers to provide maternal and neonatal healthcare in Haiti
15/07/2021 £3,000 £654,753 HOPE HEALTH ACTION Reduction of micronutrient deficiencies and malnutrition in infants and childrens in Ugandan refugee camps by ditribution of Plumpy Nut supplements
15/07/2021 £16,000 £42,338 LUV+ {LEPROSY AT UTALE VILLAGE PLUS} Finance income generating projects at Tanzanian Leprosy collony
15/07/2021 £15,000 £397,990 HELLO WORLD Provision of solar-powered, Wi-Fi enabled education huibs in Uganda
15/07/2021 £4,350 £281,766 CURE INTERNATIONAL Mobile orthopaedic clinics to serve rural comminities in Malawi
15/07/2021 £20,000 £173,280 AFRICAN ADVENTURE FOUNDATION Sanitation facilities, clean water, menstrual health education at three schools in Zanzibar
15/07/2021 £150,000 DRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES INITIATIVE Developing drug treatments for life-threatening diseases that disproportionately impact poor and marginalized people
15/07/2021 £30,000 £175,800 BAREFOOT COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL UK Reviving three wells in 3 Pygmie communities in Cameroon using solar powered pumps
15/07/2021 £25,000 WESSEX SOCIAL VENTURE C.I.C. Establishing Right Light solar-powered lighting businesses to replace kerosine lamps that are dangerous to health
15/07/2021 £15,000 £123,509 POWER FOR THE PEOPLE Installing solar-powered electicity and water systems in Northern Uganda
15/07/2021 £3,000 £241,326 HOPE FOUNDATION Preparing 70 out-of-school children for school enrollment in Kolkata, India
15/07/2021 £12,500 £21,503 RING 20 RESEARCH AND SUPPORT UK Support network for families affected by Ring20 chromosonal disorder
15/07/2021 £14,700 £249,792 CARER'S WORLDWIDE Support for carers of people with mental illness and epilepsy in Odisha, India
15/07/2021 £18,000 £33,368 ADAMI PROJECT Support for 10 economically inactive young mothers in Sierra Leone to pursue vocational trianing courses
15/07/2021 £5,000 £342,522 PRACTIVAL TOOLS INITIATIVE Solar-powered water pump supplying 68 houselholds in Eastern Sierra Leone
15/07/2021 £15,000 CSEF MONEYWISE Financial literacy training in two schools locla to Blackburn
15/07/2021 £2,000 £139,098 FRIENDS OF MONZE Improving rights awareness amongst traditional leaders, school children and women's groups in a rural area of Zambia
15/04/2021 £11,000 £243,605 LOVE RUSSIA LIMITED Support for orphans and orphan mothers in area of Western Russia
15/04/2021 £30,000 £396,997 PRAGYA Supporting smallhoder farmers in Western Kenya develop cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPS)
15/04/2021 £7,000 £255,044 RE-CYCLE Re-cycling bicycles collected and restored in UK and sent to Africa
15/04/2021 £15,000 £374,469 KIDS CLUB KAMPALA Food handouts, schooling, training etc in Kids Club in slums of Kampala
15/04/2021 £14,000 £731,175 PLAY ACTION INTERNATIONAL Construction of play area for children at Ugandan cancer Institute
15/04/2021 £3,750 £14,866 POLICE COMMUNITY CLUBS OF GREAT BRITAIN Anti-bullying and Good Citizenship programmes in Blackburn Schools
14/10/2020 £10,000 £806,858 APT ACTION ON POVERTY Empowering rural communities in Siera Leone to combat poverty through skills training and support for farming and business initiatives
14/10/2020 £2,500 £654,753 HOPE HEALTH ACTION To equip and train refugee camps in Uganda withCRADLE VSA blood pressure monitoring devices for use in monitoring pregnancy
14/10/2020 £5,000 £161,396 CHILD IN NEED INDIA Support for community workers addressing malnutrition in children & mothers in Indian villages
14/10/2020 £17,400 £671,593 AFGHAN & CENTRAL ASIAN ASSOCIATION Enhance reintegration of refugees returning to Afghanistan through establishing a Community Reintegration Centre
14/10/2020 £4,000 £477,512 PHASE WORLDWIDE Nurse salary to strengthen healthcare in W Nepal
14/10/2020 £10,000 £1,099,406 AGE UK BLACKBURN AND DARWEN Salary of Advice and Information Manager for Blackburn and Darwen
02/05/2020 £100,000 £69,386,612 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERE Unrestricted grant to medical humanitarian organisation
02/05/2020 £40,000 BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN BOROUGH COUNCIL Unrestricted grant to council's community fund
02/05/2020 £25,000 £1,302,816 BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE Unrestricted grant to Blackburn Youth Zone - youth hub for 5-21 year olds
30/01/2020 £5,000 £198,740 LEGS 4 AFRICA Recycling prosthetic limbs from UK to Africa
30/01/2020 £250,000 £52,243,903 AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION Provision on anti-Malaria bed nets in sub-Saharah Africa
30/01/2020 £20,000 £115,475 OUR SANSAR Funding of transit home for street children in Nepal to aid reintegration and prevent child traficking
30/01/2020 £5,000 £747,664 INTERCARE Recycyling drugs and medical equipment from UK to sub-Saharan Africa
30/01/2020 £14,800 £195,015 RAISING FUTURES KENYA Establishing Educational Business Hub to help vulnerable young, especially women, set up businesses in rural Kenya
30/01/2020 £10,000 £451,468 CHASE AFRICA Enhancing family planning/contraception services in rural Uganda
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Cumulative Grants
Amount Grantee
£300,000 SIGHTSAVERS
£250,000 AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION
£150,000 DRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES INITIATIVE
£100,000 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERE
£100,000 BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE
£90,000 HELLO WORLD
£75,000 NIGHTSAFE
£67,000 RE-CYCLE
£60,000 KIDS CLUB KAMPALA
£60,000 AGE UK BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN
£50,000 THE FESTIVAL OF MAKING
£45,000 POWER FOR THE PEOPLE
£45,000 LEGS 4 AFRICA
£43,800 THE MAKING ROOMS BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN
£40,000 CHASE AFRICA
£40,000 BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN BOROUGH COUNCIL
£35,000 INTERCARE
£30,000 PRAGYA
£30,000 KAIROS HOUSING
£30,000 BAREFOOT COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL UK
£26,000 THE WHITAKER MUSEUM & ART GALLERY
£25,000 WESSEX SOCIAL VENTURE C.I.C.
£25,000 OXFAM
£25,000 GREENPEACE
£25,000 CLIENT EARTH
£20,000 OUR SANSAR
£20,000 AFRICAN ADVENTURE FOUNDATION
£18,000 ADAMI PROJECT
£17,400 AFGHAN & CENTRAL ASIAN ASSOCIATION
£16,000 LUV+ {LEPROSY AT UTALE VILLAGE PLUS}
£15,000 CSEF MONEYWISE
£14,800 RAISING FUTURES KENYA
£14,700 CARER'S WORLDWIDE
£14,500 ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS NETWORK
£14,000 PLAY ACTION INTERNATIONAL
£12,500 RING 20 RESEARCH AND SUPPORT UK
£11,000 LOVE RUSSIA LIMITED
£10,000 APT ACTION ON POVERTY
£8,000 HOPE HEALTH ACTION
£6,500 CASTLEFIELD GALLERY
£6,050 LANCASHIRE SCHOOLS SAILING ASSOCIATION
£5,000 PRACTIVAL TOOLS INITIATIVE
£5,000 HOME MANCHESTER
£5,000 CHILD IN NEED INDIA
£4,350 CURE INTERNATIONAL
£4,000 PHASE WORLDWIDE
£3,750 POLICE COMMUNITY CLUBS OF GREAT BRITAIN
£3,000 HOPE FOUNDATION
£3,000 CLEANUPUK
£2,000 LIVING PAINTINGS TRUST
£2,000 FRIENDS OF MONZE
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