The Segelman Trust

Who they support

The Trust’s support is focused on a limited number of organisations that share our values and that we believe can create positive social change. To give a sense of our scale, we currently fund 28 organisations and last year we made 13 new grants. Click here to see a list of our current partners. The organisations we fund are led by the experiences of those they support; they are responsive, questioning and ambitious in their goals.

The average annual spending of grantees has been £4 million
The average age of charities supported has been 15 years.

Grant criteria

Segelman Trust is an independent grant-making charity. Our aim is to improve the health, happiness and life chances of people living in difficult circumstances and to break cycles of disadvantage. We do this by funding the work of selected charitable organisations.

Grant details

Segelman Trust seeks to improve outcomes for children, young people and families facing multiple disadvantage. We believe that strong relationships and connection are at the heart of change. We have a particular focus on supporting people with care experience and strengthening families so that children can remain safely at home. As opportunities emerge, we invest in projects outside this core focus area where they reimagine the way key social challenges could be addressed. Central to the aims of the Trust is increasing understanding of the challenges people face and expanding capacity to respond effectively.

Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 1079151

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Analysis of Grants Made

In this period 54 donations have been made totalling £3,592,750 to 45 organisations

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Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)

Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?

	By Value	By Number
The National Lottery Community Fund	62%	56%
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation	48%	44%
Garfield Weston Foundation	34%	38%
BBC Children in Need	29%	20%
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales	26%	29%
City Bridge Trust	26%	27%
The Henry Smith Charity	24%	24%
The Tudor Trust	24%	27%
The Clothworkers' Foundation	23%	24%
Greenwood Place	22%	20%

Sole supporter: 20% by number, 12% by value.

Individual Grants Made

When	Amount	Annual Spending	Grantee	To be used for
28/02/2023	£90,000	£694,782	OPEN DOOR CHARITY	For the development of the ooMoo Project for children in Wirral who are looked after and children living with a special guardian
29/11/2022	£6,000		CARE LEADERS	Towards the costs of the 2023 Fellows' residentials
29/11/2022	£15,000		TRANSFORMED YOU CIC	Towards the costs of the 2023 Black Care Experience Conference and follow on work
29/11/2022	£70,000	£842,621	DRIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION	Towards the cost of Aspire - an earlier intervention propgramme aimed at supporting care experienced young people aged 15-17
04/10/2022	£100,000	£713,459	ACTION FOR HAPPINESS	For capacity building
04/10/2022	£64,000	£16,750,998	ANNA FREUD NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES	To support the scale-up of the Reflective Fostering Programme - a foster carer support programme to nurture child-carer relationships and improve placement stability
12/07/2022	£90,000	£616,716	WILD YOUNG PARENTS PROJECT	To support core costs
12/07/2022	£100,000	£4,117,066	SAFE FAMILIES	To support the development of the charity's therapeutic parenting model
12/07/2022	£30,000	£26,704,954	ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC	To support core costs
12/07/2022	£50,000	£1,527,628	QUAKER SOCIAL ACTION	To support RCM Sparks - the College’s Learning and Participation programme, providing an accessible pathway of musical learning from the early years.
10/05/2022	£120,000	£283,342	UK ACUMEN ACADEMY	To support the core costs of the UK fellowship programme
10/05/2022	£50,000	£37,873	SASC CHARITY	Seed funding to support the development of Our Future
08/04/2022	£60,000	£255,924	NORTH EAST WELLBEING	To support core costs associated with delivering the Zone West programme
22/02/2022	£105,000	£443,457	BLUE CABIN	To support core costs
22/02/2022	£105,000	£2,285,279	ST MICHAEL'S FELLOWSHIP	To support outreach work with young parents, particularly young fathers, in Lambeth
22/02/2022	£2,000	£144,735	TUSHINDE CHILDREN'S TRUST	For support to Clean Start, Kenya
22/02/2022	£1,750	£2,677,343	LEADERS' QUEST FOUNDATION	For support to Clean Start, Kenya
30/11/2021	£25,000	£665,339	THE NATIONAL HOUSE PROJECT	To support the pilot of The National House Project's Aspirational Awards
30/11/2021	£105,000	£2,563,108	FAMILY RIGHTS GROUP	To support the charity's core costs and aims of building lifelong support networks for children in the care system, championing kinship carers and providing advice to parents whose children are in need, at risk or are in the care system
30/11/2021	£50,000	£2,337,689	JUST FOR KIDS LAW	To support core costs
30/11/2021	£90,000	£565,860	PURE INSIGHT	To support core costs and capacity building
21/09/2021	£90,000	£786,131	CAREFREE CORNWALL	To support core costs
21/09/2021	£40,000	£8,538,000	REFUGEE ACTION	To achieve a strengthened system of integrated support for refugees and those seeking asylum in Bradford, with specialist attention to the needs of children and families
21/09/2021	£35,000	£1,793,810	LEADERS' QUEST FOUNDATION	To support core costs
21/09/2021	£75,000		AVOCADOS ADVOCACY CIC	Towards the directors' salaries and core costs
21/09/2021	£75,000		WE ARE JUNO CIC	Towards revenue costs during the development of the first Juno children's homes
13/07/2021	£75,000	£140,985	STREET TALK	To support core costs
13/07/2021	£60,000	£24,326,000	DARTINGTON HALL TRUST	To support the core costs of running a Community of Practice for services for parents who have experienced recurrent care proceedings
04/05/2021	£90,000	£443,533	THE VOICES FOUNDATION	To support core costs
04/05/2021	£90,000	£565,756	LEICESTERSHIRE CARES	To support the organisation's programmes for care-experienced young people
04/05/2021	£90,000	£420,687	BIRTH COMPANIONS	To support core costs
04/05/2021	£90,000	£2,018,274	TREVI	To support core costs
21/12/2020	£5,000		CLEAN START	To provide essential items and support to formerly and currently imprisoned women and children
09/12/2020	£125,000		LOVE BARROW FAMILIES CIC	To support salaries and core costs
09/12/2020	£120,000	£2,173,373	THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	To support Thrive@Five - a collective impact initiative created to achieve improvements in school readiness. Thrive@Five will support place-based strategies and programmes, linking charities, local authorities and funders around shared goals and measurement.
09/12/2020	£120,000	£804,939	FAMILY GATEWAY	To support salaries and core costs
09/12/2020	£105,000	£2,458,592	CORAM VOICE	To support the development of the National Children in Care Council
22/09/2020	£32,000		BLUE CABIN CIC	Towards core costs
01/09/2020	£60,000	£184,101	NORTH EAST WELLBEING	To support the core costs of the Zone West pilot - a Link Worker project designed to support stronger outcomes for children with unmet needs in the West End of Newcastle
16/06/2020	£60,000	£358,612	ACTION FOR HAPPINESS	For capacity building
15/05/2020	£50,000		LOVE BARROW FAMILIES CIC	Towards the cost of a community garden and for essential items
15/05/2020	£5,000	£1,178,197	QUAKER SOCIAL ACTION	For technology and service adaptations to provide an expanded funeral support programme and an online mindfulness programme and to provide wellbeing support for staff
22/04/2020	£12,000		CARE LEADERS	To support the Care Leaders Fellowship - a leadership development programme for Participation Workers
22/04/2020	£15,000	£4,106,472	WEST LONDON ZONE	To support the core costs of delivering their programme in schools across the London boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham, Brent and the City of Westminster
22/04/2020	£20,000	£869,354	LITTLE VILLAGE	To support calls to families in need and towards the rental costs of a warehouse to store goods being delivered to families
01/04/2020	£20,000	£794,947	THE MATTHEW TREE PROJECT	For a food home delivery service and crisis support phoneline for vulnerable families living in in Bristol, South Gloucester and Bath
04/02/2020	£50,000	£6,067,052	SAFE LIVES	Towards the costs of the Head of Practice role
04/02/2020	£100,000	£6,545,000	REFUGEE ACTION	To achieve a strengthened system of integrated support for refugees and those seeking asylum in Bradford, with specialist attention to the needs of children and families.
04/02/2020	£175,000	£15,760,008	THE ANNA FREUD CENTRE	To support the scale-up of the Reflective Fostering Programme - a foster carer support programme to nurture child-carer relationships and reduce placement breakdown
12/11/2019	£25,000	£560,610	BIG HOUSE	To support core costs as they bed into their newly purchased premises
12/11/2019	£30,000	£54,245,000	CATCH 22	Towards the core costs of Lighthouse as it prepares to open its first children's home
12/11/2019	£100,000	£2,664,451	SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN	To support the core costs of the organiation
17/09/2019	£120,000		ACUMEN ACADEMY UK	To support the core costs of Acumen Academy UK in its start-up phase
25/06/2019	£105,000	£1,556,381	SMART WORKS	To support core costs and their goal of expanding to more regions of the UK

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Cumulative Grants

Amount	Grantee
£240,000	UK ACUMEN ACADEMY
£239,000	ANNA FREUD NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
£200,000	SAFE FAMILIES
£175,000	LOVE BARROW FAMILIES CIC
£160,000	ACTION FOR HAPPINESS
£140,000	REFUGEE ACTION
£120,000	THE CHILDHOOD TRUST
£120,000	NORTH EAST WELLBEING
£120,000	FAMILY GATEWAY
£105,000	ST MICHAEL'S FELLOWSHIP
£105,000	SMART WORKS
£105,000	FAMILY RIGHTS GROUP
£105,000	CORAM VOICE
£105,000	BLUE CABIN
£90,000	WILD YOUNG PARENTS PROJECT
£90,000	TREVI
£90,000	THE VOICES FOUNDATION
£90,000	PURE INSIGHT
£90,000	OPEN DOOR CHARITY
£90,000	LEICESTERSHIRE CARES
£90,000	CAREFREE CORNWALL
£90,000	BIRTH COMPANIONS
£75,000	WE ARE JUNO CIC
£75,000	STREET TALK
£75,000	AVOCADOS ADVOCACY CIC
£70,000	DRIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION
£60,000	DARTINGTON HALL TRUST
£55,000	QUAKER SOCIAL ACTION
£50,000	SAFE LIVES
£50,000	SASC CHARITY
£50,000	JUST FOR KIDS LAW
£36,750	LEADERS' QUEST FOUNDATION
£32,000	BLUE CABIN CIC
£30,000	ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC
£30,000	CATCH 22
£25,000	THE NATIONAL HOUSE PROJECT
£25,000	BIG HOUSE
£20,000	THE MATTHEW TREE PROJECT
£20,000	LITTLE VILLAGE
£15,000	WEST LONDON ZONE
£15,000	TRANSFORMED YOU CIC
£12,000	CARE LEADERS
£6,000	CARE LEADERS
£5,000	CLEAN START
£2,000	TUSHINDE CHILDREN'S TRUST