The Aim Foundation

Who they support

Early years and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, and their families

The average annual spending of grantees has been £12 million
The average age of charities supported has been years.

Grant criteria

The Foundation works across strategic strands that focus on: - Nutrition for Health and Wellbeing, increasing the understanding of the importance of nutrition and life-style for health and wellbeing. - Young People, improving their life chances, especially around the transition from school to employment, and their emotional and mental well-being. - Early Years, improving the emotional and social development of young children from vulnerable families

Grant details

Up to £75,000 per annum. They are interested in funding core costs of medium sized organisations where multi-year funding can help build their capacity. They are also interested in collaborations with other funders that address similar issues in order to magnify impact of their grants and benefit from sharing knowledge of sectors.

Application procedure

The charity proactively seeks registered charities and not for profit organisations that work effectively to address issues and at the moment, their strategy is focused on UK organisations. They do not fund individuals, rarely fund capital projects, and do not have the capacity or structure to respond to unsolicited applications so will not respond to approaches.

www.theaimfoundation.org.uk

collaborate@theaimfoundation.org.uk

01823 286096

Albert Goodman Llp
Goodwood House
Blackbrook Park Avenue
TAUNTON
Somerset
TA1 2PX

Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 263294

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Analysis of Grants Made

In this period 81 donations have been made totalling £2,538,817 to 60 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	41%	60%
Garfield Weston Foundation	38%	38%
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation	32%	32%
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport	21%	23%
Comic Relief	19%	13%
Coop Foundation	17%	10%
City Bridge Trust	17%	13%
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17%	17%
Paul Hamlyn Foundation	16%	10%
BBC Children in Need	16%	18%

Sole supporter: 20% by number, 28% by value.

Individual Grants Made

When	Amount	Annual Spending	Grantee	To be used for
07/12/2023	£1,000	£5,529,075	SUFFOLK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	Surviving Winter Appeal -Family Fund donation
10/10/2023	£35,000		NUTRITANK COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY	Core funding
10/10/2023	£35,000		HOT OR COOL INSTITUTE GGMBH	Happy Planet Index Launch Short Films
30/08/2023	£250		REAL FARMING TRUST	Unrestricted donation
06/07/2023	£1,000	£23,371,000	NCYPE T/AS YOUNG EPILEPSY	Family Fund Donation
06/07/2023	£10,000	£1,397,117	THE COUNTRY TRUST	Family Fund Unrestricted Donation
06/07/2023	£30,000	£789,137	WILD YOUNG PARENTS PROJECT	Moving the National Spotlight
06/07/2023	£30,000	£303,735	RIVER ACTION UK	Unrestricted Funding
23/08/2022	£35,000		NUTRITANK CIC	Additional funding for Iain Broadley to work 16 hours per week to deliver Nutritank plans and to employ a marketing/comms professional for 21.5 days per week.
20/07/2022	£105,000	£5,218,183	HOME-START UK	We are asking for £35,000 central investment to develop and deliver a new induction and development programme for senior leaders of our network of Home-Start charities across the UK. This leadership will underpin ambitious growth plans across the Home-Start federation.
19/07/2022	£105,000	£1,040,471	YOUTHSCAPE NATIONAL	The AIM Foundation has previously made a three year grant towards Youthscape?s work with young people who self-harm - a project we call Alumina. Alumina provides free online therapeutic programmes for young people who self harm aged 14-19. Its focus is on supporting the many young people who, despite significant harming activity, do not meet the very high thresholds for CAMS intervention from the NHS. About 1,000 young people approach us for help each year and about 400 go on to engage with the programme.
25/05/2022	£1,000	£2,120,841	THE CHARLIE WALLER TRUST	Boo's Ball - to help those struggling with mental health and prevention
05/05/2022	£25,000	£81,737	ASSOCIATION FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH	Final Grant towrs capacity building of Association to improve competencies of Early Years practioners
05/05/2022	£30,000	£1,936,952	BEST BEGINNINGS	Development of Baby Steps as part of Baby Buddy about Nutrition in preganancy
05/05/2022	£90,000	£474,160	BEAVER TRUST	Unrestricted funding
05/04/2022	£30,000		CENTRAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC INTEREST CIC	Water pollution campaign
29/03/2022	£1,000	£509,376	FRIENDS OF ST NICHOLAS FIELDS	Local nature restoration
03/03/2022	£1,000	£12,474,304	THE CHRISTIE NHS TRUST CHARITY BUSINESS	Cancer Research
01/03/2022	£5,000	£113,773,000	INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE UK	Rapid Response emergency grant advised by Cytoplan Staff to help support field teams are on the ground in Poland working with local partners to provide critical information services and moblising essential life saving suport to refugees fleeing Ukraine amid growing violence. border.
03/02/2022	£1,000	£146,691	HOMESTART ISLE OF WIGHT	Training volunteers, to enable regular sessions as have lost volunteers who wait too long for training sessions. (8 sessions before volunteer starts)
31/01/2022	£30,000	£28,105,668	IMPETUS-PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATIONO	One year unrestricted grant to support the capacity building of the 5 organisations in the Engage Fund.The Engage Fund's mission is to narrow the gap in school, work and life outcomes for young people who are excluded or at risk of exclusion from mainstream education.
31/01/2022	£31,500	£3,851,441	THE BIG GIVE TRUST	Champion match funding for 5 River pollution projects with community involvement: Lake District Foundation; Severn Rivers Trust; Mersey Rivers Trust; Westcountry Rivers Trust and Bristol Avon Rivers Trust.
31/01/2022	£100,000	£58,437,000	ESMEE FAIRBAIRN FOUNDATION	Environmental and learning Fund -match-fund specific EFF nature based social investments. Collaborating with EF and other funders an opportunity to invest in early stage, high risk, impact driven environmental capital funds and peer learning programme.
31/01/2022	£40,000		CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH	A grant to cover costs of CYPMHC's inquiry into challenging behaviour and the underlying conditions. The research will seek evidence and best practice in addressing the mental health and wellbeing through a trauma informed approach.
14/01/2022	£250		CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH	Research and presentation to AIM Ambassadors
07/01/2022	£1,000		SNAPE SCHOOL PARENT & STAFF ASS	Forest school
07/01/2022	£1,000	£5,726,605	SUFFOLK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	Joey's proposal
03/01/2022	£1,000	£97,603	INSIDE OUT COMMUITY ARTS IN MENTAL HEALTH	Poppy's proposal
15/12/2021	£3,000	£11,107,669	THE OUTWARD BOUND TRUST	Angela's proposal
15/12/2021	£1,000	£1,237,021	THE SILVER LINE	Angela's proposal
15/12/2021	£1,000	£234,700,000	BRITISH RED CROSS \|SOCIETY	Angela's proposal
08/10/2021	£14,295	£273,850	PARENT INFANT FOUNDATION LTD	Additonal funding for extra hours for Parliamentary & communications officer
08/10/2021	£25,000	£1,467,979	SUSTAIN	Policy about introducing universal free school meals
08/10/2021	£50,000	£1,458,461	SCHOOL FOOD MATTERS	Grant towards young marketeers in London for two years and contribute to pilot for improving the food offer for breakfast and after school club meals
08/10/2021	£25,000	£1,648,357	FOOD FOUNDATION	Research early years food and Nutrition with a focus on breast feeding and nutritional value of baby foods
08/10/2021	£75,000	£584,855	YOUTH ACCESS	Contribution to communications and membership officer
08/10/2021	£33,550	£4,158,194	BLUE MARINE FOUNDATION	Feasibility study of an integrated ecosystem approach to restore connected habitats of East Anglia's coastal waters
08/10/2021	£75,000	£3,298,000	SYNCHRONICITY EARTH	Funding towards policy of high and deep seas program
24/09/2021	£90,000	£1,936,952	BEST BEGINNINGS	Engagement Lead Salary
19/04/2021	£75,000	£77,302,000	PRINCE'S TRUST	A new 3 year geant for training young peoole in Essex around self-employment and apprenticeships.
19/04/2021	£26,500	£372,244	WEALL	A one off grant to cover the project costs of producing a further Happy Planet Index in advance of the Global Climate Summit in November 2021. WEALL is a new global collaboration to influence policy and narratives aroudn the interation between environmental sustainability and human wellbeing.
19/04/2021	£34,055	£151,487	COLLEGE OF MEDICINE	A grant towards developing, delivering and evaluating six online virtual short course on Healthy Eating for Social Prescribing Link Workers
19/04/2021	£36,000	£15,645	SURVIVORS (NORTH WEST)	A 2 year grant towards supporting the Nutrition Implementation Coalition to collate research, develop strategies and share resources, all aimed at advocacy towrds imporving the embedding of nutrition education for healthcare professionals in the UK. This part of the funding is towards the work of NNEdPro and ERimNN.
19/04/2021	£12,000		CULINARY MEDICINE UK	A 2 year grant towards supporting the Nutrition Implementation Coalition to collate research, develop strategies and share resources, all aimed at advocacy towrds imporving the embedding of nutrition education for healthcare professionals in the UK.
19/04/2021	£12,000		NUTRITANK	A 2 year grant towards supporting the Nutrition Implementation Coalition to collate research, develop strategies and share resources, all aimed at advocacy towrds imporving the embedding of nutrition education for healthcare professionals in the UK.
08/03/2021	£25,000	£67,285	ASSOCIATION OF INFANT MENTAL HEALTH	A grant towards the core costs for developing the mangement team and new initiatives. This will enable the upskilling of practiitioners, who are working with disadvantaged families during the perinatal period, to optise the infant's development.
24/02/2021	£2,000	£504,134	NEW STARTS	Covid 19 Response - unresticted gift
24/02/2021	£2,000		PCC KEMPSEY	Covid 19 Response - unrestricted gift
24/02/2021	£2,000	£15,503,000	ACORN CHILDREN'S HOSPICE TRUST	Covid 19 Response - unrestricted gift
24/02/2021	£2,000	£1,193,063	ST PAUL'S HOSTEL	Covid 19 Response - unrestricted gift
24/02/2021	£2,000	£8,756,389	ST RICHARD'S HOSPICE	Covid 19 Response - unrestricted gift
18/01/2021	£120,000	£1,213,758	INSTITUTE OF HEALTH VISITING	A 3 year unrestricted grant to ]wards core costs of Mental Health Team
18/01/2021	£15,000	£7,399,306	ESSEX WILDLIFE TRUST	A one-off grant towrds a citizen science survey to raise profile of seagrass habitat. This will help understand better and reduce coastal recreational pressure on seagrass meadows and coastal wildlife on the Blackwater Estuary.
18/01/2021	£1,000		HORN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION	A one off gift from Family Fund
07/12/2020	£5,000	£904,840	CHELMSFORD CHESS	A one off gift from Family Fund
10/09/2020	£25,000	£24,938,564	IMPETUS-PEF	COVID-19 Recovery - A one off unrestricted grant to support their work influencing policy and decision-makers so that all young people get the support they need to succeed in school, and the tranisition to further educastion and into work.
10/09/2020	£75,000	£5,005,672	YOUNG MINDS TRUST	A new 3 year commitment to support the policy influencing work around children and young people's wellbeing and mental health.
10/09/2020	£40,000	£1,069,959	BEST BEGINNINGS	A one off grant towards the work of compiling the fathers content of the updated Baby Buddy App. The work is being done in partnership with the Future Men and the Fatherhood Institute.
10/09/2020	£25,000	£42,563	ASSOCIATION FOR VIDEO INTERACTIVE GUIDANCE	A one off grant towards establishing a new national data collection system. This willincrease the evidence of this intervention to promote sesitivity and attunement in the interaction between parents and infants.
10/09/2020	£24,106		UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON	The grant will support the Education and Research in Medical Nutrition Network (ERimNN) run a pilot project to research the food experince of patients and how nutritional care is provided on hospital wards. The pilot will take place in 4. clinical areas involving nurses and dietitians to identify concenrs and create practical solutions.
10/09/2020	£30,000		QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON FOUNDATION	A one off grant towards a large clinical trial of Vitamin D supplementation to reduce risk and/or severity of COVID-19. The project represents a collaboration between academics at multiple UK universities.
10/09/2020	£75,000	£330,470	PARENT INFANT FOUNDATION	A new 3 year commitment towards the policy work of supporting the growth and quality of specialised paretn-infant relationship teams across the UK. They plan to strengthen the First 1001 Days Movement, so that every baby has a loving and nurturing relationship as a critical foudnation for theri emotional and physical wellbeing.
29/04/2020	£4,000	£52,557,000	THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY	COVID-19 Response - donation online training of CHHAT staff
29/04/2020	£10,000	£5,427,092	YOUNG MINDS TRUST	COVID-19 Response - unrestricted
29/04/2020	£3,000	£941,062	ST PAUL'S HOSTEL	COVID-19 Response - unrestricted
29/04/2020	£3,000	£115,791	MALVERN HILLS FOODBANK	COVID-19 Response - unrestricted
29/04/2020	£10,000	£147,851,000	ACTION FOR CHILDREN	COVID-19 Response - unrestricted
29/04/2020	£10,000	£5,239,978	WOMEN'S AID FEDERATION	COVID-19 Response - unrestricted
29/04/2020	£10,000	£1,610,337	RESPECT	COVID-19 Response - unrestricted
10/04/2020	£10,000	£5,742,450	ESSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	COVID-19 Response - donation towards families in crisis
03/04/2020	£104,277	£1,163,602	INSTITUTE OF HEALTH VISITING	a new 3 year grant towards delivery of consistent and evidence based nutirional and oral health advice to all families in UK through Health Visiting Services. The "Healthy Weight, Healthy Nutrition" HV champion training will be extened to a wider group of professionals, enhanced, updated and electronic resources developed.
03/04/2020	£105,000		CULINARY MEDICINE UK	a new 3 year grant to cover core costs to complete and integrate the CMUK online courses for Qualified Healthcare professionals and ensure they are responding to the needs of participant and capturing the impact. They will improve marketing, including webiste and social media.
03/04/2020	£105,000	£15,645	SURVIVORS (NORTH WEST)	NNEdPro were awrded a new 3 year grant to continue to develop its Nutrition Edication Policy for Healthcare/Health Systems Practice project. It plans to address the gaps identified in the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, adapt its educational materials for Gp's, deliver education sessions, as well as continuing to influence policy matters.
03/04/2020	£10,000	£151,487	COLLEGE OF MEDICINE	A 6 month development grant in order to better understand the need for nutrition education and how best to address this, including content and delivery method. The work will focus on social prescribing.
03/04/2020	£105,000		NUTRITANK	A new 3 year grant to support their core costs: staffing, website, marketing, finances and annual conference. Their objective is to see the next generation of healthcare professionlas empowered to motivate their patients to change their dietary behaviour. The grant wil help them to develop their websiteas an online hub for food, nutrition and lifestyle medicine for medical students and healthcare professionlas in order to gain greater support for their cause and uptake of utritional training.
03/04/2020	£30,000	£15,645	SURVIVORS (NORTH WEST)	A coalition project co-ordinated by NNEdPro was awarded a 1 year grant to hold five coalition and regional networking meetings. \this will enable improvements in information exchange in order to avoid duplication and confusion, assist in guidance around education delivery, and provide a unified voice for policy and decision makers.
15/01/2020	£15,000	£77,302,000	PRINCE'S TRUST	one off grant rtowards Get Started Games DesignProgramme
08/11/2019	£5,000	£542,250	CHELMSFORD CHESS	one off gift
02/10/2019	£75,000	£52,557,000	THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY	A further 3 year grant towards Children's hidden harm project (CHHAT) in Essex supporting 8-19 year olds cope with caring for parents with mental health needs especailly substance abuse.
02/10/2019	£75,034	£2,794,217	42ND STREET	A new 3 year funding towards part-time trainig co-ordinator for the development and delivery of training to practitioners about deescalation of young people's mental health crisis.
02/10/2019	£15,000	£3,345,640	NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION	A one off seed grant to NeF towards developing a UK Wellbeing budget that could be implemented for government department budgets.

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Cumulative Grants

Amount	Grantee
£224,277	INSTITUTE OF HEALTH VISITING
£187,000	NUTRITANK COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
£171,000	SURVIVORS (NORTH WEST)
£160,000	BEST BEGINNINGS
£117,000	CULINARY MEDICINE UK
£105,000	YOUTHSCAPE NATIONAL
£105,000	HOME-START UK
£100,000	ESMEE FAIRBAIRN FOUNDATION
£90,000	PRINCE'S TRUST
£90,000	BEAVER TRUST
£89,295	PARENT INFANT FOUNDATION LTD
£85,000	YOUNG MINDS TRUST
£79,000	THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
£75,034	42ND STREET
£75,000	YOUTH ACCESS
£75,000	SYNCHRONICITY EARTH
£55,000	IMPETUS-PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATIONO
£50,000	SCHOOL FOOD MATTERS
£50,000	ASSOCIATION FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH
£44,055	COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
£40,250	CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
£35,250	HOT OR COOL INSTITUTE GGMBH
£33,550	BLUE MARINE FOUNDATION
£31,500	THE BIG GIVE TRUST
£30,000	WILD YOUNG PARENTS PROJECT
£30,000	RIVER ACTION UK
£30,000	QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON FOUNDATION
£30,000	CENTRAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC INTEREST CIC
£26,500	WEALL
£25,000	SUSTAIN
£25,000	FOOD FOUNDATION
£25,000	ASSOCIATION FOR VIDEO INTERACTIVE GUIDANCE
£24,106	UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON
£15,000	NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION
£15,000	ESSEX WILDLIFE TRUST
£10,000	CHELMSFORD CHESS
£10,000	WOMEN'S AID FEDERATION
£10,000	THE COUNTRY TRUST
£10,000	RESPECT
£10,000	ESSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
£10,000	ACTION FOR CHILDREN
£5,000	ST PAUL'S HOSTEL
£5,000	INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE UK
£3,000	THE OUTWARD BOUND TRUST
£3,000	MALVERN HILLS FOODBANK
£2,000	SUFFOLK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
£2,000	ST RICHARD'S HOSPICE
£2,000	PCC KEMPSEY
£2,000	NEW STARTS
£2,000	ACORN CHILDREN'S HOSPICE TRUST
£1,000	THE SILVER LINE
£1,000	THE CHRISTIE NHS TRUST CHARITY BUSINESS
£1,000	THE CHARLIE WALLER TRUST
£1,000	SNAPE SCHOOL PARENT & STAFF ASS
£1,000	NCYPE T/AS YOUNG EPILEPSY
£1,000	INSIDE OUT COMMUITY ARTS IN MENTAL HEALTH
£1,000	HORN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
£1,000	HOMESTART ISLE OF WIGHT
£1,000	FRIENDS OF ST NICHOLAS FIELDS
£1,000	BRITISH RED CROSS \|SOCIETY