Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Analysis of Grants Made

In this period 57 donations have been made totalling £301,885 to 52 organisations

Where are the Beneficiaries?

How big are the Recipients? ?

Which activities are being funded?

How old were the charities when supported?

Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)

Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?

	By Value	By Number
The National Lottery Community Fund	53%	56%
Two Ridings Community Foundation	46%	46%
DCMS	32%	29%
Joseph Rowntree Foundation	26%	29%
Co-operative Group	26%	29%
Joseph Rowntree Foundation	20%	29%
Garfield Weston Foundation	17%	19%
Masonic Charitable Foundation	14%	12%
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales	10%	10%
The Shears Foundation	9%	10%

Sole supporter: 37% by number, 35% by value.

Individual Grants Made

When	Amount	Annual Spending	Grantee	To be used for
10/05/2022	£4,222	£234,806	KYRA WOMEN'S PROJECT	Partnership project with Peasholme Charity, whereby a Peasholme worker will come to Kyra twice a month to deliver their service on a 1:1 basis to increase women’s personal financial capability skills and empower them to make long-term positive changes in the management of their personal finances
10/05/2022	£4,976	£103,517	YORK CITY KNIGHTS FOUNDATION	Free of charge multi-sport activities within various targeted sites within the city, which have been identified as areas facing significant challenges. This will include holiday activities for children and young people age 5-14
10/05/2022	£7,515		YORK TRAVELLERS TRUST	Funding towards running a community cohesion project, aiming to build relationships between the local community in Clifton and the Gypsy and Traveller community
10/05/2022	£5,000	£24,127	YORK WOMEN'S COUNSELLING SERVICE	Funding towards core running costs of a counselling service for women in the York area who are experiencing difficulties as a result of current or past emotional stress and trauma, regardless of their ability to pay and for as long as they need it
15/02/2022	£6,488		BELLFARM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION	Funding towards purchasing laptops, tablets and software in order to help people access their benefits accounts and learn IT skills
15/02/2022	£7,459	£32,438	BIG FUTURES FOUNDATION	Counselling and Family Activity Group (Life Skills work) for children and families who attend Hob Moor Primary in York
15/02/2022	£4,139		CAFé NEURO YORK	Funding towards recruiting a dedicated freelance Project Worker to help build and develop peer support cafes for people with and affected by neurological conditions
15/02/2022	£7,000	£577,378	COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE	Funding towards running an IT Re-Use Scheme, which provides hardware and software to people experiencing digital poverty in York by reconditioning and distributing donated devices
15/02/2022	£4,809		EXPERIENCE COUNTS YORK CIC	Programme in Tang Hall for unemployed people over 50 aiming to find their hidden talents, build confidence and help them move into employment, self-employment, volunteering or further training
15/02/2022	£4,450	£34,338	FOXWOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE	Funding towards a proportion of the Foxwood Community Hub’s running costs and running tailored summer holiday events
15/02/2022	£5,000	£17,529	OUR FATHERS HEART	Funding towards a project helping people with experience of addiction and / or the criminal justice system into employment through working as baristas on a mobile hot drinks unit
15/02/2022	£4,719		READING TOGETHER YORK CIC	Funding towards core running costs of accessible reading groups for people living on a low income
15/02/2022	£5,000	£384,360	RESTORE (YORK) LIMITED	Funding towards salary costs of a Floating Support Worker who will provide support for Restore clients after they have left Restore accommodation to enable the transition to independent living
15/02/2022	£5,000		THE COLLECTIVE SHAREHOUSE LIMITED	Funding towards running costs of a ‘give & take as you feel’ Sharehouse, which distributes food and essential household goods currently from Clements Hall in York
15/02/2022	£3,806		THRIVE OUTSIDE CIC	Projects based outdoors to help people engage in green woodwork, craft skills and nature activities
15/02/2022	£5,205		TOOLBOX DRAMA CIC	Performing arts activities for adults with learning difficulties & other additional needs to help build confidence & reduce isolation for both the vulnerable adults, their carers and support network
15/02/2022	£5,250	£188,921	WELFARE BENEFITS UNIT	Funding towards core costs, in particular for adviser salaries and IT upgrades
15/02/2022	£8,450	£160,492	YORK CITY CHURCH	Funding towards running a monthly pop-up fusion English & Arabic afternoon tea project, specifically working alongside refugees and asylum seekers in York who have previously not been able to volunteer or work
15/02/2022	£6,940	£80,709	YORK LGBT FORUM	Funding towards running coffee socials, a safe space for LGBTQ+ people over 18 to come and meet individuals with a shared life experience and identity, with additional 1:1 support as a stepping-stone into the wider community for people who may find it difficult to access group settings
15/02/2022	£5,780	£42,383	YORK RACIAL EQUALITY NETWORK	Funding towards local community capacity building through volunteering and sessional worker opportunities within York Racial Equality Network
11/05/2021	£7,390		COTERMINOUS CIC	Co-production of a hardback book, alongside people affected by homelessness, aiming to more accurately reflect the true nature of homelessness
11/05/2021	£5,000	£336,865	FRIENDS OF ST NICHOLAS FIELDS	Funding towards delivery of Green Woodwork sessions as a creative way to connect with others and with nature.
11/05/2021	£4,560	£68,776	MARYGATE PRESCHOOL	Provision of free access to pre-school learning and development opportunities for families in or at risk of being pulled into poverty
11/05/2021	£5,000	£404,504	MYSIGHT YORK	Contribution towards the organisation's overall core costs - enabling them to support local people to live well with sight loss and make confident choices about their lives.
11/05/2021	£5,000	£88,862	OLDER CITIZENS ADVOCACY YORK	Funding towards delivery of comprehensive advocacy support to clients experiencing or at risk of being pulled into poverty
11/05/2021	£7,213	£104,133	REFUGEE ACTION YORK	Partnership project enabling refugees and asylum seekers to maximise their income by facilitating their access to specialist welfare benefits advice
11/05/2021	£6,340		TRANSITIONS YORK CIC	Provision of mental health support and alternatives to conventional routes through a mix of Equine Therapy and a Woodland Wellbeing Group.
11/05/2021	£5,000	£37,810,000	VICTIM SUPPORT (NORTH YORKSHIRE)	Targeted online/cyber-crime prevention project, providing info, advice & support to enable more vulnerable residents in York to stay safe online & prevent online fraud & scams.
16/02/2021	£5,000	£1,630,983	AGE UK YORK	A project to support older people on low incomes who have become particularly isolated through the pandemic, helping to rebuild their social connections, routines and sources of support.
16/02/2021	£8,000		BIOMATION PRODUCTIONS CIC	Funding towards delivery of free community recording and rehearsal studio, music training and music-based mentoring service for young disadvantaged people aged 14-25.
16/02/2021	£5,433	£427,691	CITIZENS ADVICE YORK	To deliver a women’s outreach advice service located within York Women’s Wellness Centre, which is a gender specific, inclusive service for women experiencing multiple and complex needs
16/02/2021	£6,000	£228,834	DOOR 84	Contribution of funding towards enabling delivery of Door 84's 'Community Sparks' project - a social and creative group for disabled adults and their carers.
16/02/2021	£4,524	£35,436	FOXWOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE	Funding towards maintaining and developing the delivery of twice weekly surplus food sessions and other activities via the Foxwood Community Hub.
16/02/2021	£4,950	£120,728	KYRA WOMEN'S PROJECT	Delivery of the ROSE Project (Reaching Out, Supporting, and Empowering), helping young women (aged 18-26) to build social networks, improve their health & wellbeing and build skills & confidence.
16/02/2021	£5,000	£102,867	PEASHOLME CHARITY	Contribution towards organisation's overall core costs - enabling them to tackle homelessness, poverty & social exclusion through 1:1 support, community based drop-in activities & advice services
16/02/2021	£5,022	£146,872	THE SNAPPY TRUST	Inclusive programme of activities for disabled children and their families in York.
05/05/2020	£4,971		YORK TRAVELLERS TRUST	To recruit and train a Support Worker from the Gypsy and Traveller Community to support other gypsies and travellers with benefits and debt advice and advocacy support
05/05/2020	£3,500	£15,423	1-2-1 COUNSELLING	To provide counselling for individuals who would not be able to afford it
05/05/2020	£6,223	£21,509	BIG FUTURES FOUNDATION	To deliver a school-based counselling and life skills programme for disadvantaged children and their families
05/05/2020	£4,886	£112,229	CLEMENTS HALL TRUST	To relaunch their Greet, Eat and Meet (GEM) sessions combined with monthly drop-in welfare benefits advocacy support from Older Citizens Advocacy
05/05/2020	£5,075	£42,559	FAMILY MATTERS YORK	To deliver parenting courses to families to help prevent relationship and family breakdown, which can often lead to poverty
05/05/2020	£4,000	£125,550	HOME-START YORK	To recruit, train and support a new cohort of home-visiting volunteers
05/05/2020	£6,666	£104,133	REFUGEE ACTION YORK	To deliver their Information and Support Service to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in York
05/05/2020	£4,904	£1,145,116	YORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE	To develop the work of the York Dementia Action Alliance and create a co-designed service with people living with dementia
05/05/2020	£4,950	£309,072	YORK CITY FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION	To provide free multi-activity days and access to healthy snacks during the school holidays in October half-term and Easter
05/05/2020	£4,164	£37,851	YORK LGBT FORUM	To run a series of 'Coffee Socials', which aim, to bring people from the LGBT communities in York together to reduce their social isolation and gain access to information, advice and support around benefits advice, debt management and other identified issues
05/05/2020	£4,910		YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY	To support adults with mental ill health to progress from being ‘service users’ to ‘tutors with lived experience’ who receive payment for the work they do, rather than be volunteers
05/05/2020	£4,785		EXPERIENCE COUNTS (YORK) CIC	To run a programme in Tang Hall to help people rebuild their self-confidence and help them back into employment, training, education or volunteering
25/02/2020	£4,980		COMMUNITY BEES CIC	To run a weekly support group in New Earswick to help reduce social isolation and improve health and wellbeing
25/02/2020	£4,893		GOOD ORGANISATION (SOCIAL VENTURES) CIC	To enable people affected by homelessness to create and develop tailored audio tours in York
25/02/2020	£5,100	£33,053	MAINSTAY	To run digital skills training for individuals with mental ill health and additional support needs such as homelessness
25/02/2020	£4,550	£40,211	MOVE THE MASSES	To increase capacity building and organisational development work, specifically relating to the organisation’s ‘Move Mates’ project
25/02/2020	£5,000	£75,354	MUSICAL CONNECTIONS	To provide weekly community based music groups for vulnerable and isolated older people, 2 community choirs and intergenerational projects with schools
25/02/2020	£6,303	£1,361,299	SASH	To provide a range of activities for young people that have faced or have been at risk of homelessness, including social activities and 1:1 support with claiming benefits & budgeting
25/02/2020	£3,735	£105,586	TANG HALL COMMUNITY CENTRE	To develop the growing group established as part of the Food Co-op, involving professional support and advice from commercial growers
25/02/2020	£5,000	£494,386	YORK CARERS CENTRE	To run a Mental Health Carers Support Group for carers who are new to caring for someone with mental ill health and/or carers for someone transitioning to adult services
25/02/2020	£2,650	£23,627	YORK WOMEN'S COUNSELLING	To increase organisational capacity to provide 1:1 counselling to vulnerable women through the extension of their dedicated Coach and Mentor role

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Cumulative Grants

Amount	Grantee
£13,879	REFUGEE ACTION YORK
£13,682	BIG FUTURES FOUNDATION
£11,104	YORK LGBT FORUM
£9,172	KYRA WOMEN'S PROJECT
£8,450	YORK CITY CHURCH
£8,000	BIOMATION PRODUCTIONS CIC
£7,650	YORK WOMEN'S COUNSELLING SERVICE
£7,515	YORK TRAVELLERS TRUST
£7,390	COTERMINOUS CIC
£7,000	COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE
£6,488	BELLFARM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
£6,340	TRANSITIONS YORK CIC
£6,303	SASH
£6,000	DOOR 84
£5,780	YORK RACIAL EQUALITY NETWORK
£5,433	CITIZENS ADVICE YORK
£5,250	WELFARE BENEFITS UNIT
£5,205	TOOLBOX DRAMA CIC
£5,100	MAINSTAY
£5,075	FAMILY MATTERS YORK
£5,022	THE SNAPPY TRUST
£5,000	YORK CARERS CENTRE
£5,000	VICTIM SUPPORT (NORTH YORKSHIRE)
£5,000	THE COLLECTIVE SHAREHOUSE LIMITED
£5,000	RESTORE (YORK) LIMITED
£5,000	PEASHOLME CHARITY
£5,000	OUR FATHERS HEART
£5,000	OLDER CITIZENS ADVOCACY YORK
£5,000	MYSIGHT YORK
£5,000	MUSICAL CONNECTIONS
£5,000	FRIENDS OF ST NICHOLAS FIELDS
£5,000	AGE UK YORK
£4,980	COMMUNITY BEES CIC
£4,976	YORK CITY KNIGHTS FOUNDATION
£4,971	YORK TRAVELLERS TRUST
£4,950	YORK CITY FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION
£4,910	YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY
£4,904	YORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE
£4,893	GOOD ORGANISATION (SOCIAL VENTURES) CIC
£4,886	CLEMENTS HALL TRUST
£4,809	EXPERIENCE COUNTS YORK CIC
£4,785	EXPERIENCE COUNTS (YORK) CIC
£4,719	READING TOGETHER YORK CIC
£4,560	MARYGATE PRESCHOOL
£4,550	MOVE THE MASSES
£4,524	FOXWOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE
£4,450	FOXWOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE
£4,139	CAFé NEURO YORK
£4,000	HOME-START YORK
£3,806	THRIVE OUTSIDE CIC
£3,735	TANG HALL COMMUNITY CENTRE
£3,500	1-2-1 COUNSELLING