Dormywood Trust
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The Dormywood Trust, established in England in 2017 (originally as The Currey Foundation and renamed in 2020), is a grant-making charitable trust dedicated to funding practical, community-led solutions for pressing social and environmental challenges. Its mission emphasizes empowering grassroots organizations to drive sustainable change, with core values of empowerment, safety, wellbeing, and social justice for disadvantaged groups. Distinctively proactive, the Trust identifies and invites aligned charities rather than accepting unsolicited applications, fostering long-term strategic partnerships focused on evidence-based impact in underfunded areas.
It prioritizes four targeted themes: relieving food poverty (e.g., clean water access like Water for Kids in Uganda), tackling male violence against women and girls (e.g., Rosa Fund’s Stand With Us for women-led services and onward grants), environmental conservation and innovation (e.g., Rewilding Britain’s UK-wide habitat restoration), and arts-based creativity fostering positive outcomes for children and young people. Beneficiaries include children, youth, women and girls, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, the elderly, and the general public. Grants support projects, core costs, capacity building, seed funding, unrestricted support, and onward granting through partners, emphasizing direct services, innovation, and collaboration.
Eligible entities are UK-registered organizations (not individuals), primarily grassroots and small- to medium-sized charities with under £1 million annual turnover, operating principally in England and Wales but open to UK-wide or thematic international work. Typical grants range from £5,000 to £50,000, with decisions at biannual trustee meetings (or more as needed) on an invitation-only basis—no open rounds, deadlines, or speculative approaches accepted. Exclusions include unsolicited requests and non-aligned activities; its unique edge lies in strategic, high-impact investments catalyzing measurable change for people and planet.
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Dormywood Trust typically provides grants ranging from £5,000 - £50,000.
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Dormywood Trust funds charities operating in UK.
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