About the grants data

Data updated 15 July 2026

Everything the /grants tool tells you comes from public sources, compiled and checked by us. This page sets out, in full, what those sources are, what we did to the data, what we deliberately left out, and how to ask us to correct or remove something.

Where the data comes from

Your charity’s name, purposes, classification, area of operation and latest income are read from the register of the Charity Commission for England and Wales, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We mirror the register weekly and keep only the fields the matching needs.

Funder profiles and giving patterns come from two open datasets: 360Giving (individual funders’ own published grants data) and UK Grantmaking (an annual compiled picture of UK grant-making, © 360Giving), both used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Where a funder publishes its own grants under 360Giving, we attribute figures drawn from that dataset to the funder itself — the giving history is theirs, not ours.

This data has been modified.We filter it (to active, genuinely open funders), match it against your charity’s register entry, and derive figures such as a typical award size from the underlying published grants. What you see on /grants is therefore a derived, compiled product built from these open sources — not any one source republished unchanged. We only ever ingest datasets published under CC-BY 4.0, CC0 or OGL; datasets under other licences (or carrying additional-permission caveats) are excluded from the pipeline entirely.

How matching works, honestly

A funder only appears as a match if it passes four checks: it is active and gives a meaningful amount to organisations each year; its stated area of giving genuinely covers your charity’s region or local authority (we never treat a bare “England” entry as a real geographic match); its interests overlap with your charity’s purposes on at least two independent signals; and, where it publishes its grants, its actual giving history supports the match. Matches are labelled Strong, Good or Possible — check carefullybased on how many of those signals fired — never rounded up, never padded. A typical-award figure is shown only where we hold enough real, published grants to calculate one honestly; most funders in the UK don’t publish that level of detail, and we say nothing rather than guess.

Known limits, stated plainly: our register coverage is England and Wales only (not Scotland’s OSCR or Northern Ireland’s CCNI register); we don’t hold live application deadlines, because they change often and we’d rather send you to the funder’s own website than risk telling you something stale; and only a minority of funders publish enough grants data for a typical-award figure to exist at all.

Showing a funder’s recent grants

Where a funder publishes its own grants under 360Giving, and its recent giving overlaps what your charity does, a match card can show a few of those real, recent grants — the amount, the year, the organisation that received it, and a short description — under “Recent grants like yours”. This is published grant data shown as the funder released it, attributed to the 360Giving publishers it comes from and used under their Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 or Open Government Licence terms. We only ever show grants made to organisations, never to a named individual. If a funder hasn’t published grant-level data, we simply don’t show this section rather than infer anything.

Showing a funder’s own guidance

For some funders, a match card can also show “From the funder’s guidance” — short, word-for-word quotations from the funder’s own published guidance about who they do and don’t fund, each with a link to the exact page it came from. We never paraphrase a funder’s rules without showing their original words alongside, we always attribute and link the source, and we show when we last checked it — guidance changes, so the funder’s own website is always the place to confirm before applying. Where a funder’s published rule looks like it may collide with your charity’s register entry, we flag it as “Why it may not fit”— a prompt to check, never a verdict, and it never hides or re-ranks a match. If we haven’t checked a funder’s guidance, the card says so plainly rather than guessing.

If you are a funder and would like a quotation corrected, updated or removed, email us using the address below — removal takes effect as soon as we action it, and we respond within 5 working days.

What we deliberately don’t hold

The Charity Commission register also contains personal information — trustee names, for example — which the Open Government Licence does not extend to. We do not ingest trustee or individual-contact data into this tool at all, and no funder or charity page here ever names an individual. Every fact shown is about the registered organisation, not a person, and links back to the official register entry, which remains the source of record.

Update cadence

The whole pipeline — register mirror, funder profiles and matches — refreshes weekly. The date above reflects the last successful refresh; if it ever falls more than two weeks out of date, this page will show that honestly (in the colour above) rather than quietly display a stale number as if it were current.

Corrections and takedown requests

If something here about your charity or your organisation is wrong, out of date, or you would like it reviewed or removed, email brad@trusteemeetings.co.uk. We respond within 5 working days, and we would rather remove or correct a page than leave something wrong on the record.

Comparable questions

This tool is not fundraising or financial advice, and using it does not involve TrusteeMeetings soliciting money on any charity’s behalf — see our terms of use for the full position. For how we handle your personal information if you ask us to email you a copy of your list, see our privacy notice.