The Charity
The Grocers’ Company has a long tradition of charitable giving and philanthropy
Our Response to COVID-19
April 2021
The Grocers' Charity continues to offer reassurance that we stand with the charity sector during this time. We understand charities may need to adapt their activities and may require more time to submit information due to high levels of furloughed staff. We continue to support core costs and regular programming, not only projects.
On top of our regular grantmaking, and the additional £150,000 in 2020 to support charities during the pandemic, we have invested an additional £60,000 to support more pandemic related issues in 2021 and £50,000 in 2022.
August 2020
On top of our regular grantmaking, the Grocers' Charity has identified over twenty charities working to relieve the ongoing impact of COVID-19. To date, in total, we gifted an additional £150,000, £40,000 more due to a Campaign we ran in July 2020 to support charities helping people with long-term illnesses, homelessness, mental health and isolated, vulnerable individuals.
April 2020
On top of our regular grantmaking, and the gifted additional £110,000 to support charities helping people with long-term illnesses, homelessness, mental health, and initiatives helping isolated, vulnerable individuals, we plan to find additional funds to support more pandemic related issues in 2021.The Grocers' Charity is one of hundreds of funders which have signed a COVID-19 Funder Statement.
Also, beginning in April, the Grocers' Company, Merchant Taylors' Company, Drapers' Company and events organiser Party Ingredients established the NHS Livery Kitchens Initiative. We aim to feed NHS frontline workers each day with nutritious, individually-packed meals from our kitchens in the City to help reduce the burden on hospital canteens and to provide a morale boost through a delicious meal. Currently, we support four hospitals: St Bartholomew's, The Royal London, Newham and Whipps Cross.
About the Grocers' Charity
Philanthropy connects the Grocers’ past, present and future commitment to its historical ethos found in early ordinances ‘to be a nursery of charities and a seminary of good citizens’. As a small grant awarding body, our mission is to invest in and support a broad range of small and medium sized UK registered charities which together make a demonstrable positive impact on public benefit.
Our focus
We support long-term bursaries and in-kind commitments to educational institutions to help students who benefit from financial assistance, and students who benefit from mentoring and work experience opportunities. We support the preservation of churches we have an historic link with.
For our open grants, we support charities that improve the quality of life for people and communities. We fund core costs and new or existing projects or programmes. The areas we fund can be found on the Apply for a Grant page.
Environment & Climate Change is a funding focus to the end of 2022. Learn more here.
Our
values
- Engaging with a wide range of charities supporting a diverse range of challenging circumstances
- Having open dialogue with other funders, researchers and the charity sector
- Keeping an open policy to remain flexible responding to the most pressing needs
- Partnering with other funders and individuals to contribute to longer-term social investment
- Committing to continuous improvement by reducing the environmental impact of our investments and operations
The Grocers’ Charity is a member of the ACF (Association of Charitable Foundations). The Charity Manager is a Trustee of ACF.
The Grocers' Charity publishes its annual grant giving data with 360Giving. This service helps grantmakers and donors improve their charitable giving. Using the 360Giving data requirements, please find an excel spreadsheet on the grants we awarded in a given year below:
This data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to be used and shared as they wish; with the data being attributed to the Grocers' Charity and that any changes made are indicated publically.
The Grocers’ Charity is registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales with number 255230. The Grocers’ Charity is administered by The Grocers’ Trust Company Limited with the Company number 00928562.