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1,486 new grantmakers last year in England and Wales
Howard Lake | 21 May 2014 | News
Last year, 1,468 new grantmaking organisations were established in England and Wales, according to grantmaking researchers New Charities.
The organisation has published Top Trusts 2013, which lists the largest 108 grantmakers from that list. These include several which hold wealth in
According to New Charities, over 40% of the new grantmakers were “irrelevant to professional fundraisers”, so the ‘top trusts’ have been selected from the remaining 872, which were then analysed by prospect research specialists Finbar Cullen, who blogs on UK Fundraising.
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Top Trusts 2013 costs £150 to purchase. It is also available for free to those who take out an annual subscription to New Charities’ monthly Trust List.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.