# The Directory of Grant Making Trusts to be published in September

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2025/07/09/the-directory-of-grant-making-trusts-to-be-published-in-september/
- Published: 2025-07-09T15:11:09+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The 29th edition of the UK’s “best-selling guide to funding from grant-making 
charities” will be published in September, and can be pre-ordered now. **

The directory, published by the Directory of Social Change, provides information
on the sources of around **£8.9 billion** in funding available from **over 2,000
funders** listed in the book. This sum represents a **£1.99 billion increase** on
the last edition.

Each of the funders featured has the potential to give **at least £50,000** per 
year.

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The directory helps fundraisers save time on finding funding prospects and target
just those grantmakers which are relevant to their charity. It can also reveal new
or changed funders that they were not aware of. Indeed, this edition includes 142
grantmaking trusts are are “completely new” to the Directory.

The 29th edition features:

 * concise information, contact details (including social media accounts where available)
   on each grantmaker
 * total amounts of funding available from each grantmaker
 * examples of beneficiaries in each listing, in order to help fundraisers understand
   what kinds of projects were recently funded
 * details from the grantmakers about which project types can or cannot qualify 
   for funding

It also includes indexes by geographical area, field of interest, type of beneficiary,
type of grant and type of organisation.

This edition was edited by Kalli Jayasuriya, who is part of the research team, having
joined DSC in 2023.

The Directory of Grant Making Trusts will be published in hardback in September 
2025, running to about 776 pages. It is available for pre-order from DSC for £135.

The Directory of Social Change publishes other books on funding including:

 * [The Guide to Major Trusts 2025/26](http://www.dsc.org.uk/gmt)
 * and [The Guide to New Trusts 2025/26](http://www.dsc.org.uk/gnt).

## From the horse’s mouth

As an example of some of the remarkably broad range of grantmaking trusts’ interests,
here’s DSC’s LinkedIn announcement featuring a trust that gives to… “equine dental
equipment”!

 * **[Save 20% on these new book titles](https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/04/26/save-20-these-new-book-titles/)**(
   26 April 2000)
 * **[Directory of Social Change's year in numbers](https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/01/17/directory-social-change039s-year-numbers/)**(
   17 January 2004)
 * **[Howard Lake speaking at DSC's Charityfair](https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/04/25/howard-lake-speaking-dsc039s-charityfair/)**(
   25 April 2004)