# DSC opens pre-orders for The Guide to New Trusts 2026/27

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2026/10/01/dsc-opens-pre-orders-for-the-guide-to-new-trusts-2026-27/
- Published: 2026-10-01T11:15:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Directory of Social Change (DSC) has opened pre-orders for The Guide to New
Trusts 2026/27, a digital-only guide identifying more than 100 newly registered 
grant-making charities. **

The 15th edition of the guide will be published on Monday 12 October 2026 as a downloadable
PDF, priced at £85.

Written by DSC senior researcher Jessica Threlfall, the guide profiles trusts and
foundations registered in 2025/26, selected for their broad geographical reach and
diverse funding interests. Each entry sets out a funder’s aims and objectives, the
causes and project types it does and does not support, contact details, application
guidelines and, where available, its social media accounts.

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The edition also includes progress reports on a selection of high-performing funders
identified in earlier editions, tracking how they have developed since they were
first profiled.

Anyone pre-ordering the guide will also receive a research document analysing how
new trusts have evolved over the past 15 years, ahead of the main publication reaching
subscribers on 12 October.

## 40 pages of new content

DSC has produced this research annually for well over a decade, and the guide has
become a fixture for fundraisers focused on staying up to date with trusts and foundations.
Newly established funders are some of the hardest to find through conventional research
routes: they rarely have long track records, established websites or a presence 
on the major funding databases, and many are set up by families or individuals who
prefer to keep a low profile until they have settled on their giving priorities.
That makes early identification valuable.

A trust that has not yet built a reputation, or a queue of applicants, can be more
approachable for a charity making first contact than one that is already well known
and oversubscribed.

[DSC](https://fundraising.co.uk/tag/directory-of-social-change/) says all of the
information in this edition is new compared with the last, rather than a refresh
of existing entries, and it runs to around 40 pages.

The guide sits alongside DSC’s wider Funds Online platform, which brings together
around 8,000 funders and a combined total of £8 billion in funding, for charities
wanting a broader, searchable view of the trusts and foundations landscape alongside
the detail in this guide.

**Andrew Downie**, funding manager at Harbour Ayrshire, is quoted in DSC’s announcement:

“Having been involved in fundraising all of my working life – the last nine years
of which have been fundraising from trusts and foundations – I always find The Guide
to New Trusts to be packed full of the latest funding opportunities. Year on year,
it has been a great source of support for our charity, helping us to secure vital
funds.”

The guide is available to pre-order now on the DSC website, with delivery of the
digital edition confirmed for 12 October 2026.

## Related titles from DSC

 * [**The Directory of Grant Making Trusts 2026/27**](https://fundraising.co.uk/2025/07/09/the-directory-of-grant-making-trusts-to-be-published-in-september/)

 * [**The Complete Fundraising Handbook**](https://fundraising.co.uk/books/the-complete-fundraising-handbook-8th-edition/)

 * [**The Guide to UK Company Giving 2025/26**](https://fundraising.co.uk/books/the-guide-to-uk-company-giving-2025-26/)