Resources
Here you’ll find resources and websites to help potential and current grant holders.
Preservation and conservation
Useful websites:
- Architectural Heritage Fund
- Association of Independent Museums
- Collections Trust
- Conservation at the British Library
- Church Care – The Church of England
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- English Heritage
- Friends of Friendless Churches
- The Georgian Group
- Heritage Help
- Historic Buildings & Places
- Historic England
- Historic Environment Scotland
- Museums Association
- National Churches Trust
- Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
- Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
- The Institute of Conservation
- The National Archives
- The Victorian Society
Social change
Useful websites:
Research and publications
Useful publications and reports Social Change:
- Empowering Minds: Transforming Young Women’s Mental Health by Centre for Mental Health (commissioned by the Pilgrim Trust) published 2025
- Pilgrim Trust Applicant Perception Research NfP Reseach (Perceptions of the Young Women in Mind grant programme) published 2025
- The role of philanthropy in addressing the girls and young womens mental health crisis (A report for the Prudence Trust and the Pilgrim Trust by Agenda Alliance and the Centre for Young Lives) published 2025
- Experiences of Minority Ethnic Women Defendants in English Criminal Courts Jenny Johnstone, Yulia Chistyakova and Bankole Cole published 2024
- Lund Trust & Pilgrim Trust: Light Pollution in the UK: Research for Potential Funders by Emma Wells published 2023
- First Year Evaluation Report – The Pilgrim Trust’s Young Women’s Mental Health Programme by Centre for Mental Health published 2023
- Routes to power & influence for UK women’s organisations by Natasha Adams, Jim Coe, Katie Finnegan-Clarke & Sonia Long published 2022
- Voices From Lockdown: One Year on: A way forward for women and girls. Executive Summary. By Agenda published 2021
- All The Elements x The Pilgrim Trust: How Funding Bodies Can Create Change on Diversity in UK Walking and Hiking published 2021
- Hard Edges: Mapping severe and multiple disadvantage by Lankelly Chase Foundation published 2015
Useful publications and reports Preservation and Conservation:
Trusts, foundations and general fundraising
Useful websites:
- Bernard Sunley
- Charities Aid Foundation
- Charity Commission for England and Wales
- Clore Duffield Foundation
- Clothworkers’ Company
- Directory of Social Change
- Drapers’ Company
- Dulverton Trust
- Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
- Foyle Foundation
- Garfield Weston Foundation
- Goldsmith Company
- The Henry Smith Charity
- National Lottery Heritage Fund
- John Ellerman Foundation
- Lankelly Chase Foundation
- Mercers Company
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation
- The Rayne Foundation
- Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts
- Prince’s Trust
- Tudor Trust
- The Wolfson Foundation
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