Brian Mercer Trust

Who they support

The BMCT awards grants to charities and organisations whose aims are: a) Prevention of, or relief from, disadvantage and suffering resulting from poverty, ill-health, or other causes globally.b) Promotion of visual arts, and artistic talent especially in the North West of England.c) Support for charitable community initiatives local to Blackburn, Lancashire

The average annual spending of grantees has been £15 million
The average age of charities supported has been years.

www.brianmercertrust.org

info@brianmercertrust.org

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Blackburn
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Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 1076925

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Analysis of Grants Made

In this period 92 donations have been made totalling £2,671,294 to 57 organisations

Where are the Beneficiaries?

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Which activities are being funded?

How old were the charities when supported?

Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)

Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?

	By Value	By Number
The National Lottery Community Fund	30%	28%
Comic Relief	20%	9%
Pears Foundation	16%	4%
Garfield Weston Foundation	14%	18%
ARCADIA	13%	4%
LUND TRUST	12%	4%
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation	12%	14%
Charles Hayward Foundation	11%	16%
Foundation Scotland	11%	2%
The Henry Smith Charity	11%	7%

Sole supporter: 39% by number, 45% by value.

Individual Grants Made

When	Amount	Annual Spending	Grantee	To be used for
06/06/2024	£30,000	£162,536	AFRICAN ADVENTURE FOUNDATION	Sanitation facilities, clean water, menstrual health education at three schools in Ghana
06/06/2024	£30,000	£841,675	PRAGYA	Supporting smallhoder farmers in Western Kenya develop cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPS)
06/06/2024	£150,000		DRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES INITIATIVE	Developing drug treatments for life-threatening diseases that disproportionately impact poor and marginalized people
01/04/2024	£75,000		THE WHITAKER ORGANISATION	Unrestricted grant to NW Art Gallery
08/03/2024	£45,000	£1,025,243	HELLO WORLD	Unrestricted grant for building solar-powered internet hubs in Uganda and Nepal
08/03/2024	£10,000	£473,596	ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS NETWORK	Sponsorship of Climat Activist Speaker Fund for youth activists in MAPA countries
08/03/2024	£30,000	£272,470	RE-CYCLE	Unrestricted grant for recycling bicycles to African countries
11/12/2023	£6,500	£787,554	CASTLEFIELD GALLERY	Funding NW painters exhibited in gallery's 40th year celebration exhibition
19/07/2023	£20,000		THE FESTIVAL OF MAKING	Uplift of current grant for Blackburn Festival of Making with additional funding for the next two years
19/07/2023	£30,000	£36,372	KAIROS HOUSING	Funding housing and support centre for refugees
19/07/2023	£5,000	£7,533,246	HOME MANCHESTER	Part funding the Manchester Open art exhibition 2024 at Home, Manchester
12/04/2023	£10,000	£473,596	ENVIRONMENTAL FUINDERS NETWORK	Financial support for Climate Activist Speaker Fund for youth activists in MAPA communities
12/04/2023	£30,000	£205,564	OUR SANSAR	Unrestriced grant to benefit the welfare of street children in Nepal
12/04/2023	£8,000	£162,536	AFRICAN ADVENTURE FOUNDATION	Insatallation of latrines and other personal hygiene measures at school in Kinuni, Zanzibar
12/04/2023	£13,400	£693,853	AFGHAN & CENTRAL ASIAN ASSOCIATION	English classes and IT tuition for Afghan and Ukrainians in Blackburn
12/04/2023	£750	£259,783	CRACKERJACK'S CHILDRENS TRUST	Purchase of Bubble Tube and Sensory Curtain for twins with severe autism
12/04/2023	£25,432		BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN BOROUGH COUNCIL	Unrestricted grant to council's community fund
19/01/2023	£30,000	£187,307	POWER FOR THE PEOPLE	Providing sutainable water supply and latrines to school in Osupukiai district of Kenya
19/01/2023	£30,000	£212,556	RAISING FUTURES KENYA	Training and support for Kenyan children and young people, especially women, in poverty
19/01/2023	£2,500	£340,617	STANLEY GRANGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION	Part-funding outdoor gym equipment for residential community for those with complex needs
19/01/2023	£15,000	£48,979	SAMARITANS OF BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN, HYNDBURN AND RIBBLE VALLEY	Part-funding operating costs
19/01/2023	£20,000	£1,886,239	BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE	Unrestricted grant to Blackburn Youth Zone - youth hub for 5-21 year olds
19/10/2022	£15,000	£348,995	DEKI LTD	Supporting agricultural cooperative programme in Togo
19/10/2022	£9,000	£1,684,288	HOPE HEALTH ACTION	Funding two interventions in Ugandan refugee camps, CRADLE VSA bloof pressure monitoring and vitamin supplements
19/10/2022	£9,000	£670,835	CURE INTERNATIONAL	Funding phosphate supplements for Zimbabwean children with rickets
13/07/2022	£4,000		CSEF MONEYWISE	Financial literacy training in two schools locla to Blackburn
13/07/2022	£45,000	£86,457	BLAZE ARTS	Arts and creatvie opportunites for disadvantaged young people
13/07/2022	£12,900	£759,698	KIDS CLUB KAMPALA	Funding independent evaluation of charity's work in Uganda
13/07/2022	£25,000	£28,126,564	CLIENT EARTH	One-off uplift to previous grant for funding legal cases regarding climate change
13/07/2022	£25,000	£8,641,009	GREENPEACE	One-off uplift to previous grant for funding environmental and climate change campaigns
13/07/2022	£25,000	£360,400,000	OXFAM	One-off uplift to previous grant for funding climate change campaigns
13/07/2022	£8,962		BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN BOROUGH COUNCIL	Unrestricted grant to council's community fund
13/04/2022	£26,000		THE WHITAKER MUSEUM & ART GALLERY	Funding exhibition programme and purchase of artwork
13/04/2022	£45,000	£452,203	KIDS CLUB KAMPALA	Unrestricted grant for work with children and families in Uganda
13/04/2022	£10,000	£326,471	LEGS 4 AFRICA	Supply or recyled prosthetic legs to African countries
13/04/2022	£25,000	£16,850,235	CLIENT EARTH	Funding legal cases regarding climate change
13/04/2022	£25,000	£368,800,000	OXFAM	Funding climate change campaigns
13/04/2022	£25,000	£10,591,940	GREENPEACE	Funding environmental and climate change campaigns
13/04/2022	£4,500	£442,714	ENVIRONMENTAL FUINDER NETWORK	Unrestricted grant for environment networking
13/04/2022	£75,000	£856,070	NIGHTSAFE	Funding night shelter for homeless in Blackburn
13/04/2022	£3,000	£210,687	CLEANUPUK	Funding community clean up group in Blackburn
13/04/2022	£75,000	£1,339,504	BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE	Funding Blackburn Youth Zone
13/04/2022	£30,000		THE FESTIVAL OF MAKING	Funding Blackburn Festival of Making
13/04/2022	£2,000	£441,170	LIVING PAINTINGS TRUST	Making art accessible to visually impaired and blind
26/01/2022	£50,000	£1,042,472	AGE UK BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN	Unrestriced grant to Age UK Blackburn with Darwen
26/01/2022	£300,000	£250,405,000	SIGHTSAVERS	Unrestricted grant to Sightsavers
26/01/2022	£30,000	£267,066	RE-CYCLE	Re-cycling bicycles collected and restored in UK and sent to Africa
26/01/2022	£30,000	£564,328	CHASE AFRICA	Enhancing family planning/contraception services in rural Uganda
26/01/2022	£30,000	£92,642	POWER FOR THE PEOPLE	Unrestricted grant for Installing solar-powered electicity and water systems in Northern Uganda
26/01/2022	£30,000	£300,614	HELLO WORLD	Provision of solar-powered, Wi-Fi enabled education huibs in Uganda
26/01/2022	£30,000	£1,024,765	INTERCARE	Recycyling drugs and medical equipment from UK to sub-Saharan Africa
26/01/2022	£30,000	£326,471	LEGS 4 AFRICA	Recycling prosthetic limbs from UK to Africa
22/10/2021	£43,800		THE MAKING ROOMS BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN	Grant to community creative technology centre
22/10/2021	£6,050	£5,595	LANCASHIRE SCHOOLS SAILING ASSOCIATION	Grant to purchase new boat
15/07/2021	£2,500	£654,753	HOPE HEALTH ACTION	Funding community health workers and volunteers to provide maternal and neonatal healthcare in Haiti
15/07/2021	£3,000	£654,753	HOPE HEALTH ACTION	Reduction of micronutrient deficiencies and malnutrition in infants and childrens in Ugandan refugee camps by ditribution of Plumpy Nut supplements
15/07/2021	£16,000	£42,338	LUV+ {LEPROSY AT UTALE VILLAGE PLUS}	Finance income generating projects at Tanzanian Leprosy collony
15/07/2021	£15,000	£397,990	HELLO WORLD	Provision of solar-powered, Wi-Fi enabled education huibs in Uganda
15/07/2021	£4,350	£281,766	CURE INTERNATIONAL	Mobile orthopaedic clinics to serve rural comminities in Malawi
15/07/2021	£20,000	£173,280	AFRICAN ADVENTURE FOUNDATION	Sanitation facilities, clean water, menstrual health education at three schools in Zanzibar
15/07/2021	£150,000		DRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES INITIATIVE	Developing drug treatments for life-threatening diseases that disproportionately impact poor and marginalized people
15/07/2021	£30,000	£175,800	BAREFOOT COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL UK	Reviving three wells in 3 Pygmie communities in Cameroon using solar powered pumps
15/07/2021	£25,000		WESSEX SOCIAL VENTURE C.I.C.	Establishing Right Light solar-powered lighting businesses to replace kerosine lamps that are dangerous to health
15/07/2021	£15,000	£123,509	POWER FOR THE PEOPLE	Installing solar-powered electicity and water systems in Northern Uganda
15/07/2021	£3,000	£241,326	HOPE FOUNDATION	Preparing 70 out-of-school children for school enrollment in Kolkata, India
15/07/2021	£12,500	£21,503	RING 20 RESEARCH AND SUPPORT UK	Support network for families affected by Ring20 chromosonal disorder
15/07/2021	£14,700	£249,792	CARER'S WORLDWIDE	Support for carers of people with mental illness and epilepsy in Odisha, India
15/07/2021	£18,000	£33,368	ADAMI PROJECT	Support for 10 economically inactive young mothers in Sierra Leone to pursue vocational trianing courses
15/07/2021	£5,000	£342,522	PRACTIVAL TOOLS INITIATIVE	Solar-powered water pump supplying 68 houselholds in Eastern Sierra Leone
15/07/2021	£15,000		CSEF MONEYWISE	Financial literacy training in two schools locla to Blackburn
15/07/2021	£2,000	£139,098	FRIENDS OF MONZE	Improving rights awareness amongst traditional leaders, school children and women's groups in a rural area of Zambia
15/04/2021	£11,000	£243,605	LOVE RUSSIA LIMITED	Support for orphans and orphan mothers in area of Western Russia
15/04/2021	£30,000	£396,997	PRAGYA	Supporting smallhoder farmers in Western Kenya develop cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPS)
15/04/2021	£7,000	£255,044	RE-CYCLE	Re-cycling bicycles collected and restored in UK and sent to Africa
15/04/2021	£15,000	£374,469	KIDS CLUB KAMPALA	Food handouts, schooling, training etc in Kids Club in slums of Kampala
15/04/2021	£14,000	£731,175	PLAY ACTION INTERNATIONAL	Construction of play area for children at Ugandan cancer Institute
15/04/2021	£3,750	£14,866	POLICE COMMUNITY CLUBS OF GREAT BRITAIN	Anti-bullying and Good Citizenship programmes in Blackburn Schools
14/10/2020	£10,000	£806,858	APT ACTION ON POVERTY	Empowering rural communities in Siera Leone to combat poverty through skills training and support for farming and business initiatives
14/10/2020	£2,500	£654,753	HOPE HEALTH ACTION	To equip and train refugee camps in Uganda withCRADLE VSA blood pressure monitoring devices for use in monitoring pregnancy
14/10/2020	£5,000	£161,396	CHILD IN NEED INDIA	Support for community workers addressing malnutrition in children & mothers in Indian villages
14/10/2020	£17,400	£671,593	AFGHAN & CENTRAL ASIAN ASSOCIATION	Enhance reintegration of refugees returning to Afghanistan through establishing a Community Reintegration Centre
14/10/2020	£4,000	£477,512	PHASE WORLDWIDE	Nurse salary to strengthen healthcare in W Nepal
14/10/2020	£10,000	£1,099,406	AGE UK BLACKBURN AND DARWEN	Salary of Advice and Information Manager for Blackburn and Darwen
02/05/2020	£100,000	£69,386,612	MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERE	Unrestricted grant to medical humanitarian organisation
02/05/2020	£40,000		BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN BOROUGH COUNCIL	Unrestricted grant to council's community fund
02/05/2020	£25,000	£1,302,816	BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE	Unrestricted grant to Blackburn Youth Zone - youth hub for 5-21 year olds
30/01/2020	£5,000	£198,740	LEGS 4 AFRICA	Recycling prosthetic limbs from UK to Africa
30/01/2020	£250,000	£52,243,903	AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION	Provision on anti-Malaria bed nets in sub-Saharah Africa
30/01/2020	£20,000	£115,475	OUR SANSAR	Funding of transit home for street children in Nepal to aid reintegration and prevent child traficking
30/01/2020	£5,000	£747,664	INTERCARE	Recycyling drugs and medical equipment from UK to sub-Saharan Africa
30/01/2020	£14,800	£195,015	RAISING FUTURES KENYA	Establishing Educational Business Hub to help vulnerable young, especially women, set up businesses in rural Kenya
30/01/2020	£10,000	£451,468	CHASE AFRICA	Enhancing family planning/contraception services in rural Uganda

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Cumulative Grants

Amount	Grantee
£300,000	SIGHTSAVERS
£300,000	DRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES INITIATIVE
£250,000	AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION
£120,000	BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE
£100,000	MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERE
£90,000	HELLO WORLD
£75,000	THE WHITAKER ORGANISATION
£75,000	POWER FOR THE PEOPLE
£75,000	NIGHTSAFE
£74,394	BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN BOROUGH COUNCIL
£72,900	KIDS CLUB KAMPALA
£67,000	RE-CYCLE
£60,000	PRAGYA
£60,000	AGE UK BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN
£58,000	AFRICAN ADVENTURE FOUNDATION
£50,000	THE FESTIVAL OF MAKING
£50,000	OXFAM
£50,000	OUR SANSAR
£50,000	GREENPEACE
£50,000	CLIENT EARTH
£45,000	LEGS 4 AFRICA
£45,000	BLAZE ARTS
£44,800	RAISING FUTURES KENYA
£43,800	THE MAKING ROOMS BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN
£40,000	CHASE AFRICA
£35,000	INTERCARE
£30,800	AFGHAN & CENTRAL ASIAN ASSOCIATION
£30,000	KAIROS HOUSING
£30,000	BAREFOOT COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL UK
£26,000	THE WHITAKER MUSEUM & ART GALLERY
£25,000	WESSEX SOCIAL VENTURE C.I.C.
£24,500	ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS NETWORK
£19,000	CSEF MONEYWISE
£18,000	ADAMI PROJECT
£17,000	HOPE HEALTH ACTION
£16,000	LUV+ {LEPROSY AT UTALE VILLAGE PLUS}
£15,000	SAMARITANS OF BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN, HYNDBURN AND RIBBLE VALLEY
£15,000	DEKI LTD
£14,700	CARER'S WORLDWIDE
£14,000	PLAY ACTION INTERNATIONAL
£13,350	CURE INTERNATIONAL
£12,500	RING 20 RESEARCH AND SUPPORT UK
£11,000	LOVE RUSSIA LIMITED
£10,000	APT ACTION ON POVERTY
£6,500	CASTLEFIELD GALLERY
£6,050	LANCASHIRE SCHOOLS SAILING ASSOCIATION
£5,000	PRACTIVAL TOOLS INITIATIVE
£5,000	HOME MANCHESTER
£5,000	CHILD IN NEED INDIA
£4,000	PHASE WORLDWIDE
£3,750	POLICE COMMUNITY CLUBS OF GREAT BRITAIN
£3,000	HOPE FOUNDATION
£3,000	CLEANUPUK
£2,500	STANLEY GRANGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
£2,000	LIVING PAINTINGS TRUST
£2,000	FRIENDS OF MONZE
£750	CRACKERJACK'S CHILDRENS TRUST