THE GIGGLEMUG CHARITABLE TRUST
A discretionary grant-making charity that generally awards small grants to a range of charitable causes mainly in the UK and occasionally overseas.
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o Application deadline: none – applications may be made at any time via the Ludlow Trust Company’s Funding Enquiry Gateway.
o Funder: The Gigglemug Charitable Trust (founded 2018. Charity number 1180291. Total charitable expenditure for the year ended 7 June 2023: £25,033 (2022: £58,037).
o Who can apply: UK registered charities working in the UK and/or overseas.
o Key words: General Charitable Purposes, Overseas, United Kingdom.
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The Gigglemug Charitable Trust is one of the 275+ charitable trusts that can be accessed via the Ludlow Trust’s Funding Enquiry Gateway.
Now 6 years old, the Gigglemug Charitable Trust is a family-based discretionary grant-making charity with the disposition to award grants to a wide range of charitable causes both in the UK and overseas. Grants are normally for £3,000 or less, with the occasional higher award.
The Trust’s charitable expenditure for the year ended 7th June 2023 was below the Charity Commission’s threshold for publishing annual accounts. However, the accounts for the previous year were published and show that the following 8 grants totalling £51,000 were made:
o The Children’s Art School: £3,000.
o The Ben Kinsella Trust: £3,000.
o Centrepoint: £3,000.
o Mermaids: £3,000.
o Bloody Good Period: £3,000.
o Disasters Emergency Committee: £30,000.
o Key4Life CIO: £3,000, and
o London Youth: £3,000.
A list of all grants awarded during the year can be found on page 8 of the Trust’s annual accounts.
Application to the Gigglemug Charitable Trust can be made via the Ludlow Trust Company’s Funding Enquiry Gateway, an online portal, launched in September 2023 to provide an efficient link between the charitable trusts and grant making foundations that it manages and charities that are seeking funding. Once applications are matched via the Gateway to any of its 275+ charitable trusts, the timeframe for decision making on those applications is at the discretion of the trustees.
Further information is available on the Ludlow Trust’s website, where the section headed “Frequently Asked Questions” is particularly informative.
Contact details for the Ludlow Trust Company Limited are:
The Ludlow Trust Co Ltd
Tower Wharf
Cheese Lane
BRISTOL
BS2 0JJ
Tel: 0117 313 8200
Email: charitabletrusts@ludlowtrust.