Emmes Foundation

The Emmes Foundation is a UK-registered grant-making charity (Charity Commission no. 1117427) dedicated to advancing public benefit throughout England and Wales through support for general charitable purposes. Governed by four unremunerated trustees, it embodies an impartial, broad-spectrum ethos, distributing funds across diverse areas rather than niche causes. Its mission emphasizes wide-reaching interventions that address societal needs, with a distinctive generalist approach enabling flexible adaptation to evolving priorities while upholding core values of public good and organizational impartiality.

The Foundation prioritizes education and training, health advancement and lifesaving, disability support, poverty prevention or relief, and religious activities. It targets beneficiaries including children and young people, elderly individuals, people with disabilities, and other charities or voluntary bodies, funding project and core costs, unrestricted support, and capacity-building initiatives exclusively for organizations—not individuals—to foster impactful interventions across these themes.

Eligible applicants must be UK-registered charities operating throughout England and Wales, with no income thresholds, size preferences, or regional restrictions specified; however, it operates on an invite-only basis, proactively selecting recipients aligned with its objects. No formal application process, deadlines, online forms, or trustee meeting schedules are published, indicating no unsolicited submissions are accepted.

Distinctively broad in scope without strategic exclusions beyond misalignment with charitable purposes, the Emmes Foundation differentiates itself through its non-niche, pan-England-and-Wales funding philosophy, supporting a variety of established voluntary organizations to deliver holistic public benefit rather than specialized or emergent initiatives. Typical grant ranges and detailed recipient examples remain undisclosed in public accounts.