THE ROBERT MCALPINE FOUNDATION

Grants, normally for between £2,500 and £10,000, are available to UK registered charities working in the areas of supporting children and young people, the elderly, and medical and social research.
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o Application deadline: none – Friday 15th August 2025. Applications are normally reviewed each November.
o Funder: The Robert McAlpine Foundation (founded 1963. Charity number 226646. Total value of all grants awarded during the year ended 31 March 2024: £648,900 (2023: £629,100; 2022: £625,800; 2021: £645,600)).
o Who can apply: UK registered charities with an annual income of under £1 million.
o Key words: Children and Young People, Older People/the Elderly, Medical Research, Social Research, United Kingdom.
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The Robert McAlpine Foundation is an established grant-making charity, currently celebrating its 60th anniversary. All four trustees for the Foundation are members of the McAlpine family.

The Foundation awards grants of up to £10,000, with no matched funding requirement, to UK registered charities working in the areas of:

o Children and young people.
o Medical research.
o Older people / the elderly, and
o Social research.

Grants, which are normally for between £2,500 and £10,000, are available to UK registered charities with an annual turnover of £1 million that are providing services in the UK. The Foundation particularly likes to support charities where its grants can make a real difference and is therefore very careful in selecting who will receive a grant.

While the Foundation does not list grant recipients in its annual accounts or on its website, some examples of projects previously supported are provided in the different categories listed under the ‘Who We Help’ heading on the Foundation’s website.
To apply, eligible organisations should write to the Secretary, Miss G Bush at the address provided below with the following information, which should not exceed 2 pages of A4:

o Who the charity is.
o Its charity number.
o What work the charity does.
o Details of the specific project for which the applicant is requesting funding.
o The amount of funding the applicant is looking for, and
o Contact details, together with website address if there is one.

The Foundation applies a cut-off of 31st August annually, in advance of its annual meeting each November to consider applications. The next application deadline is therefore Sunday 31st August 2025.

Further information, guidance and a criteria checklist is available on the Foundation’s website.

Contact details for the Foundation are:

Miss G Bush
Secretary
The Robert McAlpine Foundation
Eaton Court
Maylands Avenue
Hemel Hemstead
Hertfordshire
HP2 7TR
Email: foundation@srm.com