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At Gilly's, if we select a charity to receive a grant then this is because we truly believe in what they do and the way they do it - we don't just forget about them once the grant period comes to an end!
All the charities remain firmly on our radar and we will continue to raise awareness about the work they do and keep them in mind when relevant opportunities present themselves in the future.
Scroll down to discover more about the small charities we champion
Back on Track - Stroke Rehab
Back on Track - Stroke Rehab
Long-term rehabilitation and support for stroke survivors and their carers to overcome limitations and work towards regaining independence. Run a 1:1 home visiting service for newly discharged stroke survivors and a peer support group for those of working age offering information, advice, rehabilitation and therapy.
Grant year - 2023
Area of operation - Wiltshire
More info - Facebook page
Cambridge Rare Disease Network
Cambridge Rare Disease Network
Unites patients, advocates, experts and leaders to address the challenges faced by people affected by rare diseases. Their ‘Unique Feet’ community group offers a welcoming environment where families can feel connected, understood and supported, empowering them to be effective advocates.
Grant year - 2023
Area of operation - UK wide
More info - Website
Cerebra
Cerebra
Dedicated to helping children with brain conditions and their families discover a better life together. Listening to the needs of these families helps inspire the most helpful research and innovation. The Cerebra Innovation Centre (CIC) designs and builds innovative, bespoke products to help disabled children discover and engage with the world around them.
Grant year - 2023
Area of operation - UK wide
More info - Website
Christmas for CAMHS
Christmas for CAMHS
Provides special Christmas gifts every year for children and young people who are inpatients in child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS) wards across the UK over the Christmas holiday period.
Grant year - 2025
Area of operation - UK wide
More info - Website
Daisy Inclusive UK
Daisy Inclusive UK
Helps disabled and vulnerable people and their families to reach their true potential with the daisy chain - a pathway of individual links where each link offers relevant help and support including mental wellbeing, sports, music, education, employment and support.
Grant year - 2023
Area of operation - Liverpool
More info - Website
Derventio Housing Trust - Sylvester's Fund
Derventio Housing Trust - Sylvester's Fund
Sylvester’s Fund is the charitable arm of the Derventio Housing Trust and provides small grants so that people affected by homelessness can buy essential items they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford to build their confidence and achieve their goals.
Grant year - 2023
Area of operation - Midlands and SW England
More info - Website
Downright Excellent
Downright Excellent
Works with children with Down Syndrome, their families and their schools, combining fun learning activities, training, specialist therapies, peer support and socialising to form a circle of support around each child and family to support, empower and inspire.
Grant year - 2024
Area of operation - London
More info - Website
Dragonfly Cancer Trust
Dragonfly Cancer Trust
Works with hospitals and hospices across the UK to provide comprehensive support for young cancer patients and their families, fostering an environment where each moment matters and is filled with memories, comfort, and connection. Provides memory making opportunities in the form of cash gifts, memory and sibling boxes, activity boxes and personalised keepsakes for families to treasure.
Grant year - 2025
Area of operation - UK wide
More info - Website
Endure Mentoring
Endure Mentoring
Works with young people aged 11–25 who are too often overlooked — those out of education, training, or work, at risk of offending, or facing disadvantage. Who Cares? is a youth-led project supporting care-experienced young people to turn their stories into practical training for professionals. Participants receive mentoring, public speaking coaching, and confidence-building support to help them lead professional training and drive system change.
Grant year - 2025
Area of operation - London
More info - Website
Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Headway
Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Headway
Supporting individuals after a brain injury when survivors are feeling fearful, alone and do not know what the future holds. Run a day service five days a week plus a city and countywide (including Rutland) outreach service and a digital day service too for remote support providing access to Neuro Occupational Therapy, Neuro Physiotherapy, 1:1 counselling and peer support.
Grant year - 2023
Area of operation - Leicestershire and Rutland
More info - Website
Leith Sea Cadets
Leith Sea Cadets
Give young people an experience that will help them grow into the person they want to be in a safe and friendly environment. Through various activities and adventures, they learn teamwork, respect, loyalty, self-confidence, commitment, self-discipline, honesty and how to be the best version of themselves.
Grant year - 2024
Area of operation - Leith, Edinburgh
More info - Website
Mersey Cares NHS Charity
Mersey Cares NHS Charity
Supports specialist mental health and community services to fund enhanced support, projects, and services usually outside the scope of the NHS. Offers specialist services in physical and mental health, learning disabilities and addictions through innovative projects and developments that can tackle health inequalities, challenge stigma and enable specialist mental health and community services to do more.
Grant year - 2025
Area of operation - Cheshire & Merseyside
More info - Website
Parenting Together
Parenting Together
Works with disabled, impaired abilities parents with young children in Social Care and Family Court proceedings. Helping families with remedial and practical solutions as a kinder alternative to forced adoption.
Grant year - 2025
Area of operation - UK wide
More info - Website
Quiet Down There
Quiet Down There
Harriett's Press is a creative laundry project started after working with artists in laundrettes during COVID and realising what a vital space they are and how they provide more than just clean clothes. After talking to the local school about the need to support families to access affordable laundry facilities and tackle hygiene poverty, they raised money for two washers and two dryers and now offer a free wash and dry of a laundry load, a hot drink and a chance to do a creative activity while waiting.
Grant year - 2024
Area of operation - Brighton
More info - Website
Ring20 Research and Support
Ring20 Research and Support
Provides support for individuals, families and healthcare professionals who are affected by, or who come into contact with, Ring Chromosome 20 Syndrome or r(20) – a rare epilepsy syndrome – and to continuously foster interest and promote opportunities for research to improve understanding and outcomes for all those impacted.
Grant year - 2025
Area of operation - UK wide
More info - Website
Roots For Change UK
Roots For Change UK
Provides support, information, training and employability support for people seeking asylum in North East England. Services offered include housing guidance, employment and training support, information about benefit systems, ESOL (English language) classes, workshops and events.
Grant year - 2024
Area of operation - Newcastle
More info - Website
Schoolreaders
Schoolreaders
Their goal is for all children, regardless of background, to leave primary school being able to read well so they can go on to access their secondary education fully and maximise their future life chances. Schoolreaders matches volunteers to local primary schools, focussing on schools with the greatest need, where they give one-to-one reading sessions. Currently, over 35,000 children receive a one-to-one reading support session with a Schoolreader each week.
Grant year - 2023
Area of operation - England and Wales
More info - Website
Shine a Light Childhood Cancer Support
Shine a Light Childhood Cancer Support
Provides a range of services for families affected by childhood cancer. Support is available from the date a child is diagnosed for as long as the family need to be supported. Services include home visiting, telephone check ins, activity sessions and workshops, counselling and play therapy sessions, group therapy sessions, days trips and outings.
Grant year - 2024
Area of operation - Coventry and Warwickshire
More info - Website
The Island
The Island
The Island is a charity in York providing islands of space and time for children and young people, aged 8-18 years; building confidence, self-esteem and unlocking potential through positive mentoring relationships and unique programmes. Mentoring comes in all shapes and sizes and the aim is to grow, evolve and most importantly adapt to the ever changing needs of children and young people.
Grant year - 2024
Area of operation - York
More info - Website
The Mitchell Foundation
The Mitchell Foundation
Supplies parents with essentials during sudden baby loss. Toiletry and hygiene kits are gifted to specialist bereavement suites so that parents do not have to think about sourcing necessities or need to be separated whilst one partner goes to pick these up during a time they need to remain together.
Grant year - 2024 & 2025
Area of operation - Across England and Wales
More info - Website
The Zink Project
The Zink Project
Empowers people and families to build a better future no matter what they’ve been through. When a crisis happens, they provide emergency food and advice to sort out the cause and plan a future. Their work coaches help people into work, education or training alongside a range of activities and interests that enable people to grow, learn and mix.
Grant year - 2023
Area of operation - Buxton, Derbyshire
More info - Website
Tourette Scotland
Tourette Scotland
Provides support, advice and awareness for anyone living with Tourette's in Scotland. Conducts research, devises training and awareness sessions and works with members to help educate the wider community and raise awareness of this very misunderstood condition as well as providing support and outreach to build resilience and reduce isolation.
Grant year - 2025
Area of operation - Scotland
More info - Website
Tummies Not Trash
Tummies Not Trash
Collects surplus food from retailers and delivers it directly to local charities and organisations (schools, lunch clubs, church groups, mental health support, hostels and more) who use it to make delicious meals. This saves food from waste and helps stretch vital charitable resources that little bit further.
Grant year - 2024
Area of operation - Edinburgh
More info - Website
Walden Amateur Boxing Club
Walden Amateur Boxing Club
Walkden ABC aims to provide the people of Salford with the opportunity to develop their health, wellbeing, character, social and sporting skills using boxing and fitness training. They offer classes to children and adults, specialist classes for those with disabilities, including autism, and anyone who needs support improving mental health.
Grant year - 2023
Area of operation - Salford
More info - Website
We Are Family
We Are Family
A peer support community by adopters, for adopters; there for parents throughout their adoption journey. Offers mutual support, information and inspiration to adopters and those considering adoption through parent-led social and support groups, volunteering opportunities and bespoke training, podcasts, blogs and news.
Grant year - 2024
Area of operation - London and South East
More info - Website
WHISH - Whitby Hidden Impairments Support and Help
WHISH - Whitby Hidden Impairments Support and Help
Supports families navigating the unique challenges and diverse spectrum of abilities associated with having a child with a hidden impairment (e.g. autism, hearing impairment, heart conditions etc). WHISH offers information, friendship and a haven free from judgement and full of understanding.
Grant year - 2023 & 2024
Area of operation - Whitby, North Yorkshire
More info - Website
Windmills Charity
Windmills Charity
Supports Children and Young People when someone significant in their life receives a terminal diagnosis /prognosis, through the acute dying process and up to several months after the death has occurred. The specialist programme of support is totally bespoke so is tailored to meet the individual needs of each child but can include supporting difficult conversations, family memory making, exploring emotions through art therapy/craft projects and breaking down what is happening to aid understanding of the death/illness/injury.
Grant year - 2023 & 2024
Area of operation - Staffordshire
More info - Website
Yorkshire's Brain Tumour Charity
Yorkshire's Brain Tumour Charity
Offers vital support to patients and their loved ones at every stage after being told they have a brain tumour. From friendly peer support groups and welcoming wellbeing walks to financial guidance and practical advice,
They also invest in pioneering clinical research across Yorkshire — striving for kinder treatments and better outcomes for everyone affected by a brain tumour.
Grant year - 2025
Area of operation - Yorkshire
More info - Website
Young Carers Development Trust
Young Carers Development Trust
Many Young Carers miss significant time from school, often sacrificing their own opportunities to care for loved ones. The mission of YCDT is to inspire and empower Young Carers to fulfil their ambitions. Through tailored programmes, YCDT help them make up for missed education, build confidence, and create brighter futures.
Grant year - 2023
Area of operation - South West England
More info - Website
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