Annual Report 2025

“We are delighted to introduce the Annual Report of the Trustees for 2025. It is exciting to report that the Garfield Weston Foundation has made grant awards and social investments this year of almost £140 million, a record figure. Since we started 67 years ago, we have doubled our donations every five or six years, and this year’s grant awards take the Foundation’s total to nearly £1.7 billion since it was established in 1958. We are thankful for the thousands of charities we have the privilege to work with and we greatly appreciate what they do.”

Sir Guy Weston, Chair

“This year the Foundation awarded nearly 3,000 grants, a 65% increase on the previous year. Half of these were made towards organisations’ core costs and 94% were in our regular grants category – grants under £100,000. We are very aware of the extra challenges that charities are facing today within an exceptionally difficult financial landscape. We remain very much ‘open for business’ and keen to support charities the length and breadth of the UK, from the small grassroots charities to the large, national organisations, and across a wide variety of projects, from the tried and tested to innovative new approaches. I am delighted to join the Foundation’s team and I look forward to working with our charity partners to deliver even greater impact in the year to come – a year in which we can see that the need remains acute.”

Clare Gough, Director