Our Current Grants

Early Childhood

Home-Start UK - £120,000 over three years - Awarded July 2025

AIM's second multi year grant to support Home-Start’s network of trained volunteers and expert support helps families with young children through challenging times. This grant is contributing to their Big Hopes Big Future Programme supporting families with school readiness.

Babyzone - £120,000 over three years - Awarded April 2025

BabyZone aligns with our mission to ensure all children in the UK are ready to thrive in school by addressing systemic barriers in early childhood development. Through its innovative use of underutilized youth centers as drop-in hubs, BabyZone provides accessible play-based learning, health services, and parental support—particularly for disadvantaged families. Its evidence-based approach, scalability, and focus on community co-design make it a high-impact investment. By funding BabyZone, we empower families and strengthen early-years ecosystems, helping to close the school-readiness gap. This is AIM's first grant to BabyZone and funds their work in Croydon.

The Country Trust - £30,000 over three years - Awarded September 2024

Connecting children with farming and nature, the Country Trust's hands-on farm visits and food educations help to combat nature poverty, fostering environmental awareness and healthy food habits. An unrestricted grant.

Parent Infant Foundation (PIF) - £120,000 over three years - Awarded July 2023

PIF is committed to ensuring every baby has a loving and nurturing relationship, laying the foundation for their emotional and physical wellbeing. AIM has been supporting PIF since 2019, and our latest multiyear grant awarded in June 2023 was awarded on an unrestricted basis.

Alström Syndrome UK - £340,000 over three years - Awarded April 2024 on behalf of Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust

Our grant supports the core costs of their Breaking Down Barriers Project - Understanding Genetics Together. This project is bringing together network of over 60 organisations working to address health inequalities of families from diverse and marginalised communities affected by genetic conditions.

Wild Young Parents Project - £60,000 over two years - Awarded August 2024 on behalf of Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust

AIM’s second grant to WILD supports their efforts to build a collaborative network of organisations committed to creating intergenerational change for young parent families.

Environment

Wild Fish - £120,000 over three years - Awarded October 2025

WildFish’s SmartRivers programme uses citizen science to monitor the health of UK rivers and fill major gaps in freshwater data. With over 6,000 volunteer hours contributed since 2019, SmartRivers combines gold-standard invertebrate analysis with emerging tools such as eDNA and temperature tracking to identify pollution and climate impacts early. This grant supports the expansion of SmartRivers to additional catchments, subsidises professional lab testing to maintain data quality, and funds development of an open data platform to empower communities and inform stronger environmental policy.

Flete Field Lab - £34,000 over one year - Awarded July 2025

Core funding grant to support this innovative, Devon-based Community Interest Company (CIC) working at the intersection of ecological science and community engagement. Their core focus is mycoremediation — using fungi to clean polluted waterways — alongside participatory, place-based approaches to environmental restoration.

Beaver Trust - £120,000 over three years - Awarded April 2025

Beaver Trust is transforming UK river ecosystems through nature-based solutions. By reintroducing beavers—a keystone species—their work enhances biodiversity, improves water quality, and reduces flood risks while engaging local communities. This is AIM's second multi-year grant to Beaver Trust.

Environmental Funders Network - £1,500 over one year - Awarded April 2025
AIM supports the Network’s mission is to increase the overall level of financial support for environmental causes and to help environmental philanthropy to be as effective as it can be.

River Action - £90,000 over three years - Awarded October 2024

River Action tackles the urgent crisis of England’s polluted rivers through targeted campaigns, legal advocacy, and community mobilization. Their work forces systemic change—holding polluters accountable, strengthening regulations, and empowering citizens to protect waterways. We fund their bold, evidence-based approach because we see how it can deliver measurable impact. This was AIM’s first grant to River Action and it is unrestricted.

AIM is a signatory to the Funder Commitment on Climate Change.

Young People

Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition (CYPMHC) - £60,000 over three years - Awarded December 2023

The CYPMHC brings together leading charities in the sector to campaign jointly on the mental health & wellbeing of children and young people. AIM ‘s most recent grant supports the coalition’s core costs as it grows its membership and influence.

Sustainable Wellbeing & Family Funds

Hot Or Cool – £295,000 over three years - Awarded January 2023
Based in Berlin, Germany, Hot or Cool uses science to push for systemic change to address the sustainability challenge. AIM supports their Sustainable Wellbeing Programme, specifically the further development of the Happy Planet Index. This is a measure of sustainable wellbeing, ranking countries by how efficiently they deliver long, happy lives using limited environmental resources.

Family Fund Donations

Atlantic Salmon Trust - £1,000
Bumblebee Children's Charity - £2,500
Friends of St Nicholas Field (St Nicks) - £1,000
Learn to Love to Read - £2,500
Sinfield Nature Conservation Trust - £2,500
The Felix Project - £5,000
The Rivers Trust - £1,000
TransActual CIC - £2,000

For details of AIM’s previous grants, please either see our annual reports & accounts or 360 Giving.