Hyde Charitable Trust provides individual grants to support Hyde customers and award grants to community organisations, funding them to deliver essential services in Hyde communities.
Our funds target Hyde customers and communities that are most in need. We invest in programmes and services that have the greatest impact on people’s lives and futures.
In 2024-25:
- We helped households given white goods save £586k
- We gave 105 households £238 each towards energy bills
- 23 people received one-to-one support every day
- 172 training sessions were delivered every month
- 20,000 outcomes were reported by our community partners
- £27m in social value was reported by 40 of our community partners
- 11,400 days of food was provided through £77k of food vouchers
You can read about the Hyde Charitable Trust’s impact in its Annual Review 2024-25 (PDF, 10MB).
Listening to our partners to understand impact
We want to better understand the impact Hyde Charitable Trust’s grants and Hyde Foundation’s support have on the individuals and communities benefitting from activities, as well as the impact on our partners and the places where we fund.
In 2024-25 we commissioned the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) to help us understand our impact beyond the funding we award.
IVAR carried out a number of in-person interviews with 12 partners, including six community partners that have received HCT grants, and four strategic partners that represent the vital relationships the team build in the areas we fund, for example, local authorities.
IVAR also carried out an online survey, which all of our partners were invited to complete, and received 38 responses from partners, including 31 from HCT-funded partners.
Read the IVAR report: Powering people, partnerships and communities. A review of Hyde’s contribution through grant- making, Funder Plus and social value activities (PDF, 500KB)