The biggest recipients of UK public grants

Public grant money, read from the published 360Giving grant data and matched to the company that received it, largest first. The figure is the total granted over the record we hold. It is a matter of public record, not a judgement about any recipient.

#	Company	Total granted	Grants
1	Nuclear Liabilities Fund Limited	£5.61bn	1
2	British Gas Trading Limited	£3.04bn	8
3	Edf Energy Customers Limited	£2.44bn	25
4	E.On Next Energy Limited	£2.17bn	8
5	Ovo Energy Ltd	£1.49bn	6
6	British Broadcasting Corporation	£1.38bn	16
7	Octopus Energy Limited	£1.34bn	8
8	Scottishpower Energy Retail Limited	£1.20bn	10
9	Totalenergies Gas & Power Limited	£835.2m	6
10	Sse Energy Supply Limited	£755.4m	6
11	Npower Commercial Gas Limited	£704.3m	6
12	Octopus Energy Operations Limited	£608.2m	7
13	Drax Energy Solutions Limited	£554.4m	6
14	Octopus Energy Operations 2 Limited	£530.0m	2
15	Power Ni Energy Limited	£405.5m	14
16	Computacenter Plc	£321.9m	1
17	Social Investment Business Foundation	£312.6m	5
18	Electricity Plus Supply Limited	£309.9m	6
19	Utilita Energy Limited	£303.3m	8
20	Places For People Group Limited	£299.4m	43
21	Platform Housing Group Limited	£287.9m	33
22	Pozitive Energy Ltd	£273.7m	8
23	Abri Group Limited	£264.4m	26
24	Corona Energy Retail 4 Limited	£262.9m	6
25	Cell Therapy Catapult Limited	£250.4m	46
26	Saros Research Limited	£244.0m	39
27	Smartestenergy Limited	£240.5m	6
28	Kier Construction Limited	£239.9m	15
29	Bowmer & Kirkland (London) Limited	£233.4m	3
30	Clarion Housing Association Limited	£231.4m	41
31	Brook Green Trading Limited	£230.9m	3
32	National Association Of Citizens Advice Bureaux(The)	£230.2m	24
33	Nexus Rail Ltd	£224.9m	7
34	Engie Power Limited	£220.8m	7
35	Sefe Energy Limited	£212.1m	6
36	Sse Airtricity Energy Supply (Ni) Limited	£182.8m	13
37	Greensquareaccord Limited	£180.6m	47
38	Centre For Process Innovation Limited	£173.4m	157
39	The Guinness Partnership Limited	£173.3m	67
40	Karbon Homes Limited	£170.6m	88
41	Vistry Homes Limited	£169.5m	18
42	The Education Endowment Foundation	£164.7m	10
43	Vivid Housing Limited	£162.1m	22
44	Bryt Energy Limited	£157.5m	6
45	The University Of Manchester	£156.3m	840
46	Jisc	£154.0m	26
47	Connected Places Catapult	£150.7m	65
48	G.M.C.A. Limited	£150.4m	17
49	Imperial Wharf (Block C) Limited	£149.5m	18
50	Shell Energy Uk Limited	£143.7m	6
51	Canal & River Trust	£143.5m	49
52	Wates Construction Limited	£141.2m	10
53	Uk Sports Institute Limited	£137.8m	66
54	Finance Birmingham Limited	£134.0m	1
55	High Value Manufacturing Catapult	£133.7m	29
56	Nexus (Uk) Limited	£132.4m	2
57	Torus62 Limited	£129.2m	54
58	Rolls-Royce Plc	£128.2m	84
59	Thirteen Housing Group Limited	£127.8m	100
60	Longhurst Group Limited	£126.8m	68
61	Emh Housing & Regeneration Limited	£126.6m	93
62	Bam Construction Limited	£125.9m	2
63	The Football Foundation	£123.4m	10
64	So Energy Trading Limited	£118.0m	2
65	Sovereign Network Group	£111.4m	123
66	University Of Warwick	£110.4m	257
67	University Of Sheffield	£109.9m	377
68	Skills For Care Ltd	£107.2m	21
69	Ecorys Uk Limited	£107.1m	12
70	Aytac Foods Limited	£105.3m	7
71	Digital Catapult	£104.6m	82
72	Uk Battery Industrialisation Centre Ltd	£104.6m	24
73	Engie Gas Limited	£101.8m	5
74	Legal & General Affordable Homes Limited	£100.7m	16
75	Royal Society	£100.0m	8
76	The Manufacturing Technology Centre Limited	£99.4m	143
77	Aster Communities	£99.1m	15
78	Ecotricity Limited	£98.8m	11
79	Police Digital Service	£96.7m	5
80	Walk Wheel Cycle Trust	£96.4m	16
81	Uk Community Foundations	£95.4m	68
82	Livewest Homes Limited	£95.3m	58
83	University Of Exeter	£90.6m	243
84	London & Quadrant Housing Trust	£89.7m	12
85	Rail Safety And Standards Board Limited	£88.2m	7
86	Galliford Try Construction Limited	£87.0m	4
87	Wythenshawe Community Housing Group Limited	£86.9m	125
88	University Of Nottingham (The)	£85.6m	142
89	British Red Cross Society	£84.2m	81
90	Loughborough University Enterprises Limited	£82.0m	243
91	Capita Business Services Ltd	£80.4m	1
92	Tilbury Douglas Construction Limited	£79.0m	6
93	The Careers And Enterprise Company	£78.9m	7
94	The Riverside Group Limited	£78.8m	102
95	Regent Gas Limited	£77.6m	5
96	Caa International Limited	£77.4m	12
97	Crown Agents Bank Limited	£76.5m	10
98	Cambridge Education Limited	£76.1m	2
99	Milton Keynes Development Partnership Llp	£74.3m	9
100	Mccarthy & Stone (Shared Ownership) Limited	£72.5m	12

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