LUND TRUST

Grant criteria

We make grants to improve the UK's environment.  We find issues to focus on and work to support through research by our staff and interns. We want more and better green space in the UK. We also want people to use and protect green spaces.  We are most interested in work that changes the environment for the better and inspires others.

Analysis of Grants Made

In this period 118 donations have been made totalling £35,107,310 to 81 organisations
This grant maker is prepared to support unregistered organisations
The average age of charities supported has been 26 years.

Where are the Beneficiaries?

How big are the Recipients? ?

Average annual spending of registered grantees: £33,420,864

Which activities are being funded?

How old were the charities when supported?

Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)

Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?

	By Value	By Number
Department of Health	50%	6%
ARCADIA	41%	6%
National Lottery Community Fund	37%	21%
Comic Relief	29%	7%
Quartet Community Foundation	28%	5%
Pears Foundation	28%	5%
DCMS	21%	12%
Garfield Weston Foundation	18%	26%
Esmee Fairbairn	18%	15%
City Bridge Trust	17%	10%

Sole supporter: 40% by number, 22% by value.

Individual Grants Made

When	Amount/ Spending	Recipient	To be used for
19/02/2023	£79,638	TOREKOV COAST GUARD	Towards a new lifeboat.
31/01/2023	£91,050	EUROPEAN ROMA INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND CULTURE	Towards ERIAC's work in partnership with Artists at Risk and ARCA, to support Roma artists, curators and practitioners from Ukraine.
16/01/2023	£270,000 £2,058,220	ASHDEN	Towards the costs of a new award for climate adaptation solutions co-developed and co-managed by communities in the UK.
09/01/2023	£8,000 £1,761,131	THAMES21 LIMITED	A planning grant, to support a proposal for a five year programme
09/01/2023	£22,500 £11,171,402	THE CENTRAL BRITISH FUND FOR WORLD JEWISH RELIEF	Towards core costs
09/01/2023	£2,500 £2,658,618	THE GARDEN MUSEUM	Towards core costs
15/12/2022	£83,519	BARD COLLEGE BERLIN	Towards core costs
15/12/2022	£41,767	AUTHORS ALLIANCE	Towards core costs
15/12/2022	£83,519	CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY	Towards core costs
14/12/2022	£83,519	AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES	Towards core costs
12/12/2022	£54,000 £6,888	CORROUR FOUNDATION	To support charitable work in Scotland
01/12/2022	£47,500 £47,223	LAURA CASE TRUST	Towards core costs
01/12/2022	£5,000 £54,501,280	BRITISH ACADEMY	Towards core costs
01/12/2022	£10,000 £797,849	COMPASSION IN DYING	To provide information on legal rights related to dying, treatment and care
01/12/2022	£10,000 £1,181,827	FRIENDS, FAMILIES AND TRAVELLERS	Towards the charity's work to end discrimination against Gypsy, Traveller and Roma people
01/12/2022	£5,000 £180,053	GIVE A BOOK	To promote reading in disadvantaged schools and prisons
01/12/2022	£5,000 £833,223	HAWK AND OWL TRUST	To conserve wild birds of prey and their habitats
01/12/2022	£100,000 £9,481,872	INTOUNIVERSITY	Academic support and mentoring for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds across the UK
01/12/2022	£75,000 £197,388	OPEN SEAS TRUST	Towards core costs
01/12/2022	£5,000 £301,798	LONGFORD TRUST	For scholarships for young prisoners and ex-prisoners
01/12/2022	£25,000 £1,899,148	RE-ENGAGE	To support social connections for older people
01/12/2022	£25,000 £3,476,308	REPRIEVE	Towards Reprieve’s work to end the death penalty
01/12/2022	£5,000 £482,488	ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY	Towards core costs
01/12/2022	£10,000 £8,975,604	TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN TRUST	Towards core costs
01/12/2022	£25,000 £1,891,676	WHITLEY FUND FOR NATURE	To support grassroots conservation leaders in developing countries
01/12/2022	£25,000 £908,706	THE SWEDISH CHURCH IN LONDON	Towards core costs
01/12/2022	£10,000	NATURSKYDDSFöRENINGEN – SWEDISH SOCIETY FOR NATURE CONSERVATION	Towards core costs and conservation work
01/12/2022	£5,000	SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCANDINAVIAN STUDY	To promote the study of Scandinavian culture in the US
01/12/2022	£5,000	TOREKOV COAST GUARD	To support the lifeboats and training and safety equipment for the volunteers
01/12/2022	£10,000 £20,469	ANGLO SWEDISH SOCIETY	Towards core costs
01/12/2022	£25,000 £12,636,000	DEMELZA HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE	Towards care for children with terminal illnesses
01/12/2022	£25,000 £11,065,946	HOSPICE IN THE WEALD	Towards end-of-life care for local people
01/12/2022	£25,000 £1,961,824	AGE UK EAST SUSSEX	Towards advice and support for older people
01/12/2022	£25,000 £19,797,000	CHESTNUT TREE HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE	Towards care for children and young adults with life shortening conditions
01/12/2022	£8,351	VENICE FAMILY CLINIC	Towards free family planning in Venice, LA
21/11/2022	£1,478,969	FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY	To support a range of capital works to help refugees in Ukraine's national parks, and so that, despite the war, treasured areas of nature remain protected and cared for.
02/11/2022	£7,964	ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY	Towards the 2023 competition
30/10/2022	£25,000 £4,594,734	NATIONAL GARDEN SCHEME	Towards the National Garden Scheme's work to create an endowment to fund its running costs, so that all funds raised through its fundraising programmes go to its chosen charities.
23/10/2022	£250,000 £19,497,000	FOUNDATION SCOTLAND	To support projects in Fort William and immediately surrounding areas.
23/10/2022	£750 £120,400,000	ST JOHN AMBULANCE WADHURST	Towards core costs
16/10/2022	£250,000 £138,525	MAD-AID	To deliver and distribute aid to Ukrainian refugees in Moldova, and to make small grants to Moldovan NGOs that are supporting Ukrainian refugees.
07/07/2022	£60,000 £473,596	ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS NETWORK	Membership contribution to the Environmental Funders Network
07/07/2022	£250,000 £12,918,924	REFUGEE COUNCIL	To develop, expand and run the services needed to support refugees from Ukraine, and for campaigning activity relating to refugees from Ukraine.
13/06/2022	£500 £474,160	BEAVER TRUST	Towards core costs
05/04/2022	£203,808	EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL	To support small-scale, practical projects that improve the landscape of the High Weald AONB
31/03/2022	£3,000,000 £139,667,000	UNICEF UK	To support the emergency response in Ukraine.
31/03/2022	£25,000 £10,420	BRITISH-UKRAINIAN AID	Towards British-Ukrainian Aid's work to support victims of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
31/03/2022	£1,750,000 £286,371,000	SAVE THE CHILDREN	Towards Save the Children's Ukraine appeal.
24/03/2022	£4,900,000	OXFORD UNIVERSITY - MANSFIELD COLLEGE	To establish and fund in perpetuity a statutory professorship at the University of Oxford, based at Mansfield College.
06/03/2022	£500,000 £138,525	MAD-AID	To deliver and distribute aid to Ukrainian refugees in Moldova, and to make small grants to Moldovan NGOs that are supporting Ukrainian refugees.
04/03/2022	£5,000,000 £366,700,000	BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY	To the crisis appeal, to support the people of Ukraine.
04/03/2022	£250,000 £12,918,924	REFUGEE COUNCIL	To develop, expand and run the services needed to support refugees from Ukraine, and for campaigning activity relating to refugees from Ukraine.
24/01/2022	£25,000 £89,917	MAYFIELD FESTIVAL OF MUSIC & ARTS	Towards the 2022 festival.
23/01/2022	£835,340 £213,622,000	SIGHTSAVERS INTERNATIONAL	Towards a range of new and existing eye care activities in Asia or Africa.
15/12/2021	£2,500	LOCHABER HIGH SCHOOL	Towards educational activities
15/12/2021	£5,500 £124,056	LOCHABER MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM	To support rescue operations led by local volunteers in the mountains of Lochaber, where normal emergency services are unable to operate
15/12/2021	£5,500 £20,210,000	ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH RBGE	Towards the running costs of the garden
15/12/2021	£5,000 £167,678	WEST HIGHLAND MUSEUM	Towards the running costs of the museum
15/12/2021	£5,000 £1,112,053	THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ARGYLL AND THE ISLES	Towards the running costs of the diocese
15/12/2021	£25,000	HIGHLAND HOSPICE	Towards support for inpatients in Inverness and palliative care across the Highlands
15/12/2021	£2,500 £4,941,999	KILMALLIE FREE CHURCH CAOL	Towards the running costs of the church
15/12/2021	£3,000 £96,238	LOCHABER FISHERIES & CONSERVATION TRUST LTD	To support the protection of the native wild fish and freshwater habitats of Lochaber
15/12/2021	£83,519	AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES	To support scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences
15/12/2021	£83,519	BARD COLLEGE BERLIN	Towards core costs
15/12/2021	£8,351	VENICE FAMILY CLINIC	Towards free family planning in Venice, LA
15/12/2021	£5,000	TOREKOV COAST GUARD	Towards sponsorship of the lifeboats and training and safety equipment for the volunteers
15/12/2021	£25,000 £1,961,824	AGE UK EAST SUSSEX	Towards advice and support for older people
15/12/2021	£25,000 £19,797,000	CHESTNUT TREE HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE	Towards care for children and young adults with life shortening conditions
15/12/2021	£25,000 £12,636,000	DEMELZA HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE	Towards care for children with terminal illnesses
15/12/2021	£25,000 £133,170	FRIENDS OF SUSSEX HOSPICES	To support fundraising efforts for local hospices
15/12/2021	£25,000 £11,065,946	HOSPICE IN THE WEALD	Towards support for inpatients in Inverness and palliative care across the Highlands
15/12/2021	£10,000 £20,469	ANGLO SWEDISH SOCIETY	Towards core costs
15/12/2021	£5,000	NATURSKYDDSFöRENINGEN – SWEDISH SOCIETY FOR NATURE CONSERVATION	To support conservation work
15/12/2021	£5,000	SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCANDINAVIAN STUDY	To promote the study of Scandinavian culture in the US
15/12/2021	£25,000 £1,899,148	RE-ENGAGE	To support social connections for older people
15/12/2021	£25,000 £3,476,308	REPRIEVE	Towards Reprieve’s work to end the death penalty
15/12/2021	£5,000 £482,488	ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY	Towards core costs
15/12/2021	£25,000 £1,891,676	WHITLEY FUND FOR NATURE	To support grassroots conservation leaders in developing countries
15/12/2021	£10,000 £797,849	COMPASSION IN DYING	To provide information on legal rights related to dying, treatment and care
15/12/2021	£5,000 £180,053	GIVE A BOOK	To promote reading in disadvantaged schools and prisons
15/12/2021	£5,000 £833,223	HAWK AND OWL TRUST	To conserve wild birds of prey and their habitats
15/12/2021	£100,000 £9,481,872	INTOUNIVERSITY	Academic support and mentoring for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds across the UK.
15/12/2021	£5,000 £301,798	LONGFORD TRUST	For scholarships for young prisoners and ex-prisoners
15/12/2021	£25,000 £2,058,220	ASHDEN	To support core costs and the Ashden Awards for sustainable energy projects
15/12/2021	£5,000 £54,501,280	BRITISH ACADEMY	Towards core costs
15/12/2021	£25,000 £12,918,924	REFUGEE COUNCIL	To support unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the UK
15/12/2021	£10,000 £1,181,827	FRIENDS, FAMILIES AND TRAVELLERS	To end discrimination against Gypsies, Travellers and Roma
15/12/2021	£25,000 £908,706	THE SWEDISH CHURCH IN LONDON	Towards core costs
01/12/2021	£3,341	FUNDACJA PRZYSTAN OCALENIE	Towards core costs
28/11/2021	£7,964	ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY	Ongoing support for the annual Case competition for young academics and scientists
22/11/2021	£10,000 £167,678	WEST HIGHLAND MUSEUM	Towards an exhibition of Stuart portraits from the Pininski Collection in 2022, and toward a feasibility study for the museum's development plan.
10/11/2021	£10,221 £134,272,000	BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE	Towards core costs
08/11/2021	£8,351 £3,976,296	GLOBAL GREENGRANTS	To help the Iris project build a global community of young people working to protect and restore their local natural environment
07/10/2021	£5,565 £77,813	THE ASSOCIATION FOR COASTAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES	Towards mangrove conservation in southern Kenya
01/10/2021	£500 £133,170	FRIENDS OF SUSSEX HOSPICES	Towards core costs
23/08/2021	£5,000 £10,228,648	TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN TRUST	To support Turquoise Mountain's work in Afghanistan
08/08/2021	£90,000	CITIZEN ZOO	Towards the organization's development
27/07/2021	£10,000 £566,722	DANDELION TIME	Towards the charity's work
30/06/2021	£178,000 £365,151	OPEN SEAS TRUST	Towards the salary and related overheads of a new parliamentary/public affairs officer for four years
23/05/2021	£50,000 £917,278	THE OPEN TRUST	Towards a non-partisan media project that covers political and social developments in the post-Soviet space.
23/05/2021	£1,000 £60,810	RAMSBURY BURDETT FISHER RECREATION CENTRE	Towards core costs
23/05/2021	£10,000 £6,208,722	BLUE MARINE FOUNDATION	To reverse the decline of the UK’s native sturgeon species.
16/05/2021	£500 £6,305,358	CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY	Towards the charity's work
13/05/2021	£12,525,900 £282,686,000	MSI REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES	To support mobile outreach services in Africa, South Asia, West Asia and the Middle East.
09/05/2021	£95,000	THE GOOD LAW PROJECT	To employ an editor and video producer for one year.
01/05/2021	£7,964	ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY	For the 2021 competition.
12/04/2021	£500 £979,946	JAMES' PLACE	Towards core costs
02/04/2021	£73,320 £4,041,686	TREES FOR CITIES	Towards trees for Cities international work planting trees with urban communities in East Africa.
29/03/2021	£10,000	UNTOLD	To cover four months of the charity's activities.
04/03/2021	£4,000	ELEPHANT HAVENS	Towards core costs
03/03/2021	£10,000 £8,018,156	SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST	Towards core costs
25/02/2021	£3,341	FUNDACJA PRZYSTAN OCALENIE	Towards core costs
16/02/2021	£300,000 £1,526,807	GREAT DIXTER CHARITABLE TRUST	For core costs, earmarked towards the costs of a woodsman/estate worker, green woodworker, skilled repairs and maintenance and an education officer.
01/02/2021	£2,250 £1,355,805	BRITISH MUSEUM	Towards core costs
01/02/2021	£10,000 £8,018,156	SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST	Towards core costs
29/01/2021	£835,340 £213,622,000	SIGHTSAVERS INTERNATIONAL	To support a range of new and existing eye care activities in Asia or Africa.
25/01/2021	£1,670	KRZYKOSIAKI PSY W POTRZEBIE	Towards core costs
22/01/2021	£15,000 £195,910	MEANWHILE GARDENS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION	Towards CoMMET’s work to improve its local green spaces.

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Cumulative Grants

Amount	Recipient
£12,525,900	MSI REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES
£5,000,000	BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY
£4,900,000	OXFORD UNIVERSITY - MANSFIELD COLLEGE
£3,000,000	UNICEF UK Third World: Emergency Aid
£1,750,000	SAVE THE CHILDREN
£1,670,680	SIGHTSAVERS INTERNATIONAL
£1,478,969	FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
£750,000	MAD-AID
£525,000	REFUGEE COUNCIL
£300,000	GREAT DIXTER CHARITABLE TRUST
£295,000	ASHDEN
£253,000	OPEN SEAS TRUST
£250,000	FOUNDATION SCOTLAND
£203,808	EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
£200,000	INTOUNIVERSITY
£167,038	BARD COLLEGE BERLIN
£167,038	AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
£95,000	THE GOOD LAW PROJECT
£91,050	EUROPEAN ROMA INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND CULTURE
£90,000	CITIZEN ZOO
£89,638	TOREKOV COAST GUARD
£83,519	CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
£73,320	TREES FOR CITIES Environment: Conservation
£60,000	ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS NETWORK Improving Philanthropy
£54,000	CORROUR FOUNDATION
£50,000	WHITLEY FUND FOR NATURE
£50,000	THE SWEDISH CHURCH IN LONDON
£50,000	THE OPEN TRUST
£50,000	REPRIEVE
£50,000	RE-ENGAGE
£50,000	HOSPICE IN THE WEALD
£50,000	DEMELZA HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE
£50,000	CHESTNUT TREE HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE
£50,000	AGE UK EAST SUSSEX
£47,500	LAURA CASE TRUST
£41,767	AUTHORS ALLIANCE
£25,500	FRIENDS OF SUSSEX HOSPICES
£25,000	NATIONAL GARDEN SCHEME
£25,000	MAYFIELD FESTIVAL OF MUSIC & ARTS
£25,000	HIGHLAND HOSPICE
£25,000	BRITISH-UKRAINIAN AID
£23,892	ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
£22,500	THE CENTRAL BRITISH FUND FOR WORLD JEWISH RELIEF
£20,000	SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST
£20,000	FRIENDS, FAMILIES AND TRAVELLERS
£20,000	COMPASSION IN DYING
£20,000	ANGLO SWEDISH SOCIETY
£16,702	VENICE FAMILY CLINIC
£15,000	WEST HIGHLAND MUSEUM
£15,000	TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN TRUST
£15,000	NATURSKYDDSFöRENINGEN – SWEDISH SOCIETY FOR NATURE CONSERVATION
£15,000	MEANWHILE GARDENS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
£10,221	BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE
£10,000	UNTOLD
£10,000	SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCANDINAVIAN STUDY
£10,000	ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
£10,000	LONGFORD TRUST
£10,000	HAWK AND OWL TRUST
£10,000	GIVE A BOOK Education & Employment: Basic Standards
£10,000	DANDELION TIME
£10,000	BRITISH ACADEMY
£10,000	BLUE MARINE FOUNDATION Environment: Conservation
£8,351	GLOBAL GREENGRANTS Environment: Advocacy
£8,000	THAMES21 LIMITED
£6,682	FUNDACJA PRZYSTAN OCALENIE
£5,565	THE ASSOCIATION FOR COASTAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
£5,500	ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH RBGE
£5,500	LOCHABER MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM
£5,000	THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ARGYLL AND THE ISLES
£4,000	ELEPHANT HAVENS
£3,000	LOCHABER FISHERIES & CONSERVATION TRUST LTD
£2,500	THE GARDEN MUSEUM
£2,500	LOCHABER HIGH SCHOOL
£2,500	KILMALLIE FREE CHURCH CAOL
£2,250	BRITISH MUSEUM
£1,670	KRZYKOSIAKI PSY W POTRZEBIE
£1,000	RAMSBURY BURDETT FISHER RECREATION CENTRE
£750	ST JOHN AMBULANCE WADHURST
£500	JAMES' PLACE
£500	CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY
£500	BEAVER TRUST