Linbury Trust
Overview
They fund charities and charitable organisations and can support core costs and specific activity projects.
Their focus is public engagement with culture, including arts, dance, museums, and heritage, especially when this has benefits such as improved wellbeing and life opportunity. They also support work that improves the choices of people experiencing disadvantage and inequality, including homelessness, and refugees and asylum seekers.
They fund work and projects that helps older people to live well, especially those experiencing isolation and complex health needs.
They provide support for projects that support the environment; they also occasionally support work overseas, especially in the fields of emergency relief.
They rarely support substantive building or capital projects, or arts activity that is performance only.
The Linbury Trust does not accept unsolicited enquiries or applications. They appreciate that a highly competitive open application process can be time consuming for the organisation applying. Through partnership work and research, they identify organisations they want to work with. They aim to be more conversational than transactional and they invite applications for projects they are interested in supporting. The Linbury Trust has a small and dedicated staff team, and their Trustees meet 4-5 times per year to take the final decisions on which projects to support.
Recent Awards
Recent awards have included English National Ballet who use dance to support people living with Parkinson’s; RefuAid and their ongoing programme supporting refugees to have their professional qualifications accredited in the UK; Horatio’s Garden, funding activities at the garden at the spinal injury unit in Shropshire; and the Museum of Homelessness to establish their site in London and develop their public programme.