LUCILLE FOUNDATION — grant history
Latest income
£6.8m
Grants listed (FY2023)
41
Listed grants total
£5.8m
Accounts grants total
£4.8m
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2023 accounts
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- General Charitable Purposes
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- Environment/conservation/heritage
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Ghana
- Zimbabwe
- Tanzania
- Throughout London
- Zambia
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- South Africa
- Congo
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fauna & Flora International (FFI) | FY2023 | £1.0m | to support programmatic and core costs. FFI is the world’s oldest wildlife conservation organisation and focuses on the protection of threatened species and ecosystems. In addition to its well know work in species conservation, FFI is working increasingly on tackling climate change and supporting sustainable local livelihoods. The Foundation’s portfolio organisations continually innovate as they seek more effective ways to achieve their mission objectives. The work of a few of the Foundation’s charity partners is highlighted below. |
| Nia Tero Foundation | FY2023 | £200k | over twelve months for Nia Tero to regrant to up to four Indigenous partners towards the protection and well-being of their ecosystems and communities. Nia Tero works through partnerships with Indigenous Peoples. Its place-based partnerships provide funds and technical support to give Indigenous partners the economic power and cultural independence to preserve their territory and livelihoods. It also works globally to raise awareness of Indigenous Peoples and promote policies to support them. |
| Root Capital | FY2023 | £200k | to support core costs. Root Capital provides working capital and market connections for small and mid-sized agricultural businesses in Africa and Latin America. |
| Acumen | FY2023 | £200k | over twelve months to support core costs. Acumen invests in sustainable businesses and promising leaders that are tackling poverty and the root causes of poverty. |
| Peek Vision | FY2023 | £150k | to support core costs. Peek Vision identifies people with eyesight problems and connects them to local health workers, using smartphone-based technology to gather data that enables targeted, costeffective treatment in low-income countries. |
| Ashoka UK | FY2023 | £150k | to support the international fellows programme. Ashoka is a global network that supports ‘changemakers’ through their fellowship programme. These are social innovators who are tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems. There are 3,700 Ashoka Fellows in 92 countries across the world each given an unrestricted stipend and support which includes coaching, leadership development, training and lifelong membership of the Ashoka peer network. |
| Noora Health | FY2023 | £150k | to support core costs. Noora Health trains family members and frontline caregivers to support patients to recover from a major medical event or to manage a chronic health condition. |
| Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) | FY2023 | £150k | to support core costs. Foundation for Ecological Security restores damaged common land in rural India by helping communities secure land rights and then restore and manage that land effectively. |
| Spark Microgrants | FY2023 | £150k | to support core costs. Spark Microgrants provides communities facing extreme poverty with a village-based approach to economic and civic development that works by building strong decision making processes and supporting collective action at village level. |
| MyAgro Farms | FY2023 | £150k | to support core costs. myAgro operates a mobile layaway savings model that enables farmers to invest in quality seed, fertiliser, tools and trainings, and to increase harvest and income. |
| mothers2mothers (UK) Limited | FY2023 | £150k | to support core costs. mothers2mothers works to eliminate paediatric AIDS and prevent new HIV infections via a network of trained and employed HIV+ mothers. |
| Village Enterprise | FY2023 | £150k | to support core costs. Village Enterprise combats poverty in rural Africa by supporting people living in extreme poverty to launch and run businesses. |
| Educate Girls | FY2023 | £150k | to support core costs. Educate Girls mobilises communities to ensure access to quality education for girls, getting out-of-school girls into education and providing support that keeps them there. |
| Last Mile Health | FY2023 | £150k | over twelve months to support core costs. Last Mile Health develops and manages trained community health workers who bring critical health services to remote communities. |
| Yunus Social Business | FY2023 | £150k | to support core costs. Yunus Social Business invests in early-stage social businesses that fight poverty. |
| CAMFED International | FY2023 | £150k | to support core costs. CAMFED supports marginalised girls in Africa to go to school and to succeed, and equips young women (CAMFED graduates) to step up as leaders of change. |
| ClientEarth | FY2023 | £150k | to support core costs. ClientEarth uses the power of the law to combat climate change and pollution, secure peoples’ environmental rights and protect and restore habitats, wildlife and natural resources. |
| GreenWave | FY2023 | £150k | to support core costs. GreenWave’s model of Regenerative Ocean Farming restores marine environments, supports local livelihoods and mitigates climate change. |
| Blue Ventures | FY2023 | £150k | over twelve months to support core costs. Blue Ventures helps coastal communities to establish locally-managed marine areas that improve catch and increase incomes whilst also conserving coastal ecosystems. |
| Northern Rangelands Trust | FY2023 | £150k | over twelve months to support core costs. NRT develops and supports community conservancies, which are created to support the management of community-owned land for the benefit of livelihoods. |
| Big Change Charitable Trust | FY2023 | £150k | |
| Blue Dragon Childrens Foundation | FY2023 | £150k | |
| Dutch Masters Foundation | FY2023 | £150k | |
| Live Happy | FY2023 | £150k | |
| Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) | FY2023 | £150k | |
| Nuru International | FY2023 | £100k | to support core costs. Nuru develops independent, locally-led nonprofit organisations focused on creating sustainable livelihoods, and social cohesion in rural farmer communities which are adjacent to conflict zones in Africa with a particular focus on the Sahel. |
| Kheyti | FY2023 | £100k | to support core costs. Kheyti helps smallholder farmers mitigate climate risk and increase agricultural income through their affordable “Greenhouse-in-a-Box” which protects crops from environmental risks and grows seven times more food, using 90% less water than open cultivation. |
| War Child UK | FY2023 | £100k | |
| Coral Vita | FY2023 | £100k | to support core costs. Coral Vita uses high-tech, landbased coral farms to grow climate change resilient, genetically diverse corals and plant them back into degraded reef sites. Their coral reef restoration efforts aim to educate local people and tourists on the importance of coral reefs. |
| The Wave Project | FY2023 | £100k | |
| WildAid Marine | FY2023 | £100k | over twelve months to support core costs. WildAid Marine works to improve the effectiveness of existing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) focusing on enforcement. They work with partners helping them to independently manage the MPAs over the longterm. Their six-stage process guides all projects from site identification to establishing regional leadership for self-sufficient management in the long-term. |
| Legado Inc | FY2023 | £100k | over twelve months to support core costs. Legado works with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) helping them build the capacity to design and implement social and environmental projects of their choosing. They call this approach ‘Thriving Futures’ and focus work on areas important for biodiversity. |
| Canopy Planet | FY2023 | £100k | over twelve months to support core costs. Canopy Planet works with industry partners in the fashion, packaging, and publishing sectors to eliminate sourcing from irreplaceable forests and find alternative solutions that support conservation. |
| StrongMinds | FY2023 | £100k | |
| Zayohub Foundation | FY2023 | £100k | to support core costs. ZayoHub builds physical ‘hubs’ and provides the associated infrastructure and support to enable last mile communities in Zambia to access solar energy, transport, education, livelihood opportunities, financial services and more. |
| GlobalGiving Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund | FY2023 | £16k | |
| Baobab | FY2023 | £10k | |
| RAOK Re:Wild | FY2023 | £10k | |
| Canopy Plant Society | FY2023 | £6k | |
| Corporacion el Colegio | FY2023 | £5k | |
| The Kids Network | FY2023 | £5k |