LUCILLE FOUNDATION — grant history
Latest income
£6.8m
Grants listed (FY2025)
29
Listed grants total
£6.2m
Accounts grants total
£6.4m
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts
What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Scotland
- Ghana
- India
- Kenya
- Tanzania
- Throughout London
- Philippines
- Australia
- Netherlands
What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | Fauna & Flora (F&F) | — | £1.0m |
| new | Nia Tero | — | £200k |
| new | Zayohub | — | £150k |
| new | Village Enterprise | — | £150k |
| new | Acumen | — | £150k |
| new | Blue Ventures | — | £150k |
| new | Ashoka | — | £150k |
| new | Canopy Planet | — | £100k |
| up | Spark Microgrants | £150k | £750k |
| up | THE PEEK VISION FOUNDATION | £150k | £750k |
| up | Legado Inc | £150k | £250k |
| not listed | Fauna & Flora International (FFI) | £1.0m | — |
| not listed | Acumen Fund | £200k | — |
| not listed | ASHOKA UK | £150k | — |
| not listed | BLUE VENTURES CONSERVATION | £150k | — |
| not listed | Village Enterprise Fund | £150k | — |
| not listed | Canopy Plant Society | £100k | — |
| not listed | ZAYOHUB FOUNDATION | £100k | — |
| not listed | OCD Foundation | £20k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fauna & Flora (F&F) | FY2025 | £1.0m | to support programmatic and core costs. F&F 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, F&F is working increasingly on tackling climate change and supporting sustainable local livelihoods. |
| Spark Microgrants | FY2025 | £750k | A major gift of £750,000 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. |
| Peek Vision | FY2025 | £750k | A major gift of £750,000 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, cost-effective treatment in low-income countries. |
| Legado Inc | FY2025 | £250k | 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. |
| Nia Tero | FY2025 | £200k | restricted for Nia Tero to regrant to up to four Indigenous partners towards the protection and well-being of their ecosystems and communities. Nia Tero provides 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. |
| Zayohub | FY2025 | £150k | 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. |
| Village Enterprise | FY2025 | £150k | to support core costs. Village Enterprise combats poverty in rural Africa by supporting people living in extreme poverty to launch and run businesses. |
| mothers2mothers (UK) Limited | FY2025 | £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. |
| Last Mile Health | FY2025 | £150k | to support core costs. Last Mile Health develops and manages trained community health workers who bring critical health services to remote communities. |
| Acumen | FY2025 | £150k | to support core costs. Acumen invests in sustainable businesses and promising leaders that are tackling poverty and the root causes of poverty. |
| CAMFED International | FY2025 | £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. |
| Root Capital | FY2025 | £150k | to support core costs. Root Capital provides working capital and market connections for small and mid-sized agricultural businesses in Africa and Latin America. |
| MyAgro Farms | FY2025 | £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. |
| Blue Ventures | FY2025 | £150k | 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. |
| GreenWave | FY2025 | £150k | to support core costs. GreenWave’s model of regenerative ocean farming restores marine environments, supports local livelihoods and mitigates climate change. |
| ClientEarth | FY2025 | £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. |
| Kheyti | FY2025 | £150k | 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. |
| Noora Health | FY2025 | £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. |
| Ashoka | FY2025 | £150k | to support their 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 over 3,800 Ashoka Fellows in 90 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. |
| Educate Girls | FY2025 | £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. |
| Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) | FY2025 | £150k | to support core costs. Foundation for Ecological Security restores damaged common land in rural India by helping communities secure land rights and restore and manage that land effectively. |
| Northern Rangelands Trust | FY2025 | £150k | 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. |
| Canopy Planet | FY2025 | £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. |
| Imagine Worldwide | FY2025 | £100k | to support core costs. Imagine Worldwide (IW) uses technology and bespoke curriculum to provide better education for young children in areas with limited resources. Their goal is to help children build basic reading and maths skills by working with schools, local communities, governments, and other groups to ensure access to quality early education. |
| Planet Indonesia | FY2025 | £100k | to support core costs. Planet Indonesia (PI) uses community commons management to create healthy tropical ecosystems and thriving communities and helps other Indonesian NGOs to do the same. |
| Rocket Learning | FY2025 | £100k | to support core costs. Rocket Learning (RL) builds and delivers ageappropriate, play-based education content to daycare centre workers and parents of children aged 0-6, via WhatsApp groups, to support children’s early years development and empower the adults who care for them. |
| Labhya Foundation | FY2025 | £100k | to support core costs. Labhya uses Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) to improve learning outcomes for children living in poverty. This is implemented in partnership with Indian state governments through daily mental health and well-being classes that are integrated into the school day. |
| Coral Vita | FY2025 | £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. |
| WildAid Marine | FY2025 | £100k | 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. |
| Fauna & Flora International (FFI) | FY2024 | £1.0m | support programmatic and core costs |
| Root Capital | FY2024 | £200k | support core costs |
| Acumen Fund | FY2024 | £200k | support core costs |
| CAMFED International | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| Legado Inc | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| Last Mile Health | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| Kheyti | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| GreenWave | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| Educate Girls | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| Ashoka UK | FY2024 | £150k | support the international fellows programme |
| Blue Ventures Conservation | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| mothers2mothers (UK) Limited | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| ClientEarth | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| Village Enterprise Fund | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| Spark MicroGrants | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| Peek Vision Foundation | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| Northern Rangelands Trust | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| Noora Health | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| MyAgro Farms | FY2024 | £150k | support core costs |
| Canopy Plant Society | FY2024 | £100k | support core costs |
| Zayohub Foundation | FY2024 | £100k | support core costs |
| WildAid Marine | FY2024 | £100k | support core costs |
| Coral Vita | FY2024 | £100k | support core costs |
| OCD Foundation | FY2024 | £20k | |
| Borne Foundation | FY2024 | £18k | |
| Save the Med | FY2024 | £15k | |
| Project Seagrass | FY2024 | £10k | |
| Surfers against Sewerage | FY2024 | £10k | |
| Baobab Centre for Young | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Doorstep Library | FY2024 | £5k | |
| The Wave Project | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Huracan Foundation | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Dutch Masters Foundation | FY2024 | £5k | |
| Better lives foundation | FY2024 | £4k | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Live Happy | FY2023 | £150k | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 | |
| Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) | FY2023 | £150k | |
| StrongMinds | FY2023 | £100k | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| War Child UK | FY2023 | £100k | |
| 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. |
| The Wave Project | 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. |
| 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. |
| GlobalGiving Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund | FY2023 | £16k | |
| RAOK Re:Wild | FY2023 | £10k | |
| Baobab | FY2023 | £10k | |
| Canopy Plant Society | FY2023 | £6k | |
| The Kids Network | FY2023 | £5k | |
| Corporacion el Colegio | FY2023 | £5k | |
| Fauna & Flora International (FFI) | FY2022 | £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. |
| Acumen | FY2022 | £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. |
| Root Capital | FY2022 | £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. |
| CAMFED International | FY2022 | £150k | to support core costs. CAMFED supports marginalised girls in Africa to go to school and to succeed, and empowers young women (CAMFED graduates) to step up as leaders of change. |
| MyAgro Farms | FY2022 | £150k | to support core costs |
| Peek Vision Foundation | FY2022 | £150k | to support core costs |
| Blue Ventures | FY2022 | £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. |
| ClientEarth | FY2022 | £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. |
| Village Enterprise | FY2022 | £150k | to support core costs. Village Enterprise combats poverty in rural Africa by supporting people living in extreme poverty to launch and run businesses. |
| mothers2mothers (UK) Limited | FY2022 | £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. |
| MyAgro | FY2022 | £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. |
| Spark Microgrants | FY2022 | £150k | to support core costs. Spark Microgrants provides very poor communities 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. |
| Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) | FY2022 | £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. |
| Educate Girls | FY2022 | £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. |
| Noora Health | FY2022 | £150k | to support core costs. Noora Health trains family members to support patients to recover from a major medical event or to manage a chronic health condition. |
| Ashoka UK | FY2022 | £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. |
| Peek Vision | FY2022 | £150k | to support core costs. Peek Vision identifies people with eyesight problem and connects them to local health workers, using smartphone-based technology to gather data that enables targeted, cost-effective treatment in poor countries. |
| Zayohub Foundation | FY2022 | £150k | to support core costs |
| Yunus Social Business | FY2022 | £150k | to support core costs. Yunus Social Business invests in early-stage social businesses that fight poverty. |
| Last Mile Health | FY2022 | £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. |
| Coral Vita | FY2022 | £100k | to support core costs. Coral Vita uses high-tech, land based 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. |
| StrongMinds | FY2022 | £100k | to support core costs. StrongMinds uses interpersonal group therapy methods to provide mental health support for women in Africa suffering from depression. |
| Kheyti | FY2022 | £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. |
| Foundation of Educate Girls Globally | FY2022 | £100k | to support core costs |
| GreenWave | FY2022 | £100k | to support core costs. GreenWave’s model of Regenerative Ocean Farming restores marine environments, supports local livelihoods and mitigates climate change. |
| Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) | FY2022 | £50k | to support core costs |
| Nuru International | FY2022 | £50k | 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 Sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel. |
| Zayohub | FY2022 | £50k | 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. |
| WildAid Marine | FY2022 | £50k | 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 long-term. Their six-stage process guides all projects from site identification to establishing regional leadership for self-sufficient management in the longterm. |
| War Child UK | FY2022 | £50k | to support core costs |
| Northern Rangelands Trust | FY2022 | £15k | to support core costs |
| The Jeroen Pit House | FY2022 | £15k | Random acts of kindness grant |
| GlobalGiving Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund | FY2022 | £10k | to support core costs |
| RAOK Re:Wild | FY2022 | £10k | Random acts of kindness grant |
| Baobab | FY2022 | £8k | Random acts of kindness grant |
| Big Change Charitable Trust | FY2022 | £5k | Random acts of kindness grant |
| Stichting Kinderpostzegels | FY2022 | £4k | Random acts of kindness grant |