THE LINBURY TRUST — grant history
Latest income
£5.7m
Grants listed (FY2025)
38
Listed grants total
£4.9m
Accounts grants total
£7.8m
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- General Charitable Purposes
- Disability
- Accommodation/housing
- Recreation
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- Throughout London
- Throughout England
- Italy
- South Africa
- Norfolk
- Malta
- Isle Of Man
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Gallery | FY2025 | £2.3m | Towards the redevelopment of the Sainsbury Wing. |
| Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation | FY2025 | £340k | A one-off grant to improve the energy efficiency of their heating system and to help prepare for a forthcoming district heating network. |
| Refugee Council | FY2025 | £170k | Core running costs for the London Destitution Service, helping refugees and asylum seekers facing significant stress and hardship. |
| Theatres Trust | FY2025 | £128k | To increase the budget available for their grants programme. |
| Ashden Climate Solutions | FY2025 | £120k | Towards core funding. |
| King Charles lll Charitable Fund | FY2025 | £100k | Support for the Coronation Food Project. |
| National Brain Appeal | FY2025 | £71k | Towards the arts and nature-led activity work improving wellbeing of people living with dementia. |
| Gingerbread | FY2025 | £70k | Towards the core costs providing advice / guidance to single parents. |
| Trinity Community Arts | FY2025 | £70k | Towards a three-year arts-based programme in Bristol, supporting 3,000 people per year. |
| Chiswick House and Gardens Trust | FY2025 | £70k | To continue and expand the horticulture and gardening participation programme. |
| English National Opera | FY2025 | £70k | Towards Breathe Programme, supporting people with Long Covid and respiratory conditions, using singing to improve wellbeing. |
| Amna (formerly Refugee Trauma Initiative) | FY2025 | £70k | Towards expanding their support for refugee children. |
| Amber Trust | FY2025 | £64k | Towards their work using music / arts to support children, and their families living with Batten’s disease / childhood dementia. |
| William Morris Gallery Trust | FY2025 | £60k | Towards a new public programme focussed on people under-represented in the Museum. |
| Connection at St Martin in the Fields | FY2025 | £60k | To employ a second staff member, supporting their migration advice work. |
| Crisis | FY2025 | £60k | Towards the Critical Time Intervention programme, for people facing homelessness on release from prison. |
| Playground Theatre | FY2025 | £59k | Towards the theatre-led community outreach programme. |
| Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment | FY2025 | £59k | Scholarships on their MSc for Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment. |
| Zoological Society London | FY2025 | £58k | Towards their pioneering programme to restore seagrass across the Thames Estuary. |
| World Heart Beat Music Academy | FY2025 | £55k | Supporting the community-focused music education programme. |
| Local Solutions | FY2025 | £55k | Towards core costs of their work supporting young people living in disadvantage. |
| Green Light Trust | FY2025 | £51k | Towards core costs. |
| The Sainsbury Archive | FY2025 | £50k | Towards operating costs. |
| Square Food Foundation | FY2025 | £50k | To run the How to be a Chef programme. |
| Claremont Project | FY2025 | £50k | Third payment of a four-year grant towards Dance-based activity for older people. |
| Roundhouse Trust | FY2025 | £50k | Towards their youth focused work, supporting pathways into the creative industries. |
| Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile | FY2025 | £50k | Core funding of the Baobab centre, providing mental health support to refugees. |
| Gainsborough's House | FY2025 | £50k | Towards an arts-led learning programme. |
| Old Diorama Arts Centre | FY2025 | £50k | To expand their arts-led work with homeless community, including the One Roof Festival, led by artists with experience of homelessness. |
| Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | FY2025 | £50k | For their locally focused music-led school and community programme. |
| Refuaid | FY2025 | £50k | Supporting their programme to help refugees get professional qualifications reaccredited in the UK with loan funding. |
| Wigmore Hall Trust | FY2025 | £50k | To run the Music for Life programme, using music to support people living with dementia. |
| Create Arts | FY2025 | £50k | To expand arts-led community work and capacity in the North-West. |
| Live Music Now | FY2025 | £50k | Towards the Music in Care Programme, using music to support wellbeing of older people with long-term neurological conditions. |
| Paraorchestra & Friends | FY2025 | £50k | To support their artistic and community-focused programme led by disabled musicians and performers. |
| Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration | FY2025 | £50k | Towards community participation and engagement programme. |
| Suffolk Artlink | FY2025 | £50k | A grant to support core funding. |
| Country Trust | FY2025 | £50k | Core funding towards its IT function and impact measurement. |
| National Gallery | FY2024 | £2.3m | Towards the NG200 programme, redeveloping the Sainsbury Wing for modern audiences. |
| Rambert School of Ballet & Contemporary Dance | FY2024 | £1.5m | Loan forgiven in the year converted to a grant. |
| The Holburne Museum | FY2024 | £220k | Towards the Endowment. |
| Linbury Prize 2023 | FY2024 | £217k | Towards the Linbury Prize 2023. |
| Ashden Climate Solutions | FY2024 | £170k | Towards core support to help underpin their strategic development. |
| Theatres Trust | FY2024 | £106k | Small grants programme. |
| King Charles lll Charitable Fund | FY2024 | £100k | Towards Coronation Food Project. |
| Refugee Council | FY2024 | £70k | To support their London Destitution Service. |
| University of Winchester | FY2024 | £70k | Towards the development of the First Stars Scholars programme. |
| Refuaid | FY2024 | £70k | Towards Refuaid’s programme of loans that helps refugees reaccredit qualifications in the UK. |
| Royal Academy of Dance | FY2024 | £60k | Towards the purchase of the Dancing Times archive, related staff costs, and using the archive in the Royal Academy of Dance’s education and outreach programmes. |
| Crisis | FY2024 | £60k | Towards Critical Time Intervention, a programme supporting people facing homelessness when leaving prison. |
| Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile | FY2024 | £60k | Towards core funding of the Baobab centre. |
| Chiswick House and Gardens Trust | FY2024 | £60k | Towards Horticulture and gardening participation programme. |
| Green Light Trust | FY2024 | £59k | Towards staffing costs to support impact and evaluation. |
| Ashden Climate Solutions | FY2024 | £58k | To run a learning network for successful grantees. |
| Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment | FY2024 | £57k | Towards Scholarships on their MSc for Sustainability, Enterprise, and the Environment. |
| Local Solutions | FY2024 | £55k | Towards the running costs of a second hub, principally staff costs, in Toxteth, Liverpool. |
| House of St Barnabas | FY2024 | £55k | Loan written off and converted to a grant. |
| Live Music Now | FY2024 | £50k | Towards the Music in Care Programme, using music to support quality of life for people in care homes. |
| DDmix (Diversity Dance Mix) | FY2024 | £50k | To expand the DDmix programme to schools across the UK. |
| McNicol Ballet Collective | FY2024 | £50k | Towards core funding. |
| Northern Ballet | FY2024 | £50k | Towards the Children’s Ballet programme. |
| Outside In | FY2024 | £50k | Towards work supporting disabled artists. |
| The Paraorchestra & Friends | FY2024 | £50k | To support their artistic and community-focused programme led by disabled musicians and performers. |
| The Sainsbury Archive | FY2024 | £50k | Towards operating costs. |
| Roundhouse Trust | FY2024 | £50k | Towards their youth focused work. |
| Wildscreen Trust | FY2024 | £50k | Towards the future of an archive which is one of the most comprehensive visual records of wildlife from across the world. |
| Claremont | FY2024 | £50k | A grant focused on energy efficiency towards a roof replacement and insulation |
| Crawley Open House | FY2024 | £50k | A grant focused on efficiency towards installation of new solar panels. |
| The Food Museum | FY2024 | £50k | A grant focused on energy efficiency towards a new solar array and battery storage |
| Royal College of Music | FY2024 | £50k | A grant for energy efficiency work towards LED light replacement. |
| St Michael's Hospice - Basingstoke | FY2024 | £50k | Towards the work of St Michael’s Hospice, and the Forthcoming Community Services Project. |
| British Red Cross | FY2024 | £50k | Towards Israel & Occupied Palestinian Territories appeal. |
| Cardboard Citizens | FY2024 | £50k | Highlighting homelessness through their performance, education and advocacy programme. |
| Clement James Centre | FY2024 | £50k | To support the Employment Programme. |
| Gingerbread | FY2024 | £50k | To build on the success of the telephone helpline for single parent families. |
| Hope for the Young | FY2024 | £50k | Towards core costs of their work with young refugees. |
| Only A Pavement Away | FY2024 | £50k | Towards the hospitality-based employment readiness programme, working with homeless people. |
| Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | FY2024 | £50k | Towards the outreach and engagement programme. |
| National Opera Studio | FY2024 | £49k | A grant for energy efficiency work towards LED light replacement. |
| Northern Ballet | FY2024 | £49k | A grant for energy efficiency work towards LED light replacement. |
| Octagon Theatre | FY2024 | £49k | A grant for energy efficiency work towards LED light replacement. |
| St Michael’s Hospice | FY2024 | £47k | A grant towards a range of energy efficiency retrofit work |
| Dulwich Picture Gallery | FY2024 | £45k | A grant focused on energy efficiency towards a ground source heat pump. |
| Old Fire Station | FY2024 | £19k | A grant for energy efficiency work towards new heating controls. |
| Connection at St Martin | FY2024 | £6k | A one-off grant towards costs for an energy audit. |
| Soane Museum | FY2024 | £5k | A one-off grant towards costs for an energy audit. |
| House of St Barnabas | FY2024 | £5k | A one-off grant towards costs for an energy audit. |
| Macular Society | FY2024 | £5k | A one-off grant towards costs for an energy audit. |
| Horatio’s Garden | FY2024 | £5k | A one-off grant towards costs for an energy audit. |
| Royal College of Art | FY2024 | £5k | A one-off grant towards costs for an energy audit. |
| Chiswick House | FY2024 | £5k | A grant focused on energy efficiency, to remove an oil-fired boiler and replace with new electric radiators. |
| Ballet Cymru | FY2024 | £4k | A one-off grant towards costs for an energy audit. |
| School of Artisan Food | FY2024 | £4k | A one-off grant towards costs for an energy audit. |
| Anvil Arts | FY2024 | £3k | A one-off grant towards costs for an energy audit. |
| Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation | FY2023 | £1.0m | Towards the operating costs of the Linbury Theatre and post-COVID Recovery work. The second payment of a £2m grant. |
| The Holburne Museum | FY2023 | £200k | Towards endowment fundraising. Second payment of a five-year £1m grant. |
| Ashden Climate Solutions | FY2023 | £170k | Core support for strategic development, final payment of a three-year £510k grant. |
| Garsington Opera – Wormsley | FY2023 | £150k | Towards the capital costs and the outreach costs for a community practice room. |
| Young Minds | FY2023 | £100k | Towards supporting young people whose mental health has been impacted by the pandemic. Final payments of a two-year grant. |
| RefuAid / Prism the Gift Fund | FY2023 | £100k | To support Refuaid’s programme of loans to refugees seeking to reaccredit their qualifications in the UK. First payment of a three-year £220k grant. |
| Birmingham Royal Ballet | FY2023 | £80k | To establish a new ‘Junior Company’ for Birmingham Royal Ballet. First payment of a three-year £140k grant. |
| Rambert School of Ballet & Contemporary Dance | FY2023 | £75k | Trustees agreed a one-off grant towards the capital redevelopment of the Weston Studio at Rambert School. |
| The Paraorchestra & Friends | FY2023 | £70k | To support their artistic and community-focused programme led by disabled musicians and performers. First payment of a three-year £170k grant. |
| Refugee Council | FY2023 | £70k | To support their London Destitution Service, helping refuges and asylum seekers living in extreme poverty and at risk of homelessness. Second payment of a three-year £210k grant. |
| Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile | FY2023 | £70k | Core funding of the Baobab centre to support young refugees. First payment of a three-year £180k project. |
| Woodmeadow Trust | FY2023 | £70k | To cover the full cost of the first year and staff costs in years two and three to enable WMT to create 10 further Woodmeadows. First payment of a three-year £150k grant. |
| University of Winchester | FY2023 | £70k | Towards the First Stars Scholars programme which supports educational attainment of young people in care. Third payment of a four-year £300k grant. |
| British School at Rome | FY2023 | £66k | To support two six-month residential scholarships in year one and then one scholarship in years two and three. First payment of a three-year £127k grant. |
| Macular Disease Society | FY2023 | £60k | To employ a new dedicated member of staff who will develop and expand the Society’s existing digital channels, as well as piloting new work on social media. First payment of a three-year £120k project. |
| Crisis | FY2023 | £60k | To support a programme working with people in prison, to break the cycle between offending and homelessness. Second and final payment of a two-year £120k grant. |
| The Passage, Victoria | FY2023 | £60k | One-off grant towards the costs of the building redevelopment project. |
| Northern Ballet | FY2023 | £60k | Towards the Children’s Ballet programme, first payment of a three-year £150k grant. |
| Chiswick House and Gardens Trust | FY2023 | £60k | Horticulture and gardening participation programme. Second payment of a three-year £180k grant. |
| Felix Project | FY2023 | £60k | Towards running costs of Felix's kitchen. First payment of a three-year £120k grant. |
| Anvil Arts Basingstoke | FY2023 | £55k | To support the salary costs for an experienced fundraiser over the next three years and a feasibility project to look at income generation, both to assist with the future resilience of the Anvil Arts Trust. First payment of a three-year £125k grant. |
| In Place of War | FY2023 | £55k | Towards costs of Youth worker and Chief Operating Officer at the Rise Above Development in Cape Town. First payment of a three-year £140k grant. |
| Wildscreen Trust | FY2023 | £50k | Towards the archive development, one of the most comprehensive visual records of wildlife from across the world. First payment of a two-year £100k grant. |
| Gingerbread | FY2023 | £50k | To build on the success of the telephone helpline. Third and final payment of a three-year £150k grant. |
| Britten Pears Arts | FY2023 | £50k | To support older people in rural Suffolk living with dementia and Parkinson’s through arts activity. First payment of a three-year £120k project. |
| Claremont Project | FY2023 | £50k | Dance activity for older people. Second payment of a four-year £150k project. |
| Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | FY2023 | £50k | Using museum collections to support older people living with dementia, across Cambridgeshire. Second and final payment of a two-year £100k project. |
| Orchestra Of The Swan | FY2023 | £50k | To support the Orchestra’s working in care homes and community settings to help older people to live well. First payment of a two-year £75k project. |
| St Michael's Hospice – Basingstoke | FY2023 | £50k | Towards the Hospice’s Community Services Project which provides in-home end-oflife care. Second payment of a three-year £162k project. |
| Barts Heritage | FY2023 | £50k | To support restoration & public access work, first payment of a three-year £100k grant. |
| Artsadmin | FY2023 | £50k | Towards the cost of replacing their boiler, to improve efficiency and reduce energy costs; one-off grant. |
| Cardboard Citizens | FY2023 | £50k | To support the programme of arts engagement and their work with people living in homelessness. Third payment of a three-year £200k project. |
| Clement James Centre | FY2023 | £50k | To support the Employment Programme. Second payment of a three-year £150k grant. |
| Courtauld Institute of Art | FY2023 | £50k | Towards costs of a new Commercial Director; second payment of a £100,000 grant. |
| Mental Health Innovations | FY2023 | £50k | Towards the costs of SHOUT service. Second payment of a three-year £150k grant. |
| House of St Barnabas-in-Soho | FY2023 | £50k | Towards the employment readiness programme and work with homeless people; final payment of a three-year £150k grant. |
| Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - Birmingham City University | FY2023 | £50k | Towards the Conservatoire’s community focused programme of engagement. First payment of a three-year £130k grant. |
| Hope for the Young | FY2023 | £50k | Towards core costs supporting educational attainment of young refugees. Second payment of a three-year £150k grant. |
| Reading Repertory Theatre | FY2023 | £50k | Towards the Theatre ‘Engage Reborn’ outreach programme. Second and final payment of a two-year £100k grant. |
| The Sainsbury Archive | FY2023 | £50k | Towards operating costs, third payment of a five-year £250k grant. |
| Roundhouse Trust | FY2023 | £50k | Towards their youth focused work. First payment of a four-year £200k grant. |
| Royal Drawing School | FY2023 | £50k | To help the school expand its digital provision; second and final payment of a two-year £100k grant. |
| DDmix (Diversity Dance Mix) | FY2023 | £50k | To expand the DDmix programme to schools across the UK. Second payment of a three-year £150k grant. |
| National Trust | FY2023 | £50k | Supporting restoration and public access to the South Downs through the Changing Chalk Project. First payment of a four-year £125k grant. |
| The Conservation Collective | FY2023 | £50k | Towards the core costs of the Collective, supporting environment networks across the world. First payment of a three-year £120k grant. |