Tubney Charitable Trust publishes new guidelines
Howard Lake | 17 October 2004 | News
Following a strategic review, The Tubney Charitable Trust has released new guidelines, launched an online application process and implemented a new administrative structure.
The Tubney Charitable Trust has confirmed that it will distribute its capital funds and thereby limit its grant-giving lifespan to eight to ten years. It has published new guidelines as a result.
Since at the end of March 2004 The Tubney Charitable Trust’s asset base was approximately £35.5 million, this is a significant release of funding.
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Jonathan Burchfield, Chairman of The Tubney Charitable Trust, explained: “The wishes of the Trust’s founders to spend out the Charity’s endowment in the near term, over an expected eight to ten year period, were central to decisions made during the review.
“Particularly given the likely lifespan of the charity, the Trustees have confirmed that their overriding ambition is to support high-quality projects that will achieve a long-term impact that endure beyond the life of the Trust. This has led to a narrowing of the work of the Trust into two primary programme areas in order to seek to achieve a more meaningful impact than could otherwise have been hoped.”
As a result the Trust has ended its programmes in Education and the Arts and in Palliative Care.
The Trust is now particularly keen to support sustainable, high-quality projects that deliver a long-term impact. Its new, open grant making programme focuses on:
- conservation of the natural environment of the UK through achievement of Biodiversity Action Plan targets; and
- improvement of the welfare of farmed animals both in the UK and internationally.
In addition, the Trustees may from time to time establish new initiatives in these or other areas and invite applications of special interest to them. The Trust accepts applications from UK registered, exempt and excepted charities.
The Trust’s new guidelines and online application process were launched today on the charity’s Web site.
The trust recently moved to new offices in Reading, and, given its future direction, has recruited three new staff: Nick Forster moved from the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust to become the Programme Director for the Environment; Claire Tyrrell was appointed as Grants Manager; and Angie Seal was appointed as Grants Administrator.
Sarah Ridley, formerly of the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C., was named Executive Director.
The Trustees encourage applicants to contact the staff before applying in order to receive advice and ./guidance about applications to the Trust.
The Tubney Charitable Trust was created in 1997 by Miles Blackwell, retired Chairman of Blackwell Limited, the Oxford-based bookseller. His wife Briony was an original trustee of the Trust. Both died unexpectedly in 2001, leaving their estate to the trust, considerably boosting its grantmaking potential.
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