About the Trust
The Linbury Trust was established by Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover KG, and his wife Anya, Lady Sainsbury CBE, the former ballerina, Anya Linden. The Linbury Trust made its first grant award in 1973 since then has awarded grants across the world.
For more information, visit the Linbury Trust website.
What we fund
The Linbury Trust funds a wide variety of work including core costs, specific projects and we occasionally contribute to capital schemes.
Our focus is public engagement with culture, including arts, dance, museums, and heritage, especially when this has benefits such as improved quality of life. We also support work that improves the choices of people experiencing disadvantage and inequality, including homelessness, and refugees and asylum seekers.
We fund work and projects that helps older people to live well, especially those experiencing isolation and complex health needs.
We help work that support the environment and climate, reducing energy use and costs, as well as connecting people with nature.
We publish open grants data. To find out more about what we fund, please visit 360 Giving.
Grantmaking process
The Linbury Trust does not accept enquiries or applications. We appreciate that a highly competitive open application process can be time consuming for the organisation applying. Through partnership work and research, we identify organisations we want to work with. We aim to be more conversational than transactional and we invite applications for projects we are interested in supporting. The Linbury Trust has a small and dedicated staff team, and our Trustees meet 4-5 times per year to take the final decisions on which projects to support.
Staff
- Stuart Hobley – Director
- Danielle Jones – Trust Administrator
- Vanessa Martins – Finance Partner
- Hanna Fanning – Impact Investment Lead
Contact us
Contact us: linbury@sfct.org.uk