About the Trust
Mark Sainsbury founded the Mark Leonard Trust in 1994.
The Trust aims to use all its resources, investments, grants, and networks to achieve its charitable purposes. It often supports smaller, early-stage organisations across the Mark Leonard Trust’s areas of work, which are ‘food and farming’ and ‘harnessing the power of the Creative Arts’.
The Trust tries to help its partners scale up and achieve their goals by providing long-term core financial and developmental support. It also facilitates the building of relationships between partners to share knowledge and support one another to do what they do better. The Trust often gathers partners together in one place, with its wider network of experts and like-minded organisations, to help achieve this.
What we fund
The Trust publishes open grants data. To find out more about what we fund, please visit 360Giving.
Grantmaking process
The Trust has a proactive grant process and does not accept unsolicited applications.
Trustees
- Mark Sainsbury
- Zivi Sainsbury
- John Julian Sainsbury
Staff
- Sian Ferguson – Trust Executive
- Darren Chin – Deputy Trust Executive
- Jo Bushay – Trust Support and Projects Officer
- Saad Khan – Trust Support and Projects Officer
- Beverley Huddy – Administrator / PA
- Anup Shah – Senior Finance Partner
Contact us
Get in touch by email at info@sfct.org.uk or by telephone at 020 7410 0330.
Our Annual Reports are available on the Charity Commission website.