About Other Funds

Food Strand

Aims to promote an understanding of the role of food in enhancing quality of life. It prioritises the enjoyment and experience of food rather than its production and we seek to enable as many people in the UK as possible to access, prepare and eat nutritious, sustainable food. We are interested in work that influences policy and practice across a range of food-related areas and we expect to support a mix of practical projects that have wide significance, and some research and policy based work.
More about the Food Strand.

Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund (run by the Museums Association)

The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund is run by the Museums Association. This fund has been developed from the Esmée Fairbairn Museum and Heritage Collections Strand and the MA's Effective Collections programme. It focuses on time-limited collections work outside the scope of an organisation’s core resources.
More about the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund

Finance Fund

Aims to complement the Foundation’s grant-making with loans and other investments to charities and social enterprises in our areas of interest.  By providing money in this way, the Foundation will share the risk and return of the investment. As part of the return on our investment, the Foundation hopes to help prove a new model for funding the sector: increasing its capacity, building balance sheets and proving that our funding can be recycled.
More about the Finance Fund.

Closed funds

Museum & Heritage Collections – this fund closed at the end of 2010 in its present form and we are no longer accepting applications to this strand.

The Museum & Heritage Collections Strand (2008 - 2010) focused on time-limited collections work including research, documentation and conservation that was outside the scope of an organisation’s core resources.

Biodiversity – this strand closed at the end of 2010 and we are no longer accepting applications to this strand. We continue to fund work in the environment sector through our Main Fund and maintain an active interest in biodiversity which is likely to be the subject of a future theme which we expect to finalise during 2011. Please check this website for up to date information.

The Biodiversity strand (2008 - 2010) focused on developing a greater knowledge and understanding of certain habitats and their associated species leading to practical conservation outcomes.

New Approaches to Learning – this strand closed at the end of 2010 and we are no longer accepting applications to this strand. We continue to fund work in education through our Main Fund and maintain an active interest in the sector so please refer to the Main Fund criteria. Please note that the Foundation is not primarily a research funder and we will only occasionally fund research when we consider that it is likely to have a practical application.

The New Approaches to Learning strand (2008 - 2010) focused on devising, testing and disseminating new approaches to teaching and learning that addressed current and future challenges in state schools and pre-schools.

10 January 2011

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