Significant grants

This section contains information about some Significant grants that the Foundation has made in recent years.

Female Genital Mutilation Special Initiative
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, City Parochial Foundation and Rosa (the UK’s Women’s Fund), three independent charitable organisations, have collaborated to establish a new UK-wide Special Initiative to fund community-based, preventive work to safeguard children from the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in all its forms.
> More about the FGM Special Initiative

Community Land Trust Development Fund
A joint initiative with Tudor Trust, together we have provided an initial investment of £1.75m towards a £2m fund to support the building of permanently affordable homes by Community Land Trust (CLTs).
CLTs are organisations that create affordable housing to buy or rent for people in urban and rural areas by securing low cost land and building homes that remain partly owned by the communities on a permanent basis. Venturesome is underwriting an additional £250,000 and will operate the fund on a day to day basis, with Esmée Fairbairn and the Tudor Trust involved in decision making.
> More about the Community Land Trust Development Fund

Policy Studies Institute - Green Fiscal Commission
An initiative worth £432,810 to develop and disseminate evidence on the large-scale introduction of green taxation, to stimulate new proposals for green taxation in public debate and the next election. Final Report now available.
> Visit the Green Fiscal Commission website.

HEARTS - Higher Education, the Arts and Schools
A joint initiative with a projected budget of £500,000 between Esmée Fairbairn, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Teacher Training Agency and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) aiming to strengthen the position of the arts in initial teacher training.
> Visit the Hearts website

Village Core Programme
The demise of the village shop and Post Office in England is well documented, and people in many rural communities have no alternative but to travel to purchase even the most routine household items. In June 2006, Esmée Fairbairn’s Trustees agreed a grant of £1 million over three years to the Plunkett Foundation, a leading promoter of rural issues.
> More about the Villiage Core Programme.

Cambridge Primary Review
The Cambridge Primary Review is a wide-ranging and independent enquiry into the condition and future of primary education in England. It is supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and based at Cambridge University Faculty of Education.
> Cambridge Primary Review Final Report.

Rethinking Crime and Punishment - implementing the findings
Esmée Fairbairn's seven-year Rethinking Crime and Punishment programme closed in December 2008. The programme aimed to raise the level of debate about the use of prison and alternative forms of punishment in the UK. A second phase of work commenced in 2005 supporting practical projects to increase public and judicial engagement with community-based sentencers, to promote understanding and confidence in their use as an alternative to prison.
> Visit the Rethinking Crime and Punishment website

Fear and Fashion
Five independent foundations, including Esmée Fairbairn (City Bridge Trust, City Parochial Foundation, Wates Foundation and John Lyons Charity) are funding four organisations (Crime Concern, Rainer, Working with Men, and Leap Confronting Conflict) to address the problem of young people carrying knives and other weapons. Each project focuses on a particular group of young people or area, with the view of comparing different approaches to identify which might work best in understanding the incidence of knife carrying amongst young people in London. The projets have recentley completed their first year of a three year programme. The projects have the aim of disseminating and sharing best practice.
> More about Fear and Fashion or to visit the Fear and Fashion website.


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