aims

The Tubney Charitable Trust seeks to support activities that have a long term, sustainable, positive impact on the biodiversity of the UK and on the welfare of farmed animals both in the UK and internationally.

approach

In accordance with the wishes of the founders, Miles and Briony Blackwell, the Charity has a limited life and is spending both its income and its capital to achieve its objectives. During their strategic review at the beginning of 2008, the Trustees confirmed their desire to achieve a meaningful impact on UK biodiversity and farmed animal welfare that will endure beyond the short lifespan of the Trust. Importantly, the Trustees made the decision that over approximately three years they will allocate most of the Trust’s remaining uncommitted funds (in the region of £26 million) to a small number of large, focused grants. For this reason the Trustees have chosen to close the charity’s open programmes and to focus on funding proactive work with grants being provided on an invitation-to-bid basis. The Trust expects to allocate its funds over a period of about three years from early 2008. Its operational capacity will then be reduced and the Trust will cease sometime thereafter.

The Trust no longer accepts unsolicited applications.

If you are an organisation with a pending application and you have any questions, please call us on 0118 958 6100 or e-mail info@tubney.org.uk.

focus

The Trust has established two initiatives under which grants will be awarded on an invitation-to-bid basis only:

The Trust is committed to encouraging and supporting organisations and activities that will deliver a long term positive impact on the following areas: 

1) Conservation of the Natural Environment Initiative

• Enhancement of UK biodiversity through work with land owners on a landscape scale
• Conservation of the marine biodiversity of the UK
• Conservation of uncharismatic UK species

2) Farmed Animal Welfare Initiative

• Catalysing changes among those involved in the production, consumption and regulation of animals reared for food by:

• Enabling high welfare production
• Encouraging high welfare consumption
• Ensuring better regulation

• Addressing the most pressing species-specific farmed animal welfare concerns, including:

• Ending the use of cages for laying hens
• Improving the welfare of broiler chickens
• Ending tail docking of pigs
• Reducing metabolic disease and increasing the welfare of dairy cows

• Strengthening the farmed animal welfare sector

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