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 the following four years they would allocate most of the Trust’s remaining uncommitted funds to a small number of large, focused grants. For this reason the Trustees have closed the charity’s open programmes 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 four 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.

focus

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

1) Conservation of the Natural Environment

The Trust is committed to supporting organisations that will encourage and promote: 

• Wider countryside working
• Conservation of the marine biodiversity of the UK
• Conservation of uncharismatic UK species.

2) Farmed Animal Welfare

The Trust is committed to supporting organisations that will encourage and promote: 

• Strategies to catalyse changes among those involved in the production, consumption and regulation of animals reared for food that will benefit the welfare of farmed animals.

3) Philanthropy

The Trust is committed to promoting strategic giving amongst grant makers by: 

• Encouraging philanthropists to support the conservation of the natural enviroment and the improvemment of the welfare of farmed animals
• Educating philanthropists about the implications of "spending out" their resources for charitable purposes.

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