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our history
The Tubney Charitable Trust was created in 1997 by Mr Miles Blackwell, retired Chairman of Blackwell Limited, the Oxford-based bookseller. His wife Briony was an original trustee of the Trust. Miles and Briony Blackwell shared a great love of the countryside and animals, as well as a concern for the environment, and supported many charities during their lives to further their interests.
Miles and Briony died unexpectedly in 2001, at 56 and 46 respectively. Following the subsequent bequest of their estate to the Charity, the Trust grew substantially in size. Since that time, the Trustees have sought to fund areas which they believe Miles and Briony would have supported. In accordance with the wishes of the founders, the Charity has a limited life and is spending down its endowment. The Trust supports projects that achieve sustainable, significant and meaningful benefits that will endure beyond the life of the Trust. Miles and Briony’s endowment to The Tubney Charitable Trust ensures that many important projects benefit from their generosity.
Miles and Briony Blackwell
Miles Blackwell
Miles Blackwell began his career with a variety of apprenticeships in the family
firm of Blackwell Limited, the world famous Oxford-based bookseller. Subsequently,
Miles was charged by his father with developing the international interests
of the firm. This he did with outstanding success and became first Sales and
Marketing Director and later Chairman, a role he retained until retirement
in 1997. Miles was essentially a shy man but with a strong sense of humour
and uncompromising integrity. He had a great love of countryside, the sea and
naval and military history. He was at heart a traditionalist but had a passion
for the benefits that new technologies could bring.
Briony Blackwell
Briony had a lifelong interest in and love of the natural world and chose to
study for a degree in Environmental Biology. Her marriage to Miles Blackwell
was a romance between two traditionally-minded people. She supported Miles
in his work at home and abroad and in the local community. She continued her
interest in environmental matters including the preservation of rare breeds
and running a small flock of Manx Lochtan sheep. Together she and Miles put
much energy into the development of the grounds of their homes. Once Miles
retired, the couple preferred to spend time either at their countryside home
outside Oxford or at their cottage on the Isle of Wight.
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recent grants
Welfare of Farmed Animals
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Compassion in World FarmingDeveloping the capacity of Compassion in World Farming’s Food
Business Group Grant of up to £2,340,000 The Trust has awarded a major grant of £2,340,000 to Compassion in World Farming towards the cost of developing the capacity of its Food Business Group over a five-year period. |
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The programme aims to encourage leading UK and European food companies
to recognise and respond to the growing need to provide consumers with
higher welfare food products. This will enable Compassion in World Farming
to make a step-change in its ability to deliver improved welfare for
farmed animals in Europe.
To download a copy of the press release regarding the grant and Compassion's
major farm animal welfare appeal, please click here http://www.ciwf.org.uk/your_food/food_business_team.aspx
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University of BristolImplementing welfare outcomes in assurance schemes to improve
the welfare of farmed animals Grants totalling up to £2,823,947 An initial grant of £123,947 was awarded to the University of Bristol to support the development of a strategic policy and practical implementation programme for the utilisation of Welfare Outcome Assessments (WOA) in assurance schemes. |
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The Trust then awarded a major grant of £2,700,000 to support the work
to ensure that Welfare Outcome Assessments become fully embedded within the farm
animal assurance schemes operated by RSPCA’s Freedom Food and the Soil
Association and then to roll out WOA to other farm animal assurance schemes.
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Farm Animal Welfare Trust (FAWT)Novel commercial broiler genetic selection techniques integrating welfare and production traits Grant up to £1,537,500 |
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Our grant was awarded to an ambitious, large-scale project aiming to develop and test a genetic selection process that focuses on efficient chicken meat production as well as the welfare of the animal and which will ultimately influence breeding. The aim is then to test the results commercially and bring the changes to the marketplace.
The project will be carried out through a partnership with FAI Farms Ltd and the Department of Zoology, Oxford University.
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Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)Develop and produce a commercially viable system which meets the welfare needs of commercially farmed ducks by providing them with water Grant up to £1,221,068 |
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Our grant will support this ambitious project which aims to work with key players across the food chain to deliver a significant welfare improvement for commercially farmed ducks by ensuring the provision of water facilities that allow proper expression of key natural behaviours. This will be achieved by applying the RSPCA’s ‘problem/solution’ farm animal welfare investment model, which integrates knowledge, industry support and consumer pressure, all of which are necessary to achieve real change in the food industry.
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Compassion in World Farming (CIWF)
Core and business planning costs for the Farmed Animal Welfare
(FAW) Forum
Grants totalling up to £596,588
The Trust has facilitated the creation of the FAW Forum, an informal forum consisting of influential farmed animal welfare organisations, scientists concerned with improving farmed animal welfare, and representatives of the food industry and certifying bodies. Compassion in World Farming is responsible for managing the grant for the FAW Forum.
The FAW Forum has developed a working document for a co-ordinated 10 year strategic plan to effect large-scale, long-term and sustainable improvements in the welfare of farmed animals. As part of the 10 year plan, the Forum members have identified a FAW Charter as one of the ways of working collectively to achieve the Forum's mission.
There are two main goals that the Charter will serve:
- First, to achieve sign-up by food and farming businesses operating in the UK to a Charter of principles recognising publicly that farmed animal welfare is an issue of importance.
- To encourage specific change against the priority farmed animal welfare issues identified in the Forum's 10 year plan.
To download a copy of the Forum’s 10 year strategic plan, please click here Forum’s 10 year strategic plan. Please send any comments and suggestions on the strategic plan directly to Roland Bonney. roland.bonney@faifarms.co.uk
Our grants provide support for the development of the Farmed Animal
Welfare Forum, in the form of core and business planning costs, in order
to strengthen the Forum for the future.
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University of BristolReducing injurious pecking amongst layer hens by implementing existing knowledge. Grant up to £868,295 |
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Our grant was awarded to a large-scale project designed to make a quantifiable reduction in injurious pecking amongst the UK’s estimated 30 million laying hens. The project proposes to utilise existing knowledge to develop a practical, cost effective husbandry advisory package which will be made available to egg producers and their advisors, and will identify the most appropriate husbandry solutions for each individual farm.
The project is led by the world-renowned Animal Behaviour and Welfare Group at the University of Bristol, recognised as a centre of excellence in animal welfare. Partners include key and influential players in the poultry industry as study participants and steering group members.
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World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)Towards a global campaign against the long distance transport of animals for slaughter. Grants totalling up to £400,000 |
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The WSPA is the world’s largest federation of animal welfare societies and works to raise the standards for animal welfare throughout the world.
Our grants were awarded towards the cost of WSPA's global campaign against the long distance transport of animals for slaughter. WSPA is coordinating this international coalition of 8 leading, reputable and experienced animal welfare organisations.
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Conservation of the Natural Environment
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Royal Society of Wildlife TrustsPlanning and implementing the 'Building Momentum for a Living Landscape' project Grants totalling up to £2,900,692 |
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To support the planning and implementation of
the 'Building Momentum for a Living Landscape' project led
by The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, on behalf of The Wildlife Trust
movement.
The future of the UK’s biodiversity depends not only on the network of
designated and protected sites and nature reserves but also on the wider countryside
in which these ’jewels’ sit. The Wildlife Trusts' vision to create
A Living Landscape offers an exciting model of how landscapes can be improved
for wildlife through positive engagement with the entire range of landowners
and managers.
Our grant was to support the development and implementation of the vision through,
for example, influencing relevant policies, raising public awareness, sharing
best practice and securing sustainable resources for delivery.
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Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)Acquisition and restoration of the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland Grant of up to £1,000,000 |
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Our grant has supported the purchase and restoration of land in an area of the UK that forms one of the largest and most intact blanket bogs in the world. The peatlands are of international conservation importance, including rare bog types and plant communities still actively developing since the last ice age, some of which are unknown elsewhere. The peatlands have been damaged by forestry planting and associated drainage. The RSPB has acquired priority areas for landscape-scale habitat restoration. Blanket bog is a priority habitat under the UK BAP. UK BAP priority species that benefit include the common scoter, Arctic skua, black-throated diver, skylark, water vole and otter.
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Pew Environment GroupTowards the EU Marine Programme Grant up to £244,000
The Pew Environment Group has established a European Marine Programme office in Brussels to help pursue an end to global overfishing and reduce destruction of the world's oceans. |
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The European Union (EU) has one of the largest fishing fleets in the world. It is also the world's largest importer of fisheries products. However, fisheries management policies in the EU are often poorly developed or not fully implemented. As a consequence, the EU is contributing to the widespread overfishing of the oceans. Pew’s work aims to produce significant improvements in European fisheries management, monitoring, control and enforcement systems. Pew will develop and support a network of civil society groups across Europe, seeking to address these issues through influencing the Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy which is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2012.
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WWF International(Towards the EU Marine Programme) Securing a sustainable future for European Fisheries Grant up to £520,000 |
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Our grant was awarded to support WWF's programme of work to influence
the EU's Common Fisheries Policy Review 2010-2012. WWF aims to have reforms
which will protect marine biodiversity included in the 2011 legislative
proposal by the Council. WWF International will mobilise its network
across Europe to develop positive relationships with industry to secure
the necessary changes.
WWF's goal is to restore European fish stocks to a level of abundance sufficient
to ensure their resilience, sustainability and profitability, and make EU fleets
effective ocean stewards both in European waters and throughout the world's oceans.
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Scottish Environment
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Launching the 'Avoiding Conflict in the Marine Environment' report in June 2010 Credit: MCS Scotland |
The Trustees were delighted to have been able to support previous work
which resulted in effective marine legislation for England, Wales and
Scotland and which delivered work to influence future legislation covering
the waters administered by the Northern Ireland Assembly. The legislation
enacted and proposed offers great potential for the benefit of the UK’s
marine biodiversity.
It is clear that these benefits depend on effective implementation of legislation
and that work carried out through the Link partnerships in each country can play
a vital role in ensuring implementation is well-designed and adequately resourced.
Our grant will support the four Links to deliver a programme of work towards
this end.
The Trust’s support in this area has been generously co-funded by the Esmée
Fairbairn Foundation.
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past grants
To download a list of grants made in the year ending March 2011
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grants 2011 (pdf 36k)
To download a list of grants made in the year ending March 2010
please click here past
grants 2010 (pdf 44k)
To download a list of grants made in the year ending March 2009
please click here past
grants 2009 (pdf 36k)
To download a list of grants made in the year ending March 2008
please click here past
grants 2008 (pdf 44k)
To download a list of grants made in the year ending March 2007
please click here past
grants 2007 (pdf 40k)
To download a list of grants made in the year ending March 2006
please click here past
grants 2006 (pdf 28k)
To download a list of grants made in the year ending March 2005
please click here past grants 2005 (pdf 20k)
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