THE LINDER FOUNDATION
Grants are available to UK registered charities and exempt charities working in the areas of the arts, the environment and support for young people.
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o Application deadline: THURSDAY 31st OCTOBER 2024.
o Funder: The Linder Foundation (founded 1974. Charity number 267509. Total value of all grants awarded during the year ended 31 March 2023: £447,106 (2022: £493,741)).
o Who can apply: UK-registered charities or exempt charities (i.e. educational institutions).
o Key words: Arts, Environment, Young People, United Kingdom.
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The Linder Foundation, formerly known as the Enid Linder Foundation, supports a wide variety of charities with causes ranging from medical electives, hospices and young people, to environment and the arts.
The Foundation seeks to provide funding to areas in which genuine social change can be brought about. The trustees strongly believe in nurturing the emotional and educational development of young people, encouraging applications from organisations aiming to enhance the skills and career prospects of those with little support, whether through therapy, mentoring or educational programmes.
Grants are also provided to projects which address the harmful effects of human activity on the environment, preserving the natural world for the benefit of society as well as for local wildlife.
Grants are currently awarded against the following 3 categories:
1. The Arts – the Linder family has a long history of supporting and championing the arts with a continuing commitment to sponsoring projects which uphold and embody the importance of the arts. In the current grant round the trustees will be looking for charities with projects that demonstrate:
o Visualisation made by an artist to explain information – this can be a drawing, a painting, a photograph, or even a collage, as long as it retains its purpose to visually represent a story, facts and details.
o Development of the potential of young people in the visual arts with an emphasis on painting and drawing, and/or
o Support for the art of Illustration.
2. The Environment – the Foundation especially interested in charities whose work is centred around protecting and enhancing the natural world. Trustees are looking to support projects which:
o Focus on land-based projects relating to biodiversity, such as sustainable farming practices, and/or species preservation/re-introduction.
o Are locally or regionally based.
o Can be rural or urban.
Could contain a research element that seeks to provide the evidence base for change and has the potential to be scaled up, and
o Involve volunteers and/or community engagement.
3. Young People – the Foundation supports projects that aim to improve outcomes for vulnerable young people, particularly those who have suffered from Adverse Childhood Experiences and childhood trauma. Priority will be given to projects that:
o Provide early intervention and rehabilitation designed to prevent offending or re-offending; and/or
o Aim to strengthen families and keep children out of care.
The Foundation also funds hospices and respite care. However, it is working in partnership with Hospice UK in 2024-2025 to deliver targeted funding for specific projects. Grants to individual hospices are not therefore being made during this period.
In addition, the Foundation has a long history of supporting medical student electives through seven chosen university medical schools. Applications may only be made following an invitation from the Foundation.
During the year ended 31st March 2023, the Foundation awarded 25 grants totalling £447,106 (2022: 37 grants totalling £493,741). Grants made ranged from £1,000 (to Westmoreland Red Squirrel Society) to £75,000 (to Hospice UK).
Details of all grant recipients over the last two years can be found on pages 17-18 of the Foundation’s annual accounts.
Further information, guidance and an online application form is available on the Foundation’s website.
The deadline for applications is Thursday 31st October 2024.
Contact details for the Foundation are:
Elizabeth Fathi
Clerk to the Trustees
The Linder Foundation
6 Trull Farm Buildings
Trull
Gloucestershire
GL8 8SQ
Tel: 020 3997 4444
Email: admin@