MARK LEONARD TRUST

Who they support

Grant making

Grant criteria

The Trust often supports smaller, early-stage organisations across the Mark Leonard Trust’s areas of work, which are ‘food and farming’ and ‘harnessing the power of the Creative Arts’. The Trust tries to help its partners scale up and achieve their goals by providing long-term core financial and developmental support. It also facilitates the building of relationships between partners to share knowledge and support one another to do what they do better. The Trust often gathers partners together in one place, with its wider network of experts and like-minded organisations, to help achieve this.

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The Sainsbury Family Charitable Tru
THE PEAK
5 Wilton Road
LONDON
SW1V 1AP

Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 1040323

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Analysis of Grants Made

In this period 121 donations have been made totalling £3,356,795 to 84 organisations
This grant maker is prepared to support unregistered organisations

Where are the Beneficiaries?

How big are the Recipients? ?

Average annual spending of registered grantees: £17,235,244

Which activities are being funded?

How old were the charities when supported?

Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)

Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?

	By Value	By Number
Esmee Fairbairn	36%	18%
J J Charitable Trust	34%	26%
Garfield Weston Foundation	18%	17%
Trust for London	16%	8%
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch	15%	5%
Tedworth Charitable Trust	14%	6%
The Linbury Trust	14%	6%
John Ellerman Foundation	12%	6%
Woodward Charitable Trust	12%	4%
Joseph Rowntree Foundation	12%	8%

Sole supporter: 57% by number, 46% by value.

Individual Grants Made

When	Amount/ Spending	Recipient	To be used for
30/05/2024	£7,583	CANTERBURY OAST TRUST	To cover three quarters of the gardener of the Rare Breed Centre's annual salary
16/05/2024	£25,000 £1,086,256	ORGANIC RESEARCH CENTRE	appeal for funding for its Feeding the Soil Appeal
08/05/2024	£40,000	MISSION KITCHEN	For the 2024 Tomorrow’s Table programme of events
07/05/2024	£51,565	PEERS FOR THE PLANET	towards staff costs
07/05/2024	£15,000 £73,275	SOUTH LAKES ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE	to challenge the development of a proposed coal mine in Cumbria through a judicial review in the High Court
07/05/2024	£18,334	GREEN FINANCE COMMUNITY HUB	towards a business plan and community/stakeholder engagement for Project Collette
07/05/2024	£10,000	E3G	towards the communication costs and secretariat support for London Climate Action Week 2024
04/03/2024	£20,000	REGENEARTH B.V.	Towards the costs of podcasts on regenerative agriculture
04/03/2024	£10,000 £4,987,979	SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL	For its work to understand and stop organised crime driving rhino poaching
04/03/2024	£10,000 £366,700,000	BRITISH RED CROSS - HEADQUARTERS	For their efforts to support people hurt through the war between Israel and Gaza
04/03/2024	£10,000 £76,953,569	MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES - DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	For their efforts to support people hurt through the war between Israel and Gaza.
23/02/2024	£1,800	TRFF LTD	to pay for advice from BDB Pitmans on how to appoint an engineer with confidentiality and IP assignment
04/12/2023	£16,000	CARBON TRACKER	for staff capacity to engage regulators/wider stakeholders with the findings of its ‘Loading the Dice’ report.
16/11/2023	£50,000 £1,471,449	BECOME - (FORMERLY KNOWN AS WHO CARES? TRUST)	Core funding
16/11/2023	£7,000	INTEGRITY SOILS	to contribute to the fees of a participant on the UK CREATE course.
16/11/2023	£50,000 £2,633,185	ASHDEN CLIMATE SOLUTIONS	rowards core costs
16/11/2023	£5,000 £4,987,979	SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL	towards the Follow the Money Investigation
16/11/2023	£40,000 £649,131	ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS' NETWORK	Core funding
16/11/2023	£12,950	REGENERATIVE FARMING UK CONFERENCE BUDGET	towards the Regenerative farming UK conference
24/10/2023	£13,033 £1,086,256	ORGANIC RESEARCH CENTRE	For a Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) of crop science relating to regenerative agriculture.
12/10/2023	£12,300	INTEGRITY INITIATIVES INTERNATIONAL	For staffing needs on the IACC
12/10/2023	£56,061 £771,412	PLATFORM	Towards their partnership work on UK Divest
12/10/2023	£7,667 £1,364,685	CHARITY FINANCE GROUP	To develop the Charity Investment Governance Principles
12/10/2023	£8,000	BATES WELLS & BRAITHWAITE LLP	Towards the costs of Bates Wells and other legal firms producing legal opinions on charity reporting duties.
12/10/2023	£56,061 £13,431,783	FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST	Towards its partnership work on UK Divest
12/10/2023	£11,212	FRIENDS OF THE EARTH SCOTLAND	Towards its partnership work on UK Divest.
12/10/2023	£100,000	GREEN FINANCE INSTITUTE	Towards the Local Climate Bonds project
12/10/2023	£15,000 £825,420	HEARD ORGANISATION LTD (FORMERLY ON ROAD MEDIA)	Towards the core climate team in 2024/25.
19/09/2023	£20,000	PR BUDGET	To support PR, comms and market research in 2023/24
02/08/2023	£5,061	IMAGINATION DESIGN LIMITED	For the expenses associated with Imagination Design’s woodland design and community engagement with local residents around Preston Candover
21/07/2023	£2,295 £649,131	ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS' NETWORK	To engage One Thought and Lila Turner’s Executive Leadership course
25/05/2023	£15,000	AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS	To support the development of AFP’s ‘Future of the Planet’ hub.
25/05/2023	£14,000	MISSION KITCHEN	Towards the first event of Tomorrow’s Table Event Programme
15/05/2023	£20,000	ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA	To support Requiem in Motion
21/03/2023	£10,000	GOOD LAW PROJECT	Towards its work to develop new legislation which would oblige judges to consider and protect the environment when adjudicating cases and/or interpreting legislation.
21/03/2023	£18,333 £1,051,751	GLOBAL LEGAL ACTION NETWORK (GLAN)	Towards its consortium of trans-national litigation organisations.
21/03/2023	£15,000	INFLUENCE MAP	To investigate lobbying against biodiversity and land use policies in Europe and globally.
14/03/2023	£1,071 £771,412	PLATFORM	towards cost of living contribution
14/03/2023	£1,044 £13,431,783	FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST	towards cost of living contributions
27/02/2023	£10,000 £156,490	TURKEY MOZAIK FOUNDATION	Turkey Earthquake Emergency Fund
06/02/2023	£18,750	ROYAL AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY	For a retreat on transforming teaching on agriculture
09/01/2023	£10,000 £174,807	SOUTH LAKES ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE	For its legal work in challenging the development of a coal mine in Cumbria
09/01/2023	£500	NAPIER FRIENDS	Christmas Rucksack Appeal
24/11/2022	£25,000	MISSION KITCHEN	Towards the costs of the Future of Fat event taking place in March 2023.
24/11/2022	£15,800 £3,670	FAIR SHOT	Towards funding Fairshot’s move to Covent Garden and core costs
24/11/2022	£40,000	THE HOUSE OF FAIRYTALES	Core costs
24/11/2022	£40,000	REAL FARMING TRUST	Towards the mentoring budget for LEAF 2.
24/11/2022	£8,846	CANTERBURY OAST TRUST	To cover the gardener’s salary
24/11/2022	£5,000 £3,265,272	SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL	towards the follow-the-money investigation
24/11/2022	£5,000 £859,676	SWITCHBACK INITIATIVE - (KNOWN AS SWITCHBACK)	Christmas fundraising round
24/11/2022	£7,000 £263,641	IN PLACE OF WAR	Towards the Arctic Sonic project.
24/11/2022	£40,000 £2,633,185	ASHDEN CLIMATE SOLUTIONS	For core funding
16/11/2022	£11,667	GLOBAL LEGAL ACTION NETWORK (GLAN)	Towards a communications coordinator role
16/11/2022	£8,181	CARBON TRACKER	Towards its project to challenge the flawed advice that is endangering people’s pensions
16/11/2022	£20,000 £6,317,000	NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS (NCVO)	Towards its fossil fuel divestment campaign
31/10/2022	£325,000	THE PARAORCHESTRA & FRIENDS	Creating and building a new, beneficial ecology within the cultural sector for disabled musicians and building ParaOrchestra’s staffing and capacity for impact
20/06/2022	£5,000	REGENERATIVE VITICULTURE FOUNDATION	Towards staff costs
20/06/2022	£45,000	FLYING SEAGULL PROJECT	Towards the development plans of the Flying Seagulls Project
20/06/2022	£50,000	SUSTAINABLE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION	For the development of the online platform for its new rating system
20/06/2022	£120,000 £750,976	CHEFS IN SCHOOLS	Core funding
05/05/2022	£63,333	THE SOCIAL CHANGE NEST	Unrestricted funding
05/05/2022	£33,333 £771,412	PLATFORM	Kick Fossil Fuels out of Football campaign
05/05/2022	£20,000	CIR BUDGET	Towards the next phase of the CIR work for briefing notes, PR support and staff attendance at event
05/05/2022	£600	PEOPLE & PLANET	Towards cost of living contribution
14/02/2022	£5,000	BRITISH INSTITUTE OF FLORENCE	Towards Jane Roberts Memorial Fund
14/02/2022	£2,500	ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS GROUP	Towards the communication work and developing their conservation plan.
14/02/2022	£2,500	JUMBY BAY FUND INC	Donation
09/02/2022	£52,067 £771,412	PLATFORM	Towards their core work on the UK fossil fuel divestment movement and their partnership with Friends of the Earth Scotland and Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland
09/02/2022	£23,814	FRIENDS OF THE EARTH SCOTLAND	Towards their core work on the UK fossil fuel divestment movement and their partnership with Platform and Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
09/02/2022	£54,913 £14,494,449	FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST	Towards their core work on the UK fossil fuel divestment movement and their partnership with Platform and Friends of the Earth Scotland.
09/02/2022	£50,000 £614,234	ON ROAD MEDIA	Towards delivering its strategic climate change communications project.
09/02/2022	£20,000	GLOBAL LEGAL ACTION NETWORK (GLAN)	For its legal work to establish the facts and develop a legal case to challenge the environmental destruction of Barbuda.
07/10/2021	£60,000	LAUDATO SI’ MOVEMENT	To deliver their Catholic Fossil Fuels Campaign 2.0.
07/10/2021	£30,000	PEOPLE & PLANET	To fund staff to deliver and expand on its university climate campaigns
07/10/2021	£25,000	C40 CITIES CLIMATE LEADERSHIP GROUP	To continue the work of C40’s Divest Invest Forum
07/10/2021	£15,250	STOP ECOCIDE FOUNDATION	To attend and host events at COP26.
07/10/2021	£6,000	GLOBAL CANOPY	To run an event with the New York Times at COP26.
07/10/2021	£8,750	FLEETWOOD STRATEGY LIMITED	To conduct market research and develop media messaging for Uplift, making ecocide an international crime, and the Nature Premium.
07/10/2021	£80,000	GREEN FINANCE INSTITUTE	For a member of staff and communication campaign to encourage UK local councils to set up Local Climate Bonds.
07/10/2021	£22,000	THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EXISTENTIAL RISK	Towards a research post within the Sustainable Finance Team.
07/10/2021	£11,666	INFLUENCE MAP	To develop a report on lobbying efforts to halt transitioning the Energy Charter Treaty to become aligned with international climate agreements
20/09/2021	£1,000 £53,543	STUMP UP FOR TREES	Planting One Million Trees in the Brecon Beacons area
07/09/2021	£60,000	GLOBAL LEGAL ACTION NETWORK (GLAN)	towards core funding.
07/09/2021	£10,000	PURPOSE DISRUPTORS	For its Scope 3 project to develop and gain acceptance for a methodology for advertising firms’ net zero plans to include the emissions from the sales resulting from the campaigns they design
27/08/2021	£8,333	ARTICULATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF BRAZIL (APIB)	Towards APIB’s efforts in preventing the roll-back of indigenous rights.
27/08/2021	£3,333	INSTITUTO SOCIOAMBIENTAL (ISA)	Towards the ISA’s Fund for the Defence of People’s Rights.
27/08/2021	£3,334	AMAZON WATCH	Towards the Amazon Defence Fund
22/07/2021	£60,000	PEERS FOR THE PLANET	Core funding.
23/06/2021	£30,000	FLEETWOOD STRATEGY LIMITED	National Food Strategy Communication Campaign.
26/05/2021	£10,000	THE PASSAGE, VICTORIA	towards the capital appeal for the upgrade of Passage House
26/05/2021	£5,000	TORTH Y TIR	To support its local marketing campaigns and staff costs.
26/05/2021	£50,000 £3,151,019	ASHDEN CLIMATE SOLUTIONS	Unrestricted funding
13/05/2021	£30,000	EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION (ECF)	Communication campaign for the National Food Strategy.
06/05/2021	£83,334 £21,635,509	CLIENTEARTH	To fund a lawyer within the Climate Finance Initiative
06/05/2021	£10,000	THE SOCIAL CHANGE NEST	Towards Uplift’s legal work on challenging the Oil and Gas Authority’s ‘Maximising Economic Recovery’ strategy
25/02/2021	£20,000	CITIZENS UK	Support phase 2 of its new community-based programme on climate change
25/02/2021	£27,000	GLOBAL LEGAL ACTION NETWORK (GLAN)	Towards the cost of its ground-breaking human rights legal case at the European Court of Human Rights.
25/02/2021	£15,000 £1,103,279	STUDENTS ORGANISING FOR SUSTAINABILITY	Towards phase 2 of SOS’s work
25/02/2021	£20,000 £652,450	PLATFORM	Towards its on-going Divest Invest programme.
25/02/2021	£7,457 £14,494,449	FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST	towards Friends of the Earth to enable it to continue its collaboration with Platform London on its divestment work.
25/02/2021	£20,000	THE SOCIAL CHANGE NEST	Towards core costs
12/01/2021	£30,000 £614,234	ON ROAD MEDIA	Phase 2 of Strategic Communications Work
05/11/2020	£8,667	CARBON TRACKER	To investigate the scale of primary finance lending flowing from banks to fossil fuel projects and companies
05/11/2020	£3,334	THE COMMITMENT	Towards its marketing activities
05/11/2020	£12,000	SYSTEMIQ	To provide advice to As You Sow on Project Kairos
29/09/2020	£25,000	C40 CITIES CLIMATE LEADERSHIP GROUP	First year of a second phase of the C40 Divest Invest Forum
29/09/2020	£8,334	350.ORG	To provide ‘the outside track’ to C40’s work
28/07/2020	£138,000 £612,981	SWITCHBACK INITIATIVE - (KNOWN AS SWITCHBACK)	core costs
23/06/2020	£5,000	MISSION KITCHEN	Towards Mission Meals
05/05/2020	£35,000	CITIZENS UK	Support phase 1 of its new community-based programme on climate change
05/05/2020	£6,176	FRAMEWORKS INSTITUTE	to cover the costs of the supplementary research by Frameworks Institute and YouGov
09/04/2020	£5,000	THE PARAORCHESTRA & FRIENDS	Hardship fund for its self-employed orchestra members (COVID-19 relief aid)
07/04/2020	£5,000 £1,754,197	HOUSE OF ST BARNABAS-IN-SOHO	Towards an emergency fund for out-of-work graduates from the catering and hospitality Employment Academy, in response to the loss of livelihood as a result of the COVID-19 national lockdown.
07/04/2020	£3,000	CLINKS RESTAURANT, THE CLINK CHARITY	Towards an emergency fund for out-of-work graduates from the prison restaurant chain, in response to the loss of livelihood as a result of the COVID-19 national lockdown.
07/04/2020	£3,000 £2,840,575	HOSPITALITY ACTION	Towards the Indonesia Tsunami Appeal
18/02/2020	£10,000	CENTRE FOR LONDON	Towards the College of Food project.
22/01/2020	£34,000	GLOBAL WITNESS	Towards its UK Oil and Gas Campaign
22/01/2020	£36,000	GREENHOUSE PR LTD	Towards PR and media support
22/01/2020	£250,000 £231,255	IN PLACE OF WAR	towards core costs
22/01/2020	£33,320 £457,534	ON ROAD MEDIA	Towards strategic communications work in collaboration with Frameworks Institute
22/01/2020	£33,333	MAKE MY MONEY MATTER	Towards a strategic communication initiative

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Cumulative Grants

Amount	Recipient
£330,000	THE PARAORCHESTRA & FRIENDS
£257,000	IN PLACE OF WAR
£162,532	PLATFORM
£143,000	SWITCHBACK INITIATIVE - (KNOWN AS SWITCHBACK) Education & Employment: Ex-offenders
£140,000	ASHDEN CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
£128,320	HEARD ORGANISATION LTD (FORMERLY ON ROAD MEDIA)
£120,000	CHEFS IN SCHOOLS Health: Healthy eating
£119,475	FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST
£118,667	GLOBAL LEGAL ACTION NETWORK (GLAN)
£111,565	PEERS FOR THE PLANET
£100,000	GREEN FINANCE INSTITUTE
£93,333	THE SOCIAL CHANGE NEST
£84,000	MISSION KITCHEN
£83,334	CLIENTEARTH Environment: Advocacy
£80,000	GREEN FINANCE INSTITUTE
£60,000	LAUDATO SI’ MOVEMENT
£55,000	CITIZENS UK
£50,000	SUSTAINABLE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
£50,000	C40 CITIES CLIMATE LEADERSHIP GROUP
£50,000	BECOME - (FORMERLY KNOWN AS WHO CARES? TRUST)
£45,000	FLYING SEAGULL PROJECT
£42,295	ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS' NETWORK
£40,000	THE HOUSE OF FAIRYTALES
£40,000	REAL FARMING TRUST
£38,750	FLEETWOOD STRATEGY LIMITED
£38,033	ORGANIC RESEARCH CENTRE Environment: Sustainable Agriculture
£36,000	GREENHOUSE PR LTD
£35,026	FRIENDS OF THE EARTH SCOTLAND
£34,000	GLOBAL WITNESS
£33,333	MAKE MY MONEY MATTER
£30,600	PEOPLE & PLANET
£30,000	EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION (ECF)
£26,666	INFLUENCE MAP
£25,000	SOUTH LAKES ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
£22,000	THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EXISTENTIAL RISK
£20,000	SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL
£20,000	REGENEARTH B.V.
£20,000	PR BUDGET
£20,000	NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS (NCVO)
£20,000	ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA
£20,000	CIR BUDGET
£18,750	ROYAL AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
£18,334	GREEN FINANCE COMMUNITY HUB
£18,333	GLOBAL LEGAL ACTION NETWORK (GLAN)
£16,848	CARBON TRACKER
£16,429	CANTERBURY OAST TRUST
£16,000	CARBON TRACKER
£15,800	FAIR SHOT
£15,250	STOP ECOCIDE FOUNDATION
£15,000	STUDENTS ORGANISING FOR SUSTAINABILITY Environment: Advocacy
£15,000	AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS
£12,950	REGENERATIVE FARMING UK CONFERENCE BUDGET
£12,300	INTEGRITY INITIATIVES INTERNATIONAL
£12,000	SYSTEMIQ
£10,000	TURKEY MOZAIK FOUNDATION
£10,000	THE PASSAGE, VICTORIA
£10,000	PURPOSE DISRUPTORS
£10,000	MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES - DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS Health: Disease Prevention
£10,000	GOOD LAW PROJECT
£10,000	E3G
£10,000	CENTRE FOR LONDON
£10,000	BRITISH RED CROSS - HEADQUARTERS
£8,334	350.ORG
£8,333	ARTICULATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF BRAZIL (APIB)
£8,000	BATES WELLS & BRAITHWAITE LLP
£7,667	CHARITY FINANCE GROUP
£7,000	INTEGRITY SOILS
£6,176	FRAMEWORKS INSTITUTE
£6,000	GLOBAL CANOPY
£5,061	IMAGINATION DESIGN LIMITED
£5,000	TORTH Y TIR
£5,000	REGENERATIVE VITICULTURE FOUNDATION
£5,000	HOUSE OF ST BARNABAS-IN-SOHO
£5,000	BRITISH INSTITUTE OF FLORENCE
£3,334	THE COMMITMENT
£3,334	AMAZON WATCH
£3,333	INSTITUTO SOCIOAMBIENTAL (ISA)
£3,000	HOSPITALITY ACTION
£3,000	CLINKS RESTAURANT, THE CLINK CHARITY
£2,500	JUMBY BAY FUND INC
£2,500	ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS GROUP
£1,800	TRFF LTD
£1,000	STUMP UP FOR TREES
£500	NAPIER FRIENDS