Other grants
Helen Hamlyn Trust
£2,000,000
The Helen Hamlyn Trust is an independent grant-making trust focusing on the initiation of medium- and long-term projects linked to the shared interests of Lady Hamlyn and her late husband Lord Hamlyn. The Trust’s core ethos is to develop innovative projects, which aim to effect lasting change, improve quality of life and create opportunities to benefit the public.
The Trust’s grant-making is centred on medicine, arts and culture, education and welfare, healthy ageing, international humanitarian affairs, heritage and conservation in India. Small grants are given to local and regional charities up to £10,000.
The Trust establishes lasting relationships with leading organisations and individuals to enable new areas of work to develop. By creating connections between organisations and introducing new ideas, innovation and change can take place.
Open Futures – askit, growit, cookit, filmit (www.openfutures. com) is a schools’ curriculum programme that brings ‘learning to life’ for young children. It champions a fundamental shift in how the National Curriculum is delivered, by re-focusing education on intuitive approaches that ignite children’s passion for learning.
A new initiative with the Museum of London, The Ashmolean Museum and Wakefield Museum Service is piloting an approach based on enquiry and the use of digital technology to engage young children with Museum collections. The project (with the working title askit, filmit, shareit in Museums) is being independently evaluated by Hope-Stone Research.
This year, amongst other projects, the Trust has continued its work with and support of the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery (Imperial College London), the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery (Royal Marsden), the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and the Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design (Royal College of Art), research into Optic Nerve Repair and Regeneration to Restore Sight (Moorfields Eye Hospital), the LSO/Panufnik Composition Scheme, the Paul Hamlyn Christmas Family Treat (Royal Opera House), and the Hamlyn-Feilden Fellowship in Conservation Studies (York University).
In India the Trust supports the Restoration and Reuse of Reis Magos Fort, Goa and of Anapurna Bhandar, Jaisalmer, in partnership with INTACH, and Cultural Development at Nagaur Fort, Rajasthan. In New York state, the Trust supports The Vignelli Centre Endowed Professorship at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In Portugal the Trust supports the Setubal Music Festival, a partnership with the Municipality of Setubal, bringing together young people from different ethnic communities through a music development programme.
The Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation
£97,709
This funding is for PHF scholarships in the International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance, which provides a universally accepted standard of training for humanitarian workers and contributes to our aim to develop the capacity of NGOs.
The Nuffield Foundation
£7,000
The Foundation contributed funds towards the production and publication by the Association of Charitable Foundations of ‘The governance and financial management of endowed charitable foundations’, by Richard Jenkins. The report was commissioned in partnership with other organisations interested in asset management, including Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, The Nuffield Foundation, Trinity College Cambridge, and Trust for London.
New Philanthropy Capital
£6,000
We contributed funds to support NPC to conduct a survey of a representative sample of charities and social enterprises across the UK, to gauge their capacity for measuring impact.
Other grants awarded in 2011/12:
The Helen Hamlyn Trust – £2,000,000
The Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation – £97,709
The Nuffield Foundation – £7,000
New Philanthropy Capital – £6,000
Exchange rate adjustments – £1,359
Other grants total – £2,112,068