Environment
Hertfordshire Wildlife Trust
2024
A project supported by the Foundation to reintroduce water voles to the River Ver in 2021 has been a huge success. The most recent survey, May 2024, identified a water vole population occupying approximately 8km of the main river and adjoining watercourses. A 430% increase in 3.5 years. To add to the hope for a continued colonisation, voles have been making their way upstream and 1.7km away from the nearest known core population. Dedicated volunteers have been instrumental to this success.
Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust
2021-24
The Linder Foundation was delighted to be involved with funding this project to release water voles.
In 2024, the Wildlife Trust reported a 430% increase in the water vole population on the River Ver, occupying an 8km stretch of the river and some long-distance travellers moving 4.8km downstream, as a direcgt result of this project. For the first time in 40 years locals can see and hear the water voles with added benefits for increasing biodiversity.
Fields In Trust and British Trust for Ornithology
2024
Following the away of two separate grants in 2023, lead trustee Henrietta Buxton, introduced both organisations to each other and a partnership was formed. BTO Birds in Greenspaces project and Fields in Trust GIS and Ordnance Survey project have both benefitted from sharing resources and information.
“It has been incredibly useful to find a partner that has mutual interests in green space provision with whom we have been able to share knowledge and expertise for our individual projects thanks to The Linder Foundation” Sally Barney, Fields in Trust.
Young People
Crysalys Foundation
2022-24
The Linder Foundation has supported Crysalys Foundation to develop Youth Court Solutions (YCS) from conception.
The Project supported in 2022 and 2023 was as a result of the Hospice UK Report “Dying Behind Bars” which identified challenges in providing adequate and compassionate care to prisoners at end-of-life. The grants programme rolled out to chartities addressing this challenge was funded by The Linder Foundation.
Amanda Smith presenting the Linder Foundation grant cheque to the Crysalys Foundation for their Youth Court Solutions project to improve education and life outcomes for vulnerable young people.
Youth on the Move (London)
2021
In 2021, The Linder Foundation supported Youth on the Move, an inspiring London based charity aiming to provide recreational activities to disadvantaged and socially isolated young people.
The Foundation’s grant went towards funding a midweek residential, featuring practical workshops and career guidance, affording young people access to new skills and inspiring an enduring love for learning.
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“We anticipate this project to have long lasting impact. The young people feel more secure and confident in their employment prospects. They are motivated to continue their education and have learnt functional skills, and have increased resilience and self confidence.”
The Arts
V & A Illustration Awards
2022-24
Continuing the legacy of Enid and Leslie Linder, The Linder Foundation proudly sponsors the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Illustration Awards. Pictured are: Rosalind McKever (V & A Curator of Drawings and Paintings), Jack Ladeveze (Honorary President of the Linder Foundation), Audrey Ladeveze (Honorary Vice President of the Linder Foundation), Jenny Gaschke (V & A Senior Curator) and Annemarie Bilclough (V & A Curator of Illustration) at the 2022 Illustration Awards.
This prestigious award celebrates the work of talented artists in three categories: Book cover designs, book illustration and illustrated journalism. Substantial prizes are awarded to the winners, as well as additional awards going to students of illustration. In this way, the awards embody the Foundation’s aim to encourage and enable excellence within the arts.
Previous student winners, Sally Dunne and Vyara Boyadjieve, have both gone on to secure contracts for book illustrations with publishers.
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