Grants awarded

To help refugee academics re-establish their professional lives.

To acquire a site for an advanced research centre, in partnership with Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Paris-Sud XI and the South African universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, and the Western Cape.

To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

To support work on global climate change agreements.

To train leaders in global conflict resolution.

To support a visiting fellowship at the Reuters Institute.

To research the feasibility of developing a universal digital library.

To research how Europe can peacefully accommodate changing attitudes to religion without compromising secular democratic freedoms.

To improve climate change policy and campaign against coal in the UK and Germany.

To provide five bursaries for graduates and young professionals from the USA to undertake graduate studies at Oxford University.

To support the Institute’s cultural, educational and policy programmes.

To endow a programme of PhD scholarships at Imperial College.

To support the leadership of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

To build a visitor centre in Patagonia Park in Chile.

To set up a fellowship programme exploring how technology can improve access to information.

To support the Library’s Center for Primary Research and Training’s work to improve access to special library collections and train graduate students and scholars in collections management.

To provide core support to help TARA’s mission to survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

To build a rangers’ station in Pumalin Park in Chile.

To purchase land and establish a new grassland reserve in Corrientes province, Argentina.

To provide advice to the Trust and its partners on wild land conservation and biodiversity management.