Funding story: The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

By Radhika Holmstrom, Third Sector, 30 January 2008

The grant-making foundation wants to reaffirm its characteristics of flexibility, independence and long-term support.

The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation is one of the grandes dames of the funding field. Since it was established in 1961, it has made grants to organisations as diverse as Asylum Aid, the National Youth Dance Trust and the Get Hooked on Fishing Charitable Trust. It is also one of the...

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