The Helen Hamlyn Trust’s core ethos is to support the development of innovative projects, which aim to effect lasting change and improve quality of life and create opportunity. As an independent grant-making trust, its principal focus is on the initiation of medium and long-term projects linked to the shared interests of Helen Hamlyn and her late husband, the publisher and philanthropist, Paul Hamlyn. The trust works in the fields of medicine, arts and culture, education and welfare, heritage and conservation in India, international humanitarian affairs and healthy ageing.

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.

Our energies are focused on the initiation of projects and we do not accept unsolicited applications for major grants.