We would like to thank all our funders and donors, including those who prefer to remain anonymous. Nothing that we do could take place without them.
Funders
We thank the following institutions for helping us to ensure that Wordsworth’s poetry can ‘live and do good’.
The Charlotte Aitken Trust
The AKO Foundation
The John Armitage Charitable Trust
Art Fund
The Big Give Trust
Brigham Young University
Cumbria Community Foundation
The Friends of the Nation’s Libraries
The Michael Marks Charitable Trust
The Cedric Morris Foundation
The John R. Murray Charitable Trust
The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust
The Old Possum’s Practical Trust
The Julia Rausing Trust
The W.W. Spooner Charitable Trust
St John’s College, Cambridge
Windermere Marina Village
The Wordsworth Conference Foundation
Donors
We are very grateful to our Patrons and other individual donors for their generous support.
Patrons
Jan Ambler
John, Sally and Nicholas Barker
Dr Jackie Bettess
Professor Paul Betz and Carol Ann Rosen
Lady Boyd
James Brockbank and Louise Ronane
Mary Chuck
John and Theresa Collier
Philip Davies and David Heath
Diana Delbridge
Sheila Edwards
Lord and Lady Egremont
Veronica Finch
John and Barbara Forsyth
David Heal
Peter and Claire Hensman
Deborah Anne and Gerard Lyon
Anna and Joseph McClure
Professor David McKitterick
Diana Matthews
John Murdoch
Adam and Marianne Naylor
Professor Lucy Newlyn
Mr John Nicoll
Dr Deborah L. Pfuntner
Dr Cecilia and Nicholas Powell
Tim Robertson
Dr Daniel Robinson
Charles Sebag-Montefiore CBE
Harriette Smale
The Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury PC
John and Clare Spedding
Professor Francis and Dr Ruth Watson
Charles Woodhouse
Other donors
Professor Sir Drummond Bone
The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry KBE
Julia Crookenden
Jenny Dainty
Professor Stephen Gill
Dr Bruce Graver
Patricia Grodd and Michael Stone
Tim Harding
Jane Hardy
Joanna Holliday
Daniel Jaye
Jeffrey Jaye
Eira Leach
Andy and Jenny Morris
Professor Nick Roe
Professor Heidi Snow
Charles and Beryl Waddington
Tom and Blaine Wells
Geoffrey and Rosemary Wolfson
Jean Wood
In memory
Professor Richard Fadem
Michael Mitchell
Constance Parrish
Sue Pemru
Tony Reavell
Linda Waldren
Dr Robert Woof
With grateful thanks to those individuals who chose to remember the Wordsworth Trust in their will.
The late Pat Bishop
The late Betty Bodsworth
The late Richard Hall
The late Dr Arthur Kincaid
The late Constance Parrish
Reimagining Wordsworth
‘Reimagining Wordsworth’, a £6.5 million programme of improvements culminating in the opening of the new Museum at Wordsworth Grasmere in May 2021, was supported by the following organisations:
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Northern Powerhouse through Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership
The Wolfson Foundation
The Linbury Trust
The Garfield Weston Foundation
The Foyle Foundation
South Lakeland District Council
The Band Trust
The Swire Charitable Trust
The Wyfold Trust
The People’s Postcode Lottery
The Charlotte Bonham-Carter Charitable Trust
Cumbria Gardens Trust
The Derek Hill Foundation
The Warner Priory Charitable Trust
Thousands of people benefit from projects funded by grants from generous organisations. Contact us to discuss how you or your grant-making trust could make a difference and Mark Bains, Development Manager, will get in touch with you.
