Tubney Charitable Trust

The Tubney Charitable Trust is one of the UK’s leading grant-makers. It seeks to support activities that have a long-term, sustainable and positive impact on the biodiversity of the UK and on the welfare of farmed animals both in the UK and internationally.

In 2007, Compassion recognised the need to develop how we should engage with the food industry and approached the Tubney Charitable Trust for development funding. The Trustees supported a 12-month feasibility study in order to drive farmed animal welfare into the heart of the food industry in the European Union.

Compassion is currently building a new Food Business Group that will work with leading companies and industry groups with the aim of providing a wider range of high quality, reasonably priced, high welfare products.

In addition, The Tubney Charitable Trust has provided funding to facilitate the creation of the Farmed Animal Welfare Forum (FAW), an informal forum consisting of influential farmed animal welfare organisations; scientists concerned with improving farmed animal welfare; and representatives of the food industry and certifying bodies. Compassion is responsible for managing the grant for the FAW Forum.

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