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22 July 2024 – St Martin-in-the-Fields Trust is proud to be a recipient of the newly launched Julia Rausing Trust grant. The inaugural grant of £850,000 has been awarded to St Martin’s for the 18 Keys Project.

The newly launched Julia Rausing Trust has been designed by Hans Rausing to continue to champion causes that were close to Julia’s heart.  As one of Britain’s foremost philanthropists Julia Rausing devoted her life to her family and to supporting the arts, health, welfare and education. 

Director of the St Martin-In-The-Field’s Trust, Lucy Littlewood said: “Significant grants such as this act as a lifeline to communities such as the women supported by the 18 Keys Project, which forms part of our major fund-raising Yes Campaign. Thanks to the extraordinarily generous grant from the Julia Rausing Trust, St Martin-in-the-Fields Trust can now complete the project to build an additional three-storey building on the site of the existing women only hostel in Wandsworth, and both myself and the whole St Martin’s charity owe them an enormous debt of gratitude.”

The awarding of the Julia Rausing Trust grant ensures this vital work can now be completed.

For more information, read the press release here or head to juliarausingtrust.org.