Daylesford Foundation
The Daylesford Foundation supports projects in the UK that educate children and young people in the core areas of organic food, growing and the countryside.
Founded in 2007, the foundation enables children and young people to learn, enjoy, connect and engage with the principles and practices of feeding ourselves organically and sustainably.
WWW.DAYLESFORDFOUNDATION.CO.UK
Lady Bamford Foundation
The Lady Bamford Foundation (LBF) brings together the work of the former Lady Bamford Charitable Trust (LBCT, established in 2000), along with Nila and ARKE.
It works to support people from the most disadvantaged and underserved communities in India, helping them to access a better quality of life through long-term, sustainable alternatives. Over the course of its 20 years, the scope of the Foundation’s focus has grown from providing support to children in a single school, to initiatives that touch lives in over 70 communities.
Key areas of focus include improving the quality of education within schools, providing skills and training to help prepare pupils for life after school, and helping women and young men from developing communities learn traditional crafts – and then use these skills to enable valuable employment and financial independence.
Nila
Founded in 2017, Nila is a non-profit initiative dedicated to celebrating and preserving India’s rich heritage of traditional crafts, particularly the natural dye and handloom traditions. Its aim is to support artisan communities across India, provide livelihood opportunities for women through craft, revive, preserve and strengthen ecologically-sensitive endangered crafts and promote their use through sustainable design.
Nila House, a centre of cultural exchange, was opened in Jaipur in 2019 to provide a dynamic platform for innovation and education. It encompasses a series of open studios, retail showrooms, an archive and research library, exhibition gallery and textiles vault. A second Nila store was opened in Jodhpur in 2024 and a third will in Bangalore in the summer of 2026.
WWW.NILAJAIPUR.COM
The Lady Bamford Center, USA
Opened in 2007, The Lady Bamford Center in Savannah, Georgia, offers support and care to children from six weeks to five years old. Its aim is to encourage learning and personal development in children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Priority is given to children from homeless or low-income families, as well as children with physical, mental or emotional challenges. Its interactive curriculum prepares young children for kindergarten and elementary school.
WWW.LADYBAMFORDCENTER.COM
The Lady Bamford Foundation, Brazil
The Lady Bamford Foundation in Sorocaba supports projects combining sustainable principles, environmental leadership and social responsibility.
In 2021, the Foundation launched an initiative in association with the ‘Projecto Pescar Foundation’ – a partner learning project for young people aged 16–19 from socially challenging backgrounds. Every year, a class of students is selected to join the Lady Bamford School for 10 months, during which time they attend classes inside the JCB factory in Sorocaba to learn about the manufacturing and assembly of machines, as well as sales, human resources and logistics. The project has trained more than 70 students to date, 41 of whom have been hired.
In 2025, two ‘Lady Bamford’ libraries were established to provide cultural and literary support to the children served by the Foundation.
NSPCC Staffordshire
Carole Bamford’s support of the UK’s leading children’s charity’s Staffordshire outposts began in the 1980s. Carole led the first phase of the ‘Full Stop’ campaign in 1999 which went on to become the biggest fundraising initiative in the NSPCC’s history. Carole Bamford led the first phase of the campaign as a member of the National Appeal Board and Vice Chairman of the appeal.