He established a charitable foundation in 1964, and in 2000 his daughter Vivien Duffield merged it with her foundation. Its main interests are education, the arts, museums, galleries and heritage sites, and health and social welfare.
What does it fund? There are no rigid criteria for its main grants programme.
The foundation will provide match funding for lottery grants, capital grants or project, programme or revenue funding. It tries to strike a balance between large-scale projects with far-reaching effects and small-scale community-based projects. So Lewisham Youth Theatre recently received 16,000 to run a series of Saturday morning performances to build new audiences, while Hampton Court is currently spending its 1m grant to create the new Clore education centre. There is also a small grants programme that specifically funds performing arts projects' education initiatives for children and young people up to the age of 18.
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