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Born Free manages or funds projects in more than 20 in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. [11] It focuses on a number of working priorities: captive wild animal exploitation; trophy and canned hunting; wildlife trade; rescue, care, rehabilitation & release; community support and human-wildlife co-existence; compassionate conservation; UK wildlife protection; policy development and advocacy ...
Robert Bosch Foundation Germany: Stuttgart: $6 billion €5.3 billion 1964 [36] 36 Children's Investment Fund Foundation United Kingdom: London: $5.9 billion £5.2 billion 2002 [37] 37 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation United States: Westlake Village, California: $5.9 billion 1944 [38] 38 Nemours Foundation United States: Jacksonville: $4.6 billion ...
UK Community Foundations (UKCF) is a registered charity [1] that leads a movement of community foundations committed to positive social change in the UK through the development of “community philanthropy”. Community philanthropy involves people from all parts of a community working together locally to use the financial and other resources ...
He is president of the Born Free Foundation, Born Free USA and Species Survival Network. [2] [3] He is the son of English actors and wildlife campaigners Bill Travers (1922–1994) and Virginia McKenna, and nephew of actress Linden Travers.
The making of the film was a life-changing experience for actors Virginia McKenna and her husband Bill Travers, who became animal rights activists and were instrumental in creating the Born Free Foundation. One of the lions in the film was played by a former mascot of the Scots Guards, who had to leave him behind when they left Kenya. [4]
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George Alexander Graham Adamson was born on 3 February 1906 in Etawah, India [2] to English and Irish parents. He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, England, and moved to work on his father's coffee plantations in Kenya in 1924.
The Living Wage Foundation is a campaigning organisation in the United Kingdom which aims to persuade employers to pay a living wage. [1] The organisation was established in 2011; it publishes an annual Living Wage figure and for a fee accredits employers who pay at the rate of the "living wage".