The Sackler Trust’s top donations
Biggest grants made between 2016 and 2017
- University of Susse:x
- Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Stiftung Les Arts, Gstaad
- Imperial College
- Royal College of Art
- Universities of Edinburgh & Glasgow
- Royal Museums, Greenwich
- The Ashmolean Museum
- National Portrait Gallery
- The Prince’s Trust
Source: Charity Commission
Sackler Trust suspends new UK donations
The Sackler Trust has suspended new charitable donations in the UK amid claims the Sackler family fortune is linked to the opioid crisis in the US.
The trust said it rejected the claims, but said the row had become a distraction for the groups it supports.
Last week, the National Portrait Gallery become the first major art institution to give up a grant from the Sackler family.
Many other UK cultural institutions have benefited from donations from the Sackler Trust in the past, including
the Serpentine’s Sackler Gallery,
the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
the National Gallery.
In New York, the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, which has received a total of $9m (£6.8m) from the family, said it did not plan to accept any more gifts from the family.
BBC News