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The Allen Lane Foundation is a grant-making trust set up in 1966 by the late Sir Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, to support general charitable causes. The Foundation has no connection now with the publishing company, but five of the Trustees are members of the founder’s family. Its endowment was valued at £20.8 million at the end of March 2007 and the Trustees awarded grants totalling around £725,000 in the financial year 2006–7. The Foundation is a member of the Association of Charitable Foundations.

For more information about Sir Allen Lane and the history of the Foundation, go to the text of the 2006 Lecture 2006 Lecture

From January 2007 the Foundation will no longer have closing dates.

Applications will be processed continually. When we have received your application we will be in touch (usually within two weeks)

∗ to ask for any further information,

∗ or to tell you whether the application will be going forward to the next stage of assessment and what the timetable for a final decision will be,

∗ or to tell you that we can’t help.

The time it takes to process an application and make a grant is usually between two and six months.

Registered charity no: 248031