About

The Indigo Trust is a UK based grant making foundation that funds technology-driven projects to bring about social change, largely in African countries.  The Trust focuses mainly on innovation, transparency and citizen empowerment. We also support technology innovation hubs across the continent.

We will also consider innovative projects, which utilise Information Technologies to support development outcomes in any sector including the health, education, human rights and agricultural spheres.

The Indigo Trust makes grants to African projects or programmes, or to organisations which operate at least partly in African countries. We believe that if people have the ability to access, share and create information, then they are empowered to make positive changes in their own lives and communities.

Indigo’s charity number is 1075920 and the annual report is available by clicking this link.

The Indigo Trust is part of The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (SFCT).  SFCT is the operating office of 18 grant-making trusts established by three generations of the Sainsbury family. The trusts’ donations to charitable causes over several decades represent one of the leading examples of sustained philanthropy in Britain.

Each trust works autonomously as an independent legal entity with a separate board of trustees, actively led by an individual member of the family with keenly-followed interests.  The trusts share office space and some administrative functions, however, each trust has its own unique philosophy, vision, mission and ways of working.  Different trusts may collaborate in some instances, to share expertise and where their strategies coincide, but in most cases, The Indigo Trust operates independently to other family trusts.