Alborada Trust

Alborada Trust is a philanthropic organization founded with a mission to advance medical and veterinary research, healthcare delivery, higher education, wildlife conservation, and poverty alleviation through humanitarian aid and international development, emphasizing interconnected human-animal health challenges. Core values include evidence-based philanthropy, transformative global impact, strategic partnerships, long-term grantee relationships, and support for catalytic interventions by expert organizations. Their impact approach prioritizes high-impact, system-changing research and relief efforts that address root causes of disease, suffering, and environmental degradation via proactive, relationship-driven funding to proven, governance-strong charities.

They fund medical research targeting dementia drug discovery, cancer therapies, and neurodegenerative conditions for patients with serious illnesses; veterinary research in One Health approaches, zoonotic diseases, virology, and thoroughbred racehorse health; animal welfare programs for working equines and vulnerable animal populations facing exploitation or neglect; humanitarian response including disaster relief, refugee support, and aid for communities experiencing food insecurity, poverty, and crisis; wildlife conservation initiatives protecting endangered species and ecosystems; and education grants for medical training, veterinary education, research partnerships, workshops, and capacity building in health sciences. Supported interventions encompass biomedical research, therapeutic advancements, preventative zoonoses control, equine welfare rehabilitation, emergency medical aid, refugee integration services, poverty relief through development programs, and evidence-led conservation strategies, favoring organizations delivering measurable outcomes for disease-burdened populations, at-risk animals, displaced refugees, and impoverished global communities.

They exclude pet welfare, arts and culture, marriage guidance, UK children’s welfare, zoos, political lobbying, media advocacy, and heavily government-funded entities. Distinctive priorities include specialist One Health and zoonotic disease research, world-class dementia and cancer biomedical innovation, working equine welfare in developing regions, and veterinary education excellence, with a preference for UK-Ireland health institutions and international NGOs demonstrating robust evidence-based practice, expert delivery, and potential for scalable, transformative impact in human-animal health intersections.