The Rufford Foundation, formerly the Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation, is a trust based in the United Kingdom that funds nature conservation projects by small or medium-sized organizations in developing countries.

The Maurice Laing Foundation used to support research into complementary health treatments.

[3] It was established in 2007, providing grants of up to £25,000 for small programmes and pilot projects in developing countries that conserve nature and biodiversity.

[2] The foundation provides some funding to health and medicine projects and social welfare initiatives in the UK.

[8] Nature conservation projects that received support from the foundation in 2010/2011 included:[9]