Sir John Ritblat has made numerous donations to the National Trust over several years, particularly in support of Petworth House which included a significant donation in 2018 toward essential building and restoration works.

Sir John Ritblat made a personal donation to The Tate Gallery to ensure the painting “Vesuvius in Eruption” by Joseph Wright of Derby remained in the UK. With Sir John’s help it was purchased from Viscount Dunluce, in association with the National Heritage Memorial Fund, National Art Collections Fund and Friends of the Tate Gallery. In addition to this was sole sponsorship of The Wright of Derby Exhibition at The Tate Gallery in February 1990, subsequently transferred to Paris and the New York Metropolitan Museum, for which Sir John won an award under the Business Sponsorship Incentive Scheme.

Sir John Ritblat was a major donor in 2018 for The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Gallery restoration and Museum display in the 13th century Triforium in Westminster Abbey.  With a limited number of donors and as a principal donor, Sir John was honoured with a stone set in the floor of the Abbey. This was followed a few years later, with a major donation given in support of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant, a joyous celebration, which was held on Sunday 5th June 2022.

A significant donation was made to The Imperial War Museum in 2020, toward the new Holocaust Galleries, assigned to the exhibition “A Better World – in Persecution”.