Independent grant-making charity offering funding across the fields of education, science, culture and health.
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🎉 We are delighted to announce that £19.9m in funding has been awarded to 64 organisations throughout the UK in our summer funding round 🥳
Find out more about the incredible organisations we are supporting here 👇
wolfson.org.uk/19-9m-awarded…
📢 In one month, our science & medicine, health & disability, and heritage, humanities & the arts programmes open for applications.
Try our eligibility quiz to find out whether we could support your project 👇
wolfson.org.uk/funding/eligi…
📆 If you’re a grant holder, the deadline for submitting your progress report is 31 October.
Our team has put together a handy guide on how to report on your grant and the key information to include:
wolfson.org.uk/how-to-report…
"You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life."
Dame Cecily Saunders inspired our chief executive, @PaulBRamsbottom, at the beginning of his career. Read his blog on the Foundation’s funding towards palliative care.
wolfson.org.uk/hospice-care-…
As summer comes to a close, we wanted to highlight a final few grants from our latest funding round:
📖 The Story Museum, Oxford
🐎 Mainstay DRP, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
🏠 The Leanchoil Trust, Moray, Scotland
Take a look at our funding map:
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An excellent shortlist shedding light on how societies are brought together, or driven apart, during periods of profound change 💡
We're thrilled to announce the 2026 #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlist, showcasing six exceptional books that explore how societies navigate periods of seismic change.
📕'The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief' by Richard Holmes (@wmcollinsbooks)
📕 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' by Sadiah Qureshi (@AllenLaneBooks)
📕 'Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War' by Lyndal Roper (@BasicBooksUK)
📕'Liverpool: A Story of Britain' by @samwetherell (@HoZ_Books)
📕'The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History' by @lswisnom (@AllenLaneBooks)
📕'Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples' by @drfrancisyoung (@cambridgeup)
Congratulations to all the authors! 👏📚
wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/p…
We fund projects across the UK.
🏴 In Scotland, our latest funding round saw grants awarded to:
🔬@HeriotWattUni
🍳The Bread Maker, Aberdeen
🏰National Trust for Scotland, Fyvie Castle
Read more and see other Scottish grants on our funding map:
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Centred is the largest mental health charity in the Highlands. We awarded them a grant of £80,000 to build ‘The Remakery’ - a place for people to drop in and learn practical skills in woodcraft, repair and upcycling 🔨🧵♻️
Find out more here:
wolfson.org.uk/bolstering-sk…
Congratulations @N_T_S on your award of £100,000 towards the redevelopment of the magnificent Fyvie Castle and Estate in Aberdeenshire 🏰
We can’t wait to see the new visitor and learning hub.
📸 Fyvie Castle, National Trust Scotland
Thank you to the incredible staff at the ten hospices throughout the UK awarded grants in our summer funding round. We very much appreciate the work you do.
📸 Axel and physio Marie, Havens Hospices
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We’re delighted to have been awarded £70,000 towards the replacement of our building’s rear lift. Thank you so much for your support! @wolfsonfdn @valonline
🎉 We are delighted to announce that £19.9m in funding has been awarded to 64 organisations throughout the UK in our summer funding round 🥳
Find out more about the incredible organisations we are supporting here 👇
wolfson.org.uk/19-9m-awarded…
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City St George’s has been awarded a £400,000 grant by the @wolfsonfdn to purchase cutting-edge equipment that will strengthen leading research into eye disease, vision assessment and myopia.
Read more: citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and…
Well done to the team at The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew for their successful application👏
We have awarded £1.1 million towards their work to turn the iconic Victorian Palm House into the first-of-its-kind net-zero glasshouse🌴
📸Ines Stuart-Davidson © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew
🥳A huge congratulations to @marlowetheatre for securing £200,000 in our summer funding round towards the restoration of the Poor Priests’ Hospital, a late 12th-century building which will be transformed into a creative learning centre in Canterbury 🎭💃
📸 Rich Lakos
Well done to the John Innes Centre and the Sainsbury Laboratory for their excellent application which secured a grant of £1.6 million in our summer funding round 👏
Delighted to support their work to tackle sustainable food production in a fast-changing climate 🌱🌾
📸 JIC
Congratulations to @MigrationMuseum, who have been awarded £600,000 in our summer funding round 👏
The grant will be put towards the fit-out of their new permanent home in the heart of the City of London. We are thrilled to be a founding partner
📸Unknown Works/Migration Museum
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PRESS RELEASE: The Wolfson Foundation invests £1.6m in innovative plant growth systems
TSL & @johninnescentre are happy to announce a £1.6 million investment from @wolfsonfdn supporting a next-generation glasshouse, insectary, and horticultural facility
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Queen Mary has received a £1.3m @WolfsonFdn grant to establish a Health and Pollution Research Hub.
Led by Dr Vahitha Abdul Salam and Dr Abish Stephen, the Hub will explore how pollution impacts health.
Read more: qmul.ac.uk/news/latest-news/…
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We’re delighted to have been awarded £200,000 from The Wolfson Foundation – @wolfsonfdn – in support of our ‘Doors Open’ capital project to renovate and restore Smith Square Hall. The grant will help conserve our Grade I listed building and remove it from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register.
At the heart of the restoration, the Hall's crypt will be configured to create a dedicated Learning Space, providing a purpose-built space for school workshops, community music projects and creative learning.
Find out more about the project here: bit.ly/DoorsOpenproject
CGI images courtesy of Burrell Foley Fischer Architects
Next week we’ll be announcing our latest round of funding across the UK 📢
Keep an eye on our X and LinkedIn to see what we’ve funded across our science & medicine, health & disability and arts, heritage & humanities programmes.
Find out what we fund:
wolfson.org.uk/funding/fundi…
