Wolfson Family Charitable Trust

The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust (WFCT) is a sister trust of the Wolfson Foundation with the same administration and similar aims.

The Trust was established in 1958 and currently has assets of some £35 million, allocating about £1.5 million each year.

The aims of the Trust are similar to those of the Wolfson Foundation: backing excellence through capital infrastructure projects, particularly in areas that are under-funded. Applicants are encouraged to use funds as a catalyst, so that the Trust's funding can lever additional support.

A large majority of the assets derive from the realisation of the Trust's historic involvement in Israel's Paz Oil Company and so the majority of the funds are allocated for programmes in Israel.

Trustees

Circa 2013-4

• Hon. Mrs Laura Wolfson Townsley (Chairman)
• Dame Janet Wolfson de Botton DBE
• Sir Eric Ash CBE FRS
• Sir Ian Gainsford FDSRCS FDSRCSE
• Mr Martin Paisner CBE
• Hon. Mrs Elizabeth Wolfson Peltz
• Sir Bernard Rix
• Lord Turnberg MD FRCP
• Mrs Alexandra Halamish

Circa 2005

Lord Wolfson of Marylebone | Martin Paisner | Lady Wolfson of Marylebone | Janet Wolfson de Botton | Laura Wolfson Townsley | Prof. Barrie Jay | Eric Ash | Bernard Rix | Ian Gainsford (Appointed 2 August 2004)

Advisory Committee

The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust is advised on its work in Israel by an Advisory Committee in Israel, drawn from leading academic and medical experts. Current membership and contact information is detailed below.

Wolfson Advisory Committee Israel

• Professor Haim Ben-Shahar (Chairman)
• Professor Aaron Ciechanover
• Professor Yoram Groner
• Professor Hanoch Gutfreund
• Professor Joshua Jortner
• Professor Shmuel Penchas
• Professor Zehev Tadmor

Contact details

Professor Haim Ben-Shahar - Chairman

Wolfson Advisory Committee

The Eitan Berglas School of Economics

Tel Aviv University

Tel-Aviv 69978

Israel

Email: wfct@post.tau.ac.il

Programmes in Israel

From the Wolfson Foundation website:

Funding for universities and hospitals

Our main funding programmes in Israel are currently focused on universities and hospitals.

Awards for these organisations are normally made under the umbrella of designated programmes in which relevant organisations are invited to participate. As such, we do not generally accept unsolicited applications in these areas.

Over the past few years, funding for universities has been for equipment supporting nationally co-ordinated programmes on important research themes including nanotechnology, desalination, quantum information and solar energy.

Funding for hospitals in Israel is mainly for medical equipment.

The Trust is advised by an Advisory Committee in Israel, chaired by Professor Haim Ben-Shahar, and drawn from leading academic and medical experts. A list of members is here.

The Advisory Committee co-ordinate our programmes for universities and hospitals, and invited applications are submitted via the Committee before being forwarded to our UK office for further consideration.

If invited to apply via these programmes, general advice on what information should be included is the same as for UK applicants to the Wolfson Foundation, as set out here.

Grants given

• International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence 2008-14: £175,000

Year ending 31 March 2021

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (joint grant with the Wolfson Foundation totalling £550,000)
• Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (joint grant with the Wolfson Foundation totalling 3460,000)
• Weizmann Institute of Science, Rohovot, Israel (joint grant with the Wolfson Foundation totalling 8460,000)
• Tel-Aviv University, Israel (joint grant with the Wolfson Foundation totalling £391,000)
• Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel (joint grant with the Wolfson Foundation totalling £325,000)
• Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel (joint grant with the Wolfson Foundation totalling £314,000)

Grant recipients of the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust in £ sterling
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	Total (£)
Science technology and medical research
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel				50,000		250,000		135,000	152,000					144,000			125,600	856,600
Ben-Gurion University, Israel						240,000		135,000	116,000					152,000	140,000		130,000	913,000
Britain Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership, Israel									50,000					75,000				125,000
Chaim Sheba Medical Centre, Tel Hashomer				350,000			198,000						140,000			128,000		816,000
Christie Hospital, Manchester				14,000														14,000
Daniel Turnberg Research Exchange Scheme				50,000														50,000
Edith Wolfson Medical Centre, Holon				470,000			183,000						104,000			66,800		823,800
Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem				525,000			198,000						100,000			148,000		971,000
Hebrew University, Israel	750,000			750,000	415,000	260,000		126,000	170,000					188,000	220,000		220,000	3,099,000
Israel Science Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel																	100,000	100,000
Laboratory refurbishment at Israeli universities			2,900,000															2,900,000
Laniado Hospital, Netanya				45,000														45,000
Rabin Medical Centre, Petah Tikva				190,000			198,000						140,000			120,000		648,000
Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa				615,000			198,000						120,000			160,000		1,093,000
Research laboratories for young sicentists in Israel				3,822,000														3,822,000
Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Jerusalem				85,000			198,000						100,000			97,200		480,200
Soroka Medical Centre, Beer Sheva				630,000			144,000						140,000			136,000		1,050,000
Sourasky Medical Centre, Tel Aviv				420,000			183,000						156,000			144,000		903,000
Technion, Israel	500,000				430,000	245,000		171,000	97,000					168,000	220,000		184,000	2,015,000
Tel Aviv University, Israel	750,000			750,000	185,000	235,000		162,000	134,000					164,000	220,000		156,400	2,756,400
University of Haifa, Israel									170,000									170,000
Water desalination research project, Israeli universities		750,000																750,000
Weizmann Institute, Israel	800,000			750,000	470,000	265,000		171,000	111,000					184,000	200,000		184,000	3,135,000
Education
Academy of Medical Sciences, London								100,000						100,000			100,000	300,000
College for All, Tel Aviv								4,500										4,500
Emunah, Bnei Brak				20,000														20,000
Hasmonean High School, London							25,000											25,000
Holocaust Education Trust, London	12,000	20,000					15,000		15,000									62,000
Holocaust Survivors' Friendship Association, West Yorkshire													15,000					15,000
Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London															15,000			15,000
JFS School, Harrow															100,000			100,000
Jaffa Institute						3,000												3,000
Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade, London						5,000			10,000									15,000
JW3, London																25,000	75,000	100,000
Kamak, Kfar Sabu						2,400												2,400
Kedma Youth Village, Shephelah				5,000														5,000
Maccabim Association, Tel Aviv				5,000														5,000
Manchester Jewish Grammar School	75,000																	75,000
North West London Jewish Day School, London							30,000											30,000
ORT Yad Lvovich, Israel	75,000																	75,000
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies							30,000											30,000
Peres Centre for Peace				20,000														20,000
Prism													6,000	7,000	9,600	9,600	7,200	39,400
Sacks Morasha Jewish Primary School, London									50,000									50,000
Schools project (assistance for children in Northern Israel)			15,000															15,000
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology				100,000														100,000
Tirat Carmel Community Foundation				3,000														3,000
Wolfson Hillel Primary School, London	75,000													46,000				121,000
World Jewish Relief													25,000					25,000
World ORT				25,000														25,000
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem					200,000													200,000
Yemin Orde Wingate Academy, Haifa, Israel								50,000										50,000
Youth Aliyah				75,000														75,000
Health and Welfare
Akim Israel, Tel Aviv			6,000	7,000				8,000										21,000
Aleh, Ngev						6,000												6,000
Alin Beit Noam, Kiryat Ono, Israel													20,000					20,000
Al-Taj, Arraba				1,000														1,000
ALUT, Givatayim, Israel																20,000		20,000
Amit Clubhouse, Nazaret Illit, Israel									10,000									10,000
Association for Developing Community Services, Sha'ar Hanegev						2,600												2,600
Association for Fighting AT Diseases, Ramat Gan				10,000														10,000
Bayis Sheli, London							43,000										50,000	93,000
Beit Issie Shapiro, Ra'anana, Israel	100,000				5,000			20,000					15,000					140,000
Beit Hagalgalim, Herzliya Pituach, Israel															16,000			16,000
Beit Halochem, Tel Aviv, Israel													25,000					25,000
Beit Moriah, Beer Sheva				11,000														11,000
Bikur Cholim, London									15,000								50,000	65,000
Carmel Zvulun								5,000										5,000
Centre for Deaf-Blind Persons, Tel Aviv				5,000		3,500		5,000						8,000				21,500
Center for Independent Living, Jeruslaem, Israel														9,800				9,800
Chai Cancer Care, Manchester													15,000				100,000	115,000
CLS Care Services Group, Manchester													10,000					10,000
Community Security Trust (CST), London															25,000			25,000
Computers for Every Child	20,000																	20,000
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Israel					5,000				12,000									17,000
Delamere Forest School	14,000																	14,000
Donisthorpe Hall, Leeds				25,000														25,000
Eliya, Petach-Tikva, Israel									15,000									15,000
Emda - Alzheimer Association of Israel																15,000		15,000
Enosh, Petach Tikva, Israel													10,000					10,000
Eshel Colel Chabad, Migdal Haemek						4,500												4,500
Etgarim, Tel Aviv					4,000													4,000
Ezer Mizion, Briei Brak, Israel		25,000			25,000								15,000					65,000
Ezra U'Marpeh, London								15,000										15,000
Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Survivors, Tel Aviv								20,000										20,000
Gvanim Association, Sderot			2,000															2,000
Gesher School, London																	75,000	75,000
Hamifal, Jerusalem, Israel									10,000									10,000
Hatzolah Israel, Jerusalem			10,000															10,000
Hospice of the Upper Galilee, Rosh Pina, Israel																	20,000	20,000
Ilan, Petah Tikva, Israel																14,000		14,000
Institute for the Advancement of Deaf Persons in Israel, Tel Aviv															22,000			22,000
Institute of Deaf Persons in Israel, Tel Aviv			5,000															5,000
Israel Elwyn, Jerusalem, Israel																20,000		20,000
Israeli Foundation for Handicapped Children, Haifa			20,000															20,000
JAMI, Edgeware															100,000		100,000	200,000
Jewish Blind and Disabled, London									20,000									20,000
Jewish Care				300,000									150,000					450,000
Jewish Leadership Council,															60,000			60,000
Jnetics, London															25,000			25,000
Kav LaChayim, Petach Tikvah, Israel									10,000									10,000
Kav-Or, Northern Israel				12,000														12,000
Kisharon, London																75,000		75,000
Kivunim, Haifa, Israel														20,000				20,000
Krembo Wings, Tel Aviv, Israel									4,000									4,000
Lahav Association, Ramat Gan, Israel									2,000									2,000
Langdon Foundation, Edgeware, Middlesex								15,000									75,000	90,000
Laniado Hospital, Netanya, Israel									20,000									20,000
Leeds Jewish Welfare Board		20,000																20,000
LOTEM, Yokne'am, Israel																19,500		19,500
Magen David Alom			65,000															65,000
Manchester Jewish Community Care																	50,000	50,000
Marom High School, Ramat Hasharon						3,400												3,400
Marpeh Lanefesh Wellness Center, Jerusalem, Israel									5,000									5,000
Mayanei Ha Yeshua Centre, Bney Brak, Israel								3,000										3,000
Meir Panim, Jerusalem, Israel									20,000									20,000
Micha (south), Negev, Israel													15,000					15,000
Milbat, Tel Hashomer Hospital			15,000												22,000			37,000
Min Ajliki, Kfar Kfar, Israel								2,500										2,500
Moreshet Yaakov, Rechovot					4,500													4,500
Nalaga'at, Israel				10,000											22,000			32,000
Natal - Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War, Tel Aviv								30,000										30,000
National Benevolent Fund for the Aged			3,000															3,000
Negev Hospice				150,000														150,000
Nicky Alliance Day Centre, Manchester									10,000									10,000
Nitzant, Tel Aviv															18,000			18,000
Norwood	100,000																100,000	200,000
Ohel Sarah, Givat Shmuel, Israel									9,500									9,500
Or LaOlam, Jeruslalem, Israel									20,000									20,000
Or Simcha, Kfar Chabad				5,000														5,000
OZMA, Givatayim, Israel																10,700		10,700
Ptach, Jerusalem					4,870													4,870
Rochdale Special Needs Cycling Club, Lancashire						20,000												20,000
Ron Shulamit Conservatory, Jeruslaem, Israel		2,000																2,000
Schaller Medical Centre, Israel	50,000																	50,000
Shaare Zedek, Jerusalem, Israel		175,000																175,000
Shalheveth, Jerusalem				5,000				6,000										11,000
Shekel, Jerusalem, Israel		25,000												20,000				45,000
Shema Kolenu, Jerusalem				10,000														10,000
Shemaya, Israel									5,700					19,000				24,700
Shalheveth, Jerusalem, Israel																	9,100	9,100
Shikum Acher, Tel Aviv					4,200													4,200
SOS Children's Villages Israel, Petach Tikvah, Israel																	16,000	16,000
St John Eye Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel		10,000																10,000
St Mary's Hospital				45,000														45,000
Sulam, Jerusalem								15,000										15,000
Technoda, Hadera, Israel								7,500						30,000				37,500
Tel Aviv Sourasky Centre, Israel		100,000																100,000
The Fed, Manchester																50,000		50,000
United Hatzalah, Israel								15,000										15,000
Yad Sarah, Jerusalem, Israel		60,000		50,000			25,000	25000					25,000					185,000
Yuri Shtern Foundation, Jerusalem								5,000										5,000
Zaka, Jerusalem, Israel													10,000					10,000
Ziv Kishorit Democratic High School, Western Galilee, Israel									16,000									16,000
Art and Humanities
Bevis Marks Synagogue, London				15,000												54,000		69,000
Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, Israel									25,000				35,000					60,000
Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv								11,000										11,000
Central Synagogue, London		160,000		12,000	500			50,000					50,000					272,500
Council for a Beautiful Israel		125,000																125,000
Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, Mateh Asher, Israel														25,000				25,000
Golders Green Synagogue, London									10,000									10,000
Israel Museum, Jerusalem			250,000					200,000										450,000
Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, Tel Aviv		25,000		20,000					90,000									135,000
Jerusalem Foundation, Israel	125,000																	125,000
Keshet Eilon, Western Galilee, Israel													25,000					25,000
Merton College, Oxford				10,000														10,000
Nash Concert Society						2,000												2,000
National Gallery, London		160,000																160,000
New West End Synagogue, London					10,000													10,000
Norwich Hebrew Congregation														25,000				25,000
Temple Music Foundation						1,500												1,500
Sandys Row Synagogue, London																15,000		15,000
Scottish Jewish Archive Centre, Glasgow														30,000				30,000
SOAS																25,000		25,000
Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery, Haifa District, Israel													25,000					25,000
United Synagogue, London														35,000				35,000
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel									50,000							200,000		250,000

Data Sources:

• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2005.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2006.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2007.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2008.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2009.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2010.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2011.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2012.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2013.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2017.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2018.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2019.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2020.
• The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2021.

Contact

The Wolfson Foundation

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Tel: 020 7323 5730 (with voicemail message system)

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