Wolfson Family Charitable Trust

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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.[1]

Trustees

Circa 2013-4

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)[3]

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.[4]

Wolfson Advisory Committee Israel

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.[5]

Grants given

Year ending 31 March 2021

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

Data Sources:

Contact

The Wolfson Foundation
8 Queen Anne Street
London
W1G 9LD
Tel: 020 7323 5730 (with voicemail message system)
Media/Press enquiries: 020 7323 3124 (voicemail not available)

Notes

  1. ↑ Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Wolfson Foundation website.
  2. ↑ Wolfson Foundation Wolfson Family Charitable Trust Trustees. Accessed 29 October 2014.
  3. ↑ The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Trustees' Report for the year ended 31 March 2005 p. 1.
  4. ↑ Advisory Committee, Wolfson Foundation website.
  5. ↑ Grants in Israel, Wolfson Foundation website.
  6. ↑ Source: FoI request to Kings College.
  7. ↑ Wolfson Family Charitable Trust Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ending 31 March 2021
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