The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust
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The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust is a UK grant making charity controlled by one branch of the wealthy Wolfson family. The charity was created by a Trust Deed dated 14 July 1960 and was registered as a UK charity on 8 January 1965. [1] As at 8 July 2010 the trustees were Thatcher's former Chief of Staff David Wolfson, his two sons Simon and Andrew, and Sara Leven. [2] The Trust's original founder, Charles Wolfson, was David Wolfson's father [3] and the son of Isaac Wolfson who was chairman of Great Universal Stores and established the Wolfson Foundation. [4]
Funding
The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust provided a total of £45,000 to Civitas between 2006 and 2008.[5].
People
Trustees
- Dame Janet Wolfson de Botton DBE (Chairman)
- Hon Mrs Laura Wolfson Townsley
- Sir Eric Ash CBE FRS FREng
- Sir David Cannadine FBA FSA FRSL
- Hon Mrs Deborah Wolfson Davis MA
- Dame Hermione Lee DBE FRSL FBA
- Lord McColl CBE MS FRCS
- Sir Michael Pepper FRS FREng
- Lord Turnberg MD FRCP
- Sir David Weatherall MD FRCP FRS
- Dame Jean Thomas DBE FMedSci FRS
Staff
- Paul Ramsbottom - Chief Executive
- Sue Hall - PA to the Chief Executive
- Simon Fourmy - Director of Grants
- Caitlin Foley - Programme Manager (Science and Medicine)
- James Randall - Programme Manager (Arts and Humanities)
- Natasha Wright - Grants and Finance Administrator
- Sophie Gibbon- Grants Assistant
- Geoff Hunt - Finance Director
- Emma Coyle - Office Manager[6]
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
- ↑ Screengrab of Charity Commission, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust > Charity framework, created 8 July 2010
- ↑ Screengrab of Charity Commission, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust > Contact & trustees, created 8 July 2010
- ↑ ‘WOLFSON OF SUNNINGDALE’, Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009 ; online edn, Nov 2009, accessed 8 July 2010
- ↑ ‘WOLFSON, Sir Isaac’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 8 July 2010
- ↑ Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2006. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2007. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2008
- ↑ People, Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust website.
