Wolfson Foundation

The Wolfson Foundation is a charity established in 1955 to 'support excellence, generally through the funding of capital infrastructure in the fields of science and medicine, health, education and the arts & humanities' The foundation has a sister trust - the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust - with the same administration and similar aims.

The foundation is a patron of the University of Buckingham, the UK's only private university. Patrons are organisations who donate in excess of £100,000 to the university. In September 2010 the Wolfson Foundation had an endowment of £725 million. Up to 2014 they had given out over £750 million in grants, spread over more than 10,000 projects.

People

The Foundation is made up of eleven trustees, a small staff team in our London office and a wider network of advisors and reviewers.

The Board of Trustees is comprised of academic members and family members in a roughly 75:25 ratio. Trustees are advised by expert grant panels, and Nomination, Risk and Investment Committees.

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

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)

Affiliations

University of Buckingham