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'[1].
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[2]. 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[3].
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)
