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The Wolfson Foundation
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In our most recent round of funding, we were pleased to support five Welsh schools with grants for science and drama equipment🎭🔬 Great to be working with you @YGAberaeron, @YsgBrynrefail, @crickhowellhs, @BroEdern and @BishopHedle...
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus to our grant holders @CwmniFranWen! Frân Wen create bold Welsh language theatre with and for young people & communities in North Wales. We recently supported their new home in Bangor, creating a new arts and...
From abandoned school to state-of-the-art planetarium in rural Scotland!🪐 Hear how Kirkcudbright Development Trust set up @DSPlanetarium with help from our public engagement with science funding programme wolfson.org.uk/turning-an-em...
Ormiston Chadwick Academy @OATChadwick were successful on their first application to us. Read about their grant for music technology equipment wolfson.org.uk/funding/what-w…
In 1961, the Wolfson Foundation unwittingly found itself at the centre of an art heist that fascinated the world. We look back through our archive to uncover our role in the story now told by @TheDukeFilmUK. @royalsociety wolfson.org....
📢Apply now: @royalsociety Wolfson Visiting Fellowships An opportunity for international research leaders to take a flexible 12 month period of sabbatical leave in a UK university or research institution. Applications close 23 March...
- Founded in 1955
- £1 billion funded
- Funding awarded in 2020: £35.3 million
Latest news & blogs
The curious case of the stolen portrait
In 1961, the Wolfson Foundation purchased Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington for the nation. Three weeks later it was stolen from the National Gallery.
Art Fund New Collecting Awards will expand UK’s collections
Four curators get share of almost £150,000 to expand their museum’s holdings, supported by the Wolfson Foundation.
Climate change research projects awarded share of £20.2 million
The Wolfson Foundation has awarded over £20 million to education, research, culture and health projects in its latest funding round.
