Tag: Garfield Weston Foundation

£10 million award for new state-of-the-art eye health centre

Stuart Mitchell

The Garfield Weston Foundation has awarded £10 million to Moorfields Eye Charity for Oriel, a new integrated centre for advancing eye health which will be the new home for Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, opening in 2027. The £10 million grant for Oriel will help push the boundaries of eye research, delivering breakthrough treatments to the front line of patient care.  It will support bringing clinicians and researchers from Moorfields Eye Hospital and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology together under one roof for closer collaborative…

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Garfield Weston Foundation’s ‘Prioritising Our Planet’ Report Launches

Stuart Mitchell

This report comes at a critical time for our environment – despite the urgent need to protect our natural world,  the Garfield Weston Foundation has not been receiving the level and quality of applications from environment charities that they hope for. They therefore commissioned this survey to hear directly from UK environmental organisations, to help understand the issues being faced by non-profits working across the environment sector and to inform their grant-making practice so they can accelerate change for greater impact. Philippa Charles, The Foundation’s Director says: “We would like…

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Garfield Weston Foundation launches £25m arts fund

Stuart Mitchell

The Garfield Weston Foundation are pleased to announce that the Foundation is launching the one-off Weston Culture Fund which launched on the 5th October. This £25 million fund is designed to support mid to large scale cultural organisations in the UK to help them restart work, re-engage with audiences, adapt to changed circumstances and generate revenue. The fund is specifically for charitable organisations with a pre-Covid regular annual income of £500,000 or greater; smaller organisations will be able to apply for our regular grants programme via their website as usual.…

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