Wolfson Foundation

Independent grant-making charity offering funding across the fields of education, science, culture and health.

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

🎉 We are delighted to announce that £19.9m in funding has been awarded to 64 organisations throughout the UK in our summer funding round 🥳

Find out more about the incredible organisations we are supporting here 👇
https://t.co/vR18DU4BGo

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

📢 In one month, our science & medicine, health & disability, and heritage, humanities & the arts programmes open for applications.

Try our eligibility quiz to find out whether we could support your project 👇
https://t.co/emUBiJrfDP

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

📆 If you’re a grant holder, the deadline for submitting your progress report is 31 October.

Our team has put together a handy guide on how to report on your grant and the key information to include:
https://t.co/ldqMh0wS48

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

"You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life."

Dame Cecily Saunders inspired our chief executive, @PaulBRamsbottom, at the beginning of his career. Read his blog on the Foundation’s funding towards palliative care.
https://t.co/tKI4rSyDAL

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

As summer comes to a close, we wanted to highlight a final few grants from our latest funding round:

📖 The Story Museum, Oxford
🐎 Mainstay DRP, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
🏠 The Leanchoil Trust, Moray, Scotland
Take a look at our funding map:

https://t.co/XEtNPFqWJn

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

An excellent shortlist shedding light on how societies are brought together, or driven apart, during periods of profound change 💡

[Wolfson History Prize @WolfsonHistory]

We're thrilled to announce the 2026 #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlist, showcasing six exceptional books that explore how societies navigate periods of seismic change.

📕'The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief' by Richard Holmes (@wmcollinsbooks)
📕 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' by Sadiah Qureshi (@AllenLaneBooks)
📕 'Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War' by Lyndal Roper (@BasicBooksUK)
📕'Liverpool: A Story of Britain' by @samwetherell (@HoZ_Books)
📕'The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History' by @lswisnom (@AllenLaneBooks)
📕'Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples' by @drfrancisyoung (@cambridgeup)

Congratulations to all the authors! 👏📚

https://t.co/XsbA7QmC3g

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

We fund projects across the UK.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In Scotland, our latest funding round saw grants awarded to:

🔬@HeriotWattUni
🍳The Bread Maker, Aberdeen
🏰National Trust for Scotland, Fyvie Castle

Read more and see other Scottish grants on our funding map:
https://t.co/s6lMBXooGt

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

Centred is the largest mental health charity in the Highlands. We awarded them a grant of £80,000 to build ‘The Remakery’ - a place for people to drop in and learn practical skills in woodcraft, repair and upcycling 🔨🧵♻️

Find out more here:
https://t.co/Mwzm67exbj

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

Congratulations @N_T_S on your award of £100,000 towards the redevelopment of the magnificent Fyvie Castle and Estate in Aberdeenshire 🏰

We can’t wait to see the new visitor and learning hub.

📸 Fyvie Castle, National Trust Scotland

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

Thank you to the incredible staff at the ten hospices throughout the UK awarded grants in our summer funding round. We very much appreciate the work you do.

📸 Axel and physio Marie, Havens Hospices

[Dave Cliffe @DaveCliffeLeics]

We’re delighted to have been awarded £70,000 towards the replacement of our building’s rear lift. Thank you so much for your support! @wolfsonfdn @valonline

[School of Health & Medical Sciences @CityStG_Health]

City St George’s has been awarded a £400,000 grant by the @wolfsonfdn to purchase cutting-edge equipment that will strengthen leading research into eye disease, vision assessment and myopia.

Read more: https://t.co/2wNCuYpDYs

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

Well done to the team at The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew for their successful application👏

We have awarded £1.1 million towards their work to turn the iconic Victorian Palm House into the first-of-its-kind net-zero glasshouse🌴

📸Ines Stuart-Davidson © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

🥳A huge congratulations to @marlowetheatre for securing £200,000 in our summer funding round towards the restoration of the Poor Priests’ Hospital, a late 12th-century building which will be transformed into a creative learning centre in Canterbury 🎭💃

📸 Rich Lakos

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

Well done to the John Innes Centre and the Sainsbury Laboratory for their excellent application which secured a grant of £1.6 million in our summer funding round 👏

Delighted to support their work to tackle sustainable food production in a fast-changing climate 🌱🌾

📸 JIC

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

Congratulations to @MigrationMuseum, who have been awarded £600,000 in our summer funding round 👏

The grant will be put towards the fit-out of their new permanent home in the heart of the City of London. We are thrilled to be a founding partner

📸Unknown Works/Migration Museum

[The Sainsbury Laboratory @TheSainsburyLab]

PRESS RELEASE: The Wolfson Foundation invests £1.6m in innovative plant growth systems

TSL & @johninnescentre are happy to announce a £1.6 million investment from @wolfsonfdn supporting a next-generation glasshouse, insectary, and horticultural facility

https://t.co/WYusIaneQ9

[Queen Mary University of London @QMUL]

Queen Mary has received a £1.3m @WolfsonFdn grant to establish a Health and Pollution Research Hub.

Led by Dr Vahitha Abdul Salam and Dr Abish Stephen, the Hub will explore how pollution impacts health.

Read more: https://t.co/YE4fuji3RR

[Sinfonia Smith Square @SinfoniaSmithSq]

We’re delighted to have been awarded £200,000 from The Wolfson Foundation – @wolfsonfdn – in support of our ‘Doors Open’ capital project to renovate and restore Smith Square Hall. The grant will help conserve our Grade I listed building and remove it from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register.

At the heart of the restoration, the Hall's crypt will be configured to create a dedicated Learning Space, providing a purpose-built space for school workshops, community music projects and creative learning.

Find out more about the project here: https://t.co/ACTYHW2ztm

CGI images courtesy of Burrell Foley Fischer Architects

[Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn]

Next week we’ll be announcing our latest round of funding across the UK 📢

Keep an eye on our X and LinkedIn to see what we’ve funded across our science & medicine, health & disability and arts, heritage & humanities programmes.

Find out what we fund:

https://t.co/HFaX8q8JjO