The Wolfson Foundation is a grant making charity established in 1955 to support excellence, generally through the funding of capital infrastructure in the fields of science & medicine; arts & humanities; education; health and disability.

Grants are usually only made for capital projects, ie new buildings, renovation and equipment. Awards are also made on occasion to support access to university collections held in university-owned museums and research libraries or to improve public engagement with science.

Applications are accepted from organisations and educational establishments in the UK that are registered charities or have charitable status including:

• Universities and research institutes.
• Schools.
• Hospitals.
• Museums.
• Historic and religious buildings.

The Wolfson Foundation has announced £14 million of capital funding to around 80 organisations in the latest round of funding, predominantly supporting research and education facilities.

Projects include £1.5 million towards the expansion of the University of Sheffield’s Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), £1.178 million for fluorescence imaging equipment for a new Biomedical Accelerator at the University of Leeds, £500,000 for the Centre of Advanced Environmental Microbiology within new Science Faculty building at the University of East Anglia; and £500,000 for the Advanced Imaging Centre within the Biomedical Institute of Multimorbidity at the University of Hull.

Further funds will be dispersed across organisations in heritage, humanities and the arts; health and disability institutions; schools and sixth form colleges; and churches. Full details of supported projects are available at the interactive funding map.

(This Bulletin article was the subject of a ResearchConnect news alert.)