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Garfield Weston Foundation

British charitable organization

Summary

British charitable organization

FieldValue
nameGarfield Weston Foundation
logoGarfield-weston-foundation-logo.png
logo_size200px
logo_altLogo of the Garfield Weston Foundation.
formation
founderW. Garfield Weston
typeCharitable organisation
purposeAiding charities directly delivering services and activities to those in need.
headquartersLondon
regionUnited Kingdom
methodsGrantmaking
fieldsArts, Community, Education, Environment, Faith, Health, Museums & Heritage, Welfare and Youth
key_peopleGuy Weston, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
disbursements~£62 million annually
endowment£9.7 billion
endowment_year2017
websitewww.garfieldweston.org

The Garfield Weston Foundation is a grant-giving charity based in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1958 by Canadian businessman W. Garfield Weston (1898–1978), who during his lifetime contributed to numerous humanitarian causes, both personally and through his companies. His philanthropic works continue through the Garfield Weston Foundation in London and the Weston Family Foundation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The Garfield Weston Foundation is one of the largest charitable foundations in the world, with assets of £9.7billion at 5 April 2017, of which a majority was attributed to the foundation's majority holding in Wittington Investments.

Since Sir Guy Weston's appointment as chairman, the Garfield Weston Foundation has become the largest family grant-making foundation in the UK, with total grants exceeding £1billion.

Chairmen

  1. W. Garfield Weston (1958–1975)
  2. Garry Weston (1975–2000)
  3. Sir Guy Weston (since 2000)

Projects

The Garfield Weston Foundation gave Oxford University £25million for the refurbishment of the New Library (built originally in the 1930s as part of the Bodleian Library), which re-opened to the public in March 2015 as the Weston Library.

The foundation has given grants to a number of schools, including St Michael's Primary School and Brackenbury Primary School for new classrooms and outdoor play areas for sport, and has given grants to Baker Dearing Educational Trust which promotes university technical colleges.

In 2019 the foundation gave £5million towards the £31million restoration of the walled garden at RHS Bridgewater in Salford, Greater Manchester.

Controversies over political donations

In 2010, the Charity Commission found that between 1993 and 2004 the charity had given donations to the UK Conservative Party that totalled £900,000, which were in breach of UK charity law; as were similar donations to the economically liberal think tank the Centre for Policy Studies, and to Eurosceptic European political lobby groups such as the European Foundation and the Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign.

References

References

  1. "About the Foundation".
  2. "Annual Report: Report and Accounts of the Trustees – 2017".
  3. (18 February 2013). "Weston foundation makes donation to Riverdale Farm". CP24.
  4. "About the Foundation".
  5. "University Annual Report".
  6. "25m Gift for the New Bodleian Library Redevelopment".
  7. "Weston Library FAQs".
  8. "School Playground Funding Guide".
  9. "Sponsors".
  10. (25 January 2019). "Another brick in the £31m garden wall at RHS Bridgewater".
  11. ''[[The Times]]'', 12 April 2010, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100414151700/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/consumer_goods/article7094924.ece Westons breached charity law over Tory donations]
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