April 2018 - The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation

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National Portrait Gallery Access & Community Programme: May 2017 – April 2018 report

Posted 27th April 2018 by Paul Sandler

The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation has kindly supported the National Portrait Gallery’s Access and Community programme since 2013 and we are most grateful to the Trustees for their continued help. This report outlines some of the activities and audiences the funding has enabled over the past year. This includes Musical Portraits, the Gallery’s creative arts project for young people with autism; the Gallery’s onsite access public programme and Creative Spaces, our art studio project for learning disabled adults.

Read the full report here: National Portrait Gallery Report Spring 2018

Photograph: 2017 Rehearsal at Wigmore Hall, ©Alan Bowyer

The Wallace Collection Access Programme 2017-2018 Annual Report

Posted 27th April 2018 by Paul Sandler

We are aware that we say this every year, but we really are being honest when we say that it has been another fantastic year for the Access Events and SEN programme at the Wallace Collection! We have continued to expand the programme, engage new audiences and support colleagues in other cultural organisations to implement and improve their offer of accessible events and activities.

2017-18 Wallace Collection Access-SEN Programme Report II website versio…

Report on SEN Schools Weeks 2016-2017: multi-sensory workshops at the Royal Academy

Posted 20th April 2018 by Paul Sandler

In 2014, the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation made a highly generous commitment to fund three years of the RA’s work with SEN schools. This report is for the third year of the programme and the workshops held between September 2016 and August 2017.

Year 3 report & proposal

The Royal Society Translation Awards

Posted 4th April 2018 by Paul Sandler

The Royal Society Translation Awards are for scientists who wish to investigate the potential to commercialise an aspect of their research.

The aim of this award is to support the promotion of innovation and translation of research within universities, by helping academics demonstrate that their concept has high potential for commercial success.

The Royal Society Translation Award is up to £50,000 in value. The award winners to be announced on the night.

The Royal Society is grateful to the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation for supporting these awards.

https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/grants/royal-society-translation-award/

The Stroke Association Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation Priority Programme Award in Haemorrhagic Stroke

Posted 3rd April 2018 by Paul Sandler

Thanks to the Foundation’s generosity, Professor David Werring (Professor of Clinical Neurology at University College London, Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery), and Professor Peter Rothwell (Action Research Professor of Neurology and Director of the Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia at the University of Oxford) were awarded the Stroke Association The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation Priority Programme Award. They are amongst a small handful of the country’s leading researchers and clinicians in haemorrhagic stroke.

Read the full report here: Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation – April 2018