Over the past twelve months the Wallace Collection’s Access and SEN Programme has continued to flourish. We have expanded familiar and successful sessions and tours as well as added new and experimental elements to our programme. Of course we also continue to support colleagues in other cultural organisations to implement and improve their offer of accessible events and activities. From April 2018 – March 2019 we hosted a total of 48 adult events reaching 836 adults, almost double last year’s amount, and ran 19 SEN school workshops, reaching 622 pupils and teachers. Read more

We would like to thank the Trustees of the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation for their generous support for the National Gallery’s two valuable programmes for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Read more here.

Our programmed of Adult Access events for adults plays an important role in enabling the National Gallery to achieve its aim to be ‘accessible to all’ ensuring that its great works of art can be enjoyed by the widest possible public. Read more here.

2018 witnessed the 500th anniversary of the Royal College of Physicians. Thanks to the support of the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation, we were able to mark the occasion with the exhibition ‘This Vexed Question: 500 Years of Women in Medicine’. This report briefly outlines the nature of this exhibition and the positive outcomes and legacy it had for the RCP. Read more

This year-long fellowship provides women with the opportunity to be involved in RCS activities, become familiar with how the RCS operates, and encourages them to apply for Council and other leadership roles. Apply before 30th April. Read more here.

Early Birds is a sensory friendly morning for children who need a quieter environment to enjoy the museum. The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation have generously pledged support for this project over three years. This report outlines the activity over the year 2018/19 and plans for the year to come. Read the full report here.

Together, The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation and Mencap are working to give more people with a learning disability the chance to live with greater independence in a safe, well equipped and happy home. This year, year one of three, we begun this vital work by creating a home for three individuals with developing needs in Rotherham. Read more here.

Making Music has been a vital part of assisting sick children during their stay at St. George’s Hospital, and the programme has been extremely well received. Read more here.

Feedback from a parent who attended Early Birds at the museum recently.

“We came to the Early Birds session this past Saturday morning. I just wanted to say it was BRILLIANT! It was the first time I had been able to come with my son and the difference from previous trips when everything is busy, loud and stressful was night and day. It was so calm, and we all really enjoyed it. It was an extra special thing for me, not only seeing my son being able to enjoy it, but I am also autistic and this was the first time I have been to a museum and not felt overwhelmed, and truly able to enjoy it! So thank you. We appreciated all the extra little bits they had for us. The things to make and build, the extra workshops, seeing animals, making motorised pen things! And a big highlight for us was the pop up planetarium. They were fantastic and calm. But all the helpers were amazing, helpful and great at engaging with our son. It was also really fun for us as a family to enjoy in the interactive lab with the slides, and all the different experiments. Thank you for making this possible!! I really didn’t think we would be able to have a family day like that with the challenges we face, but you made it possible! And we are so very grateful.”

Evelina London Children’s Hospital is incredibly grateful to the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Charitable Trust for your generous support to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Fetal Cardiology Unit (FCU). Your support has made a real difference to our ability to provide specialist pre and postnatal care to some of our most at-risk patients. 

Read the full report here.

Our Chairman Lady Estelle Wolfson, Dame Professor Clare Marx and Professor Suzy Lishman CBE receiving their fellowships from the ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, August 2018

Newspaper Article Evelina London July 2018

An update prepared for the Trustees of the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation – June 2018

Update Report for the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation

The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation has generously supported access and education programmes at the British Museum since 2014. In September 2016 the Foundation awarded the Museum a grant of £90,000 over three years to support Phase II of the Access and Education Programme from 2017 to 2020. This grant allows the British Museum to develop an ongoing offer of activities and workshops for children and adults with Learning Disability and/or Autistic Spectrum Disorder (LD/ASD). 

British Museum – The Access and Education Programme Phase II Year One – April 2018

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 

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…

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 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/