A report for the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation.

Read the full report here: 2018 SEND Report

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/

The Campaign will underpin the Orchestra’s programme to our 75^th Anniversary in 2020 and beyond. The funds raised will allow the Philharmonia to achieve our vision that the orchestra – both live and digitally – will have a transformative impact on the widest possible audience by strengthening the Philharmonia and ensuring that it continues to thrive. An integral aspect of this will be through our education programmes, including our award-winning schools concerts, Orchestra Unwrapped.

Orchestra Unwrapped is an ambitious, performing arts project that offers thousands of children aged 7-11 the opportunity to experience a world-class orchestral concert accompanied by the educational resources to fully understand it. The project offers children, many from disadvantaged backgrounds, access to high quality live music education through:

• A dynamic programme of interactive schools concerts;
• Bespoke cross-curricular educational materials for the classroom;
• Teacher training;
• Online learning guides.

The project aims to offer every child the same opportunity irrespective of their social, ethnic or economic background.

The Project

Through the Philharmonia Future 75 Campaign and with the support of the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation, during  the 2018/19 academic year we would like to achieve the following:

• Two new Orchestra Unwrapped concerts in Leicester, one in Basingstoke and a concert each in Bedford and Canterbury;
• 5,500 schoolchildren, many of whom will not have experienced a live symphony orchestra before, attending the specially-designed schools concerts and benefiting from classroom resources and preparation in the lead-up to the concerts;
• We will commission a makaton sign and symbol language version of the audience participation piece for all the attending SEN schools to better access this part of the concert;
• Music education specialist Paul Rissmann will lead his specially-commissioned audience participation piece that, taking inspiration from Bedford, Canterbury and Leicester’s past and present as well as looking to the future;
• A number of in-school workshops will deepen the learning for schools, celebrating the communities’ location and history;
• A parallel art project will take place in participating schools where children will be asked to create pictures depicting key aspects of their town/city’s history. Some of these drawings will be displayed in the concert on the large screen.

Together, The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation and Mencap will give more people with a learning disability the change to live independently in a safe, well equipped and happy home.

Read more:

Mencap and the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation

An inclusive programme of activities for children on the autistic spectrum and their families, Dawnosaurs aims to provide access to, and enjoyment of, the Museum and its collections with tailored learning activities.

Dawnosaurs article from Evolve, Issue 34 PDF

Thanks to the generous support of the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation, the Natural History Museum launched Dawnosaurs in 2016. Dawnosaurs sessions are held throughout the year on Saturday mornings, with the Museum opening early to enable children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families and carers to experience the Museum before it opens to the general public. Dawnosaurs transforms a stressful visit to the often-busy Natural History Museum into an enriching learning experience for all the family.

Dawnosaurs overview

“A research institute like the Crick doesn’t exist anywhere else in Europe, arguably nowhere else in the world. We are so lucky to be here, we absolutely love what we do,” concludes Saz [Basu]. “Even though our work is quite basic, fundamental research, we really do think it will have a significant impact in people’s lives down the line. That someone like Lady Wolfson has the vision to support the work we do, to support at the earliest stages of our careers, it means the world to us.”

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Dawnosaurs is a free event that lets children on the autism spectrum enjoy the Museum with their families and siblings, free from the hustle and bustle of the general public. Dawnosaurs has been made possible thanks to the generous support of The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/events/dawnosaurs.html

Making Music Report 2017

V&A Director’s Circle Donation Report and Programme Update PDF