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For the year ended 31st March 2024

The Victoria Foundation’s achievements for the year ended 31st March 2024

The Victoria Foundation has continued to focus its energies on raising funds through a number of key events and activities. The Foundation has adapted its fundraising over the year in response to the ongoing impact of the cost-of-living crisis.

During the year the Charity made grants totalling £180,951, an increase from £159,239 in the previous year.

The Charity has continued to provide much requested grants to families and organisations to fund life-enhancing medical equipment and support with priority given to applications from those based in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the London Borough of Hounslow.

The grants awarded have funded specialist mobility aids and medical equipment, accessible minibuses, specialist therapies for Carers and their cared for, and a wide range of medical support.

In addition, the Charity has continued to support widening participation in medicine and awarded Toolkit Grants and Elective Bursaries to one hundred and thirty-eight medical students facing great financial hardship during their studies at thirty universities around the country.

The grants the Charity awarded directly to medical students and to Institutions to support individual medical students are due to the income The Victoria Foundation received from the Endowment Fund comprising the legacy from The C A W Blackwell Discretionary Will Trust, a grant from Consilient Health, income from the Peter Willson Fund, and from its own unrestricted funds.

All other grants the Charity awarded are made possible from the funding the Charity received from The Richmond Charities, the investment fund with the London Community Foundation, donations and the proceeds from events together with its investment income.

The following organisations received grants or have been pledged grants during the year in addition to grants awarded directly to individuals and families

• Barnfield Riding for the Disabled

• Clarendon Primary Centre

• Crossroads Care Richmond & Kingston upon Thames

• Kingston Carers

• Kingston Hospital Charity

• Richmond & Ealing Friendship Group

• Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability

• RAKAT CT - Caring Community Transport

• Skylarks Charity

• TAG: The Youth Club for Disabled Young People

• The Auriga Academy Trust

• The Brook Special Primary School

• Tim Henman Foundation

The Victoria Foundation is proud that the grants awarded are helping to transform so many lives in its local community - helping youngsters with complex needs gain greater independence, supporting families to help them stay together, and helping to prevent loneliness and isolation and keeping the elderly connected.

In addition, the Charity’s has continued to support widening participation in medicine by awarding grants to medical students facing great financial hardship and disadvantage during their studies to become the NHS doctors of the future.

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How TVF Transform Lives

  • “... The Victoria Foundation is a highly effective charity and does great work for many people. It is marvellous to have the opportunity to be involved...”


    Sir Trevor McDonald OBE

  • “The support we have had from the Victoria Foundation to date has had a transformatory effect on many of the young people who attend Bedelsford school. We have seen increased mobility and increased confidence for many of our pupils after using the Large Innowalk Pro which was very generously funded by the Victoria Foundation earlier this year. We are currently raising funds for a new school minibus which will require specialist adaptations in order to ensure pupils can safely access the local community and be more fully included in the world that they live in. Thanks to the support from the Victoria Foundation these aspirations can be made real and help ensure that Bedelsford pupils can reach their full potential!”

    Emmet Murphy, the principal of Bedelsford Special School in Kingston

  • “On behalf of the whole Clarendon School community, I'd like to say an enormous "thank you" to The Victoria Foundation and its supporters for their generous grant towards our new school minibus. …. our new bus will allow our pupils (all of whom have learning difficulties and additional complex needs) to access the full range of curriculum-supporting trips, school journeys, enrichment and extracurricular activities. Your support will directly improve the day-to-day experiences of our vulnerable young people and enable us to provide the rich and varied opportunities beyond the school environment which are such a valuable part of what we do.”

    John Kipps, Headteacher - Clarendon School

  • “On behalf of the University of Nottingham, thank you to The Victoria Foundation for supporting our international medical elective programme. The financial assistance provided by these bursaries is vital in allowing students from all backgrounds to participate. We hope you can take great pride in knowing your funding is supporting the personal and professional development of the next generation of doctors, whilst enabling them to make a vital contribution to healthcare around the world”

    Craig Davidson, Senior Development Manager - University of Nottingham

  • “We are so grateful to The Victoria Foundation for their continuing support, which has enabled us to provide a comprehensive range of specialist therapies, not only for those unpaid parent carers, caring for children with often profound disabilities, who use our home and community care and support services, but also for our staff team....Participants frequently share that these services have helped them regain the energy and emotional balance necessary to continue their caring roles without feeling overwhelmed. We are deeply grateful for your partnership and look forward to continuing to report on the positive difference your funding makes in the lives of our carers and families.”

    Julie Da Costa, CEO - Crossroads Care Richmond and Kingston.