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),[3] who during his lifetime contributed to numerous humanitarian causes, both personally and through his companies.
[2] 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 £1 billion.
[7] 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,[8] and is a sponsor of Baker Dearing Educational Trust which promotes university technical colleges.
[10] 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.