Cecil Rosen Foundation

The Cecil Rosen Foundation is a grant-making charity rooted in founder Cecil Rosen's vision of enabling dignified, independent living for Jewish people with disabilities, particularly physical disabilities and visual impairments. Its core values emphasize legacy, sustainability, and transformative impact through strategic investments that honor Jewish welfare traditions while prioritizing equity, inclusion, and long-term empowerment for disabled individuals. Driven by a philosophy of enduring partnership with aligned charities, it believes change arises from substantial support for capital infrastructure and educational initiatives that foster self-reliance, community cohesion, and cultural remembrance within the Jewish community.

It funds independent living solutions including specialist mobility housing and residential developments for adults with physical disabilities and visual impairments seeking autonomy, Holocaust education and remembrance programmes delivering trauma-informed, commemorative activities for youth and adults to preserve Jewish history and combat antisemitism, Jewish cultural and religious projects promoting social welfare, community cohesion, and spiritual wellbeing, elderly care services addressing isolation, health needs like cancer support, and direct charitable interventions such as day services, advocacy, and inclusion activities for blind and disabled Jewish people. Supported interventions encompass person-centred housing adaptations enabling daily independence, preventative educational outreach on Holocaust legacies, therapeutic and peer support groups for disabled elderly, and community-led initiatives tackling social isolation among Jewish families with complex health needs or physical disabilities, prioritizing high-impact capital projects and programme delivery that sustain dignity and resilience.

With no published exclusions, it selectively avoids misaligned causes, focusing unwaveringly on Jewish beneficiaries or those with disabilities, especially at their intersection, including blind adults, physically disabled Jewish individuals, and elderly requiring welfare support. Distinctive for its cornerstone role in landmark housing like Cecil Rosen Court, repeated backing of Jewish Blind & Disabled, and niche emphasis on Holocaust remembrance alongside disability inclusion, it favors UK-based charities delivering evidence-based, legacy-driven services with Jewish ethos, long-term sustainability, and direct benefits for underserved disabled communities.