Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation

The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation advances Jewish life, learning, and broader charitable purposes through grant-making that fosters cultural enrichment, educational advancement, and societal understanding. Rooted in values of independence, flexibility, and lasting legacy, it empowers trustees with wide discretion to support ambitious, high-quality projects delivering enduring impact on individuals and communities. Funding decisions prioritize innovation over routine operations, favouring interventions that build bridges across divides, nurture talent, and enable breakthroughs otherwise inaccessible, with a philosophy emphasizing sustainable benefit through strategic, hands-on stewardship.

Core thematic priorities encompass Jewish life and learning via cross-communal educational programmes, fellowships, scholarships, and awards strengthening Jewish identity, interfaith dialogue, and relations between Jewish and Muslim communities through joint cultural projects addressing antisemitism, Islamophobia, and social inclusion. Performing arts support innovative theatre productions, staging new works, and creative development excluding music, while music funding nurtures young talented musicians through development schemes, training, and performance opportunities. Medical research travel grants enable promising researchers to attend international conferences for knowledge exchange and collaboration. Activities target beneficiaries including Jewish communities seeking educational enrichment, Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel promoting peaceful coexistence, UK-based intercultural groups tackling prejudice via arts-led initiatives, emerging performing artists, youth musicians facing access barriers, and medical innovators advancing health discoveries, all through project-based interventions emphasizing legacy-building cultural, educational, and relational outcomes.

Exclusions encompass core costs, deficit funding, fundraising, large well-resourced charities, and projects likely attracting commercial sponsorship or governmental support. Distinctive focus lies on smaller organizations delivering innovative, high-impact initiatives in Jewish community strengthening, performing arts innovation, music talent development, and interfaith cultural projects, prioritizing UK-based activities with select overseas Jewish coexistence efforts. Preferred partners exhibit grassroots ambition, evidence of enduring benefit, and alignment with values of intercultural understanding, talent nurturing, and prejudice reduction through creative, community-led arts and education.