Thank you - Garfield Weston Foundation

The Rockfield Centre has received a positive boost to funds having received an award of £20,000 from the Garfield Weston Foundation to assist the capital works programme.

Established in 1958, the Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded charitable grant-making trust which now gives away approximately £80 million a year to charities across the UK. Having established one of the most respected charitable institutions in the UK, the Weston Family Trustees today remain highly active and hands-on. The Foundation’s funding comes from an endowment of shares in the family business – a successful model that still endures today and as the businesses have grown so too have the charitable donations.

Each year the Foundation gives away its income and donations have continued to grow. Since it was established it has donated over £1 billion, of which over half has been given away in the past ten years alone. In the most recent financial year the Foundation gave away over £79 million to over 2,100 charities across the UK.

Gordon McNab, OCT chairman said : ‘We delighted there has been recognition of The Rockfield Centre project by the Garfield Weston Foundation , thanks to funding support the Trust remains on target to complete the capital works programme Spring 2020.’

With a new year beginning a wide range of volunteers, organisations and local businesses across Argyll are liaising to help with the internal plan and flow of the working space in the centre and the specialist requirements needed to complete the transition to a fully functioning cultural community hub.