Our campaign to raise the final funds to build a world leading cancer research centre at the Freeman Hospital has taken a major step forward. After a significant donation from The Garfield Weston Foundation.
Garfield Weston Foundation, a family founded grant-maker, supports charities operating in a wide variety of sectors across the UK that make a positive difference within their communities.
Now, the foundation has donated £500,000 towards the building of the Sir Bobby Robson Institute. Bringing a world leading cancer drug trials centre to the North East and increase trial activity by 50 per cent over five years.
Construction of the new £30m institute is underway and, when completed, it will bring ground breaking treatments and direct benefits to 3.5million people across the North East, North Cumbria and North Yorkshire.
The institute is fully funded by The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, part of Newcastle Hospitals Charity, with an initial £20 million raised by our foundation’s long-standing supporters and fundraisers.
Garfield Weston Foundation now joins a group of incredible founding donors, including The Barbour Foundation, that have helped us reach £26.5 million. The next phase is critical, as we focus on raising the final £3.5 million needed to complete funding for the project.
Professor Ruth Plummer MBE, Director of the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre, said: “We are incredibly grateful for the generosity of the Garfield Weston Foundation and their commitment to tackling cancer through the new Sir Bobby Robson Institute.
“Support like this is vital to ensuring that our institute delivers what we hope it can, bringing hope through more clinical trials and to progressing cancer treatments to benefit millions of people in our region and beyond. Its support is greatly appreciated.”
For Sir Bobby Robson Institute fundraising enquiries please contact Kate Bradley or call 0191 213 7235.
For more information about The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, please visit: www.sirbobbysgreatestteam.co.uk.
