The Gatsby Charitable Foundation is an endowed grant-making trust based in

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, founded by

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in 1967. The organisation is one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts set up to provide funding for charitable causes. Although the organisation is permitted in its Trust Deed to make general grants within this broad area, its activities have been restricted to a limited number of fields. According to the

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, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation's financing for 2019 development increased by 40% to US$18.9 million. Amongst its activities, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation funds the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) is a neuroscience research institute located in London, United Kingdom. The SWC is part of University College London (UCL), but sits outside of the faculty structure. It is funded by the Gatsby Charitable Found ...

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, the

Sainsbury Management Fellowship The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

s, the

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based in

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, and the

Sainsbury Laboratory The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) is a research institute located at the Norwich Research Park in Norwich, Norfolk, England, that carries out fundamental biological research and technology development on aspects of plant disease, plant disease r ...

. It funded the Centre for Mental Health until 2010. The foundation is a co-sponsor of the

University Technical College A university technical college (UTC) is a type of secondary school in England that is sponsored by a Universities in the United Kingdom, university and has close ties to local business and industry. University technical colleges specialise in su ...

s programme, in conjunction with the Baker Dearing Trust.

References

External links

The Gatsby Charitable Foundation

The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
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