Overview
The Hamish Ogston Foundation was set up in late 2019, to add discipline, structure and ambition to Hamish Ogston’s history of philanthropic work, which started as early as 2008.
The Foundation is dedicated to three areas of focus: Heritage, Music and Health. In these areas, our prime goals are to preserve historic buildings throughout the world, to support and build the UK’s Choral Music Tradition, this country’s oldest living cultural heritage, including the role that organs play within this, and to work towards eliminating the disparities in both access to medical treatment and health awareness around the world.
Our approach to achieve these goals is to partner with some of the world’s best-known Heritage, Music and Health institutions, bringing together many of the world’s leading experts to facilitate the protection of the world’s treasured heritage sites through funding heritage apprenticeship programmes; improving access to music education for young people in Britain through the provision of regular and tailored music classes during the school day; and the delivery of life-saving healthcare to the poorer members of our worldwide society by funding vital research and increasing awareness of neglected tropical diseases.
Our initiatives are geared towards the lowest socio-economic members of society, to give them a chance and a ‘job for life’.
We have made commitments to operate in 20 countries around the Commonwealth to date. Each of the Foundation’s philanthropic ventures is inherently committed to transformative development, ensuring successful futures for individuals and places that have been forgotten around the world. Through the expansion of our existing charitable initiatives, and also the establishment of new ones, we hope to operate in many more countries in future, positively impacting the lives of many more places and people around the world.
To view information about the Foundation’s income and expenditure, please visit our ‘Charity overview’ on the Charity Commission for England and Wales.