Nuffield Foundation

One of the UK's best known charitable trusts, the Nuffield Foundation was established in 1943 by William Morris (Lord Nuffield) the founder of Morris Motors.

Most of the Foundation's income is spent on grants that support research or practical developments that will, in the words of our Trust Deed, "advance social well being". Apart from making grants to other organisations the Foundation runs its own projects and activities.

Currently funded projects:

• A descriptive analysis of the "couple penalty" in benefits and tax credits
• Births out of wedlock and cognitive and social development throughout childhood: a quantitative analysis
• Paying for quality childcare
• The impact of month of birth on the development of cognitive and non-cognitive skills throughout childhood
• The role of 'informal childcare': a synthesis and critical review of the evidence
• The compliance costs to recipients of means-tested benefits and tax credits
• Higher education funding policies and the lifetime returns to higher education
• Ongoing analysis of trends in inequality
• Green Budget 2005
• Green Budget 2004
• Inequality in the 1990s and beyond