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:

• Understanding the mechanisms of in-work benefits: Can they improve employment retention among lone parents?
• Public policy and smoking
• Green Budget 2004
• Higher education funding and access: exploring common beliefs
• Inequality in the 1990s and beyond
• Green Budget 2005
• Higher education funding policies and the lifetime returns to higher education
• The compliance costs to recipients of means-tested benefits and tax credits
• The role of 'informal childcare': a synthesis and critical review of the evidence
• The impact of month of birth on the development of cognitive and non-cognitive skills throughout childhood
• Paying for quality childcare
• Births out of wedlock and cognitive and social development throughout childhood: a quantitative analysis
• A descriptive analysis of the "couple penalty" in benefits and tax credits