Up to 31 March 2011 grants from the Foundation, together with grants from the earlier John van Geest Charitable Fund, have totalled in excess of £26.4M. The greater part of this sum represents grants for medical research.
Medical research grants are in the main made to a limited number of selected research establishments involved in one or other of the listed areas of research (see grant making policy).
Two establishments in particular have in recent years been in receipt of substantial grants from the Foundation. These are Cambridge University, the grants being to support research carried out at the Cambridge Brain Repair Centre, and Nottingham Trent University, the grants being to support research carried out at what is now The John van Geest Cancer Research Centre.
Grants in support of the Cambridge Brain Repair Centre commenced in the year to 31 March 1994 and up to 31 March 2010 have totalled circa £6.4M included in this amount is an endowment of £4.6M to establish in perpetuity The John van Geest Lectureship in Brain Repair and The Gussy Marlowe Clinician PhD Fellowship in Brain Repair.
Grants to Nottingham Trent University for cancer research commenced in the year to 31 March
1997 and up to 31 March 2010 have totalled circa £6.13M (included in this amount are the first two annual grants aggregating circa £2.13M of a five year grant programme and a contribution of £2.8M towards the cost of the building housing The John van Geest Cancer Research Centre: the remaining three annual grants of the five year grant programme will amount to circa £2.72M).
Other establishments to receive substantial grants for medical research over recent years are The Royal Brompton Hospital, The Foundation for the Prevention of Blindness, Leicester University, King’s College London and the Blond McIndoe Centre for Medical Research.