The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the largest independent social policy research and development charities in the UK. It is completely neutral in party political terms. The Foundation supports a wide programme of research in housing, area regeneration, social care, disability, families, young people, work, incomes and poverty.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation also carries out practical innovative projects in housing and care through the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust. We seek to ensure that these and the findings from the research programme are helpful in the development of better policies and practices across the UK.
The Foundation publishes about 100 succinct summaries of research projects each year. These Findings can be found on our web site, where you can quickly reach those relating to particular topics by clicking here.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the largest independent social policy research and development charities in the UK. It spends about £6 million a year on a research and development programme that seeks to better understand the causes of social difficulties and explore ways of better overcoming them. The Foundation does not carry out the research in-house, but works in partnership with a large variety of academic and other institutions to achieve its aims. It also engages in practical housing and care work through the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust. The Foundation places great emphasis on disseminating the findings of its work and engaging with policy-makers and practitioners to develop better policies and practices.
Joseph Rowntree (1836-1925) was a Quaker and a successful businessman. In 1904, he transferred a substantial part of his wealth to the three trusts which bear his name. The Joseph Rowntree Village Trust was established in 1904 to administer Joseph Rowntree's model village, New Earswick. In 1959 the Trust's objectives were widened to cover research and development and the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust was created by Act of Parliament. This organisation was renamed the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 1990.
The two other organisations founded in 1904 are the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd. All three bodies are quite independent of each other in their Trustees, Directors, finances and policies.The Foundation's Trustees and Directors are also responsible for the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.
Trustees and staff
New Trustees are appointed alternately by the Trustees themselves and by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
The current Trustees are:
Current directors:
Headquarters staff are based at The Homestead, York; day-to-day housing operations are based in New Earswick.
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