The Fischer Family Trust

Supporting education, health and conservation projects in the UK and abroad

The Fischer Family Trust is a registered charity (No 1075453) which is mainly involved in undertaking and supporting education, historical and medical research projects in the UK. This page provides information about the projects which have been supported by the Fischer Family Trust and other partner organisations which the trust has links with. At present the Fischer Family Trust is not looking to resource or support any additional projects or programmes. Any changes to this policy, if they were to take place, would be posted on this website.

Education

FFT

FFT provides data and analyses to all schools and LAs in England and Wales. FFT estimates are used by teachers to inform the setting of ambitious and aspirational targets for students. FFT’s analyses of pupil results and pupil progress and provide school leaders with insightful data to support school improvement and self-evaluation. FFT Education Ltd is an independent, non-profit company which was established in 2001 and has links to the Fischer Family Trust.

FFT Literacy

FFT Literacy provides a range of literacy training to schools, clusters of schools and to Local Authorities, drawing on their experience as a developer of interventions and teaching and training programmes in reading, writing, speaking and listening.

FFT Education Datalab

We are proud to have set up FFT Education Datalab, whose mission is to be the UK’s centre of excellence for quantitative research in education.

See our research

Health

SBL

SBL is a (Community Interest) Company dedicated to improving patient treatment options through high quality, collaborative and clinically focused research. SBL has a strong scientific team with a variety of academic and industrial backgrounds. They have particular strengths in all aspects of immunology and molecular biology. Their work is focused on the following areas: DNA instability in neurons, DNA recombination in lymphocytes, cancer immunotherapy and medical guidelines on Vitamin D.

Other health projects

In 2001 The Fischer Family Trust started to get involved in medical research, with a particular focus on kidney cancer. Activities have included support for specific projects in conjunction with the following organisations:

  • Steve Dunns’s guide for cancer patients (www.cancerguide.org)
  • KCUK – Kidney Cancer UK
  • KCA – The Kidney Cancer Association (USA) The 2002 Innsbruck conference on Dendritic Cell Vaccines Support is either direct from the Trust or through SBL (Systems Biology Laboratory UK).

Maritime & conservation

The Fischer Family Trust supports projects in the area of Maritime history, through Oxford Maritime Trust and Oxford Maritime Limited. The Fischer Family Trust is involved in a number of projects to protect highly endangered species in Africa.