The David Forbes-Nixon Family Charitable Foundation (DFN Foundation) is a commissioning charity committed to transforming life outcomes for people throughout the country.
With the DFN Foundation support, our partners influence sustainable change in special needs education, supported employment, healthcare and conservation. The partnership model is business led and outcome driven, creating transformational results with clear deliverables. From helping young people with special needs through education and into full-time employment, to advancing Myeloma research or supporting Pangolin conservation, the DFN Foundation is passionately committed to making our society a more environmentally conscious and inclusive place for all.
With the DFN Foundation support, our partners influence sustainable change in special needs education, supported employment, healthcare and conservation. The partnership model is business led and outcome driven, creating transformational results with clear deliverables. From helping young people with special needs through education and into full-time employment, to advancing Myeloma research or supporting Pangolin conservation, the DFN Foundation is passionately committed to making our society a more environmentally conscious and inclusive place for all.
OUR FOUR PILLARS
Education
We promote best practice in special needs education to deliver great outcomes for young people with learning difficulties, disabilities and autism.
Healthcare
We are committed to improving survival rates of Myeloma, advancing cures through the strategic funding of research to benefit patients.
Employability
We influence current practice so that young people with special educational needs and disabilities receive work-related learning and access to paid employment.
Conservation
We want to ensure the Giant Ground Pangolin survives, our immediate priority has been to halt deforestation as rapidly as possible and to then engage partners in a long term solution.Our Actions
World class special needs school
Undershaw
To get 20,000 young disabled people into jobs by 2034
DFN Project SEARCH
TO FIND A CURE FOR MYELOMA
Myeloma Research
To Save The Giant Ground Pangolin
Conservation
In 2014, I established the David Forbes-Nixon Family Charitable Foundation (DFN Foundation), inspired by two of my heroes: my youngest son Charlie who has learning and physical disabilities; and my mother Jacquelin Forbes-Nixon who died of multiple myeloma, an incurable bone marrow cancer. The focus was on supporting education and employment opportunities for young disabled people; and finding a cure for multiple myeloma. After forming a high-quality board of trustees, we agreed to focus on education, employment, healthcare and wildlife conservation.
- David Forbes-Nixon
- David Forbes-Nixon
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Creating world-class special needs education
We have invested £7.5million in creating a world class special needs school at Undershaw, which is providing world-class special needs facilities, supporting pupils to reach their full potential in life. We are the commissioner of one of the UK’s largest Social Impact Bonds; together with ThinkForward we created the DFN MoveForward programme. This is an innovative education-based employability skills strategy that support students with special needs by providing individualised coaching, creating ready for work opportunities whilst promoting greater employer awareness and engagement.
Helping young people with learning disabilities get great jobs
We are transforming the lives of young people with learning disabilities through our collaboration with DFN Project SEARCH. This transition to work programme is making a huge impact, running over 140 programmes throughout the UK, having supported more than 2,200 young people into full-time paid work.
Funding innovative myeloma research
We are making a significant contribution in health by funding a five year myeloma research programme at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. Under the leadership of Dr Martin Kaiser, we hope to understand the genetic factors that are responsible for the progression of myeloma cancer and then with this knowledge, work towards optimum treatment plans.
Supporting conservationists in saving the British Butterfly
We are helping to save the British Butterfly and have been announced as the official sponsor of the Big Butterfly Count 2021-2024, the world's largest butterfly survey. This data will support conservationists to protect butterflies from extinction and also understand the effect of climate change of wildlife.
Contact
Our registered office: Fivefields, 8-10 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1W 0DH
Phone: 02034323402info@dfnfoundation.org
Our registered office is:
Fivefields, 8-10 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1W 0DH
The DFN Charitable Foundation currently has sizeable commitments
and is not accepting grant applications.
Charities Commission
Please find our certificate from the Charities Commission here.