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Christopher Brock Fund
Our Christopher Brock Fund provides grants for projects relating to new services for deafblind people, both children and adults, and particularly projects for the professional development of staff working with them. Projects may be either in the UK or in income-poor countries overseas.
Christopher Brock is a deafblind man whose disabilities were the result of Maternal Rubella. His parents, Bevis and Margaret Brock, who were founder members of Sense, The National Deafblind and Rubella Association, established a trust in his name in the early 1980s and bequeathed a substantial amount of their estate to it. Margaret died in 1992 and Bevis in 2005. With Bevis’s death, the trust became fully operational and it supported and was managed by the Woodford Foundation.
In late 2009 the trustees of of both the Christopher Brock Charitable Trust and the Woodford Foundation decided to wind-up the the Christopher Brock Charitable Trust. Its assets were transferred to a new Christopher Brock Fund within the Woodford Foundation.