Raymond Williams Foundation

The commitments of the Raymond Williams Foundation (RWF) are specifically within the spheres of Adult Education, community based and collective learning - the overall purpose of the RWF being to support the realisation of the ‘Long Revolution’ (evoked in the quote above), for which Williams advocated though his work and throughout his life.

Williams spent many years teaching adults who came to him through the WEA; and his extensive range of essays and lectures on education, community and democracy offer a searching analysis of the conditions for a genuinely inclusive, learning and participatory society.

At a time when liberal adult education and other forms of community-based collective learning are perhaps more needed than ever, the RWF exists to help sustain and extend that tradition by providing small grants and bursaries, forging new partnerships and forms of cooperation, by developing resources and through its support for courses, activities, projects and events - prioritising disadvantaged students and communities.