The charitable foundation of David and Simon Reuben has donated 80 million pounds ($101 million) to Oxford University’s newest college. The gift will fund scholarships and research into areas like environmental change. The institute will be renamed Reuben College, according to a statement Thursday. “The current pandemic has shown us just how vital it is […]

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The Reuben Foundation has allocated up to $50 million to support causes relating to COVID-19. Given the sheer scale of the impact that the pandemic is having on people, the Reuben Foundation is allocating these additional funds to support a variety of critical causes. These include initiatives already supported by the Reuben Foundation which are […]

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On the phone to an entrepreneur friend a month ago, as the scale of the economic challenge caused by the Covid-19 pandemic was unfolding, he said: “The key has been taken out of the ignition of the world economy.” Projections suggest that the economy is heading for a major dip. The Confederation of British Industry […]

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With thanks to the generosity of everyone who has contributed to our Emergency Appeal at this time. We have been so touched by the support from individuals and organisations, and we send our huge thanks to every single person who has donated to our appeal. Thank you for standing with us and helping us keep […]

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Billionaire brothers David and Simon Reuben have taken stick for furloughing 750 staff, but they are also giving something back. The pair, in their late seventies, have earmarked $50m of donations to fight the coronavirus pandemic. They have sent tens of thousands of protective masks to hospitals and given money to vaccine research at universities, […]

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Rise in donations comes thanks to substantial new contributions from Lansdowne Partners, Old Possum’s Practical Trust, as well as foundations of Reuben brothers and Blavatnik family Donations to our Help The Hungry appeal have surged past the £1.5m mark as some of London’s wealthiest families step up to the plate to support our work in […]

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London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has applied his signature colourful aesthetic to a tiled entrance and reception area for the maternity centre at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. The London hospital received a donation from the Reuben Foundation to create an artwork for its new maternity centre and approached Furman to enhance its reception and […]

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David Reuben, the businessman and philanthropist in whose mother’s memory our school is named, has expressed the hope that many Nancy Reuben Primary School pupils will become “engineers and technologists — because that’s tomorrow”. The school has enthusiastically embraced this view. Pupils use one-toone class iPads across the curriculum, under careful supervision. The positive impact […]

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The Mayor of London attended a special event at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital yesterday evening to celebrate the opening of the new Reuben Foundation Maternity Centre, providing women and their babies with an outstanding environment, personalised patient experience and the latest technology and facilities. The Reuben Foundation has supported the hospital’s charity CW+ to transform […]

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Design Museum, London This astounding exhibition reveals the obsessive level of genius the great director showed, whether inventing the space age – or restaging the Vietnam war in a London gas works A photograph of a rambling snow-covered hotel in Oregon is on display in the Design Museum, annotated with the energetic scribbles and emphatic […]

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