# L’Arche’s founder wins £1.1 million Templeton Prize

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/03/12/larches-founder-wins-1-1m-templeton-prize/
- Published: 2015-03-12T10:52:07+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

French Canadian Jean Vanier, founder of [L’Arche](http://www.larche.org.uk), an 
international network of communities where people with and without intellectual 
disabilities live and work together as peers, has won the 2015 [Templeton Prize](http://www.templetonprize.org).

Valued at £1.1 million, the Templeton Prize is one of the world’s largest annual
awards given to an individual and honours a living person who has made an exceptional
contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension.

The Prize will be awarded on 18th May at the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
London.

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