# NI Foundation provided £900,000 to charitable causes

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/04/03/ni-foundation-provided-900000-charitable-causes/
- Published: 2017-04-03T08:21:09+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**One of Northern Ireland’s largest foundations made donations of nearly £900,000
in 2015, according to its latest accounts.**

 

The McClay Foundation was set up by the [late Sir Allen McClay](https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/01/13/major-northern-ireland-philanthropist-dies/)
who made his fortune in the pharmaceutical business. The bulk of the Foundation’s
giving is directed to causes in Northern Ireland, although some developing world
charities are also supported.

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The Foundation’s priorities are to:

 

·       Support and encourage research and innovation

 

·       Advance the use of diagnostic tools and drugs in the prevention, control
and cure of disease

 

·       Ensure latest advances in healthcare are available to all, including developing
countries

 

·       Generate and promote employment opportunities

 

·       Support and promote such educational purposes as the trustees shall select,
provided that such purposes shall be exclusively charitable in law

 

Donations in 2014 were over £1 million with Queens University Belfast one of the
largest grant recipients with £600,000 in 2014 and £260,000 in 2015. Cancer charities
also figure large in the Foundation’s regular giving, with the NI Hospice receiving
£400,000 over two years and large grants to Clic Sargent, Marie Cure and NI Children’s
Cancer Fund.  

 

[The McClay Foundation](http://www.mcclayfoundation.org) is happy to provide support
over more than one year and the accounts show future commitments of over £2 million
to many of the same causes.

 

In 2014 £90 million was given to the Foundation from the sale of Almac shares, the
pharmaceutical company founded by Sir Allen.  Some of the Foundation’s board are
associated with the Almac company.

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