# Up to £30,000 on offer to help aspiring individuals achieve ambitions

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/01/31/30000-offer-help-aspiring-individuals-achieve-ambitions/
- Published: 2019-01-31T10:00:38+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Applications have opened for the 2019 Everest Lewis Golden Foundation, which offers
grants to help people fulfil an extraordinary talent or personal challenge.**

Launched in early 2018, the foundation is named after the founder of double glazing
company Everest, Lewis Golden, who passed away towards the end of 2017. This year
it will be offering up to £30,000 this year to help aspiring individuals or groups
achieve their ambitions. There will be two separate entry periods this year – Spring/
Summer, and Autumn / Winter, and the next deadline for [applications](https://www.everest.co.uk/lewis-golden-foundation/)
is 30 June.

Everest received numerous applications for the Spring 2018 round of the Foundation.
The inaugural beneficiaries of the [Everest Lewis Golden Foundation](https://www.everest.co.uk/lewis-golden-foundation/)
were four students from the University of Oxford who had a shortfall in funding 
of £2,800 for an expedition to South Greenland.

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The foundation also donated £5,000 to a young musician to go towards a second-hand
Heckel bassoon, which can cost over £30,000 due to demand, with a 12 year waiting
list for a new one.

 

https://twitter.com/EverestHome/status/1085932893677985792

 

Everest has a history of supporting inspirational people to help them achieve their
goals. In addition to the foundation, it has previously sponsored war veteran and
mountain climber Les Binns, Medway Women’s Rugby Football Club, and eight-year-old
Aston MacAndrew-Uren who is following his father, grandfather and great grandfather
into motor racing.

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