Second scholar receives degree from Kent School of Architecture and Planning
Congratulations to the second ADF Scholar. Alan Davidson Foundation Trustee Jane Craik celebrated with Alice Garner as she received her degree from Kent School of Architecture and Planning. In November 2023, ADF Trustee Jane Craik attended the Congregations Ceremony for the Kent School of Architecture and Planning held at the magnificent Canterbury Cathedral to witness […]
HD5K returns to Hyde Park for its 6th installment, raising funds for MNDA
HD5K, the charity run organised by Hayes Davidson, returned to Hyde Park on May 25th for its 6th installment, welcoming over 100 runners from the architecture community, raising funds for the Motor Neurone Disease Association in memory of Alan. This year the annual run raised £35,000 including the Alan Davidson Foundation match funding, bringing the […]
“Helping Hands” is announced as the winner of The Davidson Prize 2023
Congratulations to Studio Mutt and Neighbourhood with The Independence Initiative, Hugh Baird College, Islington Hostel Outreach, Amber Akaunu, Peter O’Neil, Dead Good Poets Society on winning this year’s £10,000 prize. The Davidson Prize awards ceremony was held on June 20th as part of the London Festival of Architecture at the Istituto Marangoni in Shoreditch. The […]
The Foundation has allocated a one-off gift of £5,000 to support Euan’s Guide
About Euan’s Guide Through their disabled access review website EuansGuide.com, they tackle the lack of trusted, up to date disabled access information. The website is the go-to place for disabled access information written by and for disabled people where they can find and share information about places to go and things to do. Realising that […]
The Davidson Prize returns for a third year with the theme: “Somewhere To Call Home”
The third annual prize for thought-provoking ideas around the design of the home will be awarded during LFA in June 2023. In its first 2 years The Davidson Prize tackled topical themes, first “home working” while we were living during Covid lock downs, then “co-living” looking at solutions to unaffordable rentals, care homes and home […]
First scholarship student receives MA Architectural Visualisation degree
In November 2022, foundation’s representative Marie Chamillard was delighted to attend the Congregations Ceremony for the Kent School of Architecture and Planning held at Canterbury Cathedral to witness our first scholarship student, Rose Wetherell, receive her MA Architectural Visualisation degree. Pictured above with the MA’s Programme Director Howard Griffin. Alan was a great believer in […]
Supporting a PhD student at King’s College London over 3 years starting in Autumn 2022
Alan Davidson Foundation is delighted to support a PhD student at King’s College London over 3 years starting in Autumn 2022. Part of Dr Jemeen Sreedharan’s team, Leon will focus his research on TDP-43, a complex DNA and RNA binding protein central to the development of MND. The Foundation has funded neuroscience research at the […]
The Davidson Prize returns for 2022 with a new theme: “Co-Living, a new future?”
The second annual prize for thought-provoking ideas around the design of the home will be awarded in June 2022. Co-living already exists in many forms, from student accommodation, diverse family networks, retirement communities, artist collectives and more. We had the pandemic, which inspired the 2021 theme, – now we are looking at the reported loneliness […]
£210,000 awarded to the University of Oxford for the Making MND Preventable research project
In November 2021 the Foundation awarded a gift of £210,000 (£70,000 per year for three years) to the University of Oxford for the Making MND Preventable research project. The funds will allow them to recruit a skilled Project Manager and cover the initial start-up costs needed to establish the national UK cohort of ‘at risk’ […]
The Foundation hosts a ceremony celebrating the finalists and winners of The Davidson Prize 2021
During a brief Covid respite, the Alan Davidson Foundation had the pleasure to host a ceremony to celebrate the finalists and winning teams of the 2021 Davidson Prize, showcase the submissions and hand-over well deserved trophies. The event, organised by the prize PR team at Caro Communications, was held at the SCP East furniture store […]
