Author Archives: L1nd@2021

The Harry Crossley Foundation was privileged to be part of the 50 year celebration of the Carl and Emily Fuch Foundation in Johannesburg on the 1st of August 2019. We wish the Foundation well in the future and congratulate them for the amazing work that they have done in the past 50 years. In the [read more]

Amy Halliday qualified with a BA in English, Classics, and Art History in 2006, followed by an Honours in Visual and Art History at UCT in 2007. She has gone on to teach art history in the town squares and churches of Tuscany, to graduate school in London (MA in History of Art at UCL) [read more]

The Harry Crossley Foundation has partnered with ICT over the past four years and is extremely excited to acknowledge that the 500th graduate will soon be achieved. Please watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFAFbYCcc2w for a better understanding of what ICT do and why we are so excited.

The Harry Crossley Foundation was represented by Linda Whitfield on Friday the 14th of June as the Red Cross Children’s Hospital was wrapped in love. Much fun was had as schools and contributors painted panels on the hospital perimeter fence. The latest campaign is to fund the upgrade of the Emergency Unit and The Harry [read more]

A cocktail party was held on the 22nd of May 2019 to greet the current cohort of Master and PhD candidates at Stellenbosch University. Ms Chantel Schwartz ( Post Graduate Student Funding), Dr Therina Theron ( Senior Director: Research and Innovation) and Mr Hugo Steyn ( Individual Giving) represented the University. Mr Ronald Paterson, Ms [read more]

Congratulations to Dr Lauren Jennings who graduated from UCT Medical School in 2011 and was a Doris Crossley Fellow. She has just graduated from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with an MSc in Public Health for Development . The degree was conferred with distinction and Lauren is now back in Cape Town [read more]

The Harry Crossley Foundation are proud to have had a long standing relationship with The Red Cross Children’s Hospital and The Children’s Hospital Trust. Currently The Hospital Trust are on a fund raising drive for R103 million to secure the upgrade and redevelopment of the Emergency Unit. The Harry Crossley Foundation have answered this call [read more]

The Harry Crossley Foundation had the honour of being invited to the 4th annual  “Building Children For Africa” Conference and  attended the opening this morning. The conference opened with the beautiful singing of the Herschel Girls School Choir. The conference is titled Constructs of Care and is being hosted by the Child Nurse Practice Development [read more]

The Harry Crossley Foundation is thrilled to be a funder to the Perinatal Mental Health Project run by Associate Professor Simone Honikman. This project aims to give mental health support to women during their pregnancy and after the birth of their child and reaches communities most at risk We attach the link to the latest [read more]

We are always thrilled to hear from our Fellows  and this just in from Robbie Ordelheide. Robbie was part of the 2017 cohort of HCF Fellows at UCT – we were thrilled with Robbie’s results and we are very happy to hear of the contribution he is making down under in rebuilding Christchurch in New Zealand. “I was awarded [read more]