Author Archives: L1nd@2021

The Harry Crossley Foundation team headed out to Stellenbosch on the 20th of August to meet with the MOVE4FOOD team at the University of Stellenbosch. The #Move4Food fundraising campaign was launched in August 2018 with the goal of raising funds to help sustain the food security initiatives at Stellenbosch University. We met with Lizzie Witbooi [read more]

  The Harry Crossley Foundation has been funding a wraparound initiative that Stellenbosch University makes available to their postgraduate students. On a recent site visit to Stellenbosch University on the 20th of August, we met with Hugo Steyn and Nugent Lewis who presented a very comprehensive report on how many students are making use of [read more]

The Harry Crossley Foundation team spent the morning of the 15th of August at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, in Rondebosch, Cape Town, visiting three of the programs that are funded through the Foundation. This included getting feedback from Professor Jo Wilmshurst and Helen Maintjies on the African Peadiatric Fellowship Program. As always it [read more]

“We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.” Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Working for the Harry Crossley Foundation has always been a privilege for us whereby we get to aide wonderful organisation and projects year round in their endeavours to make a difference in [read more]

We love to hear from our Alumni and were delighted to hear from Ananja van Der Westhuizen and share the wonderful story of her journey into medicine. The DCF team are proud of you and all your achievements.    “Mary Oliver’s famous poem “The Summer Day” has a verse that I love to re-read often: [read more]

We recently recieved some lovely flowers at the Foundation from Lorraine and Malaika Kalassa and we thought it was a great opportunity to catch up with these two sisters who were DCF and HCF bursary recipients. Lorraine: “I am currently working at Tarna Klitzner Landscape Architects as a Landscape Architectural student in training on a [read more]

At the end of 2023, the Trustees made the strategic move to expand our animal welfare branch of our mandated funding. The Foundation’s funding is largely centred around education and research so what better way to increase impact and reach within animal welfare by supporting Veterinarians and Veterinarian Nurses of the future. As of 2024 [read more]

The Doris Crossley Foundation is dedicated to supporting financially needy students through the disbursement of undergraduate bursaries. In 2023, the foundation proudly supported 43 students across various institutions, including the University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch University, University of the Western Cape, UNISA, TSIBA, School of Explorative Architecture, and LAMTA. The 2023 cohort pursued studies in [read more]

The Children’s Hospital Trust in Cape Town have been working hard to raise funds to move the Orthopaedic Unit from the Maitland Cottage Hospital in Newlands onto the main Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital site. On the 17th April 2024, the Harry Crossley Foundation team attended the exciting ground breaking for this new facility [read more]

On the evening of the 17th April, the Harry Crossley Foundation Trustees, Linda Whitfield and Bernard Osrin, along with Kristin Larsen and Thuli Mashabane, were invited to join Ikamva Labantu for the screening of their documentary Brave Hearts. The movie follows the lives of multiple women living in the townships and the heroic work they [read more]