Guardian Foundation

The Guardian Foundation is the charitable wing of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian Media Group plc.

It was established In the 1990's to support the creation of successful and editorially independent newspapers in the Guardian tradition, both in Eastern Europe and, more recently, in Africa. During last year, it worked in Macedonia for the first time.

The Foundation brings together journalists at a relatively senior level to share experiences through seminars and work placements in the UK and abroad. It also provides expertise in commercial as well as editorial production. A team of the Guardian's own advertising department recently travelled to Moldova to provide practical advice in building advertising revenue.

The Foundation has a grant-making capacity for use in training and in the broader areas of Press freedom and during the year helped set up the first Bulgarian national investigative journalism prizes, enabling the two winners to visit Britain and spend time working with The Guardian, The Observer and Manchester Evening News.

The Guardian Foundation has provided a range of print and investigative journalism modules for use on iLearn, which have been translated into a number of languages including Tamil, Sinhala, Bengali and Hindi.