THE GAZETTE: Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and the ERANDA Foundation: Fifty Years of Giving That Reshaped Communities
The name behind one of Britain’s most enduring charitable trusts began with a wartime letter. Anthony de Rothschild coined the word ERANDA from the names of his three children, Evelyn, Renée, and Anne, while they sheltered in America during the Second World War. Years later, his son turned that private family word into a grantmaking institution with national reach. Sir Evelyn de Rothschild grew the ERANDA Rothschild Foundation into a philanthropic vehicle that has distributed more than £75 million since its creation, directing capital toward medical research, education, social welfare, and the arts across the United Kingdom and overseas.
That breadth reflects a deliberate approach.
The Foundation he established in 1967, aged 36, has applied that standard to every award. Its record is best measured less by headline totals than by the patients, students, families, and species the money has actually reached.
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