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This years’ awards went to Koren Baddon from Spennithorne Primary School. The school has forged a link with the Foundation over the last year and will be continue to be supported in the [...]

A new award was created this year by the Foundation for Middleham Primary School and Spennithorne Primary School. This award, which will now be an annual award is named ‘The Jessica Bethell [...]

The Foundation has donated £500 to Spennithorne Primary School, near Leyburn, to help develop the school garden. Three new roses were named by the children as ‘Jessica’, [...]

Countess Peel, James and Sally Bethell had an excellent visit to the Meningitis Research Foundation Laboratories in Manchester in November 2015.  Meningitis Research Foundation extremely [...]

Middleham Stables Open Day donated £1,000 to the Foundation and the cheque was presented to James and Sally Bethell at a recent presentation by Tammi Tolhurst, Mayor of Middleham. The open day, [...]

James and Sally Bethell attended the opening of the Jack Berry House in Malton, North Yorkshire where they presented Jack Berry with a cheque for £35,000 which was a donation from The Jessica [...]

A dinner was held on Tuesday 12th May 2015 at York Racecourse to launch The Jessica Bethell Charitable Foundation. The Foundation was set up in 2012 following the tragic death due to meningitis [...]

We are pleased to see the mandate for implementing a MenB vaccine in England is now in place even though price  negotiations are still underway. This is a positive step because it means delivery [...]

How does MRF decide which new research to fund? There are several thousand researchers around the world who publish research relating to meningitis each year. So how do we choose the projects in [...]