The Orwell Foundation Lecture at University College London and, from 2017, the Orwell Lecture in the North at the University of Sheffield. The foundation also organises events and anniversary celebrations about George Orwell. As the only website authorised by the Orwell Estate, the foundation also publishes online resources by and about Orwell, which can be read for free here. The Orwell Youth Prize works with young people aged 14–18 The Orwell Foundation The Orwell Foundation is a charity registered in England and Wales. The Foundation runs the Orwell Prize, the UK’s most prestigious prize for political writing. In addition to the Prizes, the
George Orwell working classes smell"; a letter to Gollancz from Orwell threatening libel action brought a stop to this. Orwell was also able to find a more sympathetic publisher for his views in Fredric Warburg of Secker & Warburg. Orwell returned to Wallington, which he found in disarray after his absence. He acquired goats, a rooster he called Henry Ford and a poodle puppy he called Marx; and settled down to animal husbandry and writing "Homage to Catalonia". There were thoughts of going to India to work on the Pioneer, a newspaper in Lucknow, but by March 1938 Orwell's health had deteriorated.