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 second half is a long essay on his upbringing and the development of his political conscience, which includes an argument for socialism (although he goes to lengths to balance the concerns and goals of socialism with the barriers it faced from the movement's own advocates at the time, such as "priggish" and "dull" socialist intellectuals and "proletarian" socialists with little grasp of the actual ideology). Gollancz feared the second half would offend readers and added a disculpatory preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain. Orwell needed somewhere he could concentrate on writing his book, and once again help