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 in East Kilbride, then a small village in the countryside, on the outskirts of Glasgow. Tuberculosis was diagnosed and the request for permission to import streptomycin to treat Orwell went as far as Aneurin Bevan, then Minister of Health. David Astor helped with supply and payment and Orwell began his course of streptomycin on 19 or 20 February 1948. By the end of July 1948 Orwell was able to return to Jura and by December he had finished the manuscript of "Nineteen Eighty-Four". In January 1949, in a very weak condition, he set off for a sanatorium at Cranham, Gloucestershire,