Fab Foundation UK exists to inform, advise, support and help raise donations for supplementary / replacement equipment for new and existing FabLabs in the UK.
The Foundation provides training opportunities and support to groups, individuals and organisations wishing to set up their own FabLab.
Although centred in the UK, the Foundation works internationally with a particular emphasis on British Commonwealth countries and other developing nations.
Its work is focused on disadvantaged young people, Wounded Warriors, ethnic minority groups as well as girls and young women.
It also supplies ongoing advice for its Associate Members and will act as the centre for sharing of information amongst them online.
All members are local and independent: The Foundation has no authority over its members
TRUSTEES: ED Berman MBE, FRSA; Prof Bhaskar Choubey (Oxford); Frits Hoff (Chair of FabLab BeNeLux Foundation);
ADVISORS: David Baker; David Barlex; Tomas De Camino Beck; Emilie Mendy; Graham Ogunleye; Alastair Parvin; Torben Steeg; Charlie Walker
PATRONS: Prof George Church (Harvard & MIT); Jen Hyatt (MSc), Baroness Kennedy QC; Baroness Lane-Fox CBE; Steven C Watson (MBA, Harvard); Prof. C Ford Runge (UofMn)
COLLABORATION: The Maker Bus was until 2020, based at The School of Engineering, Queen Mary University of London