The Ragdoll Foundation is dedicated to developing the power of imaginative responses in children through the arts.
The Ragdoll Foundation owns 15% of Ragdoll Limited and springs from the same philosophical roots. This can be summed up by the quotation below from Sylvia Ashton-Warner in her book "Teacher" which has greatly influenced Anne Wood's work - founder of Ragdoll Limited and Trustee of the Ragdoll Foundation..
"I see the mind of a five year old as a volcano with two vents; destructiveness and creativeness. And I can see that to the extent that we widen the creative channel, we atrophy the destructive one".
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
The Ragdoll Foundation is governed by a Board of Trustees, chaired by Katherine Wood. It is funded entirely by its share of the profits from Ragdoll Limited.