The founding Trustees, Mr Jonathan Hazell and Mr John Graham, launched the Graham Fraser Foundation at a ceremony on May 5th 1994 in which the library in the Ferens Institute at the Middlesex Hospital, London was dedicated to the memory of Graham Fraser by Lord Ashley of Stoke. Dr Patricia Fraser, Graham Fraser's widow, and Mr Nigel Knight joined the Board of Trustees in July 1996. Through the generosity of numerous donors and fund-raising activities, sufficient funds have accrued to enable the Trustees to offer annually since 1997 a travelling Memorial Fellowship in Otology of six months duration.
Further research is crucial for the welfare of both children and adults with profound deafness.
To meet this need, the Trustees are seeking to endow a Memorial Fellowship of a longer duration to promote research in areas which had been of particular interest to Graham Fraser. For this to be achieved more resources are needed.