The Seve Ballesteros Foundation is a private, non-profit organization that focuses its efforts primarily on the recruitment, funding and promotion of research projects on brain tumours, including support for conferences, symposia and scientific meetings to encourage knowledge exchanges on this type of cancer.

The Seve Ballesteros Foundation was established in June 2009 as the firm commitment of Seve Ballesteros and his family to contribute to the advancement of science for the benefit of those who are suffering or may in the future suffer a brain tumour. Severiano Ballesteros was diagnosed with a brain tumour in October 2008, leaving as a legacy his Foundation in May 2011.

Since its inception, the Seve Ballesteros Foundation has had an international focus and operates in Spain and the UK, where it works in partnership with Cancer Research UK, the largest charity dedicated to fighting cancer through research. Cancer Research UK has been in existence over 100 years and supports more than 4,800 scientists, doctors and nurses. In turn, in Spain the Seve Ballesteros Foundation collaborates with the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in the creation of the FSB Laboratory.

The Foundation is actively working to raise public awareness, encourage collaboration from businesses and individuals and to channel resources towards research projects that could help eradicate the disease. The Seve Ballesteros Foundation has a Scientific Committee in charge of selecting the research projects on brain tumours worthy of receiving additional financing from funds managed by the foundation.

The Seve Ballesteros Foundation also aims to bring the world of golf to young people and to support the professional development of young talents who have no financial resources.

The spirit of Seve, one of Spain’s greatest internationally acclaimed sportsmen, will endure and remain timeless through the work carried out at the Seve Ballesteros Foundation.