Copyright Announcement
All work which had Anscombe Centre or Linacre Centre copyright is now dedicated to the public domain (Creative Commons Zero).
In order to ensure that there is no impediment to the use of the resources generated by the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, formerly the Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Trustees of the Catholic Trust for England and Wales, which held copyright to these materials hereby, in relation to Linacre Centre or Anscombe Centre copyright materials, to the greatest extent permitted by, but not in contravention of, applicable law, overtly, fully, permanently, irrevocably and unconditionally waives, abandons, and surrenders all of the Trust's Copyright and Related Rights and associated claims and causes of action, whether now known or unknown (including existing as well as future claims and causes of action). These materials are hereby designated Creative Commons Zero in accordance with CC0 1.0 Universal Deed and Legal Code.
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Press Release – Anscombe Bioethics Centre Launches ‘Advance Decisions and Ethical Choices’ Project
31 July 2025
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre is pleased to launch a new suite of resources on advance statements, l...
The Closure of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre
02 July 2025
It is with immense sadness we announce that staff have recently been informed of ‘the closure of the...
Press Release – Never Abandoning the Fight for Ethical Care
23 June 2025
The Anscombe Centre’s Statement after the Commons Third Reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of...
Sincerest Thanks for Your Support
Staff are grateful to all those who sustained the Centre in the past by their prayers and the generous financial support from trusts, organisations, communities and especially from individual donors, including the core funding that came through the Day for Life fund and so from the generosity of many thousands of parishioners. We would finally like to acknowledge the support the Centre has received from the Catholic community in Ireland, especially during the pandemic when second collections were not possible.
We would like to emphasise that, though the Centre is now being closed, these donations have not been wasted but have helped educate and support generations of conscientious healthcare professionals, clerics, and lay people over almost 50 years. This support has also helped prevent repeated attempts to legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide in Britain and Ireland from 1993 till the Centre closed.