The world-leading facility has received £500,000 from the London-based Garfield Weston Foundation, which donates £90m a year from its £9.7bn endowment.
The donation is the largest philanthropic gift granted by a charitable organisation towards the Minster’s work to date.
Last June, York Minster launched a campaign to raise £4m towards the new centre, whose costs have risen from an initially budgeted £5million due to recent inflationary pressures in the wider economy.
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