Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust

This page offers a brief introduction into the work of the Trade Charities Trust, for more detailed information and the schemes application forms please visit the Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust's website at www.leverhulme-trade.org.uk

Description

The Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust operates separately from the Leverhulme Trust, but is administered in the same office.

It offers a limited number of bursaries for undergraduates: the conditions of eligibility are tightly restricted due to the Trust's origin, history and intentions. Bursaries are available to the son or daughter, spouse, widow or widower of a member of one of the three categories mentioned below to enable them to follow a full-time first degree course, in any subject, at a higher or further education institution in the UK.

Aim

To support eligible students in financial hardship, and applicants must provide justification for their reasons for applying.

The maximum value of any bursary is £3000 per annum.

Eligible Applicants

Applicants should be normally resident in the United Kingdom and be the son or daughter, spouse, widow or widower of a commercial traveller, chemist, or grocer, according to the definition below. The parent/spouse should have been engaged in this occupation in the UK for at least five years in the recent past. A parent or spouse who is unemployed (or deceased) but who fell within one of these three categories when their employment ceased (or they died) is also included.

(a) Commercial travellers: The representative, agent or principal of any firm of manufacturers or other company or wholesale dealers selling to industry or commerce, but not direct to the public, who has travelled for five consecutive years for at least six months in each of those years, for the purpose of securing orders and/or promoting business.

(b) Chemists: A member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society engaged in selling or dispensing medicines direct to the public.

(c) Grocers: A person engaged or employed in the retail sale of groceries and related provisions (not considered the distinctive wares of some other class of tradesman), excluding persons owning or employed by a business having more than 50 employees.

Eligible Fields

Any full-time first degree course at a higher or further education institution in the UK, being either a body recognised by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment for the award of a degree or a body providing courses in preparation for a degree to be granted by a recognised body.

Eligible Duration And Timing

Bursaries will generally be awarded for the balance or whole duration of an undergraduate course, but not backdated prior to the granting of the award. The continuation of a bursary is dependent upon the student continuing his/her full-time registration, satisfactory academic performance, and there being no material change in the recipient’s financial circumstances.

Eligible Costs

Funds are intended for those in financial hardship, e.g. requiring funds for maintenance, tuition and examination fees, travel costs, study materials, accommodation or childcare costs etc. Applicants must provide justification for their reasons for applying.

Value

The maximum value of any bursary is £3000 per annum, but the sum awarded will be adjusted according to individual circumstances, need and the funds available. Where a course terminates in the summer, bursaries will be paid on a pro-rata basis.

Ineligible Elements

No bursaries will be awarded to individuals outside the three categories of parental employment given above.

Application Procedure

Completed application forms must be submitted to the student's institution and not to the Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust. The institution must countersign each form and then ensure that this reaches Mr P Read at the Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust, 1 Pemberton Row, London, EC4A 3BG by the relevant closing date.

Application forms are available from your institution or available to download from the Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust website at www.leverhulme-trade.org.uk .

Closing dates: Students must ensure they submit their applications to their institution in good time, as countersigned applications must reach the Trust by 1 November or by 1 March. Institutions will be notified of the result of applications by the end of September or the end of March respectively.

Administration of funds awarded: All bursary funds will be paid to the student's institution and not to the bursary holder. The institution must invoice the Trust at the beginning of each year and will then be responsible for the disbursement of the bursary on a termly basis.

Contact

If your query is not answered in the information above or the Trade Charities website, please contact Reena Mistry (020 7042 9883).