The Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust provides benefits for UK charities and individuals connected with Commercial Travellers, Grocers or Chemists/Pharmacists (this includes their wives/husbands, widows, widowers, spouses and children.) by making grants to charities having connections with these 3 categories. Bursaries are available through UK universities to help students connected with Commercial Travellers, Grocers and/or Pharmacists who are facing financial hardship in their pursuit of a first degree or postgraduate degree course.
There is no minimum or maximum grant award level for UK registered charities applying to support Commercial Travellers, Grocers or Chemists/Pharmacists.
The Trust will award the following grants to students connected with Commercial Travellers, Grocers and/or Chemists/Pharmacists who are facing financial hardship in their pursuit of a first degree or postgraduate degree course. The funding is usually awarded for the duration of a successful applicant’s study. There is no matched funding requirement (this also applies to grant awards to UK charities):
• Undergraduate bursaries: up to £3,000 per annum.
• Postgraduate bursaries: -up to£5,000 per annum.
Applicants are normally notified within 2 months of their request for grant support.
Applications from UK registered charities may be made at any time.
The Trust has annual deadlines for undergraduate and postgraduate studies:
Undergraduate studies: 1 March and 15 October annually.
Postgraduate studies: 1 September annually.