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. 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
There is no minimum or maximum grant award level for UK registered charities applying. 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.
Further information, guidance and an online application form is available on the Trust’s website. Applicants are normally notified within 2 months of their request for grant support.