Cambridge University Reporter


The Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust

UNDERGRADUATE BURSARIES

The Leverhulme Trade Charities Trustees are offering bursaries to students following full time undergraduate first degree courses, in any subject, at higher education institutions in the United Kingdom. The aim of the scheme is to support eligible students in financial need.

Eligible students

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 or spouse should have been engaged in their occupation in the UK for at least five years and should either be so engaged or should have taken their retirement from such an occupation with in the last ten years. 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 UK firm of manufacturers, industrial or commercial firm 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 a UK business of selling by retail a wide range of goods, whether edible or not, used in household provision and management, excluding persons owning or employed by a business having more than fifty employees.

Eligible courses

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 costs

Funds are intended for those in financial hardship, e.g. those requiring funds for tuition, and examination fees, travel costs, study materials, accommodation or childcare costs etc. Applicants must provide justification for their reasons for applying, for a bursary. Applicants must also submit with their application form the 'Declaration and Justification of need' signed by a parent/ guardian.

Value

The maximum value of any bursary is £3,000 a year, but the sum awarded will be adjusted according to individual circumstances, need, and the funds available.

Duration

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

Administration of funds awarded

All bursary funds will be paid to the student's higher or further education institution and not to the bursary holder. Payment to the student by the university should be on termly or semester basis as appropriate.

Reports

At the end of each academical year institutions must provide a brief annual report on each bursary holder, summarising his or her academic progress during the last year and confirming that the bursary holder is still registered as a full-time student, if the bursary is to continue.

Further details and application forms are available from the following website http://www.leverhulme-trade.org.uk.