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Crane’s Charity: Notice by the Distributors

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 812)

Crane’s Charity exists to provide financial assistance to members of the University who need treatment for physical or mental illness. It is the result of a benefaction from John Crane (1571–1652), Cambridge apothecary and philanthropist, whose will established funds ‘to be given to poore scholars for their Releife when they are sicke for paying for their Physick, dyet, or other things necessary for them in their sickness, knowing heretofore many have miscarried for want of meanes to releiue them’.

The Distributors of Crane’s Charity hereby give notice that they will consider requests for financial assistance from students, on the basis of an application made on their behalf by their College Tutor. Further information, including the application form, can be found at: https://www.cambridgestudents.cam.ac.uk/fees-and-funding/financial-hardship-support-access-funds/assistance-medical-costs-cranes-charity.

In addition to providing support to individual applicants, the Distributors have also provided financial assistance for collective activity that they have determined as falling within the purposes of the Charity. Regular funding is provided to sustain the mental health and psychiatric support work of the University Counselling Service.

The following table summarizes the expenditure from Crane’s Charity in recent years

Year	Number of grants	Colleges represented	Average grant to students	Expenditure: grants to students	Expenditure: collective activities	Total Expenditure
2015–16	38	21	£740	£28,101	£46,525	£74,626
2016–17	43	23	£703	£30,237	£50,228	£80,465