Scholarships on offer
Specific Awards Open to Individuals
Quarterly Awards
Consideration, based on need, is given each quarter to applicants who require financial assistance towards the cost of starting or continuing their education at college or university. Preference will be given to students intending to enter one of the Trades of the Guild after completing their course.
Major Awards
Major Awards are considered annually for young people who are residents of the UK who must be under the age of 25on 1st May in any year. Preference is given to students who intend to pursue a course of study, or educational project of particular merit, associated with printing, bookbinding, paper conservation, stationery, papermaking, publishing, book selling or newspaper production.
Recent awards have averaged £2000.
Francis Mathew Stationers’ Company Scholarships
Francis Mathew was Manager of The Times newspaper from 1948 until 1965. On his death in 1965 his many friends in the printing and allied trades established a memorial fund and asked The Stationers’ Company to administer it.
The income from the fund provides travelling scholarships for young men and women of British nationality who are under the age of 35 and are involved in the educational study of courses relating to the printing, publishing and paper industries.
Prize and Scholarship Fund
The Prize and Scholarship Fund provides prizes and scholarships for students intending to follow careers in the Trades of the Guild.
Annual prizes are awarded for journalism to students at City University, for conservation to students at Camberwell College of Arts, and for media techniques to students working through City and Guilds.
The trustees also award the Carl Michael Lanegger Prize annually to a school in association with The Paper Trail Project. Other prizes are awarded to successful pupils at certain schools who are associated with The Stationers’ Company.
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All enquiries relating to awards, which will be treated in the strictest confidence, should be addressed to:
Secretary, Mr J P Thornton FCA, The Old Dairy, Adstocksfields, Adstock, Buckingham, MK18 2JE
E-mail: jpt@jptco.co.uk
