Scholarships Available
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.
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Annual Awards
Major Awards are offered annually for young people who are residents of the UK and who must be under the age of 25 on 1st May in that 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 £2,000 each.
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Francis Mathew Stationers' Company Scholarships
Francis Mathew was Manager of ‘The Times' from 1948 to 1965. On his death in 1965 his many friends in the Printing and Allied Trades established a memorial fund and asked the Company to administer it so as to provide travelling scholarships for young men or women in whose education and progress he was always keenly interested.
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Prize and Scholarship Fund
The Prize and Scholarship Fund supports excellence in the pursuit of knowledge by awarding prizes and scholarships to: the children of Liverymen and Freemen of the Company studying for a degree, or carrying out further education or research at a University or College of Higher Education in the UK or overseas; students of the Trades of the Guild through appropriate educational establishments in the form of funds for prizes. The Carl Michael Landegger Prize is presented annually for the best project submitted by a Masters student in the Department of Paper Science at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
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 Landegger 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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The Charity has also equipped printing or publishing facilities at Bishop's Stortford High School , Bootham School , Central Foundation Boy's School, Chigwell School , Durham School , King Edward's School Witley, King's School, Canterbury , Lord Mayor Treloar College , Reed's School, Shiplake College and Wisbech Grammar School .
2009 Awards:
Lydia Webb - £2,000
Lydia intends to use the award to fund her Masters Degree in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University. Her eventual aim is to become a journalist specialising in scientific matters. Lydia already has a 2:1 Honours BSc in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Kent, Canterbury.
Lindsey Gibson - £2,000
Lindsey is a student on the Fine Art Conservation programme at Northumbria University, having already gained a 2:1 BA Hons degree in Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art. Lindsey will use the award to subsidise her costs while on the course at Northumbria University as well as funding a work placement with the Conservation Department at the British Museum in the summer.
Laurence Underhill - £1,000
Laurence is a student at Norton College in Sheffield studying an NCTJ in Press Photography, having already passed a BA Hons 2:1 in Classical Studies at Kings College, London. Laurence will use his award to complete a photojournalism project “Traces of Italian East Africa”.
Flora Parrott - £750
Flora is a 2nd year student on the Masters in Printmaking course at the Royal College of Art. She will use the money to fund a trip to spend five days researching in Prague, visiting the School of Printmaking and spending time making drawings in the Sedlec Ossuary.
All enquiries relating to awards, which will be treated in the strictest confidence, should be addressed to:
Mr Ian Larkham, The Printing Charity, First Floor, Underwood House, 235 Three Bridges Road, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 1LS Tel: 01293 542820 Fax: 01293 524826. E Mail: ian@theprintingcharity.org.uk
