Scholarships and Awards

Financial Assistance (Closing date for 2023 Awards - 31 July 2023)

Consideration, based on need, is given on an annual basis to applicants who are residents of the UK and who require financial assistance towards the cost of starting or continuing their education at college or university. The deadline for receipt of applications for 2023 is Monday, 31 July 2023. Preference will be given to students intending to enter the Communications and Content industries after completing their course. Click here for an application form for financial assistance.

Major Awards (Closing date for 2023 Awards - 31 May 2023)

Major Awards are offered annually for young people who are residents of the UK and who ideally would be under the age of 25 on 1st September 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, book, paper and archives conservation, stationery, papermaking, publishing, book selling or newspaper production. Recent awards have averaged £2,000 each. Click here for an application form for a Major Award.

Francis Mathew Stationers' Company Scholarships (Closing date for 2023 Awards - 31 May 2023)

Francis Mathew was Manager of ‘The Times' from 1948 to 1965. On his death in 1965 his many friends in the industry established a memorial fund and asked the Stationers' 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. Applicants must be residents of the UK. Click here for an application form for the Francis Mathew Stationers' Company Scholarship.

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 Stationers' 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 on courses linked to the Communications and Content industries through appropriate educational establishments in the form of funds for prizes.

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. Please click here for guidance notes for applicants.

Note re UK Resident definition: The official definition of ‘resident in the UK is: ‘The student is settled in the United Kingdom on the first day of the academic year of the course, and has been ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) throughout the three years immediately preceding that date, and provided that he or she has not been resident therein, during any part of the three year period, wholly or primarily for the purpose of receiving full-time education’.

Major Awards and Scholarship Winners -

For the Francis Mathew report by Rachael Seculer-Faber, 2013 winner, please click here

For the Francis Mathew report by Sarah Kelly, 2015 winner, please click here

For the Francis Mathew report by Macaulay-Jane Bristow 2016 winner, please click here

For the Francis Mathew report by Mark Wallis 2017 winner, please click here

For the Francis Mathew report by Hollie Drinkwater 2018 winner, please click here

For the Francis Mathew report by Kari McMahon 2019 winner, please click here

For the Major Award report by Lucy Cokes, 2014 winner, please click here

For the Major Award report by Rachael Seculer-Faber, 2014 winner, please click here

For the Major Award report by Jessica Hyslop, 2016 winner, please click here

For the Major Award report by Aimée Crickmore, 2016 winner, please click here

For the Major Award report by Amy Crampton, 2017 winner, please click here

For the Major Award report by Annabel Cleak, 2018 winner, please click here

For the Major Award report by Kate Marriott, 2018 winner, please click here

For the Major Award report by Phoebe Ross, 2018 winner, please click here

For the Major Award report by Nayla Maarup 2019 winner, please click here

For the Major Award report by Kari McMahon, 2019 winner, please click here

For the Major Award report by Bill Bowkett, 2020 winner, please click here

All enquiries relating to awards, which will be treated in the strictest confidence, should be addressed to:-

Pamela Butler, Administrator,

The Stationers’ Foundation,

Stationers' Hall,

Ave Maria Lane,

London,

EC4M 7DD

Tel: 020 7246 0990

E Mail: foundation@stationers.org

For general information about other postgraduate awards and internships etc offered by other charitable institutions, please click here.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS