Grant Applications

The Haberdashers' Company Charitable Foundations

The Company is Trustee of three main grant-making Foundations, collectively known as the Haberdashers’ Charitable Foundations. Please note that the company is only able to consider help for UK registered charities and for individuals normally resident in the UK. The current aims of the main Haberdashers' Charitable Foundations are:

1. GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS

The Haberdashers' Educational Foundation

The Thomas Arno Fund

Apart from supporting the Haberdashers schools, the following support is given to individuals: Help with the costs of further or higher education courses for former pupils of Haberdashers’ Schools, where financial hardship and academic excellence can be demonstrated. (Second degrees not normally supported). It can also contribute to the costs of gap year, educational travel and personal development projects for pupils and former pupils of Haberdashers’ Schools.

The Haberdashers’ St. Catherine Foundation

The Haberdashers’ St. Catherine Foundation provides bursaries towards school fees in cases of unforeseen family hardship, to help children complete the final exam year of a GCSE or A-level course. ENQUIRIES AND REQUESTS FOR APPLICATION FORMS for the Haberdashers’ St. Catherine Foundation should be addressed to the Joint Educational Trust. See address below.

Throckmorton Trotman’s Educational Fund

Throckmorton Trotman’s Educational Fund contributes to the costs of:
Senior Exhibitions: Further and higher education courses for former pupils of Haberdashers’ Schools aged between 16 and 24, resident in the Greater London area.
Junior Exhibitions: Secondary education for those aged between 11 and 13, at the date of the annual examination, and normally resident in the Greater London area.
Please note that the annual examinations for the Junior Exhibitions are open only to pupils of Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys' School, Elstree and Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls, Elstree. Nominations are submitted by the Schools in February each year.

FOR INDIVIDUALS

Enquiries and requests for application forms other than for The Haberdashers' St. Catherine Foundation should be addressed to:

Mrs A. Murdoch, Director of Charities, The Haberdashers’ Company,
Haberdashers’ Hall, 18 West Smithfield, London, EC1A 9HQ.
Tel: 020 7246 9976 | Fax: 020 7246 9989 | E-mail: charities@haberdashers.co.uk

For The Haberdashers' St. Catherine Foundation please contact:

Joint Educational Trust
5th Floor, 6-8 Fenchurch Building, London EC3M 5HT
Tel: 020 3217 1100. | Fax: 020 3217 1110. | E-mail: admin@jetcharity.org

2. GRANTS TO CHARITIES
NB no application forms required. Please download the guidelines:

The Haberdashers' Benevolent Foundation

Help is given mainly to charities concerned with poverty relief.
The current focus areas are:

a) Poverty Relief
Charities helping unemployed and homeless people, including those at risk of offending and ex-offenders, to find jobs or improve their education or skills and to find more stable accommodation.
Charities helping excluded youth and young people with drug or mental problems or who are “at risk” of becoming offenders to address their problems and become integrated with society as useful citizens.
Charities supporting carers, enabling chronically sick, disabled and elderly people to stay in their own homes or elderly people to find the best residential or nursing homes for their needs, if no longer able to live independently.
Charities caring for the terminally ill and hospices, although in practice only a limited number of hospices with which the Company has strong contacts are supported.
Charities providing holidays for chronically sick, disabled or elderly people.
Charities providing employment training and placement for disabled people.
Charities helping young British people start their own businesses.
b) Unrestricted Use (Limited Funds Only)
Charities aiming at the personal development of young people and encouraging ideas of good citizenship amongst them.
Charities supporting medical research and offering practical help and information to those with medical conditions and their families.
Charities supporting mental health, through research, practical help and information.

The Haberdashers' Christian Foundation.

Support is given mainly to the Haberdashers' Company's Church of England Livings and to the Dioceses of London and Southwark. Help is also given to poor clergymen and ordinands of the Church of England, their widows and children, through Church charities. In addition, the Company arranges the "Golden Lecture" each year, usually given by a Church of England clergyman, in a City Church. The Golden Lecture owes its origins to William Jones, one of the Company's earliest benefactors. Please see the "Downloads" section under the "Company" menu for downloadable transcripts of recent Golden Lectures.