Menu

Educational trusts and charities

There are all sorts of trusts and charities that give money to students.

 

The Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) holds a Register of Educational Endowments. You can ask them to search the register for you by filling in form REE1. You can download it from their website at www.saas.gov.uk/student_support/other_funding.htm or write to them for a copy.

 

Information is also available from: 

 

The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
Tel: 01383 724990
E-mail: jgray@carnegie-trust.org

Web: http://www.carnegie-trust.org/

 

The Carnegie Trust offers a number of different scholarships and bursaries including:

  • fee assistance to help undergraduates to first degree courses who are not eligible for SAAS support
  • a vacation scholarship to help undergraduates who want to do research during the summer break
  • Carnegie-Cameron Taught Postgraduate Bursaries for students doing a one-year taught postgraduate degree.

Reference books listing trusts:

 

  • Charities Digest (published by Waterlow Professional Publishing)
  • Directory of Grant Making Trusts (published by Directory of Social Change)
  • Guide to Educational Grants (published by Directory of Social Change)
  • Grants Register: The Complete Guide to Postgraduate Funding (published by Palgrave MacMillan).

These books are available in larger public libraries.

 

Useful Web sites:

 

http://www.funderfinder.org.uk/ (A small fee is charged by this charity-run website for access to the database) 

http://www.scholarship-search.org.uk/