| Education
Education
benefits from the major portion of the Charity’s budget,
with priority being given to educational establishments that
have an historical link with the Grocers’ Company.
Scholarships
and bursaries are funded at a number of schools and colleges;
Oundle School, St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir School, the
City of London Freemen’s School, City of London School
for Boys and the City of London School for Girls, The Elms School,
Colwall in Worcestershire, the City and Guilds of London Art
School, The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Reed’s
School at Cobham in Surrey. It should be noted that the respective
head teachers award all these scholarships and bursaries internally.
In
2002, an exceptional donation of £25,000 was made to The
Henry Box School, at Witney in Oxfordshire, in support of the
School’s successful bid to gain Specialist College Status.
The eponymous Henry Box, a member of the Grocers’ Company,
founded the school in the seventeenth century but unlike the
other schools with which the Company has historic links, it
has evolved into a mixed secondary school. In recent years having
re-established a closer link, the Company provides a nominated
representative on its Governing Body.
Below
you can link to three of the schools mentioned above, all of
which were founded by Members of the Company in the 16th and
17th centuries.
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Oundle
School
In
1556 Alderman Sir William Laxton re-founded and endowed a free
grammar school in his native town of Oundle, in Northamptonshire.
Situated about eighty miles north of London, in the small and
attractive market town, it is now one of the largest independent
schools in the country.
Link
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The
Elms School, Colwall, nr. Malvern
The
successor to the original school founded by Humphrey Walwyn
in 1614, it is now an independent, co-educational boarding school,
situated in beautiful countryside in the Malvern Hills
Link
to the Elms School web site
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The
Henry Box School, Witney
In
1660, Henry Box founded and endowed a free grammar school at
Witney in Oxfordshire. Today it is a mixed community school
for pupils in Years 7 to 13, which gained Specialist Language
College status in September 2001.
Link
to the Henry Box School web site
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The
Grocers’ Company Queen’s Golden Jubilee Scholarship
Fund
In
2003 the Company, in conjunction with the Charity, set aside
£500,000 to establish an endowment fund to mark HM The
Queen’s Golden Jubilee, the income from which will be
used to provide scholarships to help London University to attract
students of exceptional ability. Initially, The Grocers’
Company Queen’s Golden Jubilee Scholarship Fund will provide
scholarships at Imperial College and University College London,
and it is anticipated that they will commence with the academic
year 2003/04. The Scholarships will be awarded to students nominated
by the respective colleges.
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