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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 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.
Two schools in the
state sector have historic links with the Company, the Henry Box
School in Witney, Oxfordshire, and Mossbourne Community Academy
in Hackney, East London.
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. In recent years having re-established a
closer link, the Company provides a nominated representative on
its Governing Body.
Mossbourne Community Academy opened in September
2004. It occupies the former site of Hackney Downs School,
founded by the Company in 1876, which over the 20th
century had evolved from a grammar school to a secondary
comprehensive catering for boys of all abilities. Sadly, in 1995,
Hackney Downs closed its doors as it was found to be ‘failing’.
Below
you can link to four of the schools mentioned above
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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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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 is used to provide
scholarships to help London University to attract students of
exceptional ability. Initially, The Grocers’ Company Queen’s
Golden Jubilee Scholarship Fund is providing scholarships at
Imperial College and University College London, which commenced
with the academic year 2003/04. The Scholarships are awarded to
students nominated by the respective colleges.
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