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Canon Collins Trust is keenly aware that ongoing support
for education and training are vital for the development of
southern Africa. Central to this is the establishment of partnerships
with the public sector, with corporations, projects, universities
and others. A number of successful partnerships have been
established.
Growing needs demand growing engagement and the Trust is
currently exploring ways of developing new partnerships with
projects in the field and with corporations based in the UK
to develop inovative and effective programmes. To date the
following partnerships have been established:
Unilever with
Delloite Consulting
Atlantic Philanthropies/Chevening-FCO
Atlantic Philanthropies is an American organisation which
identifies and supports leaders, institutions and organisations
dedicated to learning, knowledge-building and solving pressing
social problems. Since 2002 the Trust, Chevening-Foreign
and Commonwealth Office and Atlantic Philanthropies have established
the Mamphela
Ramphele/Chevening Scholarships Scheme. The Scheme aims
to identify and assist high-calibre South African students
who will upon their return to South Africa take up academic
posts for a period of three years in the participating universities.
The Four universities involved in the scheme are: the Universities
of the Free State, Cape Town, the Witwatersrand and the University
of Natal.
Chevening-FCO/Leeds University/Canon Collins Trust
Chevening-FCO, Leeds University and Canon Collins Trust have established
a special scholarship scheme to benefit up to ten scholars
each year for nationals of Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique,
Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland. For more information
click here
Chevening-FCO/Canon Collins Trust
In 2002 in view of the continuing crises in Zimbabwe and the
number of applications being received the Trust in partnership
with Chevening-FCO set up an annual scholarship scheme specifically
aimed at assisting up to 10 Zimbabwean students for postgraduate
study.
The
Red Lion Scholarships
In 1999 the Trust with the generous
assistance of The Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable
Fund established a partnership to fund 10 postgraduate scholarships
for black southern African students at South African universities.
The fall of the South African Rand in recent years has contributed
to the expansion of this scheme and more than 45 students
have been awarded the Red Lion Scholarship as it is known.
The Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund renewed their
support to extend the life of this scheme for another three
years and the Red Lion Scholarships continue to benefit southern
African students.
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University of Fort Hare (UFH)
The Trust has worked with UFH (an Historically Black University)
for more than 10 years. The arrangement includes support for
the Freda
Katz Memorial Scholarship, the Gqumahashe
Agricultural Development Project, the Department of Library
and Information Science in the form of a continuing grant
for the University's Library, a special scholarship scheme
that in 1998 saw 14 women and men studying Science, Law, Library
Science, Education and Management. The scholarship programme
continues.
The Community Fund
In 1999 the then National Lotteries Charities Board, now known
as the Community
Fund, responded positively to a proposal submitted by
the Trust to co-fund a capital project at the Giyani
Science Centre that would see the extension of existing
accommodation and the building of two new laboratories for
teaching and training. The grant amounted to £271,493
over three years. The buildings have now been built and the
Science Centre is able to provide better teaching to more
learners and is using the space to house a computer lab which
will be used to provide IT training to local women who are
presently unemployed.
Comic Relief
In 2002 Comic Relief awarded Canon Collins Trust a grant of £83,249
over three years to support the work of the Singakwenza:
Awaiting Trial Juveniles Project. Singakwenza is using
the funds to provide much needed workshops for adolescent
boys in Westville Prison focusing on life skills. The main
aim of this project is to prevent young men from returning
to a life of crime and prison.
Leigh Day & Co Scholarship
In 1999 Leigh Day & Co, a legal firm specialising in Human
Rights Violations, approached Canon Collins Trust with the idea of setting
up a scholarship to benefit students from a previously disadvantaged
background who are able to demonstrate high academic ability
and financial need and who wish to study law. It was agreed
that the scholarship would cover the second, third and fourth
year of an LLB at the University of the Western Cape. The
first scholarship was awarded in 2000 and with the continuing
support of Leigh Day & Co the programme has since expanded
considerably, currently providing support for three students
in each of the year of the LLB.
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