Scholarship Schemes
Canon Collins Trust works in partnership with universities, corporate partners and the government in the UK to provide scholarships:
UK Government Partnership
Canon Collins works with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office to provide scholarships for one year taught Masters students in universities throughout the UK
The Graca Machel Scholarship Programme
Canon Collins Trust currently manage a scholarship programme on behalf of Mrs Graça Machel. This programme is generously supported by companies and individuals such as Lord Joffe, the Sol Plaatje Educational Trust, Deloittes, and JP Morgan. The aim is to provide female students from Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa with scholarships that will equip them to take up leadership roles for the benefit of their community, nation and region. Applications to this UK administered programme are for courses in both South Africa and the UK, and will be considered for other relevant schemes if unsuccessful for this particular scheme.
University Partnerships
Canon Collins Trust works with universities in the UK to fund annual scholarships. Partners include: Leeds university, Sussex university, Sheffield University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Queen Margaret University, London Metropolitan University and Reading University
The Richard Turner Scholarship
Launched on 8th January 1988, ten years after Turner's brutal murder by an agent of South Africa's apartheid regime, the scholarship was set up by his two daughters Jann and Kim and his first wife Barbara Follett MP. It is sponsored by Ken Follett, author of many international best sellers. Initially it was aimed at young black South African students who had been forced to flee their homeland because of political persecution to enable them to continue their education in the UK with the hope that one day they would help form a majority black South African government.
Today the scholarship continues in order to assist South Africans to obtain the skills denied them under apartheid, and is only open to South African nationals via the standard UK application form. Applications chosen by Canon Collins Trust are then submitted to the Richard Turner Scholarship Trustees.
