I am increasingly in awe of the vision and legacy created by the Grundy family in setting up the Grundy Educational Trust back in 1992. To date, the Trust has now awarded circa £803,000 in support to 220 unique students, helping to fund around 140 MSc, 50 PhD and 30 [...]
The trustees met in January 2024 to discuss the program for this years awards and as a result of this meeting, we had a Zoom session with the Universities yesterday to discuss the timings of the awards. It is the first time that the trustees have met the staff from [...]
2022 sees the Grundy Educational Trust celebrating its 40th anniversary of supporting post-graduate students at British Universities. Since its inception the Grundy Educational Trust has made financial awards of more than £780,000 to help post-graduate students from all backgrounds to pursue their educational dreams. The Trust was founded by the [...]
We would encourage all of our alumni to join the Grundy Educational Trust LinkedIn group to network with other Alumni and so that the Trustees can see how our alumni are progressing in their post-graduate careers.
The Trust is looking to students that we have supported to consider making regular (e.g. through GAYE or Standing Order) or one-off contributions to the Trust in order to supplement the Trust's central income and help us to provide more substantial support a greater number of students. Please Contact Alicia [...]
Since its foundation, the Trust has supported close to 200 students through to completion of their studies, and is currently supporting six students on courses including MScs and PhDs relating to Advanced Composites, Technology Advanced Chemical Synthesis, Mathematical Science, Immunology, Translational Neuroscience and Sustainable Energy.
For the first time in the Trust's history we interviewed candidates via Zoom rather than risk face to face meetings in 2020. We were still able to support 6 new candidates as well as continuing with students on multiple year courses and are pleased to report that despite the serious [...]
The Grundy Educational Trust has now been operating for 30 years and have seen changes in the line-up of Universities that we support: most recently adding Bristol University in 2017 to join Imperial, Surrey, Nottingham and Manchester. We have seen the retirement of our two longstanding and much appreciated prior [...]