The annual Coopers’ Travel and Study Bursaries are now open for applications for 2025.
These bursaries are open to students at Strode’s College through our long-standing links and association with the Worshipful Company of Coopers.
Strode’s College has a special link with the Worshipful Company of Coopers, one of the older City of London livery companies because of Henry Strode, the founder of the original Strode’s School. Henry Strode had been a Master of the Company and in the early days the Company administered the charity under which the former school was run.
Two annual awards are now given by the Coopers’ Company to students who wish to undertake travel, additional activity or learning opportunities to further their studies. This may include travel projects, work placements (virtual or in person) or other activities to support and enhance your studies or intended career pathway.
All activities must be additional to your programme of study and should enhance your studies or career aspirations. In keeping with the Coopers’ Company’s commitment to charitable works, volunteering and charitable activities will be supported.
The grant may be used to support activities that are linked to learning opportunities in the UK. Alternatively, you may wish to consider a more ambitious travel project than might otherwise be possible, but students should consider the feasibility of any travel plans. The trip should take place in the summer holiday of 2025 as you may not take time out of college for this activity.
Previous bursaries have enabled students to do the following:
- – Duke of Edinburgh team Gold Expedition in Snowdonia
- – Attend a directors’ and playwrights’ workshop with the National Theatre
- – Practice language skills through work experience in a Spanish primary school
- – Study of fine art in Paris
- – Coach sport at Camp America
- – Work on a game reserve in South Africa to help with conservation
- – Voluntary work at a hospital in Moshi, Tanzania
- – Art history course in Italy
- – Assist at an eco-education project in the French Pyrenees
- – Voluntary work at an orphanage in Ghana
Each bursary is worth up to £600 and successful applicants must provide a report on their activity for the Court of the Coopers’ Company explaining how they have benefitted from the award.
Letters of application must be emailed to Clare Botha, the Principal’s Executive Assistant by 12:30 on Wednesday 30 April 2025. Interviews will take place on Wednesday 14 May.
Your letter of application should provide the following information:
- – the purpose of your planned activity or trip and details of where and when you intend to go;
- – the benefits to your studies, present or future;
- – a carefully researched estimate of the costs involved, broken down into transport, food, accommodation, etc., as appropriate.
It is particularly important that you provide as much detail as possible in your letter, as this will play an important part in selecting the winners of these awards.
Finally, you will need to provide a letter/email from your parents/carers confirming their support for your planned trip/activity, that you have appropriate insurance in place and that your parents/carers accept full liability for your trip or activity.
