Grants

Applications for funding normally come from educational establishments with a hospitality department, hospitality related associations, charitable trusts, or individuals. Please click on the relevant category for further information.

Educational / Associations / Charitable Trusts

Grants to educational establishments

Educational establishments with a hospitality department can apply to the Trust for funding for a particular project. The Trust aims to enrich the quality of hospitality training and education provided by Schools, Further Education & Higher Education establishments. The Trustees do not normally award grants for rebuilding projects per se but look to help educational establishments renovate and enhance existing and new areas. This in turn should enable educational establishments to provide students with a professional vocational facility in order to:-

  • Meet the growing demands for vocational education on the school curriculum, e.g. the 14-19 Hospitality Diploma
  • Provide students with a relevant, realistic and modern working environment so that students have a positive experience and smooth transition to the workplace.

The Trustees also welcome applications from Futher Education & Higher Education establishments seeking to reward excellence and alleviate hardship by offering scholarship and bursary schemes to students of hospitality.

Recent grants awarded to educational establishments have included:-

  • Blackpool & the Fylde College - for a wide range of projects within the hospitality department
  • Croydon College - for purchase of IT equipment to link kitchens with restaurant to enable viewing of demonstrations
  • Harlington Community School - for refurbishment of classroom to an industry standard training kitchen
  • New College Nottingham - to provide individual scholarships for work based apprentices
  • Oxford Brookes University - for the Martin Radcliffe Fellowship
  • Thames Valley University - for equipment for the FEAST kitchen
  • University College Birmingham - to provide scholarships to deserving hospitality students
  • University of Strathclyde - for the Sir Hugh Wontner Lectureship
  • Winchcombe School - for refurbishment of classroom to an industry standard training kitchen

Grants to associations

Associations involved with the hospitality industry can apply to the Trust for funding for a particular educational project.

The Trustees are especially keen to help initiatives that avoid duplication with other projects and encourage associations, where feasible, to work in partnership.

Recent grants awarded to associations have included:-

  • Institute of Hospitality - for the development of e-learning qualifications

Grants to charitable trusts for specific hospitality related, educational projects

  • Academy of Culinary Arts with their 'Chefs Adopt a School' scheme
  • Crisis for the 'Skylight Community Cafe'
  • Hospitality Action for The Ark Foundation seminar programme
  • Springboard Charitable Trust for the development of various activities related to the 14-19 Hospitality Diploma
  • The Prince's Trust for the 'Get into Cooking' programme
  • Training for Life for 'the Hoxton Apprentice'.

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Individuals

Individuals can apply to the Trust for a small grant of usually not more than £500 to assist you if you are undertaking a hospitality related degree course or a craft course and require a sum of money to help with fees or to purchase items required for the course such as books, uniform and practical equipment.

If you think you are eligible please refer to the How to Apply section.

We do not offer funding to students undertaking a non hospitality related course.

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Scholarships

This scheme is funded in partnership with the Worshipful Company of Innholders. The purpose of the Scholarships is to introduce middle management in the hospitality industry to senior/general management techniques by exposure to short intensive courses of management education, thereby providing experience, skills and training not readily available in the workplace.

As most large companies have structured management development programmes, the majority of candidates will come from the independent sector where the absence of formal training programmes and economic pressures on time make it difficult for them to receive a formal training by conventional routes.

Candidates will be active middle managers in the hospitality industry likely to be promoted to senior/general management within 3-5 years. It is expected that most candidates will have had a formal education and will hold a degree in hotel management (or similar), however, managers who have attained their positions through a company scheme would not be excluded if they could demonstrate aptitude and attitude for promotion. Candidates will have had at least four years experience in management and therefore the likely age range is 27-35.

Winners of the Scholarships can undertake a two-week course at Cranfield University or Cornell University. Alternatively some scholarship winners may be offered the opportunity to attend a number of modules at the Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne.

This scholarship has a dedicated website. Please go to www.mi-scholarships.com for further details.

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Competitions & Prizes

The Trustees recognise the importance of rewarding those who demonstrate good practice and aspire to further their development by entering various industry competitions.

The Trustees understand that skills competitions can promote excellence in vocational skills. They are willing to support some of the leading competitions in the industry as they view it as an opportunity to raise public understanding of the importance of skills and celebrate outstanding achievements. They believe that competitions provide an exciting arena to continually raise the standards of excellence and professionalism.

Competitions also demonstrate the wealth of talent that exists in the industry and help to promote hospitality as a promising career to counteract the ever present skills shortage.

The Trustees have recently provided educational scholarships for the following:

  • Academy of Culinary Arts 'Annual Awards of Excellence'
  • AICR Receptionist of the Year
  • The Craft Guild of Chefs - Graduate Awards
  • The Roux Scholarship
  • Young Chef Young Waiter

The Trustees also seek to help institutions recognise excellence and have recently awarded prizes to:-

  • Academy of Food & Wine Service for the 'Philip Thornton Award'
  • City & Guilds for the top scoring candidates in the national examinations in the hospitality field.
  • RAF Halton for the 'Catering Student of the Year'

If you would like further details or are interested in entering one of the above named competitions please contact the relevant competition organiser directly.

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