The Trust Board provides oversight and strategic guidance for the Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust, offering expertise across areas such as finance, strategy, and marketing. Meeting three times a year, they review the Trust’s activities, provide advice and support, and approve key decisions to ensure the Trust continues to fulfil its mission effectively.
If you have a complaint about the Trust we want to hear about it and will do our best to put it right as soon as possible.
Our Complaints Procedure has the following goals:
How to apply
Our application round will open on Wednesday 1 April 2026 at 9am. When the round is open, please log in to the grants management system to apply.
Closing dates
The application round will close on Thursday 30 April 2026 at 5pm, or until the funds have been depleted, whichever is soonest.
Decisions are made on a first come first served basis and we may close the round before this date if funds are used up.
Our vocational bursaries are designed to provide support to students in financial need, who have a parent or spouse or who they themselves work in the Grocery Industry, in a Community Pharmacy or as a Commercial Traveller.
The information in this section explains more about eligibility, and the terms we use.
Eligible students
Applicants must be resident in the UK and be the son or daughter, spouse, or be employed themselves:
The Vocational Bursary scheme opens on 1 April 2026
Students can apply for a £1,000 per year bursary for their course. Students must have a household income below £30,000 and have a parent or spouse or be employed themselves:
The Pharmacy School Essentials Grant 2025 is now closed.
Thank you to everyone who applied — we have now reached the maximum number of applications we’re able to process this year.
If you have already applied and received an email confirmation this will give the latest date when you will hear from us.
Disclaimer / Reserved Rights
The Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust has taken all possible steps to ensure that the information provided on this website is helpful, accurate and up to date. However, the information given on this website is not comprehensive and there may be inadvertent errors for which we apologise. If you are using the site or any of the Trust’s printed materials and notice an error or apparent contradiction then please advise us as soon as possible.
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