Charities Administered by The Drapers’ Company

Grant Making Trusts

The Drapers’ Company is trustee of eleven grant making trusts. Six of these are discretionary trusts where the Trustee exercises its discretion in the award of grants within the objects of the Trusts. The Company welcomes applications to three of the discretionary grant making trusts, The Drapers’ Charitable Fund, Sir William Boreman’s Foundation and Thomas Howell’s Education Fund for North Wales. To find out more about the grant making themes and criteria, and details of how to apply for funding from each of these trusts, click on the Charities’ link. Alternatively, if applying for a grant from The Drapers’ Charitable Fund click on Applying for a Grant. Funds from the other three discretionary trusts are largely committed annually in advance in accordance with the wishes of the original benefactors.

The remaining five trusts are restricted trusts where grants are awarded, or net income distributed, in accordance with the precise objects of the Trust Schemes, reflecting the original intentions of the benefactors.

To find out more about the history of these trusts, click on the title links below.

Discretionary Trusts

• The Drapers' Charitable Fund - Funds available
• Sir William Boreman’s Foundation - Funds available
• Thomas Howell’s Education Fund for North Wales - Funds available
• The Drapers' Consolidated Charity
• Charities General for the Poor of the Drapers’ Company
• Henry Dixon’s Foundation for Apprenticing

Restricted Trusts

• Francis Bancroft’s Trust
  (incorporating Bancroft’s School Prize Fund Trust and Thomas Henry Littlewood’s Trust)
• Thomas Howell’s Trust
• Samuel Harwar’s Trust
• The Drapers’ (William and Mary) Tercentennial Award
• Howell’s School Prize Fund Trust
  (incorporating Howell’s School Prize Fund Trust The Ranjit Singh Travelling Scholarship Fund and The Mary Brearley Music Fund)