Registered Charity number 314292

Objects:

(a) The award of scholarships, bursaries or maintenance allowances tenable at any university or other place of learning approved by the Trustee.

(b) The provisions of financial assistance, outfits, clothing, tools, instruments or books to enable beneficiaries on leaving school, university or any other educational establishment to prepare for, or to assist their entry into, a profession, trade or calling.

(c) The award of scholarships or maintenance allowances to enable beneficiaries to travel abroad to pursue their education.

(d) The provision or assistance towards the provision of facilities of any kind not normally provided by the Local Education Authority for recreation and social and physical training, including the provision of coaching in athletics, sports and games for beneficiaries who are receiving primary, secondary or further education.

(e) The provision of financial assistance to enable beneficiaries to study music or other arts.

(f) otherwise promoting the education (including social and physical training) of beneficiaries.

Origin: Under his Will dated 9th November 1963, Henry Dixon bequeathed all his property and lands to the Company in trust, the income therefrom to be used towards placing poor boys as apprentices to handicraft trades. Schemes of 1848, 1923, 1961 and 1966 gradually widened the trusts to include the award of grants for a range of educational needs in addition to apprenticeships, and to include girls as well as boys.

Under the Scheme of 1966, the incomes of several small charities were combined with that of Henry Dixon’s Foundation for ease of administration, and the group became known as the Education Fund. The assets of the various separate charities were formally transferred to the Charity in July 1997, under the provisions of Section 74 of the Charities Act 1993

In 2001, a share of the endowment capital of another small charity Sir Thomas Cullum’s Trust was transferred to the Charity.

Policy: The policy of the Trustee is to disburse the income of the Charity in providing grants for further education in the fields of (a) music, (b) technical textiles, and (c) other projects within the objects of the Charity which will enable the Trustee to extend the scope of its grant making.

The Trustee does not invite unsolicited appeals for charitable assistance from the Charity.