Our funding priority: the Leatherseller Scholarship Programme
Providing life-changing opportunities
In 2009, the Leathersellers’ Foundation launched a life-changing programme at Colfe’s School. Generous grants were donated for fully-funded, means-tested Sixth Form scholarships to be awarded to talented pupils based on academic potential and economic need. Since its launch the Leatherseller Scholarship Programme has supported more than 100 pupils from local comprehensive schools. Today, the Leatherseller grants are combined with other donations from the wider community to the Colfe’s Charitable Trust to provide fully-funded scholarships for up to 16 students each year.
The scholarship programme is a powerful engine of social mobility. The students arrive at Colfe’s having achieved very highly academically at their previous schools, where they have often played a leading part as role models. Once here, they continue to achieve at a high level, winning places at some of the best UK universities and embarking on high powered careers. Past scholars have gone on to study Mathematics, Architecture and Classics at Cambridge and Medicine at Imperial College, London.
Alongside the benefit to those pupils, the social and academic dynamic of the school is itself enriched; scholars make a uniquely positive impact on existing Colfe’s students.
Our current priority is to build further on this ground-breaking initiative, and guarantee the future of our scholarship programme in perpetuity.
Hear from some former Leatherseller Scholars
WHAT OUR SCHOLARS SAY
