Bursaries

The future of early music...

The Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall have just been given a fantastic gift – £2000 – to put our bursary scheme on a firmer footing.

We have awarded bursaries to students of early instruments and early music, about £250 each, for several years, thanks to the generosity of individual Friends – members may have read recipients’ reports in our magazine, Soundboard. We made two awards in 2005.

Unfortunately funds dried up and we made no awards in 2006 - but a Friend donated £2000. We gave two £300 bursaries in 2007, and opened an appeal to set up a bursary fund.

Thanks to the generosity of Friends and others, the fund now stands at well over £5500 - but we want to do better. We hope to raise enough money to be able to offer bursaries out of income rather than capital.

This is where you come in…

We are appealing to Friends and wellwishers to help us put the bursaries on a permanent footing.

£10,000 would allow us to spend £300-plus a year; £15,000 would bring the figure close to the present rate. And whatever we raise now, we won’t stop. We will keep looking for further donations to keep the fund topped up.

Please help. You might like to give us a lump sum – don’t be put off by the size of the headline figure, we’re grateful for any amount. You might prefer to make a monthly or yearly contribution – to fill in the forms, please click here.

Whatever option you take, if you pay UK taxes please tick the Gift Aid box, to let us to reclaim tax you have paid.

Thank you in advance.

Martin Hillman
Chairman
Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall

St Cecilia's Bursary rules for applicants

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