The Bridge Educational Trust is a Piddle Valley based charity that provides grants to individuals who wish to further their educational aspirations. Find out more about the grants we have awarded.

Do you need financial help to realise your educational development and future ambitions, whether young or old? Thanks to a generous endowment from the Bridge family, with a local connection through an 18th century goldsmith, the Trust is able to provide individual grants to those in the Valley in particular and rural Dorset more generally. Examples of what we have given grants for include: university accommodation fees, vocational/practical courses, assistace with apprenticeships – but these are just the tip of the iceberg. In a good year we make grants totalling £80,000. See the recent grant allocations on our news page.

Trustees

If you would like to discuss a possible application in advance of a submission, please feel free to contact one of the local trustees:

• Nick Harland – 01300-348272
• Hannah Murphy – 01300 348564
• Richard Drewe – 01300 348253
• Olivia Steven – 01300 567095
• Nathan Ritson – 07827441490

If, having read through the instructions on the website, you have and questions please contact the Trust Administrator Matt Soul at bridgeeducationaltrust@outlook.com 

WHEN TO APPLY

Applications should be submitted through the website, and Trustees meet in February, July and November to decide on grants. The deadline for applications is 3 weeks before these meetings.

The closing date for receipt of applications for consideration at the next Trustee meeting is 8 February 2025. The meeting date is 2 March 2025.

How to apply

For further ideas and to see if you meet our criteria, please visit our website at How to apply for a grant

Page updated: 20 January 2025.