The Prince's Foundation
The Charity’s partnership and support for the work of The Prince’s Foundation, which commenced in 2018, continues and interviews for the Building Craft Programme identifies a new bursary student to support each year in Heritage Craft Skills generally, including heritage plasterwork training in particular.
Bursary Students:
2021/22: Simon Lovatt
2020/21: Greg Smith
2019/20: Jue Sota
2018/19: Esme Walker
St Paul's Cathedral Chorister
We continue to support the music development at St Paul’s Cathedral through the sponsorship of a Chorister. This year our St Paul’s Chorister is Oliver Davies.
Peterborough Cathedral
We continue to support the music development at Peterborough Cathedral through the sponsorship of a Chorister. This year our Peterborough Chorister is Lewis Barber.
St Paul’s Church of England School – Choir Church
Tom Daggett (OBE Organ Scholar at St Paul’s Cathedral) is also working with the St Paul’s Church of England Primary School’s ‘Choir Church’ initiative, by providing online weekly singing assemblies and other activities with members of the School’s Choir.
Coleshill
Coleshill is a National Trust building that helps to encourage heritage plastering through a number of courses run by SPAB yearly. The Charitable Trust supports these courses through a donation subsidise places on Lime Plastering and Heritage skills courses each year. Read more about our support of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) at the link below.
Training Awards
The Company’s prestigious annual Plaisterers’ Training Awards, which is supported by the Charity amongst others, take place in November and is the largest event of its type in the sector and reaches out to colleges, private training providers, manufacturers and contractors across the UK who are active in the sector.
Loughborough Schools
The Harry Humber Music Scholarship enables a sixth form music student to have access to an excellent education as well as instrumental lessons with some of the top music teachers in the country, orchestras, ensembles, choirs and performance opportunities. The link with Loughborough is through Past Master Harry Humber who attended Loughborough Grammar School from 1919 to 1924.
Bursaries and Grants
Bursaries are normally paid up to £500 per applicant, but larger sums may be awarded in individual cases, if merited. The Beneficiaries will probably be students currently undergoing training in the sector but may also be established practitioners who wish to develop and enhance their knowledge and experience.
Typically applications might be for travel expenses to support a course of learning abroad; fees for existing courses where no other support is available; a wage subsidy to enable a student to pursue extra-curricular skills; funding to a mentor to support achievement of advanced qualifications; or costs towards enhanced disabled access to training.
The Trustees will consider any application endorsed by the Company’s Industry Committee that supports and maintains the quality and diversity of plastering and drylining skills in the UK. To be eligible, applicants must have been resident in the UK for at least two years and ideally must have at least two years’ work experience in the plastering and drylining sector.
Please contact the Clerk's Office for more details on applying for a bursary.
As part of the Company’s commitment to community engagement, training and life-long learning in the local area, educational establishments, and the associated plastering trade, the Charity is able to support individuals and not-for-profit organisations either in kind or with financial support in the form of bursaries and grants.
Working with Industry
Both the Company and the Charity are proud to maintain their close relationship with the plastering and drylining industry.
The Charity offers bursaries and grants to apprentices and young students entering the industry, whilst the Company also recognises plastering industry stakeholders through the Master Plasterer Certificate Scheme and the Master Plasterer’s Register.