The Dulverton Trust has awarded a grant of £120,000 over three years, which will be used by the Anna Plowden Trust to fund Scholarships for students on conservation training programmes.
Applications are now open for the first round of Anna Plowden Trust/Clothworkers’ Foundation CPD grants for 2026.
The four CPD application deadlines for 2026 will be:
12 January 2026
7 April 2026
1 June 2026
14 September 2026
The deadline for Scholarship applications for the 2026–2027 Academic Year will be:
1 June 2026
The application deadlines for 2025 will be as follows:
13 January 2025 - CPD only
7 April 2025 - CPD
2 June 2025 - CPD and Scholarships
8 September 2025 - CPD
We reached an important milestone during 2022: with the award of 23 Anna Plowden scholarships in the summer, the total amount disbursed in grants and scholarships by the Trust since it was founded exceeded £1,000,000. In its early years, the number of grants and their value was relatively small, but both have grown, and the Trust now consistently supports the education and further training of conservators at a level of £80,000–90,000 per year.
The deadlines for applications in 2023 are as follows:
Anna Plowden/Clothworkers' Foundation CPD grants
January 16th
April 4th
June 5th
September 9th
Anna Plowden Scholarship grants
June 5th
The Anna Plowden Trust's latest annual report has been published and can be downloaded below. In it you can read about the Scholarships, CPD and Covid Fund grants awarded during 2021, with case studies from a selection of our grant recipients.
