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.

The Anna Plowden Trust is one of the few sources of support for those undertaking conservation training, having awarded more than 425 Scholarships since it was founded in 1998. As students’ costs continue to rise, the Scholarship programme cannot meet all the requests for funding that are received, but this grant from the Dulverton Trust will, in the words of Dr David Saunders, Chair of the Anna Plowden Trust: “make an immense difference to the Trust and our ability to support the next generation of conservators as they train. We are grateful to the Dulverton Trust for their continued faith in our knowledge of the conservation sector and experience in targeting support to those who might not otherwise be able to pursue a career in heritage conservation.”