Grants and Bursaries

The RWF aims to support adult education courses and projects as outlined in our Aims. Please contact info@rayondwilliamsfoundation.org.uk for further details, specifying your interest/s.

To download a grant application form click here

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Proposals approved by Trustees for 2011 include:

Subsidy for Wortley Hall seminar on The Media, 12-13 October

Annual RW wend at Barlaston in May on The Spirit Level - during which a ‘bucket’ collection for the RUWON, Nepal project raised over £400.

Residential Library – Reading Retreat project

Women’s education in Andrapradesh, India

Community Centres for Women and Youth, Congo, Africa

Oral History project – Britain at Work 1945-1995 - West London

WEA Politics course in North Staffs, autumn term

RWS - People of the Black Mountains Conf. Abergavenny

SEA Conference at WMC on Key Educational Issues for 2011 - Surveying the Landscape. Sat 26 Feb;

Subsidy for individual member to attend Literature tutorial at Barlaston; Issues in Politics WEA course.

Rural Women's Network for Education in Nepal;

Individual students for an annual Keele Summer School.

Projects supported in 2010 include:


January: Esperanto Drondo (Discussion Circle) week-end, subsidized from the
Learning Revolution - Transformation Fund. (TF)

Funding to assist a scholar/researcher to visit and work at the Raymond Williams Archive,
Swansea University

February: A major residential project at the WMC, Barlaston (TF assisted) bringing together
ODDc, PiPs, WEA, U3A, Sci-bar, cafe philosophique, Drondo, Lit & Phil, Book Group
and other informal adult learners to share experience and move forward.


May: Support for the annual Raymond Williams Week-end on Towards 2020.

Summer and Autumn: Financial support for these week-ends at WMC:
Thomas Paine
The Arnold Bennett Society residential
WB Yeats.
* Grant to Borderland Voices to help creative writing groups in a deprived area of Leek, Staffs.
* Grant to assist WEA student on organised trip to Liverpool Slavery Museum
* Further support for WEA Issues in Politics weekly course in Hanley

Funding for projects during 2009 included: 

  • Farm2Grow (taster day, launching activities and courses involving socially and educationally disadvantaged)
  • Annual WEA Raymond Williams W/end on Key Words at Barlaston
  • BRASS (helping asylum seekers and refugees in Bolton)
  • Art theory and practice  WEA residential at WMC, Barlaston
  • Cuba Day in Berwick-upon-Tweed – lecture and discussion sessions
  • Esperanto Drondo  (discussion circle on big themes) w/end at Barlaston
  • NORSACA (Afro-Caribbean Association) Day at Barlaston
  • Cambridge Womens’ Resource Centre, for educational courses
  • Oldham Refugees  educational support.