Fostering opportunity through education
Since the 17th century when we awarded our first student grant and became trustees of Colfe’s School we have continued a legacy of fostering opportunity.
Student Grants
Colfe’s
The Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools
“I have a love of learning and I want to pass that on and show what it can do for you. I’ll always be grateful to the Leathersellers’ Foundation because the scholarship helped me to recognise myself and what I might achieve.”
Joy Maton, recipient of a Leathersellers’ Scholarship at Colfe’s Sixth Form
Education partnerships
We have long-established partnerships with St Catherine’s College Oxford and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, helping to support social mobility through research as well as outreach programmes with our schools in south-east London.
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Early years
Reviewing the impact of our education portfolio led us to realise a gap existed around the key area of reducing development gaps in the first five years of a child’s life. We have joined forces with the Merchant Taylors Foundation to fund projects tackling this issue in Lewisham.
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Our Impact
The goal of our work in the Education sector is to improve social mobility. Whilst that has been true for many years, in 2021 we began a process to understand better what that means for the Leathersellers and what we can learn to improve our work towards that goal.
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