The Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust, established on 24 June 1981, is a Registered Charity (number 283337) in the United Kingdom. The Trust  was originally administered by the British Council, but is now run independently, though the Council remains a trustee and provides some support.

Activities of the Trust

The Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust helps Pakistani nationals to pursue post-graduate study and scholarship in the UK. The Trustees have the authority to use the income of the Trust’s funds for Pakistanis to 'follow courses of study, research or other educational pursuits which will advance the education of the said individual'. The Trust’s income is entirely from investments, and over 95% of this is spent on activity; administrative costs are kept to a minimum.

The Trust carries out its work in the following ways:

· Granting awards to individual students already in Britain, normally in the last year of a PhD, who require additional funding to help them finish their studies. The Trust is not a hardship fund and all applicants are required to demonstrate academic merit. The maximum grant is £2,000. Students will have to satisfy the Trustees that they will have sufficient funds from other sources to complete their course.

· Awarding shared scholarships with a number of British universities for privately funded students from Pakistan accepted for taught Master's degrees.

                  London School of Economics

             For information see main page:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/LSEExternalStudy/

             See also                        

http://externalstudy.lse.ac.uk/Scholarships/

                 University of Manchester

               For Information see

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/search/results

          University of Nottingham  

          For information see 

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/international/_media/pdf/2008-scholarships-pdf/developinig-solutions-other-countries.pdf

          Royal Holloway University of London

              For information see

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Graduate-School/pages/funding.html

               University of Salford

               For information see :

http://www.salford.ac.uk/international/scholarships/details.php?scholarship=46

· Assisting Pakistani academics with grants to support short term Academic Fellowships at British universities and training institutions. These Academic Fellowships are arranged in collaboration with the host British educational institution. They include:

· School of Oriental and African Studies London  For further information see

               http://www.soas.ac.uk 

             contact Dr Daud Ali, SOAS,

             Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, 

             London WC1H 0XG

             Email da7@soas.ac.uk

             or js64@soas.ac.uk

· Queen Elizabeth House Oxford  

       For information see

  http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/

· Royal Asiatic Society, London

       For information see

http://www.royalasiaticsociety.org/

· Running a programme, in partnership with the British Council in Pakistan,  enabling mid-career Pakistanis to apply for grants for short-term research and study attachments (a maximum of three months) at British universities. For information see:

http://www.britishcouncil.org/pakistan-education-scholarships.htm

· Support to Pakistani arts practitioners visiting the UK on cultural projects with a defined educational component.

Criteria for Awards – Information for Students

The Trust can provide help to students from Pakistan who are in the final year of a postgraduate degree (normally a doctorate) at a recognised British University. Applicants must be citizens of Pakistan and normally resident in Pakistan.  Applicants must provide the following information:

· Details of their permanent address in Pakistan together with biographical details and a note on their intended career

· Details of their course or research project and a realistic estimate of its completion date

· Full details of their current financial position and of any awards that they have received from other sources

· Details of all other applications that have been made for financial assistance, both in the UK and elsewhere

· A letter of support from their academic supervisor

The Trust is not a hardship fund although financial need must be shown. Please note that Trustees consider applications primarily on the grounds of academic merit. There is no upper age limit but it is unusual for trustees to support students over the age of forty. The Trust is not a source of primary funding – the amount of any one award will not exceed £2,000. Support can be either towards fees or maintenance costs.

Please note that in normal circumstances, the Trust does not give grants to students already in receipt of full awards from any national or international agency.  It will only consider requests from students originally funded in such a manner when the original award has expired and if there are exceptional circumstances. The Trust does not make retrospective grants or pay debts.

Students who think that they are eligible should apply to the Secretary in the first instance by email, and send details as requested above by e-mail (or post if preferred). The Secretary does not answer questions or consider requests over the telephone. Applications for grants are generally considered at 6 month intervals, in December and June, but in exceptional circumstances decisions on grants may be made outside these dates. All grants are given at the discretion of the Trustees whose decision is final.

Contact The Secretary,

The Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust 

4 Dorville Crescent

London W6 0HJ

email  timbutchard@wallace-trusts.org.uk

Registered Address:

The British Council, 

10 Spring Gardens

London SW1A 2BN

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