The CLA Charitable Trust

The CLA Charitable Trust promotes access to, and education about, the countryside for young people and the disabled or disadvantaged. The generosity of CLA members and their friends makes its work possible.

So far, the Trust has awarded more than £1.5 million in grants.

Give to the Trust online via JustGiving or begin a memory page.

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The CLA Charitable Trust Christmas cards are now on sale. The Holy Family and Deer in Lyme Park are available at £5 per pack of 10, plus £5 per order postage and packing.

For an order form or to place an order, please contact The CLA Charitable Trust, Hopbine Farmhouse, Ossington, Nottinghamshire, NG23 6LJ. Alternatively, please telephone 01636 823835 or email petergeldart@btinternet.com.

Payment by cheque or postal order only please.

Thanks made for scholarship support

Harper Adams University College has given thanks to the CLA Charitable Trust in recognition of our continued support.

The Trust offers the Bruce Wilson-North Scholarship, worth £3,000 per academic year, to those studying Rural Enterprise and Land Management courses at the University College.

A presentation was made to Trustees by the Harper Adams Development Trust, which provides students with the best possible learning environment and where required, financial assistance through the scholarship programme.

The token of thanks was a mounted black and white photograph of the Harper Adams main building, a structure which has existed since the University College began in 1901.

Tony Burgess, Chairman of the Development Trust, said: “This photograph is just a small token of appreciation for the support we receive from the CLA Charitable Trust.”

The two students currently receiving the Bruce Wilson-North Scholarship are Eleanor Leivers, who has recently completed her second year, and Louise Roberts, due to graduate next month. The scholarship is offered once every two years.

Peter Geldart, Director of the CLA Charitable Trust, said: “I am delighted by this unexpected but welcome gift that demonstrates the very good relationship the CLA Charitable Trust has developed with Harper Adams through the scholarships.

“Our Trustees are most impressed by the high standard of education and facilities offered by the University College."

The scholarship was established by the CLA Charitable Trust in memory of Bruce Wilson-North, a former student of Harper Adams University College and Director General of the CLA from 2003 to 2006.

More information can be found at www.harper-adams.ac.uk/finance/files/uploaded/Bruce-Wilson-North-Scholarship-Leaflet.pdf

Recent awards:

To help train young people with disabilities and behavioural problems in animal husbandry, Sandalwood Farm in Cambridgeshire, £3,000 to build calf pens,
To enable a young person to train in agriculture, the annual £2,000 Bruce Wilson-North scholarship was awarded to Eleanor Leivers for her Rural Enterprise and Land Management course at Harper Adams University College,
To refurbish two boats to give disabled anglers access to fisheries, the Wheelyboat Trust was given £5,600, and
To help those who have suffered brain damage study horticulture, the East Suffolk Headway received £1,700.

Other recipients include Learning Fields, which provides educational visits to the countryside for children in the north-west of England.

Fundraising

Help the Trust by attending the regular regional fundraising events, as well as by giving directly.

We urge any professional members who are lawyers to remember the Trust when clients ask for advice on worthy recepients of bequests.

Remember to order our Christmas cards. Please consider including us in your will.

Click here to download a Gift Aid Form and Standing Order Form.

We receive a donation from the use of the CLA credit card, issued by MBNA. To apply call 0800 028 2440.

The Bruce Wilson-North scholarships at Harper Adams University College.

We currently have two scholars - Eleanor Leivers and Louise Roberts.

Louise is returning to the College in the autumn having spent a year working at Halls auctioneers in Shropshire.

Contacts

Peter Geldart, Director, The CLA Charitable Trust.

Hopbine Farmhouse
Ossington
Newark
Nottinghamshire
NG23 6LJ

Telephone and fax : 01636 823835

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