The Brinkley Foundation of Elizabeth March
The Brinkley Foundation of Elizabeth March is a charity that helps young people who live in Brinkley fund special projects for school, college, apprenticeships or university. We consider all sorts of projects but they need to have some educational purpose.
For example:
- pay for a class trip
- buy special learning equipment
- help with course fees
- change course after the COVID-19 pandemic
This is how it works:
We ask young Brinkley residents to email us and explain what they would like the money for – we want plenty of details, please.
We decide if we can support them and how much we can afford to give them. This could be up to a maximum of £500.
If their project matches the aims of the charity, we give them funds and they complete their project.
They then send us details of how they spent the money – we expect them to show evidence of what they did with it.
Because there is no longer a school in Brinkley, the charity also gives money annually for a book prize at Burrough Green School and has been making annual donations to the Guides and Brownies, as this benefits Brinkley children and young people.
For all donations, the Charity expects to be informed as to what the money has been spent on.
For any questions and submissions, please contact the Charity’s Trustees (Belinda Hull, Judith Haste, Marina Ballard and Agnès Aubert) at elizabethmarchbrinkley@gmail.com.
About Elizabeth March
Elizabeth March of Fulbourn died on 28 March 1722. During her lifetime she conveyed a house and farm at Oakington for the foundation of schools in the parishes of Fulbourn, Haddenham, Fen Ditton, Brinkley and Histon. The original deeds have been lost but mention of the gift is made in her will of 26 March 1722, and approximately £70 per annum was to be equally divided between the 5 schools. Subsequently the fund was divided up and 5 trust funds(one for each parish), with their own trustees, were established.
There is a tablet in the Church, which was put up in 1722, in memory of Elizabeth March, by Roger Pepys of Impington, one of her executors.