Educational trusts offer you the opportunity to help students studying a specific course or who are attending a particular school or university on an ongoing basis.
The trust could be established in memory of a loved one who was passionate about a particular hobby or interest.
You can:
- nominate a particular areas of study or a specific college or university where the funds may be used
- specify what the funds may be used for
- outline the criteria applicants need to meet.
The Public Trustee administers a number of educational trusts.
Cedric Arnold Seth Ferry Scholarship
The Ferry Scholarship is funded by a bequest from the late Cedric Arnold Seth Ferry, for the purpose of promoting study and research in the scientific fields of physics and chemistry.
The Ferry Scholarship is available to students undertaking an honours degree at Flinders University, the University of South Australia or the University of Adelaide.
The Ferry Scholarship has provided financial support to some of South Australia's most successful and award-winning scientists.
More information about the scholarship and how to apply can be found here. (PDF, 167.3 KB)
The Lillian de Lissa Fund
The Lillian de Lissa Fund was created to provide funding to students and practitioners working in the field of early childhood.
Lillian de Lissa was born in 1885 and was only twenty years old when she was appointed as the director of the first kindergarten opened by the Kindergarten Union of South Australia (KUSA) in 1905.
KUSA established The Lillian de Lissa Fund to enable post-graduate studies or research in the area of preschool education.