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The King James’s School Foundation
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The Harry Taylor Trust
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Grants
The King James’s School Foundation can give grants to promote the education of young people
under 25 who either:
►attend or formerly attended King James’s School and/or
►live in the Ancient Parish of Almondbury (map below).
In recent years, these grants have helped with foreign trips and sports training
and with expenses in attending special music training at summer school.
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Grants
Each year, the trustees offer grants to enable young people to go on sports
training courses, to study languages, to play musical instruments - the range
of possible activities is as wide as their own imaginations. Grants are also
available to provide equipment - books, for instance, a cricket bat for a
promising and ambitious cricketer, a trumpet or a trombone.
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Harry Taylor
Harry Taylor was headmaster of King James's Grammar School from 1951 to 1973.
His whole career was spent in grammar schools, but his ideas were aimed at
encouraging more than just academically gifted pupils.Harry Taylor believed
that all young people need encouragement not just to reach their targets, but
to realise how ambitious those targets could be. He once said that too many
young people thought, like Alexander the Great, that there were no more worlds
to conquer, when all they needed was someone to show them where the worlds
were. That, he believed, was the privilege of the schoolmaster - to show new
horizons to his pupils, and then inspire them with the realisation that the new
dreams and aspirations they might think beyond them could actually bc attained.
Those dreams, of course, are not necessarily academic ones. Harry Taylor
offered encouragement to would-be sportsmen, artists, musicians: anyone who
wanted to work and achieve something.
The Harry Taylor Trust is dedicated to carrying on those ideas - to offering
young people under the age of 25 who either live or study in the village of
Almondbury encouragement to develop their skills and talents.
APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS
The Harry Taylor Trust welcomes applications at any time. Simply complete the
form below giving us your contact details and the Grant you are seeking, and we
will be happy to give it full consideration.
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From the time of the School charter in 1608, a piece of land was enclosed and
conveyed to a trust fund to be held for the purposes of the School and occupied
by the School in perpetuity. This represents an area of approximately 2.8 acres
and that covers what might now be described as the oldest part of the School.
The assets of the fund grew over the years with gifts from various benefactors.
Particularly noteworthy was the winding-up of Wormall ’s Charity in about 1880 and the subsequent transfer of its assets to the King
James ’s Trust. This is no doubt how the fund came to be the owner of the building (now
sold) which we all know as Almondbury Conservative Club but which was
originally Wormall Hall erected in 1631.
In 1922, when the School came under the formal control of the old Huddersfield
Corporation, the council became the trustee of the fund and in 1974, on local
government reorganisation, that responsibility passed to the new Kirklees
Metropolitan Council. In 1987, largely because the fund had been dormant for
many years, a new scheme was approved by the Charity Commission with Kirklees
Metropolitan Council as the sole corporate trustee.
Once the new trustees were in place, it became easier to obtain documentation
about the past administration of the fund. It quickly became clear that the
fund had been neglected from 1951 onwards and very probably from as far back as
1922. In due course, this led to legal proceedings being instituted by the OAS
against Huddersfield Corporation and Kirklees Council resulting in the fund
being compensated to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds in an
out-of-court settlement.
The capital value of properties owned by the King James’s School Foundation, along with other investments, is in the region of £2 million. This enables the Foundation to make substantial grants each year to
the School and to individual beneficiaries.
WHO ARE THE TRUSTEES?
The Trustees of the King James’s School Foundation are currently:
Janet Cockcroft (Chair)
Walter Raleigh (OAS nominee)
Andrew Haigh (KJS nominee)
Richard Taylor
Patrick O'Brien
Keith Crawshaw
Christopher Mann
Michael Wilson
Anthony Haigh (Clerk)
APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS
The King James’s School Foundation welcomes applications at any time. Guidelines and an
application form can be found on the KJS Foundation website by clicking HERE.
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