Transforming the life chances of young people by providing them with opportunities for high quality education is a task that benefits from long-term partnerships and collaboration. Windle Trust International makes a contribution to that transformation, but we depend to a great extent on the support and generosity of others.
Our partnerships are of two kinds: educational institutions and other donors and funding partners.
In the Postgraduate Scholarships Programme, we work very closely with universities in the UK which, despite facing funding pressures themselves, support Windle scholars by awarding either a full or partial scholarships often in conjunction with the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship scheme. We are also proud to be a nominating partner for fully funded scholarships through the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. These awards make an enormous difference to the cost-effectiveness of the programme, as well as providing an opportunity to students to benefit from outstanding educational facilities and resources. In addition to the universities that currently support opportunities for UK postgraduate study we are also developing similar partnerships with Universities in Sudan for the undergraduate scholarships programme such as Ahfad University for Women.
The second category of partners is those organisations that support us financially. Historically, we have benefitted from the continuous support of the Hugh Pilkington Charitable Trust with which we have a close working relationship. In addition, we have been fortunate to receive funding in recent years from a range of organisations for our work in the UK, Sudan and South Sudan. Read more about our funding partners below.