Travel Grants

Every year, applications are invited for the following Travel Exhibitions and Grants for the promotion of travel during the Long Vacation. As part of the online application you will submit a description of the proposed travel, about one side of A4. Tutors will be glad to advise their students about their applications. Successful applicants will be required to submit a short report on their travel by the end of October.

More information will be circulated in February each year, with a deadline in March (deadline this year is 09:00 on 26 March 2018). Current students should check their announcements regularly to avoid missing the deadline and get more information.

Funds

The College is able to offer these opportunities to students because of the generosity of our donors. A list of Funds and the projects they are intended to support can be seen below.

Johnian Society Travel Exhibitions

A number of Johnian Society Travel Exhibitions are available for travel abroad during the Long Vacation. In view of the limited number of awards, only those with adventurous or innovative plans of travel should apply

Peter Allan Travel Award

For graduates and undergraduates to travel to the Middle East, Far East or Australia in furtherance of a worthwhile purpose/project which need not, but may be, academic in nature.

C W Brasher Fund

Grants to assist students to travel, preference to be given to those travelling to some wilder part of the world

Roger Chisholm Fund

Travel bursaries up to maximum value of £750 are available to any St Johns' student wishing to explore wild places by sea, climbing and/or hiking. A condition of the award is that successful applicants write a report of their adventure that would be suitable for publication in the College Magazine, the Journal of the University Yacht Club or the Journal of the Cambridge Mountaineering Club.

Cooper Fund

Grants may be given "to assist students of the College, not yet of standing to proceed to the MA degree, to attend conferences or to carry out field work in Earth Sciences".

Glyn and Ruth Daniel Fund

Grants may be given "to assist students of the College below the status of MA to travel and visit archaeological sites in Europe and the Mediterranean countries".

B H Farmer Fund

Grants may be given to junior members of the College who "are reading for Parts IA or IB of the Geographical Tripos, to travel (normally abroad) in connection with their study."

Note: for compulsory dissertation travel expenses please use the appropriate 'Learning & Research Fund' form instead, which College members can download from their homepage after logging in.

Hanley Fund

“Provision of travel grants or exhibitions for students of the College, preference where possible, being given to students of agriculture, agricultural science and medicine or some branch or branches of natural science related to one of those subjects ...".

JFL Travel Award

Travel award with a preference for international students to travel within the UK and explore all corners of UK (outside Cambridge/London).

Frank Hollick Fund

Travel Exhibition(s) - preference being given to students engaged in travel in pursuit of their interest in natural history or the fine arts.

Parsons Fund

To provide grants to resident Johnians (undergraduates and postgraduates) towards the costs of projects with links to Greece (Modern or Ancient) or the Eastern Mediterranean.

To also provide grants towards costs of music projects or to enhance musical skills.

Roberts Fund

Grants to students wishing to improve their knowledge by travel.

Scullard Fund

Grants may be given to assist junior members of the College "who are engaged in the study of Ancient History and/or early Church History, to travel or to visit churches, museums, or other places of historical interest in connection with their study".

Robert Sloley Fund

Grants may be given to junior members of the College "who are engaged in the study of pre-classical archaeology to travel, to undertake or assist in excavation, or to visit archaeological sites, museums, or other places of archaeological interest, in connection with their study".

Ulysses Travel Fund

To assist junior members of the College to explore, climb or undertake other adventurous travel, preferably in more remote parts of the world.

Christopher Vincent Travel Exhibitions

Travel Exhibitions to travel abroad to further international understanding.

Wilberforce and Clarkson (Williams) Travel Fund

For awards to Johnians to work in Africa.

Additional funds are also available for Geography and Geology students conducting fieldwork