OM Charitable Funds

MCCF Accounts 2011
MCCF Accounts 2012

The Marlburian Club’s Charitable Funds exist to assist OMs in various circumstances as outlined below:
 
1.    Assistance with College fees: Assistance may be made available to ensure that, when OMs with children at Marlborough encounter some unexpected severe hardship (sudden redundancy, severe illness or death), their children can complete their education at the College.

2.    Assistance with professional training expenses: Nowadays, more students are studying for postgraduate qualifications which often involve periods of study abroad. The Trustees have assisted OMs training to be doctors with some of the costs of medical elective studies overseas and, recently, a talented music graduate who had shown great initiative and determination in his fund-raising was given a grant to enable him to undertake specialist training abroad.

3.    Assistance with “GAP” year plans: Pupils are invited each year to apply for grants to help them, in their gap year, to undertake schemes which involve an element of service to those less privileged than themselves. About £5,000 is made available each year for this purpose (typical grants averaging about £400), funds come from an endowment made by Judge Edwin Konstam (LI 1884-87).

4.    Constructive emergency assistance: Help is occasionally given to OMs who fall on hard times and are in need of short-term help in order to get them back on their feet. Such assistance is usually given in the form of a one-off ex gratia payment for some very specific purpose.

Beyond the categories of personal grants listed above, the Club has been able to give considerable financial help to the College, as a charity, making it possible to undertake capital improvements which would otherwise have been beyond its means. A recent example was the building of the Sixth Form Social Centre known as The Marlburian Club.
     
Mr T Rogers (MCCF Administrator)