04/09/2026
The 'Eric Hosking Charitable Trust' provides a bursary awarded annually to applicants requiring financial assistance, in order to pursue projects on Birds and other Natural History subjects, which are of scientific and conservation value, through the media of writing, photography, painting or illustration.
The application form here - https://erichoskingtrust.com/apply -should be completed to aid the Trustees in assessing the suitability of your projects. If you have any additional information to submit (in addition to the Google Form), please email it to [email protected]. Please try and limit any additional material to no more than 3 extra pages. Only one application per person per organisation per year will be accepted. All applications should be returned by 30th September. All applicants will be notified of the Trustees decision by 31st December, and the bursaries will be paid to successful applicants when required.
The Trustees recognise that their bursaries, of approximately £1,000, may form only part of the total finance required for the project. Under these circumstances applicants are requested to specify other sources of their funding and define what area of the project that the award would be spent on.
Successful applicants will be asked to acknowledge the Eric Hosking Charitable Trust wherever possible and provide a copy of any written report to the Trust and a copy of any published results. We encourage successful applicants to keep in touch with the Trust and, where projects are ongoing, consider applying again for more funding.
In the event of a project being cancelled after an Eric Hosking Charitable Trust bursary has been awarded, all funding received must be repaid in full.
