A private trust · England

The FranceFamily Trust MMXXVI · 2026

Everything this Trust supports is a form of transmission — a note played, a signal sent, a message kept safe, a family provided for.

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What the Trust does

Three purposes, one endowment.

The Trust makes awards, invests what it holds so it can keep making them, and provides for the family that founded it.

Awards

Support for students

Grants and bursaries towards instruments, tuition, course fees, equipment and travel, in two fields:

Music students Players and scholars of any instrument, with particular regard for brass.
STEM students Science, technology, engineering and mathematics — especially computer science, telecommunications and cryptography.

Investment

A fund built to last

The Trust holds and invests its capital as a long-term fund. Returns are reinvested so that awards can be made year after year rather than once, and so the endowment outlives the people who started it.

Long-horizon, diversified holdings
Income reinvested by default
Reviewed annually by the trustees

Family

Provision for trustees and their families

Alongside its awards, the Trust makes provision for its trustees and their families, on the terms set out in the trust deed. The people who look after the fund are beneficiaries of it.

Distributions under the deed
Education and welfare support
Recorded and reviewed each year

This is a holding page

Applications aren't open yet. The first awards are planned for the 2026/27 academic year, and this page will carry the details — who can apply, what the Trust will fund, dates and deadlines — as soon as they're settled.

Email the trustees

Trust deed settled · Awards scheme in preparation