The Trust manages funds bequeathed or subscribed in memory of colleagues. These funds provide more substantial scholarships which are awarded annually through competition.
These three scholarships are only awarded once every year and applications are considered at our June meeting.
This annual award of £3,000 is to enable practitioners, working within an established project, engaged in innovative practice that is designed and informed by principles intended to uphold the dignity and respect of older people, to share their knowledge and experiences with others.
The award should be used by the successful applicant(s) to contribute to the training and development of practitioners, or the dissemination of best practice through the publication of a practice paper or article, running of a workshop, or a particular training event.
Applicants should complete the Trust’s scholarship application form and include a proposal of not more than 500 words, setting out the aims, estimated costs, time-scale and intended outcomes/benefits of the research project.
Anne Cummins was one of the earliest hospital almoners – what we would now call a medical social worker. She was appointed to St Thomas’s Hospital in London in 1905. She was able to build up a team of almoners and was Head Almoner on her retirement in 1929. Her reports documented social needs that caused and exacerbated ill health and established innovative services to meet those needs. She was a major force in development of the Association of Hospital Almoners which championed the importance of training. The Association became the Institute of Medical Social Workers in 1964.
The Anne Cummins Memorial Scholarship Fund was established in November 1958 (Charity number 228379) and is managed and administered by the Social Workers’ Educational Trust.
Applicants should complete the Trust’s scholarship application form and include a proposal of not more than 500 words, setting out the aims, estimated costs, time-scale and intended outcomes/benefits of the research project.