Supporting the future of textile conservation

The TC Foundation Trustees are enormously grateful to all of the organisations that have generously funded bursaries for students on the MPhil Textile Conservation in the 2022/23 academic year.

The 2-year MPhil Textile Conservation is a world-leading programme - excellence is the hallmark of the MPhil Textile Conservation and this means extensive facilities and a much higher number of contact hours that most Masters programmes.

Our funders enable talented young people to take up their places on the course, on graduating they then pursue careers in the field and spend decades preserving our cultural heritage. The TC Foundation’s Chair, Clare Meredith ACR, said: “The outcome of our funders’ support, over nearly five decades, is that many hundreds of individuals have been able to pursue careers as textile conservators and curators and the contribution these professionals make to heritage across the globe is both inspiring and incalculable.”

Among the funders of MPhil Textile Conservation students in 2022/23 are:

The Arts Society

The Binks Trust

The Clothworkers’ Company

The Coats Foundation Trust

The Drapers’ Company

The Dulverton Trust

The Elizabeth Frankland Moore and Star Foundation

The Inchcape Foundation

The Anna Plowden Trust

The Radcliffe Trust

The Scouloudi Foundation

The South Square Trust

The Barbara Whatmore Trust

We are enormously grateful to each one.