£1.2 million donation to boost social mobility for young engineering students at City St George’s

The George Daniels' Educational Trust has made an extraordinary donation of £1.2 million to support engineering students from disadvantaged backgrounds at City St George’s, University of London.

This remarkable gift aims to champion social mobility by funding bursaries that will transform lives and provide new opportunities for those facing financial challenges.

Empowering social mobility through education

Since 2012, The George Daniels' Educational Trust has donated an astounding £2.6 million to support scholarships and bursaries for engineering students at all levels – undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD – within the University’s School of Science & Technology. The Trust also funded two academic posts at the School.

The Trust was established by the illustrious Dr George Daniels to help students with talent and initiative but lacking resources to achieve their dreams in engineering, horology (the study of clocks and watches), medicine, and construction.

The Trust's unwavering and generous commitment to supporting students in financial hardship aligns perfectly with City St George’s mission. The university is not only ‘the University of business, practice, and professions’, but also proudly ranked 1^st for social mobility in London by The English Social Mobility Index.

A new era of opportunity

Now, the Trust has signed a new four-year £1.2 million agreement to promote education and enable students to reach their potential. This funding will support multi-year and one-off bursaries, and contribute to a hardship fund each year until 2027/28.

Applicants must have home fee status and demonstrate financial need based on a low-income household (as assessed by Student Finance England), and priority will be given to students who are the first in their family to attend university.

As both the Executive Dean of the School of Science & Technology, and as an engineer, it gives me great pleasure to be launching this next tranche of scholars supported by The George Daniels' Educational Trust.

The Trustees share our goals of promoting social mobility for our students and this donation of £1.2 million will help us ensure that our future engineers have the opportunity to study at City St George’s with less worry about how to make their finances work.

We recently celebrated 10 years of support from the Trust and 10 years of George Daniels Scholars. I am very much excited to see what this next group of scholars will go on to achieve, thanks to the Trust’s support. Thank you.