Old British School and Colchester Lying-in-Charity Trust Fund Grants

Local government trust fund data from Colchester Borough Council. The Council acts as trustee for two funds: the Old British School Trustees, which assists education and professional entry for residents under 25, and the Colchester Lying-in-Charity, which provides one-off grants of up to £250 for items like prams and cots for unmarried mothers. The dataset is published by the Government Digital Service under an Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Analyzing grant allocation patterns for youth education and professional development based on the Old British School Trustees fund.
• Studying support for unmarried mothers based on the one-off grant structure and item types (prams, cots) mentioned for the Lying-in-Charity.
• Benchmarking local government charitable expenditure based on the stated grant limit of £250 per individual award.

Strengths

• Specific grant purpose and beneficiary criteria are described for both funds.
• A clear maximum grant amount of £250 per individual award is stated.
• Links to authoritative source documents (Council Statement of Accounts) are provided.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• The dataset's scale and granularity are unclear from the available metadata.

Provenance

Source

Colchester Borough Council, via Government Digital Service.

Collection Method

Likely administrative records from council trust fund management.

Time Range

null

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Borough of Colchester, United Kingdom.