STATELY home Blenheim Palace is launching a bursary scheme of up to £50,000 which will be made available to local charities and projects in 2019.
The bursary will be available to all charities and organisations based within a 20-mile radius of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Interested parties will now be able to submit applications until January 31, 2019.
Successful candidates will be notified by the end of February, with funds being made available from April 1.
The palace’s Stephanie Duncan said: “As part of our 10-Year Plan we are committed to doubling our charitable contributions to the community and the new charity bursary will enable us to allocate funding for charities and community projects going forward.
“Applications are welcome across charity and community projects, including education, infrastructure, transport and charity.”
Among those who have already benefited from recent donations are Woodstock Youth Club which received over £5,000 and Wootton-by-Woodstock Playground Project which was given £10,000. The palace donated £1.6m to charities in 2017-18, a 52 per cent increase on the previous year.
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