The Caribbean Council provides specialist consultancy services to private companies, trade associations, governments, public sector organisations, and regional and multilateral organisations in the following areas: - International trade negotiations and regulatory affairs; - Export development and investment promotion; - Event and conference organisation.

The Caribbean Foundation was established in November 2002 and is registered as a UK charity. Its objectives are "The advancement of education, in particular but not exclusively through the provision of grants and scholarships to students pursuing study in the field of international development".

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Caribbean Foundation: Application Forms for Grants and Bursaries 2009 Now Available

Information about support available from the Caribbean Foundation and an application form for funding are now available via the web site of the Caribbean Council www.caribbean-council.org/caribbeanfoundation.

From 2008, the Trustees of the Charity have agreed they will prioritise the areas in which the charity will make future grants. They have broadly defined the priorities as the development of human resources in tourism; and in the areas of the environment and climate change.

In developing a more closely defined strategy, the Charity's trustees wish to avoid replicating the activities of other educational charities operating in the Caribbean region and for this reason the Charity is also interested in hearing from or receiving applications from charitable and other bodies with the capacity to manage and account for any grants or co-funding that is agreed to. For example the Foundation recently donated funds to the Caribbean Hotel Association Education Foundation to assist with its scholarship programme.

Applications for support can come from the private sector and private sector associations in the Caribbean and EU; Caribbean and EU based foundations; educational bodies in the Caribbean and the EU; and from Caribbean nationals where the support required relates to areas of post graduate research in the priority areas.

Applications may also come from Caribbean Governments, their agencies, regional institutions and other public bodies; with priority being given to proposals from Caribbean educational institutions providing higher and tertiary education and vocational training.

Generally speaking, grants and bursaries are of the order of US$6000 to US$12,000 per annum per applicant. The Caribbean Foundation is additionally happy to work with other charities on joint fund raising programmes that fund raise for sums many multiples of these amounts.

The deadline for initial applications is 31 August 2008 and successful and unsuccessful applicants will be notified in February 2009.

Anyone who would like more information about becoming involved in or contributing to the Caribbean Foundation should contact David Jessop david.jessop@caribbean-council.org in his capacity as honorary secretary of the charity.

The Caribbean Foundation is a company limited by guarantee no. 4270328 incorporated in England. It is a UK registered Charity (no. 1094584).

Trustees The present trustees of the Caribbean Foundation are as follows:
David Suratgar, BCME Bank, UK (Chairman)
Michael Adda, CFAS Ltd
John Bowers, Bowers Consulting, UK
Jeffries Briginshaw, Transatlantic Business Dialogue, Belgium
Peter Odle, Mango Bay, Barbados and President Caribbean Hotel Association
Yesu Persaud, Demerara Distillers Ltd, Guyana
David Jessop, the Executive Director of the Caribbean Council, is the Honorary Secretary