Undergraduate

The Armourers & Brasiers' Company is now one of the leading charities in the UK supporting metallurgy and materials science. Grants are made from the Armourers & Brasiers' Gauntlet Trust, on the advice of the Company's Metals Committee.

Sponsorship of students on materials courses.

  • Awards to students at Birmingham, Cambridge (through the Isaac Newton Trust), Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield Hallam and Wales Swansea Universities
  • Undergraduate sponsorships in association with Corus.
Awarding Medal for Excellence

Encouraging proficiency in modern languages for materials students.
  • Scholarships at Oxford University
Encouraging entry to industry.
  • Technical conferences for science and engineering undergraduates at Corus plants
  • Sponsorship of students in association with industrial companies, mainly at Manchester,
    Oxford, Sheffield and Strathclyde Universities, also at Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Warwick and York.
  • Industrial experience awards in UK or overseas. Universities regularly using this scheme are: Birmingham, Cambridge, Imperial, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Queen Mary, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, Southampton, Strathclyde and Wales Swansea. There are some permanent links between universities and companies; for example, Rolls-Royce annually take students from Birmingham, Cambridge, Oxford and Swansea.
  • Students are also sponsored at Rolls-Royce, Derby, from the University Technical Centres at Birmingham/Swansea, Cambridge and Oxford
  • Materials science tours to industrial and research facilities in UK and overseas from Oxford University and Queen Mary
The Annual Corus/Armourers & Brasiers Technology Workshop

Rewarding excellence.

  • Medals and cash prizes at the Royal College of Art and at Bath, Birmingham, Cambridge, Imperial, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield Hallam, DCMT Shrivenham, Sheffield, Southampton, Strathclyde and Wales Swansea Universities; also for  also for Royal Navy and Royal Air Force engineering students.
The Annual Corus/Armourers & Brasiers Technology Workshop
Armourers & Brasiers' Company, Armourers' Hall, 81 Coleman Street, London  EC2R 5BJ
Telelphone: +44 (0) 20 7374 4000     Fax: +44 (0) 20 7606 7481     E-mail: info@armourersandbrasiers.co.uk