The Arkleton Trust

During his life Bernard Conyers saw a great lack of opportunity for less advantaged people to publish or disseminate their original work and on his death his daughter donated a sum of money to The Trust to create a fund specifically to encourage the dissemination of information, findings or new ideas related to rural development practice.

Previous Bernard Conyers awards gave priority to material relating to the Third World, the links between Europe and the Third World or the lessons which Europe can learn from the Third World experience. Currently the Bernard Conyers Funds are being used for the Arkleton Trust Fellowships.

Background Information

Developments in the European and International arenas have heightened the need for The Arkleton Trust to enhance its activities to assist rural development in the poorer countries of Eastern and Central Europe and in the third world. The Trust’s strategy is to focus on a selected number of key themes of international relevance and contemporary importance for rural peoples, especially the most vulnerable, and on specific niche areas within these themes. Each theme will have a minimum duration of two years in the first instance. The first theme which the Trust concentrated on was ‘Rural Community Strategies For Managing The Economic And Social Impacts Of Climate Change’. The second set of fellowships are on How Rural Communities Adapt to Climate Change.  These fellowships have now been awarded and more information can be found on the Fellowship pages.