{"id":2695,"date":"2026-02-24T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:33:11","slug":"gwenmayortrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/gwenmayortrust\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwen Mayor Memorial Trust announces school project grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro-text\">The Gwen Mayor Trust, a charity\u202festablished\u202fin memory of Dunblane Primary School teacher Gwen Mayor, recently announced the nursery and primary school arts, sports, culture\u202fand community projects it is providing funding support for this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The charity was\u202festablished\u202fby, and is administered by, the EIS and has supported hundreds of\u202fnursery\u202fand primary school projects\u202fbenefitting\u202fthousands of children since it first awarded grants in 1998.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim of the Gwen Mayor Trust is to provide financial support for the type of projects which were important to Gwen Mayor and her pupils\u202fat Dunblane Primary School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since its\u202finception, supported by the\u202fMayor\u202ffamily and made possible by generous\u202fdonations\u202ffrom individuals and organisations across the country, the Gwen Mayor Trust has supported a diverse range of arts, cultural, community and\u202fsports based\u202fprojects in\u202fnursery and\u202fprimary schools across Scotland.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commenting on the work of the Trust, EIS General Secretary Andrea Bradley said, \u201cGwen Mayor was a passionate and dedicated educator, who was\u202ftruly committed\u202fto providing the\u202fvery best\u202ffor the pupils with whom she worked. It was this spirit which led to the establishment of a charitable trust in honour of the memory of Gwen Mayor and her pupils\u202fat Dunblane Primary School.\u201d\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Bradley added, \u201cToday, the positive work of the Gwen Mayor Trust continues. The Trustees recently authorised the funding of 18 projects in schools across Scotland, and everyone associated with the Gwen Mayor Trust looks forward to hearing and seeing more about the progress of these very worthy\u202fprojects in the months ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/02\/GwenMayorTable.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2822\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/02\/GwenMayorTable.jpg 325w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/02\/GwenMayorTable-139x300.jpg 139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gwen Mayor Trust, a charity\u202festablished\u202fin memory of Dunblane Primary School teacher Gwen Mayor, recently announced the nursery and primary school arts, sports, culture\u202fand community projects it is providing funding support for this year. The charity was\u202festablished\u202fby, and is administered by, the EIS and has supported hundreds of\u202fnursery\u202fand primary school projects\u202fbenefitting\u202fthousands of children since it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2823,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}