{"id":45,"date":"2023-04-18T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnrobinsonchess.org\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2026-03-01T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:58:35","slug":"grants-awarded","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/johnrobinsonchess.org\/?page_id=45","title":{"rendered":"Grants Awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Trust has been a major financial supporter of junior chess since 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Examples of recent grants awarded include:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Financial support to individual junior players<\/li>\n<li>99th Hastings Congress 2025 <em>(bursaries for juniors playing in the Masters and event costs)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>British Chess Championship 2025 <em>(event costs &amp; junior coaching)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Isle of Wight Congress 2026<\/li>\n<li>ECF Junior Schools competition<\/li>\n<li>Northumbria Chess Masters 2025<\/li>\n<li>6th Wood Green International 2026<\/li>\n<li>ECF Junior Bursary Fund<\/li>\n<li>ECF International Series 2026 &#8211; junior prize fund and top girl prize<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Comments from recent grantees<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><em>&#8216;It is extremely helpful to have some financial support available to enable him to play in strong tournaments both in the UK and abroad&#8217;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8216;The impact this grant will have for our students on an individual level will be immeasurable&#8217;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8216;This will be very helpful in establishing the junior bursary fund which we will use to support players in need participating in chess events&#8217;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8216;Without your support it is highly likely that the tournament would not have happened at all, except for in a very limited online way&#8217;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8216;My thanks to The John Robinson Youth Chess Trust for their generous support in helping us run the event&#8217;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8216;The John Robinson Youth Chess Trust is playing an increasing important role as England seeks to develop a new generation of talents&#8217;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Page last updated: Sunday 1st March 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trust has been a major financial supporter of junior chess since 2006. Examples of recent grants awarded include: Financial support to individual junior players&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnrobinsonchess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnrobinsonchess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnrobinsonchess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnrobinsonchess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnrobinsonchess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/johnrobinsonchess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/johnrobinsonchess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnrobinsonchess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}