The Burhouse Bursary
£50,000 back into South Yorkshire trades.
The Burhouse Bursary is our way of putting real money behind the organisations doing the work the industry should have done for itself a decade ago.
The people behind it
Where the money actually lands.
Why we do this
The talent pipeline in UK construction has been broken for years. Apprenticeship starts down, average crew age up, far too few women, far too few young people from care backgrounds finding a way in.
No single contractor can fix this. But we can put real money behind the people who are already doing the work, without making them write a forty-page funding application to access it.
The 2025 cohort
Six organisations, £50,000 distributed across South Yorkshire.
Apprenticeship support
South Yorkshire Apprentice Network
Access and retention
Women into Construction (SY chapter)
Mental health on site
Mates in Mind on Site
Care-leaver entry to trades
Care to Construct
Tool and PPE grants
Doncaster Trades Foundation
Site visits and outreach
STEM in Schools Yorkshire
Sample list - replace with the verified 2025 cohort names before launch.
Applications for 2026
Open in autumn 2026. If you run a programme helping young people into construction trades in South Yorkshire, register your interest and we'll send you the details.
Register interest