JP Marks

Our fund gives financial support to those who otherwise could not afford a proper education leading to professional qualification and fulfilling careers, chiefly in the mining and related sectors.We provide bursaries. You provide commitment and dedication.

We pay for: registration, tuition, exams, textbooks, extra lessons by tutors, meals, accommodation, capacity-building programmes

We also pay for full-time and part-time correspondence courses.

We help as many bursars as possible, depending on fund availability. Usually, about 250 students a year receive support (200 undergraduates and 50 postgraduates).

Historically, our fund assisted members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), dependants, immediate family, retrenched members and retirees..

Those parameters have been significantly widened through partnership funding to cover all those connected to the mining, energy and constructor sectors who wish to use education for personal and family empowerment, but face financial constraints. This is limited to funding received.

South Africans are the principal beneficiaries, but we also help those from the wider region.

Our goal is to enable better education, better opportunities and a better life.

In special cases, we help learners from grades 10 to 12, but we focus mainly on students working toward degrees and other qualifications at universities and TVET Colleges .