Can a government school establish a scholarship fund that it owns or includes?
No. A scholarship fund must be established for charitable purposes. This means that if the fund is established as a separate entity it must be a charitable fund, and if the fund is operating as part of an organisation, the organisation must be a charity. A government school is not a charity and the school can not be endorsed as a DGR for the operation of a scholarship fund established as part of the school. However, a scholarship fund for eligible scholarships at government schools may be established as a separate charitable fund or established as part of another organisation where that organisation is a charity.
