In 2011, the aims of the Trust and our corporate relationships remain intact, as does our determination to remain, as ASH himself always was, excited by new demands, opportunities, and modes of delivery.
A timeline
The remainder of this summary of the Trust’s work offers some examples from our 50 years, before we take a brief glance into the future. In 1968, as recorded in the minutes of its annual meeting with the British Council, the Trust agreed its first programme of donations, supporting 52 teachers from ten different countries to attend ELT summer schools in the United Kingdom in 1969.
In 1971, the Trust funded a teaching post for a UK lecturer in Czechoslovakia: such grants were made for a number of years. The Trust also made its first grant to what is now I AT E F L to support its conference and the publication of its newsletter. By 1975, the Trust was able to support six scholarships for study in the United Kingdom, subsidize the costs of British lecturers abroad, and contribute to the ESL/E F L work of VS O. By the late 1970s, support was being given to a growing number of scholarships, posts abroad including in South Africa, various British Council E LT programmes, and I AT EF L conferences in the United Kingdom and abroad. AS H died at the age of 80 in 1978. ASH’s widow Marian Hornby then
became a Trustee, and prior to her death in 1987 gifted to the Trust her share of A S H’s O U P royalties. In the early 1980s, along with IATEFL and VSO, the English-Speaking Union was among the regular grant recipients. The Trust’s records for 1986 include the gift to a project in Brazil of an electric typewriter, along with new generation language laboratories and overhead projectors, the ‘hi-tech’ of the time! 1987 saw a contribution to the Cultura in Chile following earthquake damage. In 1989, the Trust contributed to the costs of the library at the Krakow Institute of English Philology; Eastern Europe has been a significant recipient of Hornby support. By the early 1990s, the Trust no longer funded summer schools in the United Kingdom or lecturer posts abroad, preferring to concentrate its resources on scholarships for studies in the UK—seven, for example, in 1991, eight in 1992—the number each year being guided by the funds available. Then, as now, the costs were shared with the British Council, whose network of overseas and UK offices proposed and managed the scholarships, reporting annually to the Trust on the Scholars’ achievement. A. S. Hornby and 50 years of the Hornby Trust
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In 1970, the first overseas candidate, from Kenya, was accepted for a one year scholarship at Moray House College, Edinburgh. Peter Collier, ASH’s Editor at O U P, replaced Eric Parnwell on the Board of Trustees and remains a Trustee in the Trust’s 50th year.