About the The Holcombe Academic Translation Trust
The Trust is a charitable trust registered in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1996 with the following objective:
The advancement of education by translating into English works of merit in the field of social science (including law), the human sciences and philosophy, originally written in a foreign language.
The trustees may apply the whole or part of the trust fund (a) by making financial grants to individual scholars engaged in the translation of books, articles or parts of books in one of the above fields of scholarship, or (b) by making financial grants to the authors of books, articles or parts of books in the above fields to cover the whole or part of the translation of their works
In order to obtain a grant, translators or authors will normally need to establish to the satisfaction of the trustees that the work to be translated has been assured of publication.
The trustees will normally wish to be satisfied of the importance of the work to be translated and of the qualifications and abilities of the translator.
Please note that grants are not made direct to publishers.