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Robin Longbottom on a forgotten trade that was essential to the textile industry

A HISTORIC charity is once again offering grant aid to students.

A HISTORIC charity is offering grant aid to students.

FUNDING is being ploughed into a series of projects across a community.

The Harehills Foundation Trust, established in 1744, provides young people with financial help for their education. The charity was started when Sarah Heaton left £200 to provide free education in English and Latin for children from the Oakworth, Newsholme and Slippery Ford area. Qualifications have been relaxed since then to cover anything to do with education. But it still only applies to people living in the area covered by the former Oakworth Urban District Council. “The truste...

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