Justin Baring presents the JBSF initiatives to the Blackrock World Mining Trust AGM 

Following The World Mining Trust’s generous donation to The Julian Baring Scholarship Fund to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Blackrock World Mining Trust, Justin Baring presented the Trusts activities to shareholders at their AGM held at Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL Extract from The Blackrock World Mining Trust 2023 Annual report In celebration of the … Read more

Joint Venture with The Zimbabwean School of Mines

We are pleased to announce a joint venture between the Julian Baring Scholarship and The Zimbabwe School of Mines. This will involve The JBSF funding the tuition fees of several appropriate candidates during their time at the School.   The Zimbabwe School of mines is a mining training organisation based in Bulawayo “serving the SADC region … Read more

Justin Baring delighted to meet with students at University of Cape Town

Justin Baring, founder and co Trustee of The Julian Baring Scholarship (and UCT alumnus), was fortunate enough to meet in person the post graduate chemical engineering students that The JBSF is supporting this year and to discuss plans for the upcoming academic year. The trip started with a briefing from Interim Vice Chancellor Dr. Daya … Read more

Scholarship supports scores of talented young engineers at University of Cape Town

For more than a decade, the Julian Baring Scholarship Fund (JBSF) has been instrumental in retaining young African talent within the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (EBE). Since 2010, it has offered generous financial support to 24 postgraduate students, with donations totalling over £300,000 (R6m). Read the full … Read more

Julian Baring (18) visits UCT students supported by the JBSF

On a recent trip to Cape Town, I was kindly given the opportunity to visit the University where the some of the students involved in the Julian Baring Scholarship Fund all study. This visit was organised by Justin Marthinus and Angela Edwards who put time and effort into making my visit as wonderful as it … Read more

Latin American Venture, 2019

With the kind help of the world mining trust we are delighted to start our first latin American venture with several students starting at the Centro Tecnologico Minero (Cetemin Technical College) in Arequipa. Individuals from the communities that are close to mining operations have been given the opportunity to further their education with the goal … Read more

Walking with Poldark, September 2018

More than 50 people were involved over a September weekend, all flying the flag for The JBSF. Those of us who walked all three days covered 82.4 KMs or 107,773 steps – considerably further than we originally set out to do! This also included an underground tour of the South Crofty Mine. As you can … Read more

Publication of “Turning Rocks into Profits” – high grade exerpts from 25 years of Gold & General newsletters.

In order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the BlackRock Gold & General Fund, Blackrock very generously organised for the editing and publication of this book, edited by Michael Coulson and Justin Baring, which contains exerpts from Julian Baring’s weekly newletters. All the proceeds from the sale of this book will be … Read more

Publication of “Turning Rocks into Profits” – high grade exerpts from 25 years of Gold & General newsletters, December 2013

In order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the BlackRock Gold & General Fund, Blackrock very generously organised for the editing and publication of this book, edited by Michael Coulson and Justin Baring, which contains exerpts from Julian Baring’s weekly newletters. All the proceeds from the sale of this book will be … Read more

Substantial donation from Bristow Boyz, September 2012

I am delighted to be contacting you on behalf of our “Nos Vies En Partage” charity motorbike ride which took place from 1 June to 7 July this year. The participants on the bike ride were me, my two sons Grant and Craig and friends Rob Alexander, Rocky Boulanger and Rob Beaumont. In addition there … Read more