The Royal Female School of Art Foundation (RFSA) is a growing charity based in central London. Our support is open to all students through grants to educational and charitable organisations (we do not fund individuals). Our mission is to widen access to the arts, design and associated professions by supporting those who might otherwise be unable to start or stay in further and higher education, in Greater London. They may be suffering disadvantage because of financial hardship, cultural barriers, physical or mental disability, or caring responsibilities. The Charity’s origins date back to the founding of the Royal Female School of Art in 1842. The school was established under royal patronage, with the aim of educating young women in the arts and allowing them to gain “honourable and profitable employment”. Whilst the school was later subject to a merger, its ethos is continued by the RFSA charity and its Trustees, who are custodians of the school’s historic funds and assets. Fanny McIan was the School’s first Superintendent from 1842–1857 (F. Graeme Chalmers, ‘Fanny McIan and London’s Female School of Design, 1842–57: “My Lords and Gentlemen, Your Obedient and Humble Servant”?’, Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, 1995–1996), and novelist Dinah Mulock was among its first students.