The ICULD&E Foundation

“The credit union leaders of today developing those of tomorrow”

The charitable purpose of the ICULD&E Foundation is to provide financial assistance as Course Bursaries/assisted places to qualifying credit union activists to attend Credit Union Development Educator courses outside their homelands. (The bursaries don’t cover travel costs.)  

In the past 4 years, 18 Development Educator graduates, known as “Pell Scholars” (from 11 countries and 4 continents) have received course bursaries to attend DE courses in Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe and North America. However, money raised from our fundraising events is not keeping up with the ever increasing demand for bursaries - to find out more and grow new leaders for the credit union movement worldwide, click here.

The ICULD&E Foundation also promotes:

• The Edward Filene Credit Union Awards for Performance Excellence – Great Britain & Ireland - “The Filene’s” - to inspire performance excellence across all categories of credit union operation, providing a better choice of financial products and/or services to the consumer  – click here to read more
   
• The Joe Biden Awards for the Credit Union Development Educator of the Year from Africa, Asia, Australasia, Caribbean, Europe and North America – “The Bidens”.    Development Educators from around the world demonstrating the power of the credit union movement to change communities and lives for the better.  click here to read more
   
• The Awards Celebratory fundraising Dinner - the Credit Union “Oscars” – at which the Filene and Biden Award Winners are honoured each year. See the list of Winners from 2011 to 2017  - Join us at the 2018 Dinner in Manchester on Saturday November 17th!