In 2009, with the assistance of the University of Oxford, the Charlie Perkins Trust established annual Charlie Perkins Scholarships to provide two talented Indigenous Australians each year with the opportunity to undertake postgraduate study at the University of Oxford. With support from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and Cambridge Australia Scholarships Ltd., the scholarships will now also be open for study at the University of Cambridge.

These postgraduate scholarships are particularly directed towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians who have the potential to become leaders in their field of study and in their communities, and will go on to achieve highly and inspire the aspirations of generations of Indigenous students to come.