News tagged with Scholarship

A colourful musical background while growing up in East Africa has led Elliot Black to establish the first ever Kenyan National Youth Orchestra (KNYO) – and has resulted in an Excellence in Performing Arts Scholarship from Edge Hill.

For more than a decade, Samantha Earnshaw has given up hours of her spare time as a volunteer with St John Ambulance. Her dedication to that charity, among others, has earned her the rank of Corporal, a trip to meet Princess Anne at Buckingham Palace, and now an Excellence in Volunteering Scholarship from Edge Hill.

A debilitating disease hasn’t deterred Mary-Jane Hartley’s spirit in carving out a new career and offering counseling to vulnerable families. Her determination has resulted in an Inspiration Excellence Scholarship from Edge Hill University.

Life-saving helicopter pilot Raja Khan works tirelessly within the Liverpool Muslim Community, which has earned him a Chancellor’s Scholarship.

Lobbying politicians, royalty and aristocracy were all in a day’s volunteering for Bradley Taylor, whose work in South Africa has earned him an Excellence in Volunteering scholarship.

Being born with dwarfism hasn’t deterred Sean Clare from reaching his full potential as an athlete. Now he is celebrating news that he’s in Great Britain’s Paralympics team and has been given a Sporting Excellence Scholarship from Edge Hill University.

An unswerving belief in the power of education has been the driving force behind Natalia Nelson’s voluntary work over the years – and has led to an Excellence in Volunteering Scholarship from Edge Hill.

While most of her friends were thinking about boys and buying the latest clothes, 13-year-old Vikki Shacklady was starting her first volunteering job at a local charity shop. No wonder that, aged 25, she has just been voted Student Volunteer of the Year.

A Reverend Jessie Jackson Scholarship is to be awarded annually by Edge Hill University, with a lecture also to be delivered each year addressing issues of race equality and human rights.