2015 Grants & Scholarships
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2015 GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS RAS FOUNDATION The Royal Agricultural Society of NSW (RAS) Foundation was created in 2007 and makes GIVING TO DATE a difference in rural and regional NSW by providing grants and scholarships for education and community development. Program: RAS Foundation Community Futures Grant Duration: 7 years Together with our generous donors and Grants Awarded: 20 Grants Funds Distributed: $430,000 supporters, the RAS Foundation helps rural Australians realise their potential and Program: JB Fairfax Award for Rural Journalism achieve their ambitions. Education and youth Duration: 7 years Grants Awarded: 7 Grants leadership are vital to building a strong and Funds Distributed: $70,000 sustainable future and addressing the skills shortage in rural and regional areas. Program: Rural Scholarships (TAFE & University) Duration: 5 years By providing a range of targeted grants Grants Awarded: 234 scholarships and scholarships for rural students and Funds Distributed: $1,129,000 communities, the RAS Foundation helps to Program: E3 Grant (retired) keep rural and regional NSW strong and Duration: 4 years vibrant now and into the future. Grants Awarded: Grants to 59 schools Funds Distributed: $266,000 Program: RAS Foundation Community Kitchen Duration: 4 years Grants Awarded: 5 Sydney Royal Show demonstration kitchens Funds Distributed: $110,000 Total $2,005,000 RURAL SCHOLARSHIPS RAS Foundation Rural Scholarships assist Abbie Anderson - Wee Waa Abbie Anderson is in her third year of a biomedical students who demonstrate a passion for rural science degree at the University of New England in issues and who are committed to playing Armidale. Working in her local pharmacy in Wee Waa as a teenager was the trigger for this 20-year-old’s a part in shaping the future of rural and interest in health and science. As a young Indigenous regional NSW. Providing a financial helping woman, Abbie is proud of the land she grew up on and passionate about rural life, a background that hand to achieve their education goals and inspired her goal to become a leader and educator aspirations, these scholarships are open to in the medical field, and to give back to country communities. students of any age and embrace a diverse Scholarship donated by: UNE Foundation/McLean Foundation range of tertiary education and training studies. Alexis Lenton - Broken Hill Alexis Lenton is commencing her first year of nursing externally through the University of South Australia, Adelaide. Nursing has been the 19-year-old’s dream ever since she helped care for her elderly grandparents before they passed away. Studying remotely has given Alexis the opportunity to work as an assistant in nursing locally at the Broken Hill Base Hospital and she is relishing the opportunity to give back to the community she loves so early in her career. Scholarship donated by: McLean Foundation Amy Derrick - Temora 23-year-old Amy Derrick cares about small rural communities and is particularly interested in the healthcare available to local residents. Amy is in her first year of postgraduate Doctor of Medicine Studies at the University of Queensland, and believes a rural doctor can play a greater role than a healthcare provider. When she graduates, Amy looks forward to becoming the type of rural doctor who is able to perceive community issues in their early stages and instigate change for the better. Scholarship donated by: OCS Fun Pty Ltd Andrew Marshall - Wingen Carly Franks - Glenhaven Andrew Marshall, 20-years, is a first year animal Carly Franks, 21, is completing her third and final science student at the University of New England in year of an agricultural business management degree Armidale. He aspires to contribute to the sustainable at Charles Sturt University in Orange. Once Carly production of livestock, and in turn a viable future started parading sheep and cattle with her high for the agricultural industry. From the time he was school agriculture show team, she knew a career in 15 years-of-age, Andrew relished hands-on farming Agribusiness was for her. While passionate about experience, helping out on a neighbour’s 10,000 sheep, Carly was recently offered an internship acre property. Now he looks forward to becoming a position with Cotton Australia and has found the cotton primary producer himself, ultimately running a high industry equally fascinating. Carly looks forward to supporting Australian agriculture following graduation producing property. and eventually be able to ‘give back’ to rural NSW. Scholarship donated by: Coal & Allied Community Scholarship donated by: ICT International Devlopment Fund Annie Nichols - Lower Belford Christopher Hvaas - Rylstone Annie Nichols, 21-years, is a fourth year physiotherapy Christopher Hvass is not only a second year agriculture student at the University of Newcastle. From a young student at Tocal Agricultural College in Paterson; he’s age, Annie became inspired to help improve access also a skilled sheep and alpaca shearer. The 21-year- to healthcare in rural areas, after witnessing firsthand old loves hard work, being outdoors and is passionate how a lack of services can impact the local community. about the wool industry. An interest in alpacas was She strongly believes in the importance community fostered from a young age as his grandmother and involvement, and one day hopes to work with the mother are both breeders. On graduating, Christopher Royal Flying Doctor Service. is keen to assist in the development and advancement Scholarship donated by: Rali Foundation of the alpaca industry. Scholarship donated by: Christopher Cuffe Foundation Brittany McVicar - Attunga Claudia Vicary - Barretts Creek Brittany McVicar is in her fourth and final year of rural Claudia Vicary, 21-years, is a fourth year agriculture science at the University of New England, Armidale. and law student at the University of New England, A childhood spent on a small property west of Armidale. Claudia grew up on her family’s grazing Tamworth sparked her interest in agriculture, which property at Barretts Creek in Northern NSW, and only developed further when she studied agriculture has had a passion for agriculture for as long as as an elective in high school. The 22-year-old has a she can remember. She aspires to combine the goal to become an agronomist, a specialty that will skills she’s learning in each of her degrees to start benefit rural and regional communities. a career in legal advising and policy making for Scholarship donated by: UNE Foundation/RAS Foundation Australian agriculture. Scholarship donated by: UNE Foundation/RAS Foundation Emily Knowles - Wellington Erica Longhurst - Burrawang Emily has always been interested in sport and the 18-year-old Erica Longhurst is in her first year as a rehabilitation of injuries and, as a result, physiotherapy medicine student at the University of New South was a natural career choice for the 19-year-old. Wales, Randwick. As an 11-year-old, Erica became Emily has always found helping others rewarding. intrigued with medicine when her sister underwent Upon completion of her degree, she looks forward intricate eye surgery. That sister, who has Down to working in rural hospitals providing rehabilitation syndrome, is an inspiration for Erica who is keen services to patients, ultimately allowing them to to research the characteristics of the disorder. On return to their homes and resume a good quality of graduating, Erica looks forward to being able to help life. Emily’s hope is that through gaining a Bachelor of others in a meaningful way. Physiotherapy, she can play a part in relieving health Scholarship donated by: Snow Foundation shortages in rural areas. Scholarship donated by: Cowled Foundation Emily Ryan - Coonamble Gabriela Corcoran - Boorowa Emily Ryan, 19-years, is a second year education Growing up in a rural community with access to student at the University of New England. Based on only one medical practitioner, Gabriela Corcoran her experience growing up in a small country town, can appreciate the importance of rural doctors. The Emily believes there are many advantages to rural 21-year-old is a fourth year medical student at the education. When she graduates, Emily hopes to teach University of New South Wales. With a passion for at a rural school where she can encourage student working with people and a keen interest in rural community involvement through initiatives such as healthcare and mental health issues, Gabriela looks partnership programs between nearby primary and forward to her time as a future GP and becoming fully high schools, and local show involvement. involved in the community she works in. Scholarship donated by: Agricultural Societies Council Scholarship donated by: Susan Maple-Brown of NSW Emma Sutton - Cassills Georgina Milne - Young Emma Sutton, 25-years, has always loved animals, but 21-year-old Georgina Milne is a second year veterinary it was the two years she spent working as a Jillaroo biology and veterinary science student at Charles on a cattle station in Queensland that inspired her to Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. Raised on the family’s train to become a veterinarian. Once she completes mixed farming enterprise, Georgina has always been her degree in veterinary science at Charles Sturt passionate about animals. However, it was the two University in Wagga Wagga, the final year student years working as a Jillaroo on remote stations in the hopes to practice in a rural community. Through her Northern Territory which cemented her interest in rural work, Emma