Community Scholarship

Application Form 2018-19

Dear Student,

Thank you for downloading a Community Scholarship Application Form.

Community Scholarships are a great way of making a positive impact on your local or student community and the Scholarship panel is looking forward to reading about your idea.

Running a project like this will help you develop the independence and transferrable skills that employers are looking for.

To help you in the writing process, please take some time to think about the following criteria. The scholarship panel will be assessing your idea against these criteria and you should therefore do your best to detail about how your idea will demonstrate each of the points below.

How does my proposal:

Demonstrate a contribution to the development of local community (Medway or Canterbury) and/or the wider University environment

Develop skills of the workforce in the local community / students on campus

Provide educational, cultural, physical or environmental benefit

Provide an inclusive extra-curricular experience open to all Kent students at Canterbury and Medway

Some other useful questions to ask yourself:

How many Community members or students are likely to be affected?

To what extent will they benefit?

Is the project proposal feasible?

What kind of support will I require?

Once complete, please send the application form to:

Good luck!

The Community Scholarships Team

To be completed by the applicant:

*INSERT PROJECT NAME*

COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION

Full Name

Student ID #

Programme of Study

Date of Birth

Email Address

Contact Telephone

To be completed by the Scholarship Officer:

Document History

Distribution

This document has been distributed to:

Contents

1Projects Overview…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3

2Measuring Project Success……………………………………………………………………………………………..3

3Timescales…………………………………………………….…………………………………………………..…………..3

4Project Group………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……..4

5Budget………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………………..4

6Training/Support………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………..4

7Supporting Information…………………………………………………………………………………………………..4

8Referees……………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………5

To be completed by the applicant:

1Project Overview

Background

Aims

Opportunities

2Measuring Project Success

(What aspects of the project will be the measurable indicators of project success?)

Measurement

/

Current

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Target

E.g. Increase in number of tennis players in local schools / 500 / 750
E.g. Working with more schools in the local area / 10 / 15

3Timescales

(When you propose to start and finish specific activities in your project –some examples below)

Activity

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Start Date

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End Date

E.g. Establishing Project action plan / Nov 2018 / Nov 2018
E.g. Emails schools to see who would be interested in tennis workshops / Dec 2018 / Dec 2018
E.g. Promote workshops in schools / Jan 2019 / Mar 2019
E.g. Run the tennis workshops on chosen schools / Jan 2019 / Mar 2019
E.g. Project evaluation meeting / Apr 2019 / Apr 2019
E.g. Submit project evaluation / May 2019 / May 2019

4Project Group

(Who will be involved in the running of the project? What will they do?)

Job Title

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Name

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Role in project

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Frequency of meetings

Project Lead / Your name / What you will do in the project
Project Members / E.g. Marketing/Communications – promoting the project to our target market
E.g. Logistics – arranging catering, transport
E.g. Schools Liaison – working with the schools to arrange dates/times etc.
Project Support / Debbie Worthington / Advise, train, assist with access to resources / Fortnightly

5Budget

(Breakdown of project costs and their timescales)

Item

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Date Required

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Amount Requested (£)

E.g. Design of posters/flyers / Dec 2018 / £80
E.g. Printing of posters/flyers / Dec 2018 / £200
E.g. Staff costs – 3 persons, 6 x 1hr sessions at £7.50/hr / Jan 2019 / £135
E.g. Transport to schools - £20 per return journey x6 / Jan-Mar 2019 / £120
E.g. Purchasing of tennis rackets, balls and other materials / Jan-Mar 2019 / £300

Total

/

£835

6Training/Support

(What training or support might you need in order for your project to be successful?)

7Supporting Information

(Is there anything else you would like us to know in support of your application?)

8Referees

(Please provide details of two referees who can support your scholarship application. It is recommended that the referees have interest in the project area / can attest to your ability to complete the project.)

Name

Relationship

Email address

Contact telephone

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