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Development Trust awards £290,000 in scholarships

Posted 12 February 2015

Ãå±±½ûµØ presented £290,000 worth of scholarships to 102 students this week. 

The university’s Development Trust hosted its ninth annual Scholarship Presentation on Wednesday.

Development Trust consultant, Renée Gallina-Morris said: “All those students who have been awarded scholarships have been selected following engagement with a rigorous application and interview process.  The total financial assistance the scholars will receive for this academic year will be to the value of £290,000, an increase of 15.5% over the previous year.  

“The afternoon served as an excellent opportunity for the sponsors and scholars to meet in an informal setting, thus allowing the students the occasion to celebrate their outstanding achievement.”

Many of the industry scholarships includes placement year jobs in addition to payments of up to £10,000 in the current academic year. Read more about each award .

Students named as scholars 2014-15 year were:

•. Aviagen - Alex Heath BSc (Hons) Agriculture; Bernard Matthews - Thomas Chambers FdSc Agri-Business; Cargill Meats Europe - Isaac Bebb BSc (Hons) Agriculture; Faccenda: Jonathan James Broadhurst BSc (Hons) Agri-Business; William de Mey BSc (Hons) Agri-Business; Kelly Howe BSc (Hons) Agri-Business; Georgina Pearson BSc (Hons) Food and Consumer Studies; Hannah Rose BSc (Hons) Agri-food Marketing with Business Studies; Ava Stanbridge BSc (Hons) Food Nutrition and Well Being; David Stubley BSc (Hons) Agri-Business. Faccenda Employees Award - Imogen Manning BSc (Hons) Agriculture. Gressingham Foods - Sophie Langmead BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Marketing; Samuel Whitmore BSc (Hons) Agriculture. 

•: Adam Montgomery, MEng Agricultural Engineering; Hywel Phillips, MEng Agricultural Engineering; Alison Skea BEng (Hons) Agricultural Engineering; Jacob Peter Smith, MEng Agricultural Engineering; Max Thorne, MEng Off Road Vehicle Design; Finlay Whitehead, MEng Agricultural Engineering

•: Alexander Gormley, FdSc Agriculture ; Andrew Gregory-Campeau, BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Mechanisation; Judith Harcombe BSc (Hons) Food and Consumer Studies; Lee Higgins, FdSc Agriculture; Mark Laverty, BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Mechanisation; Luke Ormond BEng (Hons) Agricultural Engineering; Josh Pocklington BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Crop Management; Victoria Stead BSc (Hons) Countryside and Environmental Management; Jack Stilwell BSc (Hons) Rural Property Management; Alex Terrett, FdSc Agriculture.

•: Lucy Barnes BSc (Hons) Agri-Business; Victoria Collishaw BSc (Hons) Bioveterinary Science

•: AB Agri - Kelly Hoodless BSc (Hons) Animal Science; Garth Partnership - Emma Pattison BSc (Hons) Animal Science; Packington Free Range - Grace Young BSc (Hons) Animal Science; Pitwherry Ltd - Katie Bell FdSc Agriculture; Provimi - Benjamin Donald BSc (Hons) Agriculture; Rattlerow Farms - Adam Brankley, FdSc Agriculture.

• Extended Foundation Degree Scholarship - Anna Proffitt BSc (Hons) Food and Consumer Studies

• Final Year Scholarship - Michelle Evans BSc (Hons) Food Nutrition and Well Being

• Postgraduate Scholarship - Jennifer Williams, MEng Agricultural Engineering

• President’s Scholarship - Victoria Stead BSc (Hons) Countryside and Environmental Management

• Top-up Scholarship - Bethany Proctor BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Crop Management

• - Richard Hemphill BSc (Hons) Agricultural Engineering

• - Henry Graham BSc(Hons) Agriculture

•- Andrew Gregory-Campeau BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Mechanisation

• - Hywel Phillips MEng Agricultural Engineering

•p - Eliot Greenfield BSc (Hons) Agriculture

• - Hannah Stanbury BSc (Hons) Countryside and Environmental Management

• - Alexander Bentley, BSc (Hons) Wildlife Conservation with Natural Resource Management; Luke Cross, BSc (Hons) Countryside Management

• - Rebecca Lund BSc (Hons) Food Nutrition and Well Being;  Gordon Robinson BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Farm Business Management

•The Newport & District Agricultural Society Scholarship - Alex Heath BSc (Hons) Agriculture

•Development Trust Chairman’s Discretionary Award - Colin Maher BSc (Hons) Agriculture

• - Jacob Simpkins BSc (Hons) Countryside Management

• - Joe Haseley, FdSc Countryside Management

• - Eleanor Kane, BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Animal Science

• - William Taylor BSc (Hons) Agri-food Marketing with Business Studies

• - Claire Cianchi, MSc Sustainable Agriculture and Rachel Glover, MSc Sustainable Agriculture

•: William Alderson BSc (Hons) Agriculture; Jayne Bennett, BSc (Hons) Food Nutrition and Well Being; Michael Rudge, BSc (Hons) Food and Consumer Studies; Edward Talbot BSc (Hons) Agri-Business.

•: Joe Betts BSc (Hons) Countryside and Environmental Management; Emilio Martinez BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Animal Science; and Jayne Bennett, BSc (Hons) Food Nutrition and Well Being

•Harper Adams in Ireland/Devenish Nutrition Scholarship - Jack McFarland BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Marketing

•The Portora Royal School Scholarship - James Law BSc (Hons)Agriculture with Animal Science.