The David Colegrave Foundation has choose its scholarship winners for the 2020 - 21 season .
Receiving over £ 11,000 between them , nine students have had a boost to their future study in sustainability , ethnobotany , biodiversity , commercial-grade gardening and plant bringing up .
The £ 1,500 John Gibson Environmental Scholarship winner is Eve Halliday
Eve is in the second year of the BSc in Horticulture with Plantsmanship delivered by SRUC / RBGE . When selecting her 2d - year labor , Eve was particularly keen to do a undertaking involving practical gardening . Eve is particularly concerned in the conservation , diversity and environmental aspects of plants and gardening .
Commenting on receiving the scholarship , Eve said : “ I am thrilled to be a recipient of the John Gibson Environmental Scholarship . It will help me to continue my written report in gardening and phytology and follow a life history in restore biodiversity to our native habitats . I look onward to creating more connexion between horticulture and preservation in the UK . ”
The £ 1,000 BPOA / Peter Seabrook Scholarship winner is Joshua Blakey
Joshua is presently read for a BSc ( Hons ) in Commercial Horticulture at Hadlow College ( North Kent College Group/ University of Greenwich ) . Joshua is the student representative for his year and he has also engaged in a partnership course of study with the University of Greenwich to enable him to follow a wise man at the Natural Resources Institute .
comment on receiving the encyclopaedism , Joshua said : “ I feel exceedingly honoured to have been awarded this scholarship . It will provide great financial support as I carry on my Commercial Horticulture degree with Hadlow College , peculiarly when beginning my thesis afterward this summer . It will help oneself fund new chance and relieve some of the fiscal pressure of being a student . ”
The £ 1,500 Ball Colegrave Scholarship winner is Molli Christman
Molli is presently forge at RHS Garden Hyde Hall .
The £ 2,500 Research Scholarship winner is Francesca Ablett
Francesca is presently in the final year of a BSc Honours grade in Biological Sciences at the University of Leeds , with a particular interest in plant sciences .
Commenting on receiving the learning , Francesca suppose : “ I am abide by to have received the horticultural research learnedness and I am excited to get my task . I am very thankful to the David Colegrave Foundation for this worthful opportunity to evolve my interest in plant breeding , and to Tim Kerley for his insight and boost . ”
The £ 1,000 Student Scholarships winner are :
Rebecca GilroyRebecca is a full - time bookman on the FdSc in Horticulture Programme at College of Agriculture Food and Rural Enterprise ( CAFRE ) . She has a household scope in horticulture and plans to mould for the family nursery and landscape gardening job when she graduate .
comment on receiving the eruditeness , Rebecca aver : “ When I first hear about the David Colegrave foundation scholarship , I was excited not just at the cerebration of winning but at the chance of being involved with the basis which has help and inspired so many young horticulturalists like myself . Having now won I am have the best with excitement and extremely thankful for the opportunities I have now been given . ”
William CharityWilliam is currently in his second year of study of the City & Guilds , grade 3 Technical Extended Diploma in Horticulture at Writtle University College . Outside of college , William has develop his own local garden upkeep business , and has already applied and been assume onto a three - twelvemonth BSc in Horticulture degree trend .
comment on welcome the scholarship , William said : “ I am really proud of and mad to have been select for a David Colegrave Foundation student scholarship . I am passionate about horticulture and this erudition will enable me to consider water supply usage in bedding plant , which otherwise would not have been potential . I am keen to make horticulture more sustainable . ”
Nicole ConnollyNicole is a yr one part - time student on the FdSc in Horticulture Programme at CAFRE Greenmount . She join the line with an interest in pursue a vocation in vegetable production and residential area horticulture .
remark on invite the learnedness , Nicole said , “ I was passing excited and surprised to discover that I was a recipient of the David Colegrave Scholarship . I ’m very thankful for the institution being so supportive of my education . Thanks to this scholarship , I will be capable to reduce my employment docket , focus more on my work , volunteer and my long - term destination which is to improve the eudaemonia of the elderly citizenry in my residential district through horticulture . ”
Sarah PowellSarah is read for a BSc(Hons ) in Horticulture and Plantsmanship at SRUC Edinburgh . Sarah is a keen and enthusiastic horticulture student who has get from a background of out-of-door pursuits and activity .
Commenting on receive the scholarship , Sara said : “ I am overjoy at have the scholarship . begin full - prison term breeding as a mature pupil has been a enceinte but exhilarating tone . Having enjoyed horticulture in my spare fourth dimension throughout my life , it is very exciting to be on the journeying to becoming a professional within the manufacture . ”
Scott GallowayScott is currently meditate for a HND in Horticulture at SRUC . He is presently work on his Graded Unit 2 project which is ego - led enquiry on a relevant horticultural topic : ‘ Evaluation into different free - drain growing medium on the increment pace of Bergenia ‘ Oeschberg ’ theme clipping ’ .
remark on receive the scholarship , Scott said , “ I ’m delighted to be awarded the Student Scholarship from DCF and would wish to thank Adam Dunnett for the interesting conversation around ethnobotany . I trust herb yield is going to be a vital area of elaboration for the industry and look onward to studying Herbology to bear out my goal of originate herbs commercially . ”
