Grants awarded to date have contributed towards the financing of diverse projects including the following:

1. Students attending courses at performing arts or theatre schools.

2. A piano student on an accompaniment course.

3. A student on a placement in Salta, Argentina compiling a database of the indigenous population and incorporating satellite mapping.

4. A PhD student to address an International conference on Applied Energy in Hong Kong.

5. A Fourth-Year medical student on an elective nursing placement in a Hospice for respite, rehabilitation and terminal palliative care.

6. A student on placement in a rural hospital in Cameroon, undertaking a research project on Burkitt’s Lymphoma.

7. Helping a deaf student buy books for a University course.

8. An annual travel scholarship at Nottingham University, awarded to a third year student studying business with a foreign language, similar to the degree awarded to Mark.

9. A secondary school boy undertaking clarinet lessons.

10. A teenage brother and sister selected to travel to Sao Paolo, Brazil to represent England at the World Karate Championships. Read more...

11. A teacher undertaking a voluntary 4-week teaching placement in Ghana.

12. Young people travelling to poorer countries to help with community or construction projects in schools and villages or to help in hospitals with the treatment of malaria, AIDS and TB or to undertake voluntary teaching work.

13. Examples of community projects include:

14. A gap year student teaching disadvantaged children in Ecuador for 8 months.

15. A secondary school pupil improving the recreational life of students at a Namibian orphanage school.

16. A school leaver undertaking 6 months’ teaching, youth and manual work in Zimbabwe as part of a Christian Fellowship team.

17. An engineering student spending 5 weeks as a volunteer in Kenya building a nursery school, mass centre and community hall. Read more...

18. A medical student working with a group to build an extra dormitory and play area in a school for Kenyan street children.

19. An undergraduate spending a month in Ghana helping to construct a 3-classroom block.  Read more...

20. A university student working with the people of an Indian village to build educational and housing facilities an a poor area impoverished by drought.