OBU Scholarship Applications Opening Soon!

The Shore Old Boys’ Union will shortly be offering all students in Year 12 the opportunity to apply for the OBU Scholarship. The Old Boys’ Union Scholarship is awarded by the Old Boys’ Union to a boy (or boys) completing their final year at School.

The scholarship is provided to the successful recipient/s after they leave Shore to provide financial support in the pursuit of an activity (or activities) that seek to serve the wider community. Shore has always sought to ‘Build Good Men’. One of the characteristics of good men is that they seek to serve others, including family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and wider society.

The purpose of providing the financial support is so that the Old Boy can pursue some form of service activity that they might not normally have the resources to pursue. The scholarship seeks to acknowledge both a boy’s appreciation of the School’s aims and his desire to put into practice, in a unique way, what he has learned. The value of the scholarship is a minimum of $3,000. It may be utilised by the recipient/s over a three-year period up to 31 December of the third year following the final year of School. The Scholarship recipient/s are announced in the final week of Term 3.

Some examples of service-related activities might include volunteering for a charity, serving with Indigenous communities, participating in an Aid programme, assisting rural communities in times of need, volunteering with the SES, volunteering with a local community group, or volunteer coaching at a local club or sporting club.