OBU Year 12 Scholarship 

If your son is passionate about giving back and making an impact in the community or a particular cause or organisation and would like to pursue this further, then the OBU Year 12 Scholarship could be a way for him to do so. This scholarship is awarded for post school service. The call for applications will open before the end of Term 2.

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. 

We recently received an email from the Volunteer Coordinator at HammondCare Wahroonga, regarding our 2022 OBU Scholarship recipient – Art Therapy volunteer Angus Fisher (’22)

“On behalf of HammondCare Wahroonga, I would like to extend our sincerest thanks to you and the Old Boys Union at Shore. Your generous donation enabled us to have three collaborative artworks completed by the residents, professionally framed. We have 57 residents living at our home, all of whom have a diagnosis of Dementia. Our artist visits each week to engage the residents in art projects, and she is assisted by volunteers such as Angus Fisher. We have hung the artwork in the main foyer and in the Multi-Purpose Room, where the maximum number of people can enjoy them. Having Angus as a volunteer was already a big enough gift, but he came with a donation as well!”