Old Boys’ Union: Scholarship

In the last couple of weeks, we have submitted information on the Year 12 Old Boys’ Union Scholarship. Our current recipient is Angus Fisher (’22), a very talented artist volunteering at HammondCare. Angus is working with their team who offer art therapy for Dementia patients. Angus is currently exploring other ways in which he can make a positive impact in the community through art and with the help of his OBU Scholarship.  

If your son is passionate about giving back, making an impact in the community or a particular cause or organisation and would like to pursue this further, then the OBU Scholarship could be a way for him to do so. 

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 the 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 also his desire to put into practice, in a unique way, what they have learnt. 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.