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Applications are invited for the 2012-13 Warwick Retired Staff Association Bursaries which aim to support creative and cultural extra-curricular activities by Warwick students. Awards are intended to cover a wide range of activities such as the performing arts - music, drama, dance and the creative arts - writing, translation, painting, sculpture, photography or design.

A sum of £8 0 0 will be available and a maximum of two awards, not necessarily of equal value, will be offered to the chosen applicants. In recent years we have supported a range of projects:

2^nd year Engineering: trumpet

1^st year Law: singer

3^rd year Theatre and Performance Studies: play dissemination

2^nd year English: Literature translation and performance

Postgraduate Applied Management:  concert of operatic extracts

2^nd year English Literature: arts magazine

Postgraduate: multimedia Chinese speaking website

Erection of a screw water pump for the Allotment Society by Engineering students

Interested students are invited to send a single typed A4 sheet, outlining their proposed activity and indicating how a WRSA Bursary would be used to help them. Timing and costing should be provided, together with an indication of the extent to which the project would benefit the University and/or the wider community as well as the individual recipient. 

It is essential to include on the application: name, contact addresses (postal and email), degree course, year of study, and, if appropriate, the name of a member of staff who could provide background comments on the proposal. Please note, charity applications are not eligible and previous successful WRSA Bursary recipients cannot re-apply. Ideally, the WRSA wants to provide ‘pump-priming’ money; projects that have already attracted considerable funding will not be as favourably considered as those for which a grant from the WRSA might make all the difference.

Whoever you are, whatever your project, make a strong case and, who knows, you could be successful. Recipients will be expected to provide the WRSA Committee with regular progress reports and to inform them of any performances, exhibitions etc. directly related to the project.

The closing date for applications is Friday 5^th October 2012. Successful applicants will be informed as soon as possible after this date and an award presentation will be made at a small reception in the Atrium University House later in the term.

Please send applications clearly marked ‘WRSA Bursary Application’ to:

Suzanne Keene, Hon. Sec. Warwick Retired Staff Association,

Human Resources, University House, Coventry CV4 8UW 

Or email: suzanne.keene@warwick.ac.uk