Skills Scholarship Criteria
The Skills Scholarship is five $300 grants to contribute towards or cover costs of outdoor skills acquisition and training for young adults, including hire of an instructor for a club course or for an individual to partake in an instructor-training course.
GENERAL CRITERIA:
- Applicants must be under the age of 30 on the day of the specified closing date.
- The applicant must have been a financial member of a tramping, mountaineering or similar club affiliated with FMC for at least one year prior to submitting the application.
- The grant is to be used within one year of its receipt and the club/recipient is to confirm to FMC that the course was undertaken. In addition, they must be prepared to participate in any FMC publicity of the scholarship. If these two points are not adhered with, the grant must be repaid to FMC, in full, immediately upon request.
- The application must be supported by a written endorsement from the supporting club’s executive (e.g. General Committee, Chief Guide or President) and the endorsement should provide evidence of commitment to the club by the applicant (e.g. previous evidence of participation and leadership) and how attending the course or partaking in the expedition will be of benefit to both the applicant and the club (e.g. nurturing future leadership and equipping them with suitable skills). Clubs are especially encouraged to support those participants where financial hardship or other extreme factors may otherwise contribute towards their non-participation in such activities.
- Previous winners of a given category of scholarship will not be eligible to reapply for the same scholarship on subsequent occasions
- Both scholarships can be held with other external awards.
SKILLS SCHOLARSHIP CRITERIA
Grants to contribute towards or cover costs of outdoor skills acquisition and training for youth, including hire of an instructor for a club course or for an individual to partake in an instructor-training course.
- The course under consideration may either be an internally run club course, or an external one provided by an approved provider (Mountain Safety Council, Outdoor Pursuits Centre, or other NZQA recognised outdoors institute). Suitable course topics may include one or some of the following: Bushcraft, Navigation, Introductory or Advanced Alpine/Snow Skills (including Avalanche Awareness), Leadership or similar. In addition to covering enrolment fees, the grant may also be used to cover the costs of travel associated with attending these courses. They may also be used by a university, polytechnic or high school club to hire an instructor for the purposes of group training, or to send an individual on an instructor-training course for the purposes of passing that knowledge on to that club’s wider membership.
- The maximum amount of the grant will be $300 or the total cost of the course or instructor hire, whichever is the lesser.
- A club may only receive one grant of this type per application round but may also hold it in conjunction with the Expedition Grant. However, a single recipient within the club may not hold both types of scholarship in any one year.
You can download a pdf file of these criteria from here
page updated 11/11/2011