The Medway Community scholarship is a new opportunity available to all students registered or due to register at the Medway campus. A number of awards of up to £1,000 are made on the basis of project proposals put forward by each applicant.Projects are pitched, delivered and evaluated by the student and must benefit the Medway local and/or student communities.

Additional financial and staff provision is available in order to help support the scholar to achieve the objectives of their project. The experience represents an excellent opportunity to showcase and deliver the skills employers want to see and could be based in art, music, sport, environment or any discipline in which the applicant is interested.

Projects are only restricted by the imagination of the applicant and what is realistically achievable within the academic year with available funding.

Projects must be new voluntary activity for which the applicant is not receiving financial payment or academic credit.

Previous projects have included; the creation of a Record label, album and live performances, a creative community day for local families, curation of an international film festival and sensory experience for children, hands-on training in music creation and production for local young people and sports training for pupils in a local junior school.

For more information or advice on how to apply online please go tohttp://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate/departmental/medway.html or email to communityscholarships@kent.ac.uk.