Travel Grants

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel only read one page" St. Augustine
 
The Ogden Trust has supported several of our students over the past year to undertake interesting, educational and worthwhile projects and expeditions abroad. 
 
 
 
The Harvard Crest
 
Harvard University Summer Courses 
 
Ross Cowley took an eight week summer program at the prestigious University of Harvard, where both Sir Peter and Cameron Ogden have studied. Ross is an Ogden Trust undergraduate science scholar at The University of Warwick, studying Physics. However at Harvard he studied a course in "Financial Modelling, Capital Acquisition and Investment Banking" which has helped him secure a job with Credit Suisse after he graduates.

 
Demi Strong on BSES Arctic expedition 
 
British Schools Exploration Society 
 
 
Five students from Ogden Trust sponsored specialist schools took part in British Schools Exploration Society trips, undertaking serious scientific expeditions in remote and challenging environments, including Greenland and The Canadian Yukon.
The project Lissie worked on 
 
 
Gap Year Volunteering 
 
Lissie Muller spent ten months living and working in Tanzania during a gap year between leaving school and university. Amongst many other things Lissie worked with disabled people on a charity project producing crafts, learnt Kiswahili, and helped to illustrate a book
 
 
A JST voyage 
 
The Jubilee Sailing Trust 
 
 
Several Scholars have completed voyages with The Jubilee Sailing Trust over the past year. The Jubilee Sailing Trusts matches disabled young people and able bodied volunteers who then sail one of the Trust's two tall ships on various routes around northern Europe
 
 
 
To make the adminstration and application process of these schemes easier we are launching a travel grant scheme for any Ogden scholar to undertake the above projects, or any educational or worthwhile project or travel. We hope to make full details of this scheme available in the Spring on our scholars' website, www.ogdentrust.net.  Fuller reports on all of the above trips are available at ogdentrust.net. The Trust also aims to run a trip to CERN, Europe's leading nuclear physics research site and home to the Large Hadron Collider, over the course of 2008.
 
For any further enquiries please email Anne Hoole at The Ogden Trust.