Kenneth Black Bursary Scheme

Registered Charity No. 208080

APPLICATION FORM II – EMPLOYED

For applicants who are receiving training within the horticultural sector including apprentices

Please complete the application form and email to or post to

The Administrator, The Hardy Plant Society, 15 Basepoint Business Centre, Crab Apple Way, Evesham WR11 1GP

APPLICANT’S DETAILS
Name:
Address:
(incl. post code)
Email Address:
Job Title:
Training Component:
Name of supervising member of Staff: / Please submit a separate reference in support of the application stating the benefits and outcomes to the applicant.
Name, Address and Email of the Company or Business supporting the application:
REASON for APPLICATION
Please list institutions, businesses or places you wish to visit:
Total Cost of Trip:
Employer’s Contribution:
Support Requested:
STATEMENT of WORTHINESS
Please explain briefly why you feel this project deserves support:
Signature of Applicant: Date:
We ask that recipients of an award send us a copy of their report and/or a 250-word resume about themselves and their reason for the funding. Either may be used for publication in The Journal at the Editor’s discretion but will be uploaded to the HPS website on the Bursary page for others to read.
Are you happy to cooperate with this request? Yes/No (a refusal will not affect your application)

Revised March 2018

The Objects of the Hardy Plant Society form the criteria on which an application is judged. Please read them carefully to assess the validity of your application.

THE HARDY PLANT SOCIETY

Registered Charity No. 208080

The Charitable Objects of the Society as set out in the Constitution

The Objects of the Society shall be:

a)to advance the culture, study and improvement of hardy herbaceous plants;

b)to preserve the older, rarer and lesser well known hardy plants and varieties and prevent their being forgotten and lost to cultivation;

c)to advance the knowledge of, and foster public interest in, hardy plants by publications, exhibitions or displays, by stimulating research and experiment and by awarding bursaries;

d)to provide expositions of hardy plants at horticultural gardens or gardens open to the public and to provide facilities for giving advice on the culture of plants;

e)to organise visits to places of interest in connection with the study of hardy plants and to co-operate with other bodies having similar or sympathetic aims;

f)to do such acts as shall further the active and corporate life of the Society, which may lawfully be done by a public body established only for the purposes recognised by the laws of the United Kingdom as charitable.