2010 Applications
As a result of a generous bequest by the late Irene Snelling the Oxted United Reformed Church is able to offer a Voluntary Service Travel Bursary.

Applications are invited from young people between the ages of 17 and 24 who are taking part in a voluntary service project in the U.K. or abroad in 2010. Students should be living within the Tandridge area or attend Oxted School.

Since 2006, eight recipients have joined aid projects, which have varied in length from several weeks to eighteen months. These have been in Guyana, North India, Mexico, Uganda, Tanzania and Chile.

Three bursaries were awarded in 2009. Helen Goddard took a break from the engineering firm she worked for to supervise a water aid programme in Uganda for eighteen months. Stacy Berry, a former pupil of Oxted School, will be teaching English in a school in Chile for a year and James Dunn worked for six months for the charity Village Africa, which provides medical facilities and schooling in the Usambara mountains in Tanzania. 

Applications for 2010 must be supported by a reference from a Head Teacher, College Principal, minister of religion or other person of similar standing with close knowledge of, but unrelated to the applicant.

Applicants should submit:
• a detailed plan of their projected travel.
• details of whether the applicant intends to travel independently or under the auspices of an organisation, (details of which should be provided.)
• the objectives and length of the proposed involvement in the project.
• the estimated costs involved, with an approximate breakdown between travel, residential and other costs and an indication of how the student intends to raise the funds required.

Applications should be made in writing to:
Mrs L. A. Mitchell
The Snelling Legacy Fund,
Oxted United Reformed Church,
21 Bluehouse Lane,
Oxted, RH8 OAA.

Applications should reach the Snelling Legacy Fund by 26th February 2010. Interviews will be held before 12th March 2010
Recipients of the bursary will be required to submit a short account of their project (about 1,000 words) from which extracts may be published in the church newsletter.