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Brodey Bursary

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lan Brodey, a former member of the club and the Chairman of one of the town’s major engineering enterprises, Norbar Torque Tools Ltd, was a practicing mechanical engineer who, in his will, left a sum of money to the Rotary Club of Banbury for the club to use at its discretion.

The Rotary Club, with the support of Ian’s family, decided to use his bequest to help students who propose to attend a recognised British university full-time for three years to study for a first degree in any Engineering Discipline, e.g. Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Environmental, Process Engineering. The first award was made at the end of the school year commencing September 2006, since. when there have been a further ten holders of the bursaries studying at universities. The Rotary Club plans to award up to two bursaries annually.

To be considered for any award, a student must be a British citizen with a main home lying within a ten mile radius of Banbury Cross and to have lived at that address for the whole of the two years spent studying their A levels, which should preferably, be in a school also in the defined area. Consideration will also be given to otherwise qualified students who need to study outside the ten mile zone because of the unavailability of their chosen course within it.

Application forms giving full details of the procedure for obtaining the awards, will be provided to Heads of Science Departments in all local schools and colleges where A level students planning to study engineering disciplines are taught. These forms may also be obtained by e-mailing secretary@banburyrotaryclub.org.uk. They should be completed no later than the time when the A level entry forms are completed and then returned.

Awards to suitable, selected candidates will be made, following a short interview, soon after the publication of A level results and the confirmation of places at universities i.e. in early September.

Applicants will be required to supply proof of both their results and offer of a place before the interview.