Student Stories
Grey College Trust Awards 2015
Grey College Trust Awards
Each year the Grey College Trust supports students in their endeavours
The Grey College Trust, chaired by the Master of the College, exists to support the wider life and overall
student experience at Grey College. Our Charitable Aims can be summarised as follows:
- To provide funds towards the improvement of our buildings, facilities and grounds;
- To provide assistance for any College Club or Society;
- To provide Personal Development Awards, Scholarships and Bursaries for current students, allowing
them to undertake extra-curricular activities and thus provide additional opportunities.
One of the key ways we support our current students is through the provision of awards to allow them to
complete activities which they would financially be otherwise prohibited from undertaking. During 2014-15
we supported students to undertake a diverse range of projects, some highlights of which are given here.
Work experience
at an Indonesian
Hospital
Jae Seon Hong shadowed a doctor in the
hospital for three days
per week for a month.
At the end of the work
experience, Jae Seon
had firmly decided that
medicine is the field he
would love to enter in
the future. As food and
internal transport was
cheaper than expected,
Jae Seon was able to
use the remaining part
of the award to help
out teaching English
and Mathematics in an
eco-micro school, called
“Sekolah BISA!” a small
school for 25 Indonesian children in a shanty
town.
The Bakewell
Bakeoff
The ‘Study India’
programme
Lara Dolden, used money awarded by the Trust
to go to the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival and perfom with the University
Light Opera Group following two weeks of rehearsing in Durham. The
play coincided with the
BBC TV series, which ensured a sell-out 18-night
run of the musical. Lara
played the role of Flora
Drizzle, an incredibly
keen yet completely
disastrous chemist and
aspiring cook! By the
end of it she knew every
stage transition and
lyric back to front. They
were the first group to
ever put on this new
musical at the Fringe, a
musical originally written and performed by
some students from
the Guildford School of
Acting, some of whom
attended performances
of the show.
Visiting India, Jess
Angell learned about
another culture, whilst
discovering its work and
study opportunities. She
spent time in the colleges of Delhi Univsity,
where the student work
ethic was inspiring and
their involvement in
extracurricular activities
was reminiscent of Grey!
Time was also spent in
a rural context, teaching
history in a local secondary school. There
was a huge contrast between this rural establishment and the urban
one. Ultimately the two
week programme has
given Jess renewed
confidence about her
future - she wishes to
work within the education sector.
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Teaching English
in China
Emma Cooper took part
in a Summer school
programme run by the
organisation IVSC, and
was based in the city
of Yangshuo in south
China. During this
programme she spent
5 weeks teaching English to Chinese children
aged from 8 to 14. After
this, Emma continued
her trip, travelling for
just over two weeks,
seeing the beautiful
Longji Rice Terraces,
Chegdu and Beijing;
watching Giant Pandas,
visiting national parks
and treking through the
mountains of Western
Sichuan. There was great
variation in culture and
landscape even within
one of the country’s
provinces. This extra
time gave Emma more
chance to practice her
Mandarin for her final
year.