The Farm Trip Bursary


This page should be read in conjunction with our Farm Midwifery Workshop Bursary Fund Page, which tells the story of this bursary! We are delighted that, thanks to the help of lots of people, we are able to offer a bursary worth £400 to a student midwife as part of the cost of our workshop at The Farm Midwifery Center in Tennessee, USA. We have offered bursaries for the 2005, 2006 and 2007 workshops and another is now on offer for the 2008 workshop!

This award is open to all non-salaried student midwives who will be current students on pre-registration midwifery courses at the time of application (March 2008), and who will be on the same programme at the time of the workshop (September 2008). Applicants will be required to complete an application form. We ask you to give us the name and contact details of one of your midwife teachers in order that we can approach them for a reference in support of your application. One bursary is awarded each year, and this award is available to pre-registration student midwives in any country, although unfortunately we can only accept applications in English.

The application form can be accessed here. Please read all of the information on this site and on the form before filling out your form on a word processor and then sending it to us via email.

The closing date for applications will be Friday 28th March 2008. This deadline will be strictly adhered to, and no applications will be accepted after this date, so please apply early to avoid disappointment and / or missing the deadline!

Judging will be carried out by an independent panel and the decision will be made within four weeks of the closing date.

Any applicant who would like to come on the trip regardless of whether or not they are awarded the bursary is welcome to apply and pay a deposit for the trip through the usual route, in order to guarantee their place. (It is possible that places may no longer be available after the bursary application closing date, as the workshop fills on a "first come, first served" basis, and the trip does tend to fill up quickly). However, one place on the trip will be held open until after the closing date as the bursary fund is equally open to applicants who feel they are only able to come if their bursary application is successful. No distinction will be made between applicants from these categories as far as the award is concerned. If the successful applicant is someone who feels they are only able to come if their application is successful and the communal accommodation is full by the time the bursary is awarded, the bursary will be extended to cover the cost of accommodation in the small-group cabin so that the applicant does not incur additional cost.


To see more information about the trip itself, click here.

If you have any questions, please email us on
withwomanuk@yahoo.co.uk



We would like to take this opportunity to thank the midwives, students and others who are supporting this bursary by buying raffle tickets at our workshops, ordering books on amazon.co.uk through this web site, attending occasional charity events and making donations towards this cause. It is their generosity which is making this bursary possible.

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