Scholarships

We are delighted to have recently donated $40,000 to four charities in support of extracurricular youth education programmes relating to the environment. Each organisation has received $10,000. The recipients are: The Bermuda National Trust, The Bermuda Zoological Society, The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute and Waterstart. The work that these organizations do, links with the Garden Club’s objectives by providing educational opportunities for our children and will potentially benefit the community at large and future generations.

The Garden Club is pleased to have supported Alison Copeland in her pursuit of a PHD at Durham University in the UK.

She is exploring the ecology of Bermuda’s invasive plant species, including their origin and introduction history and the ecological traits that our invasive plants share (e.g the size of their fruits and their methods of dispersal, growth form etc.).

Alison is also examining what plant communities the invasive species form with native plants in various unmanaged habitats around the island as well as looking at a few fleshy-fruited invasive species to confirm that they are dispersed by birds.

The Garden Club of Bermuda is pleased to announce our 2021 Scholarship awardee Dakhari Wade, who will be attending Nottingham Trent University in the U.K., to begin a Foundation Year in the field of Horticulture.

Dakhari was a graduate of the Skills Development Program in 2014/15 and has since worked in his chosen field for Sousa’s Landscaping and most recently with the Department of Works and Engineering. He is the first Skills intern to be awarded a Garden Club scholarship and we are very proud of this young man and his achievements.

The Garden Club of Bermuda is pleased to present our 2019 Educational Scholarship to Lucas Bridges. Lucas has just completed his first year at The Agricultural College, North Carolina State University in Raleigh NC and will continue his studies there for another year in Horticultural Science Management and small scale farming. Lucas says “The slight shift in focus allows me to develop my knowledge of soil science, weed and disease control and greenhouse crop production in more depth and is more in line with how I foresee my future developing in Bermuda.”

Lucas has been supported and mentored by Roland “Junior” Hill at J&J Produce for several years and has been spending this summer as an Intern at the Hill’s farm, primarily responsible for their cherry tomato crop.

The Garden Club of Bermuda has awarded scholarships in 2018 to two students wishing to pursue agriculture related subjects overseas.

Lucas Bridges will be attending the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University. He will be studying horticulture and agriculture and anticipates learning about crop production in relation to plant and soil sciences.

Malachi Symonds, a returning scholarship recipient, is continuing his studies at Earth University in Costa Rica and is looking to earn a Bachelor of Science in agronomical science.

A spokeswoman for the club said: “We wish much success to these Bermudian students who are pursuing their studies abroad.”

“The Garden Club of Bermuda together with Mrs Ed Manuel is delighted to award the Ed Manuel Memorial Scholarship to Malachi Symonds. Donations were made to The Garden Club in memory of Mr. Manuel with the expressed purpose of a scholarship.

It is our pleasure and privilege to give that scholarship to Malachi who is currently a student at Earth University in Costa Rica studying for a B.Sc. in Agronomical Science.

A cheque in the amount of $7,000 was presented to his parents, Mr and Mrs Troy Symonds by Mrs Ed (Marian) Manuel. Also in attendance were Cindy Young, President of the Garden Club of Bermuda, Anna Fulton, immediate Past President and Jan Macdonald, Scholarship Chairman.

We wish Malachi all the very best in his studies and hopes he will bring his knowledge and enthusiasm back to Bermuda on completion of his programme.”

The Garden Club of Bermuda’s scholarship recipients for 2016 were:
Anna Terceira (returning winner) Horticultural Therapy, Kidane Callender (returning winner) Horticulture and Landscaping, Kahnae Bean, studying Project Management at the University of Hertfordshire in UK, and Kiarrah Rogers studying Landscape Architecture and Business Leadership at Guelph University.