Elizabeth Bradford Application

The Bradford Scholarship Application

INSTRUCTIONS:

AGEHR, Area I, Inc. established the Elizabeth Bradford Endowment Fund to provide scholarship assistance to encourage choirs to attend their first Area I Festival/Conference. In non-Festival years we also grant scholarships to directors to encourage them to attend their first national educational event. We hope that attending these types of events helps ringers and directors to develop their handbell skills and helps them to become more active in the guild. Only the income from the endowment is used for scholarships, but this is enough to provide partial registration assistance for several choirs/directors each year.

Choir Scholarships for AGEHR Area I Festival/Conference are available to Area I handbell choirs who are attending their fist AGEHR, Area I Festival/Conference. Please be aware that the scholarship awarded will only pay a portion of the registration fee for Festival.
1.A choir will be defined as a performing group of 7 or more ringers.
2.Preference will be given to those choirs having at least 75% of their members planning to attend the Festival/Conference.
3.Prior attendance by a director or a single member of a choir will not preclude eligibility for this scholarship.
4.The choir must be a member in good standing in Area I.
5.You must fill out a registration form for Festival in its entirety and pay a $100 deposit per person prior to the Festival’s early bird deadline.

We would like to know a little bit about your handbell program. How long has your handbell choir been in existence? Why does your choir want to attend Festival/Conference? What are your expectations for attending the conference?

AGEHR, Area I, Inc. The Bradford Scholarship Application INSTRUCTIONS: AGEHR, Area I, Inc. established the Elizabeth Bradford Endowment Fund to provide scholarship assistance to encourage choirs to attend their first Area I Festival/Conference. In non-Festival years we also grant scholarships to directors to encourage them to attend their first national educational event. We hope that attending these types of events helps ringers and directors to develop their handbell skills and helps them to become more active in the guild. Only the income from the endowment is used for scholarships, but this is enough to provide partial registration assistance for several choirs/directors each year. Choir Scholarships for AGEHR Area I Festival/Conference are available to Area I handbell choirs who are attending their fist AGEHR, Area I Festival/Conference. Please be aware that the scholarship awarded will only pay a portion of the registration fee for Festival. 1.A choir will be defined as a performing group of 7 or more ringers. 2.Preference will be given to those choirs having at least 75% of their members planning to attend the Festival/Conference. 3.Prior attendance by a director or a single member of a choir will not preclude eligibility for this scholarship. 4.The choir must be a member in good standing in Area I. 5.You must fill out a registration form for Festival in its entirety and pay a $100 deposit per person prior to the Festival’s early bird deadline.

Director's Name	Number of years directing this choir :
Group Name
Address1
Address2
City, State, Zip
Member Number
Phone
Email
Number of ringers in choir?	Number planning to attend the Festival/Conference?
Have you ever attend an Area I Festival/Conference? Yes No
Have you ever attended any other Area or National events? Yes No
How many ringes have attended Area Festival/Conference before?
The scholarship will only cover part of the registration fees for you choir. How are you planning on funding the rest of the cost of the attendance?
We would like to know a little bit about your handbell program. How long has your handbell choir been in existence? Why does your choir want to attend Festival/Conference? What are your expectations for attending the conference?
Applications must be postmarked by February 15. You will be notified by March 15 of our decision. Applications for scholarship should be sent to the address indicated below. Your Festival registration should still be sent to the Festival registrar. You must fill out the entire Festival registration form prior to the Early Bird deadline for all ringers who plan on attending, indicating on the form that you are applying for a scholarship and sending in a deposit of $100 per person instead of the entire registration fee. After you have been notified about our scholarship decision you will be expected to pay any remaining balance of your registration fees. Awards will be distributed on a per ringer basis. For example, if you receive an award of $100 per person and you have 10 people attending, then you will receive $1000 off your registration fee. If any of your ringers withdraws their registration your total scholarship will be reduced by the amount for one ringer unless another ringer takes their place.
When you click 'submit' this form will be sent to Nancy Renolds, Chair of the Bradford Scholarship Fund. If you prefer to print and send this form please send, by February 15, 2009 to: Nancy Reynolds, Bradford Scholarship Chair 206 Boynton Ave. St. Johnsbury VT 05819 For questions please contact the scholarship chair, Nancy Reynolds


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