2022 NAWF Scholarship Recipients

The North America Wales Foundation provides scholarships, grants, and bursaries to promote cultural & educational links between Wales  and North America 2022 Foundation Awards

NAWF Exchange Scholars
David McBride from Westampton, New Jersey is pursuing a Ph.D. at Aberystwyth University after receiving an MA in Welsh and Celtic studies. His doctoral research analyzes how poets addressed Welsh kings and their kindred in the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries.

Megan Kimmelshue from Jackson, Oregon is entering the second year of her doctoral research at Bangor University after receiving a master's degree in Celtic archeology. Her field work is allowing her to conceptualize childhood life in the Celtic Iron Age.

NAWF Organizational Grant
Heddwch Nain/Mamgu
The grant supports a visit to descendants of Elined Prys, one of three delegates who a century ago brought a peace petition signed by 390,000 Welsh women to America urging the US to join the League of Nations.

2022 Foundation Awards
The 2022 Lloyd Jones Award for Young Entrepreneurs
Elinor Jones ~ Elinor studied at Abbey Gate Collage in Chester. She is passionate
about building design and sustainability and has been influenced by programmers such as Grand Designs and George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. The lockdown offered Elinor time to think about her future. She invested in a shipping container and refurbished it into a summer house. As part of the family business Flintshire Fabrications, she generated her first “proper” sale of a shipping container converted into a summer house.
This experience inspired her major design project, to set-up her own company “Hubbox”that designs and manufactures prefabricated, flat pack and modular garden rooms with a clear focus on sustainability. The future plan is to grow “Hubbox” into an independent arm of the family business to become a strong competitor on a commercial level as demand for housing, hospitals and schools grows rapidly.

Ben Lewis ~  Ben came to study Product Design in Bangor University following his
studies in Ysgol Glan Clwyd and Deeside Sixth College. During his third year, in
addition to his major design project, Ben along with his fellow Product Design student, Dan Barry set-up a start-up business called UTILITY, founded out of hatred of rubbish products. To combat this, UTILITY takes everyday products back to basics and redesigns them properly. Having been successful in accessing support from Business Wales Accelerated Growth Program, the company has already manufactured its first product and engaged with customers in a beta test.