NAWF Scholarship and Grant Awards ~ Welsh Students


Lloyd Jones Scholarships at Bangor 2020
  • Elliot Goddard is an Industrial Design student from Bangor University. He is designing and manufacturing a sea kayaking wing paddle specific to the ‘Rockpool Taran’ Kayak, that must be robust and reasonably priced.
  •  Lois Gwenllian Griffiths is a Product Design student from Bangor University. She is working to expand The Calendar King product/service range into app design to help Firecracker Design and Print keep up with increasing competition. 
Gail Patrick Bursary 2019
  • Amelia Williams of Llanelli, West Wales, received a bursary to support her study of acting at California State Fullerton. A student at Wales Trinity St David's she is the first member of her family to study at University and, having been accepted to study for a semester in California, was nervous of the financial commitment of living so far from home. She said the bursary made all the difference. The Wales Board was impressed by her application describing her as "exactly the sort of student we wish to support".  A passionate advocate for Wales and the Welsh language, Amelia  was intent on sharing her  language with fellow students.
Lloyd Jones Scholarships at Bangor 2019
  •  Steffan Jones achieved first class honours and has based his research projects around environmentally friendly products.  Steffan developed the “Hybrid Range” of furniture which offers a recyclable solution for the future of the upholstery furniture industry to mitigate the 750,000 tonnes of materials discarded every year.
  •  Phoebe Sinnot also gained first class honours. She concentrated on reducing packaging at fast food outlets by introducing environmentally friendly alternatives to reduce plastic use and increasing recycling
Gail Patrick Bursary 2018
  • Ashleigh Harrold of Tredegar South Wales, was helped by the NAWF to exhibit at the 2018 Conference of Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Scranton, Pennsylvania.  A graduate of the Carmarthen School of Art, the only university in the UK teaching students to cast iron, she was invited her to present her performance sculpture consisting of a wooden and iron dragon that breathed fire through its mouth before consuming itself.  The performance is named 53,678, signifying the number of people who migrated from Wales to the Scranton area in the nineteenth century.
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Lloyd Jones Scholarships at Bangor University 2018
  •  Hari Tidswell  - Project to bring awareness of the negative effects of technology overuse to parents and teach them how it is changing and effecting the children of this generation and the next.
  •  Victoria Pulo  - Project to create a solution to reduce the impact of redundant furniture in landfill. The aim is to create a brand that uses redundant furniture products and recreate sentiment towards the item, resulting in less waste.
Gail Patrick Bursary 2017
  • Chloe Wilson from Porth in the Rhondda is a talented performing arts student.  She was eighteen years old when offered a part-scholarship to study at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.  She applied for the Gail Patrick Bursary to help with her travel costs.  A native Welsh-speaker, she is proud of her Welsh heritage and language and has been proactive in forging relationships with Welsh societies while in the USA.  Chloe was particularly excited to be invited to sing at the St David’s Society Gala Dinner.
Lloyd Jones Scholarships 2016
  • The 2016 recipients of the Lloyd Jones Scholarship are Rhiannon Haf Quirk and Richard Gabriel Noakes.  The scholarship recognizes the entrepreneurial accomplishments of graduates of Bangor University, North Wales. Rhiannon designs and manufactures soft toys and decorative furnishings for her proposed on-line business.  Meanwhile, Richard designed and manufactured a prototype camera system to increase visibility for tractor drivers reversing attached trailers on farms in mid-Wales.  Rhiannon and Richard graduated from Bangor in 2016 with a B.Sc. in product design.  
Gail Patrick Bursary 2010
  • Ollie Howell, "I was fortunate enough to receive the North America Wales Foundation's Gail Patrick Bursary at a turning point in my career, when I first met Quincy Jones whilst studying in Cardiff. The support from the bursary was crucial in helping me to record my debut album, which went on to receive international critical acclaim. I’m hugely grateful for the support the team at the NAWF gave to me to help make this music possible, and it’s helped cement many musical relationships and friendships with musicians in New York and Los Angeles.  In in December 2016 I travelled to Dubai for the opening of the first ever Quincy Jones jazz club. "