Beacon Changemakers
The Beacon Scholarship is a leadership development programme that nurtures 'changemakers'. We find young people with leadership potential who have financial need; provide them with access to the highest quality education; offer leadership training and 'high-touch' mentoring; and create a vertical pathway for transition into leadership positions. The vision is to develop a group of ethical changemakers who have a multiplier effect to generate positive social change.
Our Model
Our Partners
Our Scholars
Our Model
We select all-rounders who (a) have the capacity to 'take people with them' and (b) are already making a difference now. We enable them to access top schools and universities through scholarships using a stakeholder model. Each Scholar is given Mentors, and Scholar performance is formally reviewed annually through a Summary Performance Evaluation. We offer a Leadership Development Curriculum over a 4-year cycle, and Scholars must do a Citizenship Project every summer.
Our Partners
The Beacon has developed partnerships with world-class educational institutions, to promote access for financially disadvantaged students who show leadership potential, but do not have sufficient means to pay full fees. Alongside mentoring and leadership development, educational fee support is provided as follows:
- For the Beacon Schools Scholarship 2/3 of a Beacon Scholar's annual tuition (and boarding) fees, with families needing to fund the remaining 1/3.
- For the Beacon University Scholarship full tuition fees for Beacon Scholars, with families needing to fund living costs and all extras.
Our Scholars
To win a Beacon Scholarship candidates must show evidence of:
- Exceptional academic ability; and
- Excellence in sport, music or drama; and
- Outstanding interpersonal skills; and
- Role-model citizenship
Additionally, they should, in their behaviour and outlook, demonstrate they are a 'Changemaker':
(a) show the capacity to 'take people with them'; and
(b) be able to make a difference now, not at some later point in time.
Our scholars exhibit these characteristics, and are required to continue to do so in order to qualify as Beacon Scholars.
