The Three Counties Agricultural Society has announced new bursaries to assist students from the society’s constituent counties, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, to attend agricultural college.
These bursaries have been established following a bequest from the late John Tedstone of Kingsland, Leominster, explained Three Counties Agricultural Society chief executive Ken Nottage.
John Tedstone bequeathed his home, New House Farm, to the society, with the proceeds of the sale of the property placed in trust and used in accordance with John Tedstone’s wishes, the provision of support for students to attend agricultural college.
“The bursary will be linked with the name of John Tedstone. We are indebted to the generosity of John Tedstone and his faith in our agricultural society.”
Bursary details
Details of the John Tedstone Bursary will be made available early in 2021.
Those interested in applying for a bursary should follow the Three Counties website or write to the society, explained Nottage.
With a legacy stretching back to 1797, the current Three Counties Agricultural Society was established in 1921 and comprises Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, and Worcestershire counties.
Nottage added:
“The society is a registered charity whose objects are to promote agriculture, horticulture, arboriculture, apiculture, forestry, rural crafts and skills and conservation for the public benefit; these are delivered mainly, but not exclusively, by holding shows.
The society’s other objects are to advance science, research, and education in these subjects, and to advance the education of the public in the role played by agriculture and horticulture in the conservation of the rural environment.
“As such these new bursaries fit perfectly within these objects and will further allow the society to meet its charitable aims.”
