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MR MICHAEL ROBINSON AO PRESIDENT OF THE SCOTCH COLLEGE FOUNDATION

This year, following the successful completion of the Capital Campaign for the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre for Science, the Foundation has been turning its attention to providing financial certainty for the Scotch College Indigenous Scholarship Program, which makes our school accessible to indigenous students from across Australia.

Scotch has been welcoming indigenous students on academic and boarding scholarships since 2004. To date, thanks to the generosity of our community, and the support of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and the federal government, 12 boys have graduated from Scotch with their VCE, and eight have gone on to further education.

These boys have enriched the school culture, helped forge the goals of mutual understanding, friendship and respect, and gone on to make positive choices in their lives after they have left Scotch. All are now pursuing careers across a range of fields. Our intention is to support up to 10 indigenous students at Scotch at any one time.

Historically, the Foundation has approached the Scotch community annually to raise the necessary funds to advance the Indigenous Scholarship Program. Now the program is well established and its benefits clearly evident, we are committed to endowing it in perpetuity. To achieve this, we need to raise $5 million, the derived income of which will be used to drive and sustain the program in perpetuity.

In the short to medium term $300,000 is required to support the program each year. Contributions of any size and scope are warmly welcomed.

Here’s how you can support the program: • Make a one-off gift or make regular contributions to the Scotch College Indigenous Scholarship Fund. • Support the Scotch College Indigenous Scholarship Fund at one of the Foundation membership levels. • Financially support one student for the term of his schooling (approximately four years). • Perpetually endow an indigenous scholarship.

Donations to the Scotch College Indigenous Scholarship Fund are tax deductible. If you are interested in supporting the Indigenous Scholarship Program, please contact Tim Shearer on (03) 9810 4301, or tim.shearer@scotch.vic.edu.au

Thank you to all those who have supported this most worthwhile, long-term initiative in 2016.

A booklet containing more information about the Scotch College Indigenous Scholarship Program, including a donation form, accompanies this edition of Great Scot.

MR MICHAEL ROBINSON AO PRESIDENT OF THE SCOTCH COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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Updated: 3 October 2016