In 2012, the Board awarded Scholarships to the Julian Ashton Art School to the value of $6,000 and allowed the JAAS to choose how it would distribute these funds. The Julian Ashton Art School decided to award two scholarships as follows.
The Scholars for 2013 (awarded in November 2012) were:
Full-time Scholarship
Susan Turtan-Heslin
Part-time Scholarship
Jan Pretorius
The Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts made a donation of $1,000 to White Ribbon for educational purposes.
The School also made a small donation of $50 to the Cancer Council towards cancer research.
In years past, the Board of the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts gave sums of money to Sydney University, the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Western Sydney to provide an endowment for prizes to be awarded annually at these Universities.
These endowments, managed by the Universities, provide sufficient funds to enable prizes to be awarded as follows in 2012:
Megan Nash
Chi Man Lau, Natalie Hull and Jaime Looten
Georgia Rushbrook-House
Shannon Said
Robyn Williams
Donna Britten
Amanda Vella
Hayley O’Brien
The following grants an donations were awarded in 2012 by the Board on the recommendation of the Grants Committee.
The prizes and scholarships listed were awarded by the organisations concerned from the grants or from previous endowments to the organisation.
SMSA (Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts)