The B-Less Scholarship

The B-Less scholarship is a one-year award of £2,000 designed to facilitate the sustained engagement in focused ministry opportunities among undergraduates for students working towards a graduate degree. Placements provide scholars with the chance to serve alongside, and learn from, practiced hands in context.

Ministry opportunities

Ministry placements are assigned on the basis of individual scholars’ gifts and availabilities from a portfolio of options in consultation with our ministry partners.

Scholars can be deployed in evangelistic contexts (e.g. table leadership at weekly evangelistic discussion clubs or supporting college-based outreach throughout the academic year), in faculty ministry contexts (e.g. supporting undergraduate theologians and philosophers through participation in the UCCF Theology Network group), and by contributing to church-based student ministry opportunities (such as working in partnership with the pastoral staff at Oxford Presbyterian Church or supporting student Bible studies at St Ebbe’s Church).

Training and Teamwork Opportunities

Colloquia and one-on-one supervisions serve to develop and nurture each scholar’s vision for usefulness among undergraduates integrating the programme into their larger postgraduate educational experience and creating opportunities to review progress. At the beginning of each academic year we hold a conference for existing and incoming scholars, in the hope of generating an original and adaptable point of view on graduate ministry among undergraduates with applications for the Universities in which we serve.

This Year’s Scholars

This year, we have sixteen outstanding scholars from a range of different academic disciplines studying and serving in and around Oxford, Durham and Cambridge Universities.

Apply

To apply for the B-Less Scholarship, please download and complete the PDF application form: