Scholarships and Bursaries

Secondary School Scholarship Application: Download the application form using this link; review the information and application credentials to ensure you qualify; complete the forms; and return the document to your school councillor: CFUW PQ Secondary school Application

Postsecondary & Postgraduate Scholarships Application: There are several different awards in this category. Please download the application form using this link, carefully review the information and application credentials to ensure you qualify, complete the form,  and return the document to us via email: CFUW PQ PostSecondary Application

Early Childhood Education Award: For a woman entering the second year of a two-year Early Childhood Education programme at an accredited ECE training institution, for certification in BC.  CFUW PQ PostSecondary Application

Mature Student Bursaries: Specifically for women who have completed their secondary education but never got to pursue or finish further studies for a post-secondary degree or diploma or certificate. Please download the application form using this link, carefully review the information and application credentials to ensure you qualify, complete the form,  and return the document to us via email: CFUW PQ PostSecondary Application

CFUW PQ SBT Apprenticeship Award Vancouver Island University (VIU): For women currently enrolled in an apprenticeship trade at VIU, you can apply for this award through your VIU counsellor.

Trade Award North Island College (NIC): For women currently enrolled in the second or more year of a trade or certificate course at NIC, and graduated from SD69, you can apply for this award through your NIC counsellor. 

Our National organisation also makes  awards  to eleigible women. The CFUW Trust Fellowships help support women doing advanced graduate study and research in a number of fields including:

• science,
• home economics,
• education,
• visual arts,
• music,
• social sciences and more.

The 2025–2026 Fellowships and Awards Online Competition is now open effective November 15, 2024. CFUW Parksville Qualicum has no involvement in this competition.

All completed applications and required documentation must be received on or before January 10, 2025. The application process will be closed as soon as Universities Canada (the National Fellowship and Awards Administrator) receives 225 applications for review.

http://cfuwcharitabletrust.ca/fellowships-awards/how-to-apply/

The Scholarship and Bursary Trust places a high priority on protecting privacy. This privacy policy was created in order to demonstrate the Trust’s commitment to the privacy of those who apply for our awards or who make a donation, and applies to all information collected. We make every reasonable effort to prevent the loss, misuse, or disclosure of your personal information or any unauthorized access to that information.

Scholarship & Bursary Applications: We use the information you provide when applying for a Scholarship & Bursary to complete the evaluation process. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete the Scholarship & Bursary evaluation process or as required by law.

We use the information you provide about your referees only to complete the Scholarship/Bursary evaluation process. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete the process. All applications are received in pdf format to an email account maintained solely by the Corresponding Secretary. Each Trustee receives a memory stick containing the eligible applications and after the evaluation process is completed, the sticks are returned to the Corresponding Secretary and the information is erased. One copy of all original applications will be retained for one year by the Treasurer and will then be deleted. Email addresses of all applicants will be retained by the Corresponding Secretary for one year only in order to advise applicants of eligibility for CFUW PQ awards the following year and will then be deleted. Any printed documentation relating to applications and evaluation materials will be shredded after the evaluation process is completed.

On all application forms: applicants are given the option to agree or not to agree to allow their photographs, names and accomplishments to appear in local papers, on radio and in club newsletters and our website.

Since its beginning in 1982, CFUW PQ club has been active in a variety of fundraising activities for scholarships. In 1984, the Ways and Means Committee organized the publication and sale of the first club cookbook; a second cookbook was published the following year, both raising seed-monies for our scholarship fund. Our first annual club book sale took place in February 1985, also to benefit scholarships.

The Scholarship and Bursary Trust (SBT) was formally established in 1987, (registered with CRA) and initially organized the books sale.  Subsequently the club became responsible for the book sale, the proceeds going to club operations and from these the SBT receives a grant. The first of the bridge luncheons was held in 1992, the goal of which was to establish and maintain a specific bursary for a mature woman entering or returning to post-secondary education.  A special fundraiser 2018, was our Memoir Writing Workshop, dedicated to raise funds for a one-time club Centennial Scholarship of $5,000 honouring CFUW’s 100 years. 

The SBT also relies on donated funds from members of the club and the public, as well as several bequests. Details on how to donate can be found here.