Rotary Club awards scholarship

Recently the Rotary Club of Deloraine awarded their Vocational Tertiary Scholarship to Neve Clippingdale.

She will undertake a Bachelor of Marine and Antarctic Science at UTAS Hobart.

She has lived in the Meander Valley all her life, firstly on a dairy farm at Western Creek and in Westbury for the past eight years.

She attended primary school at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Primary School, Deloraine, and then high school at St Patrick’s College.

She has been heavily involved in volunteer work; her first volunteering experience was via a school-based leadership opportunity in 2018.

She experienced a wide range of volunteering opportunities such as making soup for the St Vincent de Paul Soup Van, helping out at different Launceston primary schools, helping migrants and refugees practice their English, and sorting clothes at the St Vincent de Paul Warehouse.

These opportunities allowed her to experience what it was like to volunteer and give back to her community, encouraging her to apply for other volunteering opportunities.

Following the closure of the St Vincent de Paul warehouse at the end of 2018, she looked for something closer to home.

She became a volunteer at Village Central Westbury, where she sorted clothes, tidied stock and assisted customers.

This volunteering opportunity was especially important to her because it allowed me to meet members of my home community.

Other volunteer work she has performed has been playing music at the Dairy Plains Christmas BBQ, car parking at the Craft Fair, and has been a Buddy in the Smith Family’s Student2Student Reading Program through her school, St Patrick’s College.

She is a passionate, enthusiastic & excited young woman who can’t wait to commence her studies.

Her aspiration when completing her course is to work in Tasmania to improve and preserve the ecosystems in our oceans and rivers.