Allan Gray opens high school entrepreneurial scholarships

The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation has opened applications for its High School Scholarship Programme to all current and eligible Grade 6 learners across South Africa.

The High School Scholarship is designed to nurture young entrepreneurial development and aims to produce confident scholars with entrepreneurial thinking, unlocked potential, leadership qualities, and a desire to create value and solve our country’s most pressing social and economic challenges.

To be a successful recipient of this scholarship, Grade 6 learners must demonstrate academic excellence, entrepreneurial leadership potential, as well as financial need.

The programme offers Grade 6 learners funding to enrol at leading high schools across the country in addition to support and interventions that develop their entrepreneurial talents.

Application requirements:

• Applicants must be in Grade 6 this year (2024) to apply
• Applicant must not be older than 12 years of age and not younger than 11 years of age in Grade 6 (candidates must be born in 2012 and 2013)
• Clearly demonstrate financial need (Household income must not exceed a monthly gross income of R20,000, including business revenue)
• Applicant must obtain a minimum of 70 % for English and Mathematics in Grade 5
• Applicant must be a South African citizen

Ways to apply:

• Visit www.allangrayorbis.org to apply online or download the application forms
• Post application form to Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, Freepost no: CB 11349 Kloof Street, 8008. Register your mail so you can track it to avoid the application form from being lost
• Hand Deliver to 46 Hof Street, Oranjezicht Cape Town or 1st Floor, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, 1 Protea Place, Cnr of Fredman Dr and Protea Place, Sandton, Johannesburg

Applications close on 16 September 2024.