BASC backs four students in 2025 scholarship awards

Four students have been selected to receive funding from BASC’s scholarship programmes, with awards spanning traditional gamekeeping through to modern rural land management.

BASC’s 2025 recipients are Beth Stephenson and Oliver Clayton, who receive awards from the BASC Legacy Scholarship Programme. Becca Roe and Evie Woodward will gain support through the BASC Wildlife Fund David Gray Conservation Scholarship.

Miss Stephenson, from West Yorkshire, is studying gamekeeping at Askham Bryan College and wants to work with conservation organisations maintaining moorlands and wildlife habitats. “I am deeply grateful to be chosen for the scholarship,” she said. “The funding will help me progress over the next two years of my course and for the rest of my career within the shooting community.”

Mr Clayton, from the Isle of Wight, is studying game and wildlife management at Sparsholt College. His scholarship enables him to stay residential, “taking off the pressure of travelling to and from the Isle of Wight and ensuring I won’t miss out on important lessons like I did in my first year”.

Miss Roe and Miss Woodward are both studying rural land management at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester. Miss Roe aims to promote game management strategies for biodiversity and Miss Woodward hopes to become a chartered surveyor in the rural sector.

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