Funding for medical students
Bursaries
Undergraduate and postgraduate bursaries for medical students with a connection to the Wyre Forest area of North Worcestershire.
Undergraduate Elective Bursary
Applications are invited for the award of a bursary of £1000 to help support an elective placement during your time studying for your MB ChB (or equivalent) degree at a UK medical school.
The successful recipient of the award will be required to demonstrate a connection with the Wyre Forest Area of North Worcestershire.
As an example, this may include:
1. Applicants who live or work in the Wyre Forest area
2. Applicants have lived in the Wyre Forest area within previous 10 years
3. Applicants who attended secondary school in the Wyre Forest area
4. Applicants who were born in the Wyre Forest area
The Bursary will be available for the 2026 / 2027 academic year and applications should be submitted, including an elective plan and aims, preferably by email, and confirming eligibility, as above, before the end of October 2026
The recipient will be expected to write a short report at the end of the year to update the society of their progress.
The report will be published, including pictures, on the medical society website.
www.kidderminstermedicalsociety.co.uk
Further information can be obtained from, and applications submitted, to
Dr Tony de Cothi
Woodend view, New Inn Lane
Shrawley, Worcestershire. WR6 6TE
Email : tonydecothi@hotmail.com
Post Graduate Bursary
Applications are invited for the award of a bursary of £3000 to help support the first year of a 4, 5 or 6 year Graduate Entry MB ChB (or equivalent) course at a UK medical school.
The successful recipient of the award will be required to demonstrate a connection with the Wyre Forest Area of North Worcestershire.
As an example, this may include:
1. Applicants who live or work in the Wyre Forest area
2. Applicants have lived in the Wyre Forest area within previous 10 years
3. Applicants who attended secondary school in the Wyre Forest area
4. Applicants who were born in the Wyre Forest area
The Bursary will be available for the 2026 / 2027 academic year and applications should be submitted by email, before the end of October 2026
The recipient will be expected to write a short report at the end of the year to update the society of their progress. The report will be published, including pictures, on the medical society website.
www.kidderminstermedicalsociety.co.uk
Further information can be obtained from, and applications submitted, to
Dr Parveen Mann
Email to : parveen@me.com
Kidderminster Post Graduate Medical Centre
Annual Report for 2024 / 2025 - issued 7th May 2025
Dear Colleagues,
Accounts for the year ending 31st March 2025 confirm a balance of £80,049 in the society’s reserves - down from £90,587 in 2023 / 2024. At the same time, the trust’s income from our COIF (fixed income investment) has improved marginally to £2,481 while the capital sum invested has declined by £10,643 to £78,970. As a result of this rather modest investment income and expenditure of another £15,000 on five more bursary awards, the excess of expenditure over income remains significant at a level of £10,538. This compares with a negative balance of £8,139 in the previous financial year.
I can now report that our trustees met in the Education Centre towards the end of last year to consider applications for the Society’s postgraduate bursary for 2024 / 2025. Contact had again been made with 30 plus medical schools in the UK and these prompted five applications with clear cut connections to the Wyre Forest area. These included Syeda Saara, Brandon Caan, Phillip Cobon, Sophie Griffiths and Macaulay Rose, all of whom had local addresses and / or attended local schools. All five applicants were considered worthy and were each awarded the full bursary value of £3,000.
For the attached accounts and the above account details we are again extremely grateful for the service so generously provided by Gordon Cox. Please let me know if these accounts, or any other matter in this report, needs further clarification.
Best wishes.
Martin Lewis
Please note that this report was prepared by Martin Lewis who was chairman of trustees at the time.
He has now retired and his position has been taken over by :
Dr Tony de Cothi,
Woodend View,
New Inn Lane,
Shrawley,
Worcs. WR6 6TE