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(5) (6)Seale-Hayne Educational TrustWhen the University of Plymouth bought the freehold to Seale-Hayne, the moneypaid (and some other S-H related monies) was invested into this charitabletrust. The trustees administer the fund and make annual awards out of theinterest earned from the investment. For more information or to read reportssubmitted from previous recipients of the awards, go to the Trust website at;https://collaborate.plymouth.ac.uk/sites/shet/Pages/default.aspx (OR, type“plymouth shet” into a search engine)Independent Trustees:• Dr Anita Jellings• Sir Harry Studholme, (Farmer, Forester, Chair of Forestry Commission)• Melanie Squires, MBE (Regional Director, National Farmers Union)Nominated Trustees (proposed by the Governing Body of the University ofPlymouth):• Michael Pearson (Farmer, Pro-chancellor University of Plymouth)• Richard Holland (Chair of the Farmers Club, Whitehall, London)Mick Fuller is Secretary to the Trust and he kindly forwarded the detail of thegrants awarded by the Trust in May 2015.The successful applicants were:Alan Tappin - EU Water Framework Directive standards for phosphate in rivers.Awarded £5,073Peter McGregor - ResM fees bursaries - Duchy. Awarded £9,920Rich Billington - Generation of cell lines from ecologically relevant invertebratesof the South West. Awarded £710Jessie Woodbridge - What is ‘natural’? Integrating long-term regional scalepalaeoecological data. Awarded £9,995Trevor Grigg - Can we use short interfering RNA (siRNA) as species specificinsecticides? Awarded £9,500Carly Benefer - Developing a molecular method to assess parasitism levels ofa key oilseed rape pest. Awarded £6,699Richard Yarwood - Farming, Dementia and Networks of Care. Awarded £8,732Robert Newbery - Seed-corn support for interns to facilitate knowledgeexchange between Plymouth University, Duchy College and Farm Shop Trust,Kenya. Awarded £5,300Total funding £55,929Mick Fuller reports; This year the Board of Trustees bade farewell to MaryQuicke who has served a sterling stint of more than 10 years on the Board ofTrustees. Mary has been replaced on the Board by Sir Harry Studholme, anotherformer staunch supporter of Seale-Hayne. Mel Squires (Seale-Haynian andRegional Manager of NFU) has taken over as Chair of the Board of Trustees.This year the Trustees commissioned an Impact Report of SHET funding andwere very pleased with the outcome. Readers are encouraged to take a look atthe report which is available online at the SHET website.University News - Until 2015, agriculturally related research was beingchampioned through CARS (Centre for Agricultural Sustainability), but from2016 and following a research organisational review at the University, the subjectis now being championed through the ENFOB (Environment, Food andBiotechnology) research group within the School of Biological Sciences. Thegroup is led by Professor Tom Hutchinson who recently joined the Universityfrom Syngenta and who sits on FERA and DEFRA advisory groups. Prof MickFuller, who formerly led CARS, moved into phased retirement and is only at theUniversity 0.2 of his time, but continues with a number of research projects andconsultancy roles around the world.Lost souls 2016During the year 2015 to 2016, we have had mail returned from the followingSeale-Haynians. If you are in contact with any on this list, please either get intouch with them or get in touch with Ian Goodwin (admin@seale-hayne.com) tolet them know that we are looking for them.1945 - Mr John D B Griffin, East Sussex1959 - Mr John Dexter, Isle of Wight1963 - Ms (Edwina) Jules Lane, Cullompton, Devon1999 - Mr Michael R. Hughes, Devon2000 - Mr Mark E.N. Gillard, Faversham, Kent2004 - Mr Michael P. Bray, Vale, Guernsey2005 - Mr Robert D. Kennedy, Liverpoolm- ”WW/m (.‘mnpany ufl‘anm'nThe ChaHe-nge of RmalLeadership22 Jun - 4 Feb 2017.Expandyour mindm mecumhueshungmeruralman-w Developyour Indersnlpskills.Adv-rm warm-realmInImam-ummmnmummwmdmmet-mSmmu:anew-mmym.ukw-n: mmmmlmslmmwmrgm