The Podmore Foundation

It is hard for anyone to reach their potential without a good education, as well as opportunities for personal development and to follow their dreams.

Kyol, from Werris Creek, NSW would not have received a secondary education that connected his talents and determination without a scholarship to board at Scots College, Sydney. 

Mitchell Whiteley receives the Mick Dodson and General Peter Cosgrove Scholarship for Leadership. Mitchell is sponsored by Steve McLeod (Class of 1973) John Hands (Class of 1973) and Glenn Crosland (Class of 1976). Born in Sydney in 1947, Peter Cosgrove completed his secondary schooling at Waverley College and entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in [...]

Waverley Stanley is an Indigenous man who grew up in Murgon and Cherbourg. situated 300 kms north-west of Brisbane. He is descended from the Wakka Wakka people, with ancestors from the Barungam people of Chinchilla. He completed his secondary schooling in 1984 at Toowoomba Grammar School as a boarder. He is still the only Indigenous [...]