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and I am enormously grateful for this

amazing opportunity.” Morgan was one of

21 students to be given financial support.

As well as the grant, they will be mentored

by BAFTA members, award winners and

nominees, and be given free access to

BAFTA events.

Beth Kealy

(M, 2002-2004) writes:

“When I came to the reunion some years

ago, I was working as a hip-hop dance

teacher in Brighton. I left Brighton in 2010

to live in London, where I was offered a job

with a genealogy firm, tracing beneficiaries

for intestate estates. I taught myself A Level

Biology and Psychology over the course of

the next year alongside my job, and was

offered a place at St George’s University in

London to study Physiotherapy. I then spent

the summer of 2012 on a trip to America,

where I travelled around Montana and

Wyoming, exploring Yellowstone National

Park, and working cattle from horseback in

the Pryor Mountain Reservation. I left the

degree course in November, and began to

plan my move to the USA. I set up my own

genealogy company here in the UK, Red

Trace Ltd, which is now starting to make

real strides. I am currently studying for a

Diploma in Manual Therapy in Seattle so

that I can work in Washington, both on

humans and on horses. I am now married

and living in the US permanently.”

2007

Arjun Sinsinwar

(G, 2002-2007) writes:

“I have been working in the travel trade in

various roles travelling all over the world

to remote and culturally rich destinations,

such as in December trekking to the only

Everest-view hotel. Last year I succeeded

in becoming a Fast Stream Desk Officer

in the Home Office. Most recently I have

established my own travel firm based in

North Oxford called Discerning Journeys,

specialising in South Asia. This includes

unique tours to the remote Himalayan

Kingdom of Bhutan, luxury trains in India,

and pioneering river cruising along the

Ganges for the first time in over a hundred

years. I have completed a BSc in Geography

from UCL, an MA from Westminster,

MBA with Distinction at the University of

Greenwich, a certificate in Management/

Strategy from the Said Business School,

and I am pursuing a Professional Doctorate

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Arjun Sinsinwar

(DBA) at Nottingham Business School

which I am due to complete in 2017

focusing on digital media marketing in the

travel trade. I have been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Geographical Society and a

Member of the Institute of Directors.

2010

Grace Robinson

(K, 2005-2010)

graduated from Durham University with

a 2.1, and then flew to climb Kilimanjaro

two days later raising money for brother

Joe (H, 2003-2008)’s charity JR4JR. She is

now studying for a Masters, and has a job

awaiting her upon its completion. Grace has

kindly provided the following description

of her journey: “Over the course of the

past academic year (2013/2014), my final

year at Durham, I decided to embark on a

series of challenges to raise money for the

John Radcliffe Neuro ICU under the banner

JR4JR. This is a charity close to my and

my family’s hearts because the JR worked

around the clock to save my brother Joe’s

life after a mere 3% chance of survival from

a car accident in 2009 leaving him with a

TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury); fellow student

and friend Grace Hadman (M, 2004-2009)

died. I undertook several challenges before

Kili to help raise awareness and money: The

Salisbury Aquathalon, The Blenheim Palace

Triathlon and the Thame 10km run. Then

in July the biggest of all, climbing Mount

Kilimanjaro.

It took seven days, via the Lemosho

Route to the summit. I undertook the

challenge with some naivety about how

hard it was going to be, and it is safe to say

it was definitely one of the hardest things

I have ever done. I began suffering from

altitude sickness on day two, and every night

woke up in temperatures of minus 15 and

frost on the bottom of my sleeping bag.

However, I managed somehow to keep

putting one foot in front of the other, and

after a gruelling eight-hour nighttime ascent

of vomiting, dizziness and asthma attacks,

I successfully made it to Uhuru Point, the

summit of Kilimanjaro, the roof of Africa at

5,895m.

It was an incredibly difficult challenge,

and I think it’s safe to say my walking boots

will not be used for a VERY long time, but I

wanted to help raise money and awareness

for TBI’s, because they turn lives upside

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