What is the Highbury Street Fund?
Aim of the Fund
What type of education is covered by the Fund?
Who can apply?
What is funded?
Highbury Street and Multicultural Ministry
Who is on the Higbury Street Fund Committee?
Possible training venues
Application Forms
What is the Highbury St Fund?
When the Prospect Uniting Church in Highbury Street closed it was decided that the money from the sale of the property would go into ministry rather than other buildings. The congregation felt God was leading them to support the many new migrant ethnic churches which were developing amongst ethnic communities in Adelaide. A small group considered this for some time and decided they wanted to support the established and emerging leaders of these communities in the area of continuing education and in-service training. The Highbury Street Fund (HSF) is the result of this legacy and will continue to make an impact in the Christian Community in South Australia.
Since that time other ways for Christians of diverse ethnic backgrounds to be church have emerged in South Australia. These include new autonomous or denominationally-linked faith communities, and also groups and individuals joining existing Uniting Church congregations. In addition to this, those participating in church life now include temporary residents, e.g. international students.
Aim of the Fund
The main goal of the HSF is therefore to support leadership development across this variety of expressions of church via appropriate education and training.
Money is generally distributed twice each year from the interest gained from the capital fund. (Some funds may be distributed at other times). The money is managed in the Common Fund of the Presbytery and Synod of the Uniting Church in South Australia. Funds are allocated by the Highbury Street Fund (HSF) Committee.
Applications for funds are due on May 15 and October 31 each year. An interview with the applicant may be required. Applicants will be informed of the result of their application within one month of these dates.
What type of education is covered by the fund?
Formal courses and short intensives in Theological and Bible Colleges in South Australia
(For longer term study an application could be made for the R.H.White Scholarship. Contact Uniting College on 8416 8420 for more information)
- Short programmes and intensive courses in similar colleges interstate
- Leadership development courses
- Continuing education programmes offered by the mainline denominations
- In-service, lay education or other education centres recognised by the HSF Committee.
- Conferences or workshops
- Bringing in an interstate or overseas facilitator to lead a conference in Adelaide. (Preference will be given to applications that can show that other groups will also be making use of the facilitator’s visit).
- Field education or internships
- Research into new initiatives (Please contact the Highbury Street Fund office to discuss your proposal.)
Who can apply?
People of diverse ethnic background with leadership roles within the Uniting Church and other protestant churches and faith communities in South Australia.
People of any age who have been identified as having leadership potential and whose HSF application is endorsed by their congregation.
What is funded?
Fees and direct study expenses
In some cases partial and in other cases full funding
In some cases travel expenses
Applicants are encouraged to submit a fully itemised budget of the proposed study which may include some funding provided by the applicant’s own faith community
Funds are not normally provided for programmes already undertaken
Applications
Applications must be made on the Application Form available on the website.
Where means allow, individual applicants are encouraged and group applicants are expected to make a financial contribution towards the total cost of the project.
Recipients are expected to provide a report on the project funded. This report may be written or oral and may include visual elements, stories, evaluations or any other appropriate form or content. If an applicant is not able to report in English, an interpreter can be arranged. No subsequent applications by the same person or group will be funded until a report has been received.
Applications will be considered on a case by case and round by round basis, and will be prioritised only against applications in the same round.
Who is on the Highbury Street Fund Committee?
- A member of the Mission Resourcing SA of the Uniting Church Presbytery and Synod of South Australia
- A representative from the former Highbury Street Congregation
- An educationalist
- Four leaders representing the diverse faith communities
Application Forms
Download the  Highbury Street Application Form (Word) (27.85 kB) or  Highbury Street Application Form (pdf) (86.11 kB)
More Information
For further information or assistance with applications contact the Multicultural & Cross-cultural Ministry Office: 8236 4285 or
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Possible Training Venues
Contact individual colleges for information about courses, subjects, fees and timetables.
Adelaide College of Divinity
A consortium of local theological colleges:
Uniting College of Leadership and Theology (UCA)
St Barnabas’ Theological College (Anglican)
Catholic Theological College of SA (Roman Catholic)
34 Lipsett Terrace
Brooklyn Park, SA 5032
Phone: 8416 8400
www.ehlt.flinders.edu.au/theology
Bible College of SA
176 Wattle Street
Malvern SA 5061
Phone: 8291 8188
www.biblecollege.sa.edu.au
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide, SA 5001
Sturt Road
Bedford Park, SA 5042
Phone: 8201 3074
www.flinders.edu.au
Tabor College Australia
181 Goodwood road
Millswood, SA 5034
Phone: 8373 8777
www.tabor.edu.au
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