Lourdes Awards. Make a Difference.

Step One

1 Data Protection Certificate

In completing the application process for a Lourdes Award, you will be sharing your personal information with us. We need this information so that we can evaluate your proposal, assess your award, and if you are successful, process and pay it. We may also contact you after your return with further matters concerning your experience on your pilgrimage. Before you go any further you must read and agree the following Data Protection statement signifying that you agree to share your personal data on these terms. Without your consent we cannot process your application.

The Bursary Fund database stores your personal information in order for the Catenian Bursary Fund Limited to receive and manage your request for financial support, to evaluate it, to assess the award we will make, and, if you are successful, to pay your award to you. We may use your data after your return from your Pilgrimage to contact you to ask for your support for our future operations, or use your Pilgrimage details and report for our publicity purposes. We will retain your data for at least 2 years.

We may also share your information with selected members of the Catenian Association, who will arrange for a presentation to pay any award granted and for management purposes. Both the Catenian Bursary Fund Limited and the Catenian Association Limited are bound by the General Data Protection Regulations (May 2018) to ensure that any data we store on individuals is relevant, accurate and not excessive. Additionally, it must be fairly and lawfully processed, held for defined purposes, be accurate and up to date, not kept for longer than necessary, processed in line with your rights and must be secure. We will ensure that all data stored in our database is treated in accordance with these principles. Please rest assured that we will never sell or misuse any personal data, or use it in any manner that is inconsistent with our aim of supporting the development of Catholic youth worldwide. We do not intend to contact you too often; we merely need your formal agreement for us to use your data to establish routine correspondence. You may opt out of this agreement at any time, but doing so will mean that we cannot consider your application further. If at any time, you wish to do so please email admin@catenianbursary.com or call 024 7622 4533 with your request.

I agree to share my personal data with the Catenian Bursary Fund LTD.

For us to process your application for an award you must accept this condition.

Step Two

2 Personal Details

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Your Christian Name

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Your Surname

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Gender

Male Female Other

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Your Address Details

Address Line 1

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Address Line 2

Address Line 3

Post Town

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County

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Country

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Post Code

Enter your postcode in the correct format,
for example: "CV6 4QH".

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Nearest Catenian Circle

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Please confirm that you have the means to cash a personal cheque

It is a condition of our awards that they must be paid to you by personal cheque and we cannot pay awards in any other way.

Telephone Number

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Email Address

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Confirm Email Address

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Date of Birth

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Is this the first time you have applied for or received an award from the Catenian Bursary Fund?

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How did you learn about this award scheme?

A Catenian (please specify) Poster Leaflet Internet School/University/College/CATHSOC Parish Other (please specify)

Catenian Name

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If you are successful, your award will be presented to you by your nearest circle. If you are successful, the Fund will inform you directly by automated email and then your nearest circle will subsequently contact you directly and arrange a suitable date, time and place for the presentation. Awards from the Fund are made in the form of a cheque which is made out to you and which will normally be presented to you after the main Sunday Mass at your local Church. You must cash this cheque within 1 month of receipt.

Step Three

3 Religious Referee

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By checking this box you are confirming that you are a Catholic or a member of a faith that is in communion with Rome.

If you are not a Catholic or a Member of a faith that is in communion with Rome then our awards are not open to you.

Name of your home Parish Priest or School/University Chaplain

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Name of your home Parish, or School or other Educational Institution

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Priest/Chaplain Address Line 1

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Priest/Chaplain Address Line 2

Priest/Chaplain Address Line 3

Priest/Chaplain Post Town

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Priest/Chaplain County

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Priest/Chaplain Country

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Priest/Chaplain Post Code

Enter the postcode in the correct format,
for example: "CV6 4QH".

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Priest/Chaplain Telephone Number

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We will contact your Religious Referee for his or her confirmation that you are a member of the Catholic faith or the member of a faith that is in full communion with Rome. We will do this by automatic email. It is your responsibility to gain the permission of your Religious Referee for us to contact them by email and to ensure that he or she responds quickly to our request for a reference. If you are unable to provide us with a religious referee, we will not be able to grant you an award.

Priest/Chaplain Email Address

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Confirm Priest/Chaplain Email Address

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Step Four

4 Pilgrimage Group Leader

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Pilgrimage Organiser

Please select Pilgrimage Organiser

My Pilgrimage Organiser is not listed.

Pilgrimage Group Leader

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Their role in the Pilgrimage

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Pilgrimage Group Leader Address Line 1

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Pilgrimage Group Leader Address Line 2

Pilgrimage Group Leader Address Line 3

Pilgrimage Group Leader Post Town

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Pilgrimage Group Leader County

Pilgrimage Group Leader Country

Please select Pilgrimage Group Leader country

Pilgrimage Group Leader Post Code

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Pilgrimage Group Leader Telephone Number

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We will contact your Pilgrimage Group Leader for his or her confirmation that you are a part of the group or party that he or she is leading to work with Assisted Pilgrims in Lourdes. We will do this by automatic email. It is your responsibility to gain the permission of your Pilgrimage Group Leader for us to contact them by email and to ensure that he or she responds quickly to our request for a reference. If you are unable to provide us with confirmation from your Pilgrimage Group Leader that you are a part of a group that he or she is organising we will not be able to grant you an award.

Pilgrimage Group Leader Email Address

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Confirm Pilgrimage Group Leader Email Address

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Step Five

5 About your Pilgrimage

Trustees’ Top Tips

This is the most important section of this form, and the Trustees will judge your award based upon your responses in this section.
We only make INDIVIDUAL awards, and so just because you may be a member of a group making the pilgrimage we may judge that only some of you will receive an award. This section is to enable us to assess your application.
Answer the questions we pose. Whether or not we chose to make an award to you largely depends upon your answer in this section. We strongly advise you to take some time with this answer. You may like to write it out first and to work at it to make sure it is as good an answer as possible.
Finally, a single sentence answer is most unlikely to impress.

In around 100 words tell us all about your Pilgrimage. Why are you making this journey? What do you hope to achieve? Who are you travelling with and why? Who will you be helping? What will be your duties? What hours will you be working? Where will you be staying? Why have you chosen to travel with this Pilgrimage Organiser? Do you feel that working to help an assisted pilgrim will enhance your own pilgrimage experience? If so how? Try to limit yourself to about 100 words. To help you, as you type when you reach 100 words the text will turn RED, but you will still be able enter a few more words.

About your Pilgrimage

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Please enter a response of under 150 words

Step Six

6 Pilgrimage Timescales

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Date of Departure for the Pilgrimage

This is the date you will travel to your Pilgrimage

Date of return from the Pilgrimage

Please select a date

Step Seven

7 Terms of the Award

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Please confirm that you accept that if for some reason the Pilgrimage does not materialise you will fully refund the award made*

This is a mandatory condition of our award, and if you do not accept it no award can be made.

That’s it! You’ve completed the application form, and you are nearly there.

Please note, this is your last opportunity to use the back arrows and check the form to make sure that you are completely happy with it. We urge you to review Section 5 in particular to give the Trustees the fullest possible description of your pilgrimage.

When we receive your application the very first thing that will happen is that we shall send you an automated email confirming that we have received and are processing it. We shall also email your Religious Referee and Pilgrimage (Group) Organiser requesting their references for you. Nothing further will happen u ntil we have received their responses.

Once you are satisfied with your application, and have read this statement, please click the submit button below and we will start the process of assessing your application.

We strongly recommend that you should join our social media feeds on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube, so that you can have the opportunity to upload posts to tell us how you are getting on. It is a condition of this award that, within a month of the conclusion of your pilgrimage, you will submit a written or audio or visual (video) illustrated report of your project to the Catenian Bursary Fund Trustees, and that report, or parts of it may be published by the Trustees in the Catenian Association magazine, Catena, or be used by the Fund in National and International publicity campaigns or online. The Trustees may instead ask that you give an audio/visual presentation about your Pilgrimage to a Catenian Branch (Circle) that is close to your home location.

Please acknowledge that you understand that any award made is conditional upon you accepting this requirement*

This is a mandatory condition of our award, and if you do not accept it no award can be made.

Thank you for your application

We have successfully received your application and will be in contact by email shortly.

We shall also email your Religious Referee and Pilgrimage Group Leader requesting their references for you. Nothing further will happen until we have received their responses.

We wish you every possible success.

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Lourdes Award Application

Step One

1 Data Protection Certificate

Step Two

2 Personal Details

Your Address Details

Step Three

3 Religious Referee

Step Four

4 Pilgrimage Group Leader

Step Five

5 About your Pilgrimage

Trustees’ Top Tips

Step Six

6 Pilgrimage Timescales

Step Seven

7 Terms of the Award

Thank you for your application