Threads of Life Scholarship

Awarded annually, four (4) x $2500 national scholarships will be made available to Canadian residents who are students enrolled, either full-time or part-time, in a college, university, or trade school program.

Eligibility

Threads of Life Scholarships may be applied for by any Canadian resident who:

• will be a full or part-time student in a college or university program, or a trade school, during the 2025-2026 academic year, and
• who has been affected by a workplace tragedy: a workplace fatality, life-altering injury or occupational disease.

Threads of Life employees, children or relatives of employees are not eligible for this scholarship award.

Application

All submissions must include a completed application form, a written response to the questions outlined on the application form, including an account of community involvement, a letter of confirmation or acceptance into a college, university or trade school program, and a copy of your most recent university/college/trade school transcript, or high school transcript if you have not yet completed one year of university/college/trade school program.

Written Requirements

As part of the scholarship submission, the student must submit a written response to the question: “How the BCRSP/Threads of Life Scholarship will impact you and why you should be awarded the scholarship”. Your response is to be a maximum of 1000 words, must be double spaced, using a 12-point font, with one-inch margins, and must be written by you.

Assessment Criteria

Eligible scholarship submissions will be reviewed/judged by the Scholarship Review Committee. BCRSP and Threads of Life reserve the right to verify the accuracy of submissions, and their decision is final.

Each written submission will be evaluated based on the applicant’s capacity to answer the question, organization of essay, unity and cohesion of thoughts, grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, etc.

Ownership

All essays submitted become the property of BCRSP and Threads of Life. Successful essays may be published by BCRSP and Threads of Life and may be, along with information about the winners, shared widely through the BCRSP and Threads of Life websites, media, and other publications.

Submission

The submissions window for the 2025-2026 academic year will be open from December 15, 2024 through March 15, 2025. 

Notification 

All applicants will be notified of the scholarship winners by Threads of Life in June 2025.

Application Form

Scholarship applications and supporting documentation must be submitted electronically.