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British Sugar TOPSOIL announces first bursary recipient

Fri 20 October 2017

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Richard Johnstone, a 34-year old golf course manager from Nairn, situated in the north of Scotland, is the first recipient of the British Sugar TOPSOIL Training Bursary. The bursary was launched in January to celebrate TOPSOIL’s twenty years in business.

The bursary was created to support anyone in the greenkeeping, groundsmanship, landscape contracting or garden design sectors who could demonstrate they would benefit from financial support to help develop their skills and knowledge.

Richard has worked at Nairn Dunbar Golf Links since leaving school at 17, working his way up to the position of golf course manager. He will use the £500 bursary to pay for the first year of a three year HND in Golf Course Management starting in August. No stranger to study, Richard has acquired a considerable range of skills and industry qualifications since joining the club in the year 2000 and is now keen to develop his managerial skills:

“I completed an HNC in Golf Course Management in 2012 and although my club has always been very supportive, it currently has more pressing demands on its resources and cannot afford to make further education a priority. It has taken me 17 years to work my way up the ladder and I am determined to improve and develop as a course manager.

The HND includes units specific to a managerial role so being awarded this bursary by British Sugar TOPSOIL is great and will help me to fulfil my ambitions as a professional greenkeeper and golf course manager.”

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