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Norman MacLeod MacNeil held the School in very great affection and considered that his subsequent success and prosperity, after emigrating to North America, was to a considerable extent the result of the good start in life he received as a pupil at Queen Victoria School. The Norman MacLeod MacNeil Trust Fund was established so that subsequent generations of pupils at the School could share in his good fortune.
Each year the Trustees of the Fund allocate grants for the advancement of the general education of pupils and, in particular, to develop pupils' qualities of leadership, self- confidence and self-esteem through participating in physically demanding or cultural activities. Applications for grants are
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mode by pupils and put to the Trustees by the Headmaster, in consultation with the teaching staff of the School, and the final selection is made by the Trustees.
The range of grants and activities supported by the Norman MacLeod MacNeil Trust Fund is considerable. In 2000, a total of £3,255 was awarded in grants to a total of 17 pupils. Equipment was bought to support the School's team in the 2000 Highland Cadet Tactical Competition, a Cadet Force exercise in which schools from across Scotland enter teams and compete against one another in a tactical scenario. In the event, the QVS team did extremely well, coming 4th among entrants from the whole of Scotland.
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Arron Uytendhal, Peter Humphries, Sam Fennell, and Chloe Johnston received grants to assist them in attending RAF Cadet Camp in Germany. David McDougall was given financial support for his participation in the Scottish Schools Orchestra Trust Summer School, which took place at, of all places, Queen Victoria School during the summer break. Amy Morton was, however, the most widely travelled of this year's grant recipients, achieving the considerable honour of being given a place on a Combined Cadet Force exchange visit to Whitehorse Cadet Training Camp in the Yukon, Canada. Amy's own words in her report on her visit perhaps sum up the value that support from the Trust Fund
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