We have a variety of scholarships available for application submission so make sure you look at the whole page. Please note that applicants must be a child of a member. Please check the May 2025 Chronicle for more information or the info below. There are fillable forms both in Work and PDF.
2025 Scholarship Application Fillable Form 
2025 Scholarship Application WORD
“A memorial scholarship for two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) will be offered annually in the name of Thomas G. Ellis to the child of a member who has the highest average on graduation from a senior secondary school. This scholarship award will be for further education. A letter of application, including a copy of marks received by the applicant from the senior secondary school attended, and stating the name of the institute of further education, must be made to the Secretary-Treasurer prior to the deadline
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A CUPE 728 Scholarship Awards of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) to a child of a Local 728 member and, that academic standing be the criteria and that the presentation, when possible, be made at a regular Union meeting and, the application process be advertised in the Chronicle and, that payment of the scholarship be made on notification to the Union that the recipient is enrolled in a post-secondary education facility.
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Two (2) CUPE 728 Scholarship Awards each for five hundred dollars ($500.00) to the child of a member and will be made annually by random draw. All applications from secondary school graduates stating the name of the institute of further education will be eligible for the draw, exclusive of the successful recipients of the two preceding scholarship awards.
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Two (2) CUPE 728 Scholarship Awards for one thousand ($1000.00) each for students who identify as indigenous.”
Aubrey Burton/Reg Ford Memorial Scholarship Application
CUPE BC offers the Aubrey Burton/Reg Ford Memorial Scholarship annually to CUPE members, their spouses or their children. Four scholarships valued at $1,000 each are awarded to students entering their first year of Post-Secondary education.
The scholarship was created in honour of two CUPE activists:
Aubrey Burton was a CUPE Representative in the Kootenays during the 1960s. Before CUPE was formed, many locals hired Business Reps from within their ranks to represent them, and that was the case with Aubrey. He was a Trail Civic Worker but also got paid to do work for other Locals in the Kootenays. When CUPE was officially formed, he became a Staff Representative.
Along with fellow Staff Representative Peter Drieger, Aubrey serviced CUPE Locals throughout B.C. outside of the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. Together, Drieger and Burton were credited with organizing many small communities into CUPE and negotiating first agreements that contained no contracting-out language. Aubrey was killed in a car accident on the Upper Levels highway. He was working for CUPE at the time of his death.
Reg Ford was President of CUPE 402 for several years in the late 1970s and early 80s. Also a Vice- President of CUPE BC, he was well known as a health and safety activist. Tragically, he was killed in an accident at his home while trimming a tree in his yard. Reg was very active in the labour movement at the time of his passing.
Click here for more information https://cupebc.ca/forms/abrf2025/