Ben Walton Scholarship and Development Grant

The Ben Walton Trust was established in 1996 by Mr Mike Walton and commemorates his son, Ben Walton, and has year-long fight against oral cancer. Ben was born in Kittleyknowe, near Carlops, and attended West Linton Primary School and Peebles High School. Ben attended Aberdeen University where he was studying Honours Psychology; in his final year, at the time of his death on 9 December 1995, he was 22 years old. The trust was set up to raise awareness of this disease among the general public and health professionals, to fund research and fund palliative care.