City of Kingston Co-operative Credit Union (COK) has created a $100,000 biennial scholarship, in honour of former treasurer and board director Trevor Blake.

The scholarship targets students of accounting or management studies and is tenable at the University of the West Indies, University of Technology, Northern Caribbean University, and the University College of the Caribbean.

COK members of no less than two years and their children pre-qualified to apply.

The first Trevor LA Blake scholarship is to awarded this year.

The credit union named the scholarship after Blake to acknowledge his 24 years of service to COK, and the movement regionally, citing his role in founding the City of Bridgetown Co-operative Credit Union in Barbados and supporting a number of smaller credit unions in Jamaica.

Blake is currently financial controller for Boss Furniture Limited, and is chairman of The Self Start Fund, among other interests.

Application deadlines for the Blake and $75,000 Paul Chavannes scholarships close August 12.

Chavannes was a founder of COK. That award is available to students of the UWI, UTech, UCC and NCU who have satisfactorily completed at least two years of a first degree programme in management studies or business administration.