We also received this letter from Garry Halsey
Dear Clive and Tricia
Today I found out my degree classification and I’m pleased to say that I gained a 2:1!!
Without the help from you this would of never happened, the money helped me no end and I can’t thank you enough!
I hope one day that I can repay it to you and to keep Lisa’s legacy going!
With love from a very grateful graduate!
Garry
Congratulations Garry, and thank you.
On Tuesday 23rd September, five students were awarded bursaries at the twelfth presentation for the Lisa Wilson Scholarship Fund Awards. Over forty people attended the ceremony at Southampton Solent University.
Many of the students still at the university came along to attend the event which was dedicated to Lisa’s memory, during the presentation by Clive he showed the way she had “Lived Her Dream” travelling the world, and included a film of her bungy jump in New Zealand and a pictorial presentation of her journey around the world.
This year’s recipients pictured with Tricia and Clive Wilson.
Joe Dormer with his Outstanding Achievement Award
This year’s Outstanding Achievement Award went to Joe Dormer who graduated with a First in TV & Studio production, an amazing achievement.
Clive and Tricia recently received this lovely letter from the family of one of our bursary students, Joe Dormer.
Dear Clive and Tricia
A huge thank you for your scholarship fund awarded to our son Joe Dormer. This week he has been informed that he has achieved a First! in TV & Studio production. As a family we will always be grateful to yourselves and The Lisa Wilson Scholarship Fund.
We hope you will be at the graduation ceremony so that we can thank you personally.
Fond regards
The Dormer family
Congratulations Joe, that’s great news!
Lisa’s charity hit the front page of the Daily Echo on Friday after raising £250,000.
The full article can be read online here: Legacy of Lisa Wilson is 250 years of education
On Saturday 26th July 2014 at Wellow Golf Club, over 130 players participated in The Lisa Wilson charity golf day. The event was extremely well attended with two competitions – one for members and one for friends, family & sponsors – and the evening event was a great success with The Tribute Band performing at the club house. In total the event bought in over £8,000 and has helped us to break the £250,000 barrier!
– Jill Heale receives the ‘Lisa Wilson Trophy’ for winning the ladies competition –
For those of you new to this website, this was the 12th golf day following Lisa’s tragic death in November 2002.
Lisa had worked and played golf at Wellow whilst she was at Southampton Solent University where she graduated in 2001 with a BA 2.1 in business management. Her reward to herself was a trip around the World and it was sadly on that trip whilst travelling to Ayres Rock that she died in a car crash. Following her death the family decided to start The Lisa Wilson Scholarship Fund to help young adults who have overcome adversity who can demonstrate why they needed additional funding to fulfil their educational dreams and ambitions in the way that Lisa had by granting them bursaries of £1,000 a year up to 3 years.
To date, over 70 students have benefitted from bursaries, and with the funds raised by the latest Golf Day we have now broken through the £250,000 barrier. As each £1,000 represents a year in a student’s life, this has now become Lisa’s legacy which is now 250 years of education; a truly fitting legacy to a lovely young woman who was living her dream.
Over the past 12 years, the charity has been supported by family, friends, suppliers of her parents’ business SES Autoparts Ltd, and many, many celebrities including Celine Dion and Elton John. The horse racing fraternity has also played a large part. A race horse called “Lisa The Daddy” has won several times and foaled another horse, Lisa’s Legacy who won twice last year, and now the latest in the string, Who’s The Daddy is promoted through the horse racing fraternity and by Channel 4 racing.
For more information on the charity and Lisa’s life, please check out our other pages, or contact Clive Wilson at [email protected].