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Charity hits £200,000!!

On Wednesday 20th October, Clive & Scott Wilson were sat in the boardroom of one of their suppliers, and during lunch they were asked to show the video of the bungee jump Clive carried out in New Zealand.

Having watched the jump, the Managing Director of the company asked how much money had been raised by the bungee jump.
“£2,500,” Clive answered.
“Then I’ll double that,” stated the anonymous donor.
As well as bringing the bungee jump total to in excess of £5,000, the huge significance of this donation is that it means that the charity has now raised over £200,000 in Lisa’s memory.

In three weeks time it will be the eighth anniversary of Lisa’s tragic accident.

When we started the charity we could never have dreamt that we could have raised this amazing amount of money in Lisa’s memory. This now means that Lisa’s legacy is 200 years of education; £1,000 a year is granted as a bursary to each of the selected students.

Although she is not here today, we know she would be incredibly proud of her amazing legacy and the fact that some eight years after her death she is still managing to effect the lives of so many young people—some 44 students to date.

Also, it is quite fitting that the new colt that was born to our horse ‘Lisa the Daddy’ shall carry the name ‘Lisa’s Legacy’ when he starts to race.

My family and I would like to thank everyone for their amazing support, not just financially but emotionally over the last eight years. We are so pleased that something so positive can come out of such a terrible tragedy.

Thank you all.

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2010 Lisa Wilson Scholarship Awards

L-R: Kerry Ann Tosh, Bonita Lundqvist-Paddick, Clive Wilson, Professor
Jane Longmore, Patricia Wilson, Jake Dudas, James Whittingstall-Bean

Four new students were recently awarded with bursaries from the Lisa Wilson Scholarship Fund. The four new students, Jake Dudas, James Whittingstall-Bean, Kerry Ann Tosh, and Bonita Lundqvist-Paddick, were officially presented with their bursaries by Clive and Patricia Wilson after a video tribute to show the recipients of the fund what Lisa was like as a person and how the money is raised by Clive and Tricia, to help them to understand the importance of the scholarship.

The award takes the form a bursary of up to a maximum of £1,000 per year which is renewed annually. It is available to students who have overcome adversity or can demonstrate why they need extra financial help with their studies.

A previous recipient of the scholarship, Ali Lalani received the ‘Lisa Wilson Prize’ for outstanding academic achievement. Ali said: “It has been an enormous honour and privilege to be a Lisa Wilson Scholarship student over the last five years. I would like to thank Clive and Tricia for all their support, encouragement and generosity during my studies. To me, there are only two people in this room who truly define what it means to be outstanding, and they are Clive and Tricia. I would also like to thank my family for being here today to share this moment with me. Thank you for your unconditional love and support throughout my life, I’m everything I am today because of you. My success is your success.”

Ali graduates this year with a 2:1 in Leisure Management.

Ali Lalani (centre) with his mother and sister Abida, Professor Jane Longmore, Clive and Patricia Wilson

Geeta Uppal, Community and Adult Learning Co-ordinator praised each applicant’s commitment and motivation to study at higher education despite the barriers they faced.

Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Jane Longmore gave her heartfelt thanks to the Wilson family for their ever continuing support:

“I doubt that anyone here has not been thoroughly moved during the presentation. It is so apparent that there is so much love in the room and it is with truly heartfelt thanks that the University expresses enormous gratitude to Tricia and Clive Wilson. Their commitment to tribute Lisa with these scholarships is such an inspirational way of continuing Lisa’s memory.”

“Clive’s and Trisha’s fund-raising has provided support for 44 Solent students over the past eight years. No-one could have worked harder to honour Lisa’s memory by supporting these students in facing their own personal challenges.”

 

Clive and Trish Wilson with Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Jane Longmore

Clive and Trish Wilson with Gus McKechnie, a long-term supporter of the Lisa Wilson scholarship Fund

 

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The Lloyd family

Jo Harwood, Lisa’s friend and traveling companion, met David Lloyd in Australia when they were there in 2002. They fell in love and married in Australia, eventually moving back to the UK where Jimmy was born. Last month Jo gave birth to a baby girl who they named Grace Lisa in memory of her good friend Lisa. Here they are pictured on a recent visit to Tricia and Clive.



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£750 raised in two days

On Friday 28th August, friends and family joined together the day after the wedding of Lisa’s brother Ross and his new bride Donna Enticknap for a curry night at the Royal Jaipur in Landford and raised £340 for the charity.

On Saturday 29th August a party was held at Nomansland to celebrate Lisa’s mum, Tricias 60th birthday, her brother Andy’s 50th birthday, and the recent wedding of Ross and Donna.  A signed photograph that had been donated to the Lisa Wilson Scholarship Fund by Celine Dion was raffled and raised £410.

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DP World make amazing donation with the help of Aussie Dave

DP World, who previously traded as Southampton Container Terminals, have just donated an amazing £5,000 to The Lisa Wilson Scholarship Fund.  The Fund was one of five local charities chosen to receive part of a total sum of £35,000.  Campbell Mason, The Managing Director of DP World, has explained that when the company makes major procurements they request that their suppliers make a contribution towards their funding of local charities, which enables them to pass it on into the local community.

The company’s initiative is to get their employees to nominate local charities who may benefit from their donations. One of their employees is our friend Dave Lloyd, the Aussie who owned the back-packers establishment in Sydney where Lisa and Jo Harwood stayed during their travels in 2002.

Dave & Jo fell in love and eventually married, and are now living in the UK.  They have just recently given birth to their first child.  Dave moved from Australia to be with Jo and has worked with DP World for the last few years.  He approached his company on behalf of the Lisa Wilson Scholarship Fund, hoping that the charity may see some small benefit and was absolutely gobsmacked when he was told how much the charity would benefit. The timing of the donation is absolutely in line with the announcement of this year’s bursary recipients, and this donation should cover this year’s intake of students and help continue Lisa’s legacy.

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