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A short animation made by Lisa’s brother Ross is now available to watch online. The animation was created for the gala dinner charity event at the De Vere hotel in Southampton in September 2005, and shows some of the ways the charity has been raising money over the years.
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.
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
As you know, Clive and Trish are currently in New Zealand, following Lisa’s footsteps across the country she found to be truly amazing. Whilst she was in Queenstown N.Z, Lisa did a free-fall parachute jump and also the biggest bungee jump in the world from the Nevis high wire of 134 Metres.
The video she sent home is now shown as an inspirational DVD to young people to encourage them to go and live their dreams.
And on Lisa’s 31st birthday, March 15th, Clive will make the jump himself.
As you know, Lisa’s charity to date has raised over £180,000 and changed the lives of some forty young students that it has given bursaries to – young students who have had to demonstrate how they have overcome adversity and why they need additional funding to help them with their educational dreams and ambitions.
If you would like to sponsor Clive by making a donation to the charity, it would be gratefully appreciated if you could use the Gift Aid form below which will enable us to maximize any donation you may make.
Please make cheques payable to “The Lisa Wilson Scholarship Fund” and send to: Clive Wilson, Peartree Cottage, Nomansland, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP5 2BN.
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Photos of Clive’s jump will appear here shortly.. watch this space.
On October 29th October, 5 new recipients were awarded bursaries from The Lisa Wilson Scholarship Fund.
The five recipients were; Michael George Brough, Charlotte Clark, Lilian Namaata, Hayley Sanders, and Charlotte Weddle-Hoyle. Their awards were presented at a ceremony at Southampton Solent University which was presided over by Professor Jane Longmore.
Bursaries are given to students who can demonstrate how they have overcome adversity and why they need additional funding to help them with their educational dreams and ambitions in the way Lisa did.
At the awards ceremony, a beautiful film was shown of Lisa living her dream in New Zealand, taking on a free-fall parachute jump and the highest bungee jump in the world. Her trip to New Zealand and Australia was her reward to herself for all her hard work at the University, where she graduated with a BA.21 in Business Management
Lisa’s Father; Clive said “I could talk about Lisa for hours, the way that she could walk into a room and light it up, look at her brothers and turn them into fits of laughter without saying a word, she was a great dancer and loved to party, and the film that she sent home from New Zealand gives us the opportunity to see how she was living her dream”.
This year’s intake has brought the total number of students awarded bursaries to date has risen to 40. Each student receives a bursary for up to 3 years, and to date, 14 students have graduated from the University.
Five students graduated this year, one of whom was Tom Dowsett who graduated with a BA.21 in video film production. He spoke at the ceremony of how the additional funding had helped him with his care and transport costs, and enabled him to buy a camera and other important materials to help him get his degree, despite his disabilities. Tom stands for everything that The Lisa Wilson Scholarship Fund stands for.