From the Community Echo 08
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Henry Perkins documentary on BBC
In 2006 the Lisa Wilson Scholarship Fund gave a bursary to Henry Perkins a youth from Hampshire who won a place at the Bolshoi Ballet in Russia as an aspiring ballet dancer.
The BBC have been following him over the past months and have made a documentary about him which is being broadcast as the first programme in the Alan Yentob Imagine series at 10.30pm on October 23rd. This should be a great insight to this ambitious young man who really has made the Billy Elliott ‘dream’ come true.
Henry at the Bolshoi
New student intake
We can confirm that the second intake of students to benefit from the charity have now been named. This year there will be five new students who have been given the award of £1000 per annum. They are: Kate Hayne, 18, from Romsey; Stacey Parry, 18, from Bishops Waltham; Kim Curtis, 21, from Southampton; Xiadjuan Yan, currently residing in Southampton both on a top up degree; and Graham Hunter from Blantyre Glasgow who has been awarded the first sporting scholarship. On top of this, four students – James Denyer, Lucie Jones, Charlotte Field and Madina Boyo-Jalloh – have been accepted for the second year of their scholarships. Congratulations to all of you.