Fiona Foundation - The Fiona Foundation

We are pleased to announce the recipient of the Fiona Foundation Prize at Newcastle University is Kudzaishe Chiwara, studying Chemical Engineering.

The winner of the Fiona Karran prize for women in STEM subjects at Trinity Hall, Cambridge was this year awarded to Priscilla Tang studying natural sciences.  

Once again the school has enjoyed a very successful exchange programme with year 5 and 6 children in Nigran, Galicia.

For the second year we have supported the Kids Action Through Science programme coordinated by Newcastle University.

We have had another busy year supporting our chosen projects.

April get together – we are having an informal evening in the Bowling  Green on 14 April to update our long term friends and supporters about the ongoing work of the Foundation.

We have completed our first year sponsoring the Special Virtuosi orchestra’s three annual concerts at the RNCM. It has been a hugely successful partnership and it has been wonderful to see the Special Virtuosi performances.

This academic year 2014-5 has seen the Foundation provide two more scholarships to female students at the Chemical Engineering faculty of Newcastle University. This project is going from strength to strength and we now have awarded 5 scholarships over the first three years of the Foundation’s involvement. Our first scholars have now graduated and it is hugely rewarding to see how much benefit we can provide through our support.

Several of the friends of Fiona have talked for some time of a wish to walk at least part of El Camino across Northern Spain. The last 125 kms through Galicia have particular resonance because of the Foundation’s links with the school exchange to Nigran. The first week of May will see a group of friends, many of whom are long term supporters of the Foundation, taking on this challenge and raising funds for the Foundation in doing so. This is the major fundraising project for the Foundation in 2015 and again all donations would be welcome.

After a successful summer party at Manley Mere the second half of 2014 saw further fund raising notably for Kevin Savage’s 50th birthday. The year was rounded off with the Christmas party and again all donations were well received. The trustees are so grateful for everyone’s support and we ended the year by meeting our income targets and in a poistion to continue with all of the projects that we have chosen. 2015 will see a few changes