Two Lincolnshire residents have been awarded prestigious Churchill Fellowships offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel the world and research cutting-edge solutions to important topical issues. The awards will be publicly announced on 7 March.
The award winners and their projects are:
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Howard Nelson, from Grantham, and the Chief Operating Officer of a group of academy schools, will travel to Canada to investigate how small, rural schools can become sustainable. He will use his findings to develop new approaches for use by schools in the UK. -
Naomi Watkins, a counsellor and domestic abuse consultant from Lincoln, will travel to Australia and New Zealand to research suicide prevention programmes for children and young people. She will run workshops based on her findings to train teachers and other professional to recognise and support young people at risk of suicide. Naomi’s Fellowship is supported by the John Armitage Charitable Trust.
Together they will receive grants totalling over £12,000. They are among 150 people from all regions of the UK who were selected this year from almost 1,800 applicants to win a Churchill Fellowship. The average length of a Fellowship is six weeks.
“Churchill Fellows are inspiring individuals who scour the world for fresh approaches to today’s crucial issues,” said Julia Weston, Chief Executive of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT). “It’s a unique chance to make change happen, and every UK citizen over the age of 18 can apply. The next round of applications will open on 16 May 2019.”
The next chance to apply for a Churchill Fellowship opens on 16 May 2019 and includes new categories on ‘Palliative and end of life care’ and ‘Physical activity: making moves for healthier lives’. Application details are online at wcmt.org.uk.
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