Professor Brian Cox
Professor Brian Cox GNR 2015
Fundraising for The Jon Egging Trust
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The Jon Egging Trust quite simply focuses on leadership, confidence and team work. I became a Patron of the charity in 2014 and am proud to
represent its ethos and its work.
The most important thing that the Jon Egging Trust does is to show young people that there are possibilities out there and people who want to help them. We are talking about young people who have low aspirations and low self-confidence – not through any fault of their own. The challenge is to remove those low aspirations and replace them with high aspirations and a sense of possibility and that is what the Jon Egging Trust does.
The young people I have seen go from staring at the ground to being able to stand up in front of audiences and speak about their experiences. It’s quite remarkable.
£45 a day is all its costs to put a young person on the Blue Skies programme and help change their lives and their futures.
I am doing the Great North Run so the charity can expand across the country, but we need your help, so please give generously and I promise to run as fast as I can! Thank you.