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This page is for Joe, Martin, Kika, Becks, and Emma to fundraise for the Great North Run.
Here is a message from Joe:
The charity was set up after my mum died after a long fight with breast cancer in 2011. We wanted to help causes that were important to mum, primarily involving helping women in chemical engineering and STEM education more broadly. Our support has included scholarships for women for low socioeconomic backgrounds studying chemical engineering at Newcastle University (which is where my mum studied) as well as Kids Action Thru Science (KATS), an outreach programme to encourage pre-GCSE children to think about studying STEM at a higher level.
We have also partnered with St Andrews University in a project called Cell-Block Science, which involves researchers from the university going into prisons and teaching the inmates about different topics in science in which the researchers are specialists. The Fiona Foundation specifically funds the Beyond The Walls part of this project. This sees prisoners’ family members come into the prison so the prisoner can teach them what they have themselves learnt in each class. This is beneficial for both inmate and family, and studies show the benefits of education in prison for both offenders and their family. This project has been initiated in male prisons in previous years and we have helped to pilot the project so we can support it specifically as it progresses to women’s prisons in the near future.
More information about the Fiona Foundation can be found here: