The Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust (JWCT) is a charity set up in tribute to and memory of Jeremy Willson. The charity helps people and projects that reflect Jeremy’s passions in life: athletics, geology, adventure and the environment.

Jeremy Willson was born on 20 July 1975 and led an incredibly active and fulfilling life, including living in , the and the , and developing a career as a geologist.

Jeremy sadly died of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) in March 2006. Jeremy was extremely unlucky. To date, only about 160 people are known to have contracted vCJD worldwide. He was reduced from the incredibly active, outgoing and successful person he was to a state in which he lost his ability to walk, remember, eat, co-ordinate, speak and do those things that we all take for granted.

The Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust (JWCT) has been set up so that Jeremy can continue to have a positive impact, in a small way, on other people's lives.

The JWCT helps:

-Young athletes from the and developing countries realise their ambitions
-Young geologists and others to carry out independent ground-breaking expeditions and research
-Young people or groups with disabilities to participate in sporting and/or adventurous activities in the and overseas
-Practical projects to conserve and improve access to mountain and ocean environments in the and overseas.

The JWCT provides annual awards and individual grants to the causes mentioned above. The JWCT was established and is administered by Jeremy’s family as trustees.

http://www.jwct.org.uk/index.htm.

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