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The Winston Churchill Memorial
Trust was formed to perpetuate
and honour the memory of
Churchill. The fundraising that was
held on 28 February 1965 together
with a number of donations
from Government and other
organisations raised an astonishing
£2.2M. Today, with the help of
sponsors and bequests the Trust
is able to award more than 100
Fellowships per year.
As well as a great war-time leader,
Churchill also had a strong social
conscience and was able to
achieve improvements in working
conditions in shops and coal
mines.
He also supported other reforms
including the establishment of
sickness and unemployment
benefits and strove to successfully
reduce the number of juveniles in
prison.
The Churchill Fellowships that the
Churchill Trust offers today are
awarded to Australians who, like
Churchill, are innovative, filled with
a spirit of determination, and who
possess a strong ethos of wanting
to benefit the community rather
than themselves as individuals.
It is to be hoped that, with
perpetual memorials like The
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust,
Sir Winston Churchill will never be
forgotten.
Written by
Sally Campbell
William Manchester, historian and
author of The Last Lion (a trilogy
of biographies covering the life of
Churchill) said...
‘If ever there was a Renaissance
man, Winston was it. In the age of
the specialist, he was the antithesis,
our Leonardo.
As a writer he was a reporter,
novelist, essayist, critic, historian,
biographer and recipient of the
1953 Nobel Prize in Literature.
As a statesman he served, before
becoming His Majesty’s first
magistrate, as Minister for the
Colonies and for trade, home
affairs, finance and for all three of
the armed forces.
Away from his desk he was at
various times an aeroplane pilot,
artist, farmer, fencer, breeder
of racehorses, polo player and
collector of tropical fish!
One felt he could do anything.’
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