Raising awareness and funds

The Jane Lemon Foundation is a charitable trust set up in memory of Jane Lemon QC who was a much loved and enormously successful member of Keating Chambers from 1994 to 2019.  Jane died suddenly and tragically in April 2019.

The Jane Lemon Foundation seeks to further those causes which were close to Jane’s heart, including legal education, support for young people and research into allergies.

Jane’s husband Mark Hepburn, Sir Vivian Ramsey, Nick M. Child and David Thomas KC are the founding trustees. They apply the Charity’s funds to support the above causes.

As many of you will know, today is Jane’s fifth anniversary and we thought that this would be a good opportunity to provide an update on the activities of the Foundation.

We are arranging some fundraising events for later in this year and are pleased to announce that our next fundraising dinner will take place in 2025. Further details of these events and “save the date” reminders will follow in the coming weeks.

We continue to support pupils from Jane’s old school, King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham and expect to be able to provide an award to another deserving pupil this year.

As you may recall from the talk by one of the scholars at the dinner last year, we have also agreed to provide finance over a three year period to assist post-graduates studying law at Oxford, Jane’s old university, under the Dean’s Scholars Fund scheme. This provides opportunities for talented graduate students to develop their knowledge and skills of law at Oxford, irrespective of their financial background. We are delighted to have been able to help in this way.

In addition we have provided funds to a small charity, Anstee Bridge, in Kingston which helps young people with mental health problems build confidence and resilience and provides them with an alternative to school which encourages them to re-engage with education. Many of you will also remember the impressive presentation by Katherine Greening at last year’s fundraising dinner.  It is a very worthwhile venture and one that needs our support to continue its excellent work.

In these ways we aim to continue the work of charities which Jane would have supported had she still been able to do so. In the past year we are delighted to have been able to support the above organisations as well as smaller donations to Anaphylaxis UK and Place2Be, making total donations of £34,500.

We are extremely grateful to all those who have provided support over the past year. We would encourage you to remember Jane today by making a further donation, no matter how large or small, either direct to our bank account:

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using your name as a reference and GA if we are able to add Gift Aid or by using Just Giving

We look forward to seeing you at one of our fundraising events this year, helping the foundation and enjoying a party, as Jane would have wanted us to do!!