Registered Charity No: 1104518
Pete Woolaghan - Chairman The Foundation was conceived to encourage West Cumbrian students to attend university to study an engineering related degree.
Whilst the success of the University Award meets the initial concept of the Foundation, the trustees felt that we should also be providing encouragement to younger students to ensure that they get onto the ‘correct track’ to study engineering. So, in 2005 we also launched an award for Year 11 students (the ‘A Level Award’) to ensure that they enter into sixth form studying the correct ‘A’ Levels to subsequently enter onto a university engineering degree course.
In 2007, we have introduced the Annual Science & Engineering Shows. Each September we invite 4,000 young students along to these interactive curriculum-linked sessions. The shows have been a huge success engaging the students in science and we hope that we have inspired many future engineers and scientists.
I hope that you find the website informative but it really can’t convey the energy and enthusiasm that I and my fellow trustees experience when we are involved with the students through the initiatives we run. The quality of young people we come across in West Cumbria never ceases to amaze me. I would like to think that in our small way we can make them feel like West Cumbria is somewhere they may want to come back to once they complete their formal education.
It just remains for me to say a genuine ‘thank you’ to those people and bodies that have
supported our work since inception. Without this
support the work we do would be much more difficult and in some cases impossible.
Peter Woolaghan
Chairman – The REACT Foundation
Background
The REACT Foundation was registered with the charity commission in May 2004 and initially set up with a £5,000 donation from REACT Engineering Limited. Since then, further donations by REACT Engineering Limited and a substantial grant of £30,000 have been received from the West Cumbria Development Fund. REACT Engineering Limited has maintained its commitment to donate to the Foundation each year providing the company is profitable.
The trustees continue to seek further donations to support their work.
The Trustees
The current trustees of the Foundation are listed below:
Trevor Craig has a PhD in Civil Engineering and a Diploma in Industrial Management. Trevor, a Chartered Engineer has over 20 years experience in the nuclear Industry, 10 years working on nuclear submarine design for Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Ltd and as a project manager for UKAEA. Trevor has worked for REACT Engineering for the last 12 years as one of the founding directors.
Steve Knight has over 20 years engineering experience in the Nuclear Industry supplemented by 8 years working in the construction industry for Laing Construction. For the past 12 years Steve has worked for REACT Engineering as one of the founding directors.
John Knox of Westcroft Consulting Ltd. is an engineering graduate of Cambridge University. John spent 23 years in mechanical engineering and the manufacturing industry before setting up his own consultancy company in 1990, working all over the UK, but in recent years mainly working with West Cumbrian businesses supplying the nuclear industry.
Rosie Mathison, Nuclear Opportunities Manager at West Lakes Renaissance since December 2003. She has lived in West Cumbria for 25 years, with 15 of those years spent working in economic development and regeneration in the county. This included the directorship of Cumbria’s European Funding Programme as well as setting up Cumbria’s Brussels office in 2003. She has spend the last 3½ years working to maximise and co-ordinate the opportunities arising out of changes in the nuclear industry.
Pete Woolaghan, a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IMechE (Institution of Mechanical Engineers) with 20 years experience in the Nuclear Industry. For the past 12 years he has worked for REACT Engineering as one of the founding directors. Pete previously worked for UKAEA undertaking engineering consultancy work and before that in the automotive industry for Jaguar Cars.
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