DSMT

Goodbye to Chris Morgan Jones

The DSMT board was sad to say goodbye to Chris recently.  He joined the board in 2007 when working at Kroll, and stayed on for several years after he left the company until increasing demands on his time recently meant he was unable to continue on the board. Chris’s specialist knowledge, thoughtfulness, generosity  and humour […]

Floreat Domus

The Trust were delighted to be included in Dominic’s Oxford college newsletter, Floreat Domus – 2014 Balliol College News. Click on the link to read the article on page 20. Floreat Domus – page 20

The London Colour Run

Dominic Simpson was one of my best friends.  When I met him he was a diplomat in Saudi Arabia, but unlike all the others I knew.  He also served in Yemen and Jordan and I saw that he really understood the region and cared about it. I was always touched by his insights, his attempts […]

Knees up for DSMT

We are a group of friends here on the Isle of Wight, who had the idea that it would be great fun to hold a charity barn dance. As one of our group, Fiona Seymour, is administrator for the Dominic Simpson Memorial Trust, it was an easy decision to choose the DSMT to be the […]

2013 monitoring visit

2013 DSMT HE scholarship winner

Congratulations to Rinad Mohaisen who was selected to receive this year’s HE scholarship, which covers university fees for the whole four years of her Law degree at Al Quds University. “I want to work as a lawyer.. And I should be trained by other lawyers to gain  extensive skills  before I work my  own job  […]

Supporters meet DSMT HE student

DSMT trustees and supporters attended an informal evening in January with Tamara Halasi (centre). Tamara was the first student to win a Higher Education DSMT Scholarship. She graduated last summer from her 4 year degree in materials engineering and is currently in London working as a volunteer for the Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association.  

DSMT scholarship student prevented from returning to school

On 16 March 2013 one of DSMT’s current scholarship girls and her younger sister, both pupils at the Dar El Tifl School, Jerusalem were prevented by the Israeli military authorities from returning to school after visiting family in Jericho in the West Bank.  Both girls live in the school’s boarding house and the older girl […]

DSMT scholarship student visits Britain

Tamara, a former pupil of Dar El Tifl School, won a DSMT higher education scholarship to fund her four year degree in materials engineering at the Palestinian Al Quds university. She graduated this summer. Tamara is working in London as a volunteer at the Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association (CADFA) for five months. Her work […]

2012 DSMT HE scholarship winner