Emma Egging set up the charity after her husband Jon died in a plane crash in 2011
The chief executive of a charity set up in memory of a Red Arrows pilot has stepped down from her role. Dr Emma Egging founded the Jon Egging Trust in 2012 to fulfil the ambition of her husband to help young people who are facing adversity.
"In his diary, just a few months before he died, he wrote that ‘with the right support at the right time, everyone is capable of achieving the best version of themselves’. He was very much thinking about how aviation and STEM could be used in a different way to bring people together and remove barriers.
The juggle came with an upside though, as the experiences Emma continued to gain from her day job proved invaluable in designing JET's flagship Blue Skies programme, which remains the charity's main delivery vehicle today. She said: "At the British Museum, I delivered a one-week programme called Talking Objects, and my major frustration was seeing these young people develop so much over a week but then saying goodbye to them and not knowing what they went on to next.
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