Georgia Williams: Mum proud in charity set up in teenager's name

Lynnette Williams said the resolution of issues with the police has meant she has "more focus" on building up her work with the trust.

It comes as the family marked the third year without their daughter, who was murdered at the age of 17.

As well as launching scholarships for a number of different organisations, this year the trust has seen the building of a new plane named in honour of Georgia. Lynnette has also been able to visit schools across the borough to tell them about the work of the trust.

The trust's aims are to offer young people in Telford the chance to "join in" with more activities and give them access to try things that they may otherwise not have the chance to do.

She said: "We're working more closely with a number of organisations and more are coming on board because of what we stand for.

"We're trying to get the whole community involved – not just kids – we want to get people to get involved and have a go.

"We run events for everybody, like the cycling event we hold. That was a fantastic day out for people who love cycling and for people who rented a bike and tried the 25-mile route."

She added: "But we're building in more things now.

"We have lots more schools involved and we're getting more and more scholarship applications coming through.

"It feels like we've had a spurt again this year."

Lynnette said: "It is nice going into schools more because people recognise me now and come up and say hello and ask what we're doing.

"We really want to get the whole community involved and build that community spirit."

Lynnette said that the trust has been having issues with its website but they are now resolved and people wanting to find out more about the trust are urged to visit and take a look.

She added: "New clubs that are being set up, we try and help them out. There was a new gymnastics club that we helped to buy equipment and now they are so popular they are having to turn people away."

Events run by the trust last year included students from the Telford & Wrekin Student Engagement Programme joining up with the Shropshire Wildlife Trust to create a set of bird boxes.

Over December 14 and 15 the group designed and built bird boxes from scratch which were then sold and made £117 for the trust.

In memory of Georgia, the Immerse School of Diving offer scholarship positions to the Georgia Williams Youth Diving Programme.

Through this it gives a single scholarship place to a young person who has an interest in participating in scuba diving.

The course runs for a year, in which time the person gets the opportunity to be involved in a full scuba diving scholarship.

This year, the closing date for the scholarship is May 31.

Tom Edwards, last year's recipient of the Immerse School of Diving scholarship, did a 600ft bungee jump to raise money for the Georgia Williams Trust – raising nearly £1,000.

Another group offering scholarships through the trust is the Rock Project, which teaches guitar, bass, drums and vocals to youngsters aged between seven and 18.

One of the biggest developments is the trust's new plane built by students from Georgia's old school Ercall Wood. It will make its debut by flying into the Cosford Air Show on June 19.

Project leader and trustee of the charity, Mary Parry-Sargent, is leading the drive behind buying the plane.

The trust is trying to raise money to make that a possibility, with hopes of having the plane bought by October.

It will be kept at Cosford and used as an educational exhibit, and as a treat for disabled and disadvantaged children to fly in.