Head of RAF supports JET in signing of Armed Forces Covenant
13 Oct 2022: Head of the RAF, Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, today supported youth charity the Jon Egging Trust (JET) in its signing of the Armed Forces...
Author: Jon Egging Trust
JET chosen from 190 charities to receive Impetus backing
Youth charity, the Jon Egging Trust (JET), has been selected as one of three charities from over 190 applicants across the UK to receive financial and consultative backing in 2022 from Impetus. Impetus...
JET celebrates decade of University Air Squadron support
Youth charity, the Jon Egging Trust (JET) is celebrating ten years of University Air Squadron (UAS) support at this year’s Bournemouth Air Festival, recognising the huge impact that UAS...
Making a Rhyl difference
For Anne Paddington, JET’s Regional Manager in North Wales, it’s been a busy year. Not only has she masterminded the delivery of our Blue Skies programmes for schools on...
Lee, aged 15
Lee* was a student on our three-year Blue Skies programmes at Robert May’s School in Hampshire. His headteacher, Rea Mitchell, tells us how the support he has received from JET...
July 2022
JET runs a national competition, JET to Space, to offer places on a four-day camp in Cornwall linked to the UK’s first rocket launch. 25 winning students from areas...
We JETted to Space!
In July 2022, the Jon Egging Trust ran its first ever residential camp, JET to Space, linked to the UK’s first satellite launch to space. Attendees were chosen following...
Lift off for new UK Civil Aviation Authority partnership
The Jon Egging Trust (JET) is delighted to announce a new partnership with the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) which will allow an additional 4,000 vulnerable students to benefit...
Winning UK schools set to ‘JET to Space’ this summer
Schools in Bristol, Bradford, Greater London and Cornwall have taken the top spots in a national space competition linked to the UK’s first satellite launch this summer. Bristol Metropolitan...
JET and BAE Systems partnership to benefit young people across UK
Up to 6,000 young people across the UK will benefit from inspirational STEM-inspired youth programmes as part of a new £50,000 partnership between the Jon Egging Trust and BAE...
April Fools Club welcomes JET into the fold
The Jon Egging Trust is delighted to have been selected as one of three charity partners of the April Fools Club (AFC); a charitable fellowship which fosters relationships between...
Falcons drop in for first JET graduation since pre-Covid
Oxfordshire’s Blue Skies 1 and 2 students were treated to an awe-inspiring display from the RAF Falcons last Thursday 18th May, in what was JET’s first graduation ceremony since...
