# Crispin Ellison Bursary Award winners announced

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/05/29/crispin-ellison-bursary-award-winners-announced/
- Published: 2020-05-29T09:13:12+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Legacy Link has announced the winners of this year’s Crispin Ellison Bursary Award.**

In a change for 2020, and as [announced earlier this year](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/01/24/bursary-offered-of-up-to-1000-worth-of-legacy-giving-training/),
there was one award providing funding to complete the ILM Certificate in Charity
Legacy Administration (CiCLA) and two awards for ILM Training of up to £500 each.

Jacob McGreevy from [Rennie Grove Hospice](https://www.renniegrove.org/) won the
CiCLA bursary, Wendy Ahl from [Safe Haven for Donkeys](https://www.safehaven4donkeys.org/)
and Amy Martin from [Julia’s House Children’s Hospice](https://www.juliashouse.org/)
won the training bursaries.

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McGreevy said:

> “I am thrilled to have been awarded the [Crispin Ellison Bursary](https://legacy-link.co.uk/bursary/)
> for 2020. Since I joined Rennie Grove Hospice Care last year – in what is my first
> role in legacy administration – I have always been interested in the CiCLA qualification
> and I am so grateful for the opportunity to pursue it. This will enable me to 
> effectively maximise our income opportunities while maintaining the strong relationships
> so important to a local hospice charity, particularly when dealing with personal
> executors who are often family members of former Rennie Grove patients. I can’t
> wait to get started and share what I learn with the rest of the organisation.”

This was the fourth year of the annual Crispin Ellison Bursary Award, which is open
to any individual working or volunteering in a legacy giving role, regardless of
the size of charity.

Ellison was a founding member of the Institute of Legacy Management, and ran Legacy
Link for nine years from 2009. He passed away [last year](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/09/03/ilm-founding-member-crispin-ellison-dies/),
after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in 2015.

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