Helen was educated at Lockerbie Academy before going to the University of Aberdeen to study divinity. After university, Helen decided that she would like to work in another field before entering the ministry and she qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Glasgow. Afterwards Helen moved to London, working with KPMG and then in the City with Phoenix Equity Partners.

With generous donations from her family, friends, employers and members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, the Helen Jones Appeal Fund was established in Helen’s memory in October 2005, in order to make an annual scholarship in her name. It is administered by SATER, the Scottish Accountancy Trust for Education and Research, assisted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Further donations to the Fund can sent by cheque to SATER at the address below. Cheques should be made out to: SATER - The Helen Jones Appeal Fund.

The object of the Fund is to help a school pupil from Dumfries and Galloway to study Accountancy, Finance or Management (or any related combination of subjects) at University. The successful candidate will receive an annual amount (currently £1,100) for each year of his/her course.

Helen Jones

Applications can be made by candidates in their final academic year at school, or alternatively, those who are due to commence a relevant course of study (ie in accountancy, finance, management or related subjects) within eighteen months of having left school. Applications for the 2010 award are now closed.

Funding will not begin until the start date of the relevant course and is conditional on the recipient securing a place at a University to the satisfaction of the SATER trustees.

The 2009 recipient of the award was Kirsty Barr, from Moffat Academy, who is studying accountancy with business studies at Edinburgh University. A press release giving more information is available here.

Any enquiries should be made to SATER on 0131 347 0240 or emailed to the Helen Jones Scholarship. Written enquiries should be addressed to: SATER - The Helen Jones Appeal, CA House, 21 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh, EH12 5BH.