BES Facebook pageBES Member Stars in London Photo Show
British Ecological Society member Laura Vickers, a NERC-funded PhD student from the University of Birmingham, will feature in a major photographic exhibition on show in London this month.
Legacies through a Lens runs from 13-19 September 2010 at the OXO Gallery in London to celebrate Remember A Charity Week. The 40 photographs that make up the exhibition illustrate the enormous difference that legacies make to work of UK charities such as the 
BES.
According to Stephen George, Chair of Remember A Charity: “Many people in the UK don’t realise that they can give money to charities like the British Ecological Society in this way. But the truth is, after looking after family and friends, a small share of whatever is left can make a real difference to charities like the BES and the invaluable work they do.”
Currently only 7% of the UK currently remember a charity in their will.
Laura was selected by the BES and Remember A Charity to be part of the exhibition because she is one of many BES members whose research is made possible by grants from the BES. In 2008, she was awarded a BES Small Ecological Project Grant to search for one of the UK's largest spiders in the eighteenth century canal tunnels deep beneath the Black Country. The project will shed light on a unique urban and former industrial environment and engage local people with local ecology.
BES grants officer Dominic Burton says: “Legacies are very important to the Society: a studentship and three houses to home researchers in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania would not have happened without the generous support of legacies.”
