The Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts are three independent but related living memorials to Sir Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...

. They are based in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. (An attempt in 1964 by then Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson

Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, and politician, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis...

 and George A. Drew to launch a fourth Trust in Canada did not come to fruition, in part due to the illness and death of the latter.)

The UK Trust was founded on 1 February 1965, the day after Churchill's funeral. Elizabeth II extended her Royal Patronage to the Trust in 1965.

The Trusts were founded to 'perpetuate and honour the memory of Sir Winston Churchill' by administering the award of Travelling Fellowships known as a Churchill Fellowship. While the three Trusts are independent, they have a similar approach, identifying potential themes each year and inviting members of the public to submit applications under these themes. The applications are vetted and a shortlist is created. People on this shortlist are then interviewed and the successful ones are awarded a Fellowship. The Trusts are not primarily concerned with scientists and scholars for whom opportunities for research and study already exist. The focus is to offer opportunity to 'men and women from all walks of life'.

Today, they receive sufficient funds for four weeks of foreign travel and subsistence

Travel and subsistence

Travel and subsistence expenses describe the cost of spending on business travel, meals, hotels, sundry items such as laundry and similar ad hoc expenditures....

, and the majority of recipients plan a trip of this length. In Australia the average award is A$25000 and the Trust administers a number of additional 'sponsored' Fellowships.

The recipients organise their own travel and undertake their own research. Upon their return, they submit a report to the Trustees. Once their report is accepted, they are formally installed as Fellows and receive their insignia, consisting of a specially minted Churchill Medal, at a national award ceremony.

Applicants must be citizens of the respective country and the research must necessitate foreign travel.

An implication taken from the award of a Fellowship is that the recipient is a leader or has potential leadership in their field of endeavour, and that the Fellowship will strengthen their usefulness to society. They are encouraged to promote the Fellowships, encouraging others to apply, and thus perpetuating the memory of Churchill.

There are local Associations to which Fellows may belong, and which generally maintain links with the respective Trust headquarters.

Notable Fellows by country and year

United Kingdom

Year	Fellow	Occupation / profession	Purpose / project / findings	Location of study
1976	Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth Jane Wilson-Howarth Jane Wilson-Howarth is a British physician, lecturer and author. She has written three travel health guides, two travel narratives and innumerable articles and scientific papers.-Early life:...	Ecologist	Discovered numerous species that were new to science and named one, a springtail Springtail Springtails form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects... , Troglopedetes churchillatus in honour of Churchill.	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
1982	Nick Danziger	Travel artist and author	Travelling on foot and by traditional local transport, Danziger traversed from western Europe to China, and published Danziger’s Travels as his output.	Western Europe and China
2004	Dr. Steven Mannion	Pediatric Pediatrics Pediatrics or paediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician or paediatrician...  surgeon Surgeon In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...	Having repopularised the Ponseti Method Ponseti Method The Ponseti method is a manipulative technique that corrects congenital clubfoot without invasive surgery. It was developed by Dr. Ignacio V. Ponseti of the University of Iowa, USA in the 1950s, and was repopularized in 2000 by Dr. John Herzenberg in the USA and Europe and in Africa by NHS surgeon...  for treating infnatile club foot Club foot A club foot, or congenital talipes equinovarus , is a congenital deformity involving one foot or both. The affected foot appears rotated internally at the ankle. TEV is classified into 2 groups: Postural TEV or Structural TEV.... , Mannion worked with Ignacio Ponseti Ignacio Ponseti Ignacio Ponseti was a physician, specializing in orthopedics. A native of Spain, he fled the Spanish Civil War and became a faculty member and practicing physician at the University of Iowa.... , the inventor of the method.	Iowa, USA

Australia

Year	Fellow	Occupation / profession	Purpose / project / findings	Location of study
2006	Jonathan Oehm	Certified Journeyman Farrier	The James Love Churchill Fellowship to study advanced theraputic and remedial farriery techniques
2009	Joanna Bosse	Assistant Curator, Ian Potter Museum of Art	Developed new curatorial models for Australian art museums to work with Indigenous artists and their communities	Canada, USA
	Nicohlas Bochner		The Dame Roma Mitchell Churchill Fellowship to study the use of improvisation in teaching classical music	UK
	Monique Conheady	Founder and CEO, Flexicar	Investigated public transport systems utilising the latest technology to incorporate newer forms of transit such as bicycles and car sharing	China, Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, USA, Columbia
	Dr Catherine Crock		The Jack Brockhoff Foundation Churchill Fellowship to investigate the benefits of family involvement in effective healthcare by examining patient and family centred care models	USA
	Samuel T Murray	President, ASSID Vic	Assessing the impact of compulsory registration and accreditation systems of support staff on disability service provision	UK and USA
	Sarah Maddison Sarah Maddison Sarah Maddison is an Australian author and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at University of New South Wales....	Social scientist and academic	Studying models of Indigenous representation	USA and Canada

New Zealand

Year	Fellow	Occupation / profession	Purpose / project / findings	Location of study
1973	Don Merton Don Merton Donald Merton, QSM was a New Zealand conservationist best known for saving the black robin from extinction. He also discovered the lek breeding system of the kakapo....	Conservationist Conservationist Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...	Study the management of endangered species.	USA and Europe