Ready to have your day brightened? Ready to smile? Well, brace yourselves…. Action for Change Foundation is all about providing peace-building activities which we utterly love here! They target the unemployed and youth who were unable to complete their education due to the conflict in Timor Leste at the time. Their main goal is to [...]
Read more...Walking for water – 103 km, 5 days, 29 trekkers, 18 areas and markets of The Body Shop – £41,250 raised for WaterAid Smashing expected donations, we are delighted to announce that because of the monies raised from the Sahara trekkers, WaterAid are able to fund three projects across Africa, in Zambia, Tanzania and [...]
Read more...Need 29 people to change the world? You got it! Following the recent The Body Shop Foundation Sahara Challenge, we’ve been able to fund 3 WaterAid projects in Zambia, Tanzania and Liberia raising an incredible £41,250. MASSIVE thanks to all involved – you know who you are and how awesome we think you are too! [...]
Read more...“Exactly this book is the thing that we needed! I have been thinking what a feeling it must be when the women leave the shelter and must be able to continue coping with all these traumas alone. One tip for every day of a whole year – this should be enough for a total recovery. [...]
Read more...The Polaris Project’s mission is to combat human trafficking and modern-day slavery and to strengthen the anti-trafficking movement through a comprehensive approach. We gave them funding of £5,000 through our Americas Zone Programme towards the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Programme. What they have achieved with this money is nothing short of remarkable. Please click [...]
Read more...As Douglas Adams so charmingly put it “Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much…the wheel, New York, wars and so on..while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that [...]
Read more...RDA is a national charity with over 500 member groups. These groups provide riding and/or carriage driving to adults and young people with a wide range of disabilities in order to benefit their general health and well being. Chichester is one such group and they offer local disabled adults and children the opportunity not only [...]
Read more...Work this Way (WtW) provides employer led accredited training and work experience for serving offenders to help reduce re-offending. They are based at Ford Prison, West Sussex and have trained over 150 offenders, predominantly in construction, health and safety ‘tickets’ and safe use of key equipment for industry. The Oil Works programme has the opportunity [...]
Read more...This organisation was established by parents of children with special needs to ‘empower, inform parents and families in West Sussex’. They do this by providing a number of services including professional counselling, training, workshops and a Parent & Family Guide to Special Needs in West Sussex. All these services provide information and advice on all [...]
Read more...Bow Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals mission is to provide a no-kill, no-cage adoption facility to shelter and care for stray or abandoned dogs and cats in the Bow Valley; and to promote humane attitudes and responsible pet companionship. We gave them £3,200 through our Americas Funding Panel towards operational costs [...]
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