Grants Distributed During Financial Year End March 2021
SECTOR £
Health £170,103
Education £63,385
Social £108,405
TOTAL £ 341,893
Distribution
Alex’s Wish £5,000 The Brothers Trust is helping to fund research into Duchenne - an aggressive form of Muscular Dystrophy that affects 1 in every 3,500 boys born. Every single muscle is destroyed due to a lack of protein and this also affects the heart and lungs, so boys typically only live until their mid-late twenties.
Artists for Africa £13,033 This grant gives Kenyan children from under privileged backgrounds a safe home to grow up in, where they have opportunities beyond anything their backgrounds would have ever provided.
Debra £44,812 Funding a new Community Support Manager Post. The post-holder was responsible for helping 400 individuals and their families in the South of England and provided emotional and financial support, advice and guidance on housing and support within the education system.
Empowerment Plan £42,802 This supported the overall mission of the Empowerment Plan to help permanently break the generational cycles of poverty, homelessness, and unemployment. Huge impact on changing lives. Offers skills training and employment for homeless people in Detroit in manufacturing specially designed coats/sleeping bags for homeless people, which are distributed globally.
John Foundation £23,106 Our grants help fund truly life-changing opportunities. John Foundation rescues vulnerable children and young adults from being trafficked; providing education, medical care, training, and employable skills for an independent future.
Kares 4 Kids £30,560 We are supporting a number of different projects including one of our favourites, Java Joy
London Scrub Hub £15,185 Providing materials to make safe protection for NHS staff during the early stages of the pandemic.
The Lunchbowl Network £19,746 This helped fund operational salary costs for teachers at both the kindergarten and the primary school. Hugely transformational impact and through education, providing a route out of poverty. The Lunchbowl Network educates and feeds over 400 of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
Mama Biashara £20,001 This small charity helps to support women and children leaving abusive relationships in Kenya and providing training and employment.
Momentum £77,000 This contributed to funding their essential Support Care Workers Team, which is at the core of everything Momentum offers to help families through extremely difficult times. A Family Support Worker, is assigned to each family, with the aim of offering emotional and practical support to the family, to try and ease the stress of dealing with the enormous strain of caring for their seriously ill child.
Shabach Ministry £5,000
St.Francis Centre £10,605 Our grant was used to buy computers and musical instruments for disadvantaged children in Silicon Valley where the digital divide for low income students is still very wide.
TearFund £26,822 Providing emergency relief after hurricane Eta in Honduras and Nicaragua, and enabling this charity to work with community leaders helping to deal with the fallout from this disaster.
Warmheart £7,221 helping elderly people living in remote areas of Thailand.
Wimbledon Old Boys £1,000