Sampling of charities we supported centrally in 2008
REGIONAL
All Stars Project
£4,868 for the Development School for Youth, giving 300 students from over 40 New York City and Newark high schools the opportunity to be leaders.
www.allstars.org
The Bike Kitchen
$3,245 to aid relocation of the Bike Kitchen to larger premises, providing enhanced opportunities for volunteerism, personal development, leadership and relationship building.
www.bikekitchen.org
Beatbullying
£2,000 for three half day programmes in the inner city borough of Tower Hamlets, London, enabling children to discuss and define bullying based on their own experiences.
www.beatbullying.org
The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery
£6,490 to support and deliver educational programmes that increase awareness of the Rule of Law throughout the Dayton, Ohio region.
www.boonshoftmuseum.org
The Burn Institute
£2,506 to allow 70 children, all burn survivors, to attend a six day US summer camp.
www.burninstitute.org
Central School of Ballet
£3,871 in bursaries to allow gifted dancers from poor backgrounds to pursue their love of dance.
www.centralschoolofballet.co.uk
Crayons to Classrooms
£6,490 for Crayons to Classrooms, a new free resource centre for teachers from under-funded schools serving children living in poverty in Ohio’s Miami Valley.
www.volunteermatch.org/search/org85148.jsp
Cetacean Research and Rescue Unit
£3,871 to develop a multidisciplinary environmental educational programme, encompassing touch screens for volunteers with disabilities.
www.crru.org.uk
Concordia Foundation
£4,000 for two educational projects uniting young audiences through art and music in London and Oxford.
www.concordiafoundation.com
The Connection at St Martin’s
£7,500 to support access for young homeless people to social and educational programmes, training and employment services.
www.connection-at-stmartins.org.uk
Dyslexia Action
£3,000 to give young people from disadvantaged families dyslexia assessments and educational assistance.
www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk
Earthwatch
£5,000 to allow children from low income areas of Oxfordshire to participate on a specially tailored field research project: Helping Dragonflies and Damselflies Adapt to Climate Change.
www.earthwatch.org
Fields in Trust
£6,452 to help protect playing fields in UK disadvantaged communities.
www.fieldsintrust.org
Hope UK
£3,226 to recruit and train voluntary drug educators in deprived areas of London.
www.hopeuk.org
Hudson River Museum
£974 for educational outreach to support Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture.
www.hrm.org
International Association of Fire Chiefs Foundation
£2,596 to allow young people in financial need to attend a Fire Explorers course.
www.iafc.org
Young Journalists’ Academy
£3,000 for a week long journalism summer school for pupils from disadvantaged areas of London, focused on article writing, visits with journalists, and tours of media companies.
www.yja.org.uk/
Learning Links
£969 towards purchasing classroom computers in support of programmes that build confidence, provide social interaction, and develop skills.
www.learninglinks.co.uk
Limerick Youth Service
£5,000 to support a range of summer programmes focusing on sex education and drug awareness for young people in Limerick, Ireland.
www.limerickyouthservice.com
Lilliput Children's Services
£3,245 for California’s Lilliput’s Adventure Activities, cultural and recreational opportunities for children in care from low-income families.
www.lilliput.org
The National Literacy Trust
£9,677 to advance the Reading Is Fundamental programme in the Westminster and Camden sections of London.
www.literacytrust.org.uk
The National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain
£4,500 to allow children to meet their counterparts and play in a concert in Rome.
www.nco.org.uk
NPower
£5,512 to allow NPower to partner with the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia on a computer lab, training and technical support for Cambodian American children.
www.npowerpa.org
Outward Bound Trust
£8,065 for an Outward Bound discovery and adventure course with children from Edith Neville Primary School in London.
www.theoutwardboundtrust.org.uk
Public Allies
£2,506 to sponsor two young leaders in New York in improving and expanding services at a local non-profit organization.
www.publicallies.org
Pearl S. Buck International
£9,086 to purchase computer equipment that will enhance the educational experience for school groups at the historic site.
www.psbi.org
React
£5,000 for essential educational equipment for families with children coping with life-limiting illnesses across Britain.
www.reactcharity.org
Rolling Readers
£3,622 to purchase new, hardcover books for low-income children in the San Diego area.
www.rollingreaders.org
Teenage Cancer Trust
£10,000 to enhance a dedicated education space in Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
www.teenagecancertrust.org
Unicorn School
£1,000 for new library books for children with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia.
http://www.unicorndyslexia.co.uk/
Wellbeing of Women
£5,000 to help create a guide to gynaecological health for young girls from disadvantaged backgrounds.
www.wellbeingofwomen.org.uk
Young Scholars Charter School
£2,005 for new reading books at the school, located in one of Philadelphia’s poorest neighbourhoods.
www.yscp.org
Youth Off The Streets
£5,038 for 30 marginalised children to attend leadership camps in Australia that aim to improve confidence and self esteem.
www.youthoffthestreets.com.au
INTERNATIONAL
ADOPT
£968 to provide heart check-up camps in rural Indian villages that facilitate heart surgery for underprivileged children.
www.adoptfoundation.org
AfriKids
£6,450 to provide educational opportunities for 249 children and 35 young adults at Operation Zuarungu.
www.afrikids.org
Alchemy World
£9,160 to develop a Social Entrepreneurship Centre at an orphanage in Ethiopia.
www.alchemyworld.org
BasicNeeds
£968 to enable BasicNeeds to work in partnership with community development workers in Tanzania on vocational training for carers of young people with mental illness.
www.basicneeds.org
BookPower
£3,225 to provide developing countries with low-priced textbooks, particularly in business studies, and hotels, catering and tourism.
www.bookpower.org
Bornfree Art School International
£968 for Peace Bicycle, a 2,869 kilometre ride by children from India, focused on social issues like child labour.
www.bornfreeart.org
Book Aid International
£10,000 to support the development of community libraries in Cameroon.
www.bookaid.org
Coaching for Hope
£1,935 to develop a pilot course for disabled football coaches who promote the sport and deliver HIV and AIDS awareness courses.
www.coachingforhope.org
Cooperative Housing Foundation International
£7,464 to benefit the Lycée Faustin Soulouque educational institution in Haiti.
www.chfhq.org
Corazon de Vida
£5,000 to establish a library at the La Roca orphanage in Mexico.
www.corazondevida.org
Dangwa Initiative
£4,868 to pay for shipping a container of educational supplies to Zimbabwe, collected by colleagues from New York.
www.dangwa.org
Freeplay Foundation
£3,225 to provide Lifeline Radios and programming, including on child rights and health to 10,000 young people in Malawi.
www.freeplayfoundation.org
International Diabetes Federation
£1,935 to support youth diabetes education for healthcare professionals in Rwanda.
www.idf.org
The Hope Foundation
£9,160 to enable the Hope Foundation to continue working with a local partner in Kalighat, India to help young women forced into prostitution.
www.hopefoundation.ie
Karuna Trust
£4,194 to provide educational support for girls, many of whom are runaways, living outside Calcutta, India.
www.karuna.org
MicroLoan Foundation
£2,580 to provide microfinance loans to women in Malawi and Zambia.
www.microloanfoundation.org.uk
Plan UK
£6,451 to help construct a girls dormitory, kitchen and dining hall at the Sangara Secondary School in Tanzania.
www.plan-uk.org
Room to Read
£6,451 to provide three schools in Cambodia with a libraries, books and librarian training.
www.roomtoread.org
Street Children of Bucharest
£3,225 to refurbish eight bedrooms in a Romanian orphanage.
SOS Children’s Villages
£10,149 for a centre in Bethlehem providing social and psychological services to children, their carers and families, encompassing workshop seminars and outreach programmes in local schools.
www.sos-childrensvillage.org
Transforming Communities through Knowledge and Skills
£3,225 for study skills training for young people aged 16-21 at an educational centre in Bwari Town (Abuja), Nigeria.
www.tracksprojects.org