Grant maker
The Funding Network
Grants made
| When | Amount | Grantee | To be used for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31/12/2017 | £10,265 | GEN - Grassroots Empowerment Initiative | To provide catch up education, including literacy and numeracy, to as many unschooled teenage girls in the Tijara Block, Rajasthan, as we can reach with TFN and other funds raised |
| 31/12/2017 | £12,657 | Kiteka | "Digital Women" is a project to train 500 disadvantaged women across Kampala, Uganda with business and digital skills using smartphone technology. |
| 30/11/2017 | £11,378 | Just Like Us | Our relatable role model programme empowers young people to address homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying and improve the wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender school pupils. |
| 30/11/2017 | £14,002 | Lotus Flower Trust | To fund the building of a workshop to accommodate a recycling machine which changes rags into paper and will allow the Centre to create self-sustaining income. |
| 30/11/2017 | £11,263 | Epilepsy Support Foundation | Nurses in Zimbabwe lack information on how to manage epilepsy. This project will provide training to improve the competencies of rural healthcare workers in epilepsy management and in challenging stigma. |
| 31/10/2017 | £20,640 | The Fatherhood Institute | FRED is a simple, compelling father-child reading challenge run in nurseries and schools. We want to extend reach and improve resources and support so more EAL families can participate. |
| 31/10/2017 | £20,350 | Year Here | We are hiring a Head of Design. They will pilot new arms of our organisation's work, allowing us to reach more beneficiaries and amplify our impact. |
| 31/10/2017 | £27,449 | Bags of Taste | To support the continued expansion of our food poverty activites, both outside of London for the first time (Hastings) and through other methods like social franchising. |
| 31/08/2017 | £10,117 | Cracked It | To train and employ young offenders and those at risk to repair smashed smartphones as a positive route from crime. |
| 31/05/2017 | £28,444 | Shivia | To transition individual poultry home-farmers into groups so that in two years time they no longer require assistance and can scale their enterprise alone. |
| 31/05/2017 | £19,367 | CleanConscience | To reduce the huge quantity of waste soap and toiletries from the hospitality sector through recovery, redistribution and re-use by creating opportunities for those on the margins of society. |
| 31/05/2017 | £10,059 | Betknowmore UK | To support the treatment of affected others receiving harm due to the problematic gambling of others. |
| 30/04/2017 | £12,839 | Tea Leaf Trust | Developing personal and professional programmes supporting young people from Sri Lankan tea plantations to gain skills to access employment. |
| 30/04/2017 | £12,609 | Viswa Bharati Vidyodaya Trust | A course for indigenous tribal youth, in the Nilgiri Hills in South India, who have been unable to complete their education for a range of reasons and are prevented from returning to traditional lifestyles. |
| 31/03/2017 | £19,963 | Hubbub Foundation Network | To create a flourishing network of community fridges that redistribute perishable food that would have otherwise been wasted to those most at need within the community |
| 31/03/2017 | £11,840 | Legal Response Initiative | For sub-Saharan Africa to have pro-poor, equitable 'climate legislation' to protect human rights and livelihoods, developed through a participatory process. |
| 31/03/2017 | £14,504 | Preventable Surprises | To encourage European investors to push energy utilities to prepare transition plans compatible with keeping temperature increase due to carbon emissions below 2 C. |
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