Trio Uganda operates as a micro charity, leveraging modest UK resources to advance social action by indigenous Community Based Organisations (CBOs) in Eastern Uganda. Based in Cardiff, we contribute to sustainable development in impoverished communities through a local to global model that prioritises grassroots investment, citizen empowerment and collaborative social action. In February 2019, the […]
Tushinde Children’s Trust works in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. It targets the most vulnerable families with multiple, complex needs; those who slip through the nets of other, larger organisations. The core of Tusinde’s work is social work with these families in the community. However, our community outreach has brought attention to the inadequate protection […]
Over the past year, thanks to support from the Edith M Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust we were able to release a series of legal information videos for refugees arriving in Greece and the UK. These have included; your rights if you arrive in Greece across the Turkish land border, family reunion from Greece, to other […]
PBI’s mission is to protect Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) across the world, yet in late 2017 we began to see a rise in attacks on HRDs in certain areas of Latin America. In Colombia, this has included the killing of land restitution leaders and an assassination attempt against members of the Peace Community of San […]
How is it possible to make progress on nuclear disarmament if states continue to see nuclear weapons as credibly instrument of state power? By incrementally restricting the circumstances in which the UK would consider nuclear weapons, BASIC believes can create new pathways towards nuclear disarmament. The world is tangled up with nuclear weapons and BASIC […]
What we did with the funding: The support from the Edith M Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust went towards: Rehearsing the Keepin’ It Cool (KIC) performance with a team of four professional actors and a director Preparing and updating the Keepin’ It Cool (KIC) Teachers Resource pack Writing an intensive follow up workshop programme for young […]
In March 2015 the Edith Maud Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust awarded a grant of £1,000 to Concern Worldwide’s sustainable agriculture project tackling hunger in Zambezia province, Mozambique as part of Concern’s Hunger Stops Here campaign, which raised £1.4m to help tackle hunger. This amount was matched by the UK Government. The project has made enormous progress […]
Action on Poverty’s partner, CARD, runs innovative enterprise training projects which aim to bring 1,200 vulnerable young men and women ‘back to life’. By offering apprenticeships with local artisans, business skills training, tools through a revolving fund, supportive life skills and functional literacy, along with youth group business development units for savings schemes and mentoring, […]
In 2016 the Edith M Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust awarded a grant of £1,000 towards the cost of an outdoor play area on the site of the new Bridge Community Church in Leeds. The Children’s Centre incorporating the play area was opened to the community in June 2016 and has already attracted many families to […]
In February 2016 The Edith M Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust awarded a grant to Our Own Future for their Card Beds for the Homeless project. Along with the communications and meetings with different organisations to plan workshops, this grant enabled them to do the following: Three presentations during July with The Challenge’s programme of National […]