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 […]
In April 2015, Care Link West Midlands received a grant award of £1,000 from The Edith M Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust towards its ‘Connecting Young People to Opportunities’ project – a youth club programme to provide a comprehensive support service to young care-leavers from French-speaking African background in Smethwick area, West Midlands. This project has […]
For many years, as part of its Natural Resource Management Programme, Kaloko Trust has been training new beekeepers. The project aims to offer a sustainable source of income for poor rural farmers and to encourage them to value and preserve the local forest. As the programme has evolved, various new components have been added. The […]
It was announced on 15 October that the Home Office was decommissioning Dover detention centre. Samphire will focus on its work with people released from detention and its work in the community. The news came like so many Home Office immigration decisions: suddenly and with no reasons. Only this decision was not the decision to split a father […]