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Trusts and Foundations


​Help Children on the Edge change lives

Charitable trusts and foundations play an invaluable role in helping Children on the Edge reach, and improve the lives of, vulnerable children around the world. 

If you’re a trustee, have contact with a trust, or perhaps are setting one up then we would love to hear from you. Please email our Grants Manager, Sophie Poore. 
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sophiepoore@childrenontheedge.org or call 01243 538530
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​Why support us

Our small size means that our Grants Manager and other UK staff have direct, hands-on experience of our projects. They work closely alongside local partners and beneficiaries and have an in-depth knowledge of all our programmes. As a result, we are best placed to fulfil the needs of Trusts and Foundations and communicate about our projects effectively, intelligently and with personal insight.

​Trusts and foundations of all sizes can support Children on the Edge and together we can help to restore the ingredients of a full childhood to children vulnerable children around the world.
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What can you support?

Trusts and foundations can work in partnership with us through one-off grants, or longer term over a number of years to support a specific programme or general area of work (i.e providing flexible, innovative education to persecuted Dalit children in India or early years education for Congolese refugees).

Children on the Edge projects are well researched, innovative and unique, reaching children who are often overlooked by their communities, their governments, the media and the international community. Reaching these children requires extensive research; ongoing conversations with communities, networks and diaspora; and travel to a number of hard to reach, remote locations.

Flexible, unrestricted grants from Trusts and Foundations are crucial to support the research and development phases; to allow us to foster innovation in our projects and respond with greater flexibility to new or emerging needs.

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​What we offer you

  • Dedicated support from our Grants Manager
  • Tailored proposals and regular reporting; we collate up to date information from our local partners and the children and families we work with ​
  • An honest approach in our relationship and reporting with you; we tell you about the challenges we face and any adjustments to our programmes as they happen

We cultivate close working relationships with our funding partners.  We have robust monitoring and evaluation processes and are able to report back regularly. In this way our supporters know exactly how their money is being spent and the impact they are having.

We recognise that trusts and foundations may have specific interests or objectives so our dedicated team is happy to provide a very personalised service. We’ll help you meet your aims while ensuring our work brings about long-term, sustainable change.

​Get in touch 

​We’re always happy to help with any questions you may have, and we’d be delighted to hear from you.

To discover more, or to discuss how you could get involved, please email Sophie Poore sophiepoore@childrenontheedge.org or call 01243 956635.
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Current Funder spotlight
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The Angus Lawson Memorial Trust
 
Since 2017 The Angus Lawson Memorial Trust (ALMT) has been generously supporting our education programme for Dalit ‘untouchable’ children in India.
 
Illegal yet culturally ingrained caste discrimination against the Dalit minority is trapping children in a cycle of extreme poverty and exclusion. Significant donations from ALMT are funding 27 of our community Learning Centres in Bihar state which is one of the poorest areas in India, where abuse against Dalits is particularly high. The ALMT are funding Dalit teachers’ salaries and training, classroom rent, equipment and life-enriching extra-curricular activities for the children. These 27 child-friendly environments provide opportunities to learn for over 800 children aged 6-14.
 
Through receiving high-quality primary education, learning about their rights and participating in collective activism, these children are gaining the self-belief they need to stand up for themselves, reject child marriage and bonded labour, and claim their right to state education and other services their communities are currently denied. This aligns well with the ALMT’s mission of ‘striving to mitigate the suffering of the world's most marginalised children’.
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​The British and Foreign School Society

Between 2015 and 2018 The British and Foreign School Society (BFSS) generously supported our education programme for 500 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. 

BFSS are currently supporting us to develop a new Early Years Education programme for Congolese refugees in the Kyaka II refugee settlement in Uganda. Over the next four years we aim to support 4,000 under-sevens who have fled horrific violence and Ebola in DR Congo by providing them with opportunities to learn, play, and recover from trauma in safe, colourful nursery schools. 
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BFSS are funding the provision of high-quality teacher training so the children will gain the key foundational literacy, numeracy and social skills they need to be successful throughout their education.

Read more about BFSS by going to their website. 

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  • DONATE
  • WHO WE ARE
    • A Child Rights Approach
    • Meet the team
    • Contact Us
    • Media
  • WHAT WE DO
    • Bangladesh: Education for Rohingya refugee children
    • India: Education for 'untouchable' Dalit children
    • Uganda: Transforming slum communities
    • Uganda: Early Years Education for Congolese refugee children
    • Kachin State Myanmar: Support for displaced children
    • Bangladesh: Community Schools for slum dwelling children
    • Lebanon: Education for Syrian refugee children
    • India-Nepal border: Education for children in brothel communities
  • SUPPORT US
    • Receive our news updates
    • Trusts & Foundations
    • Fundraise for us
    • Take on a challenge >
      • 12,000 Steps Virtual Event
      • London Marathon
      • Brighton Marathon
      • Ride London >
        • Ride London Application Form
      • Chichester Half Marathon Event
      • Great South Run
    • Organise an Event
    • Fundraise at Work
    • Clubs & Faith Groups
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