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, marginalised 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.
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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 transform the lives of marginalised children by creating protective environments where they can safely live, play, learn and grow. |
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.
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
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.
- 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.
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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 our Grants Manager, Sophie Poore sophiepoore@childrenontheedge.org or call 01243 956635. |
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MEET SOME OF OUR CURRENT FUNDERS...
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The Angus Lawson Memorial Trust
The Angus Lawson Memorial Trust (ALMT) has generously supported our education programme for Dalit ‘untouchable’ children in India since 2017. Dalit children are often illegally excluded from Indian state schools, trapping them in poverty. ALMT’s support has helped hundreds of excluded Dalit children to gain a quality primary education in informal, learning centres. ALMT also made generous additional donations to provide emergency food to vulnerable Dalit families during lockdowns, and they are now helping us trial an exciting new initiative to enable older children to gain secondary level qualifications. This work aligns 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. 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. |
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