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March 12th 2005
The Funding Day was TFN's first themed day, organised
in partnership with UnLtd, and devoted to social entrepreneurs. We raised a total
of £40,453 for the following projects.
- Street Vision Project, Anna Blackman - trains over 300 street and
working children in photographic and self-advocacy skills. www.photovoice.org
- Haringey Warriors Youth Organisation, Jesse Peters - enables children
and young people from deprived areas to make a positive change in their lives
by providing them with life skills and steering them away from anti-social
behaviour.
- The Gazelle Project, Gillian Blake - helps to maximize learning and
achievement through balanced educational programmes for adults with learning
disabilities.
- Give Peace a Chance, Asha Hagi Elmi - a significant initiative by
Save Somali Woman and Children to use the extensive women's networks to encourage
communities to support the top-down peace initiatives of the Transitional
government and to create sufficient stability for more participative processes
to be put in place over time.
- CRUDE, Franny Armstrong - dedicated to tackling the important social
and environmental issues of our World. Crude, Franny's latest film will tackle
the issue of climate change and a concurrent growing realisation that as consumers
we need to take more responsibility for the way our lifestyles are impacting
on the planet. www.spannerfilms.net
- Thalia Theatre Company, Karen Rose Hutchinson - provides theatre
for disabled people, to educate, empower, inform and develop skills of communication
and self-advocacy for both participants and audiences, and challenges negative
perceptions of the learning disabled. www.thaliatheatre.co.uk
- Southbank Mosaics, David Tootill - transforms public spaces around
Southbank by training and working with teams of people serving community service
orders in order to create outstanding mosaics.
- Reprieve, Clive Stafford Smith - works to protect the human rights
of people facing the death penalty. www.reprieve.org.uk
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