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December 1st 2005
The Funding Evening was kindly hosted by Goldman Sachs at their Fleet St Offices. We raised a total of £36,007 for the following projects.

  • Re~Cycle - to take unwanted bikes abandoned in the UK, ship them to Africa & teach the local people skills to fix & maintain them. Bicycles are a powerful tool for poverty alleviation, through increased efficiency & empowerment. The grant helped to establish the Re~Cycle London Hub and collect and ship 175 much needed bikes to Africa. www.re-cycle.org

  • International Alert - to contribute to conflict prevention activities by fostering the participation of the people of Ceue District in Sao Tome and Principe (STP) in local and national debates on the responsible management of the country's future oil resources through the provision of a community owned and managed radio station. Funds raised covered the launch of the first station in the District of Ceue, located in the south of the island.

  • Microfinance for Youth - to provide hope and opportunity to rural South Africa destitute youth by integrating economic literacy, microfinance and employment experiences into the public high school system. The amount raised enabled Microfinance for Youth to refurbish empty classrooms into a commerce center at our high schools, including an organic vegetable garden. www.gdcu.org

  • SmartJustice - to carry out the first authoritative survey into victims' views about crime and sentencing with the intention of influencing government and sentencing policy. TFN's grant went towards funding for their partnership with Victim Support to conduct a large scale survey on victims' views about crime and punishment.

  • "Women Together" in Egypt - aims to enable illiterate women in Egypt to overturn their barriers themselves through peer learning training, and participation in community-led programmes. Funds raised gave the crucial foothold to get the first learning training for the women in Egypt off the ground, and to co-ordinate all the stakeholders.

  • Cecily's Fund - to give Zambian children who have been orphaned or left vulnerable by AIDS, the chance to go to school, and in so doing to prepare them for a self-sufficient, healthy future and equip them to be leaders of social change in their communities. TFN's grant enabled one hundred and seventy five Zambian orphans in the Zambian town of Kitwe to go to school in the final years of secondary level. www.cecilysfund.org
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