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September 23rd 2006
TFN's Funding Day on Saturday, 23rd September at The Arts Club in
London, raised £45,718.90 for a total of 9 projects. The event was
a themed day, dedicated to social change projects in the UK and Social
Entrepreneurs working in the UK and/or Overseas.
- Luke Dowdney - founder and director of Fight For Peace
that combines social entrepreneurship and the marketplace to support
the inclusion of disadvantaged children and young people in sports,
education, job training, youth leadership and conflict resolution
programmes. The funds raised went towards establishing a FFP seed-project
in Tower Hamlets offering young people living in this area in
London, who have become evermore divided along ethnic and religious
grounds, alternatives to involvement in crime and violence.
- Ms. Mpatheleni Makaulule built the Luvhola Cultural Village
in South Africa to protect the communal land and sacred sites
of the culture and traditions of her people, the Venda. Funds
raised will assist her in building 3 communities in Venda, to
secure legal rights to protect and manage key sacred and ecologically
sensitive sites in their area, which are being destroyed by inappropriate
industrial development.
- Sarah Lucy Smith and Rose Cleary-Southwood began designing
and producing their special kind of 'eco' underwear in December
2003. GreenKnickers design and distribute fair trade, organic
underwear, which is fun and sexy - aiming to raise awareness of
ethical and ecological issues and improve the lives of their vulnerable
suppliers. The amount raised on the day enabled GreenKnickers
to implement their website and content management system and upgrade
their IT equipment. www.greenknickers.org
- Mary Kasonde established ITEZO in 2001 as a non-profit
organisation to mitigate the effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
in Zambia by empowering affected widows, orphans and other vulnerable
young people to sustain themselves through formal education and
skills training. The funds raised went towards her current initiative
to increase the intake of trainees into the knitting course.
- Sing London is the launch of an annual festival to celebrate
and reinvigorate the joy of collective singing. The project aims
to widen participation, engaging with diverse communities across
the city; to promote the joy of collective singing under a large
festival umbrella; to use singing as a force for social good and
community cohesion; to fill a genuine gap, giving many the chance
to sing; to become an annual festival, building as we move towards
the Olympics. The grant will help to create/build/maintain their
website - being a vital publicity tool enabling them to log events
and to provide tools to help people set up events of their own.
- Corporate Watch - the leading corporate-critical research
organisation with a ten year track record of tackling the root
causes of poverty, injustice and ecological destruction, and putting
concerns about corporate power and its impacts into the mainstream,
aims to provide the best in corporate-critical journalism via
their bi-monthly newsletters, fortnightly email updates, and website.
The funds raised will go towards The News Service helping to secure
the project over a very tight period and find new funding sources.
www.corporatewatch.org
- RENUE - Renewable Energy in the Urban Environment aims
to provide a comprehensive education package for Thomas the Apostle
College, a school in one of the most deprived areas within the
London Borough of Southwark, to maximise the benefit of a renewable
energy installation for which the capital has been secured, but
for which education is not part of the grant. www.sustainable-energy.org.uk
- Fallujah - a documentary theatre production by Jonathan
Holmes, which reveals new information about the siege of Fallujah,
and gives a voice to those involved. His purpose of staging the
play, and of co-ordinating the surrounding events, is not only
to raise awareness of the siege of Fallujah, but through a network
of educational and community activities, to foster debate about
the issues implicit in the project. The Funding Network grant
will ensure that this play is seen, heard and, most importantly,
talked about. If the play makes a profit, the money will be ploughed
into other similar projects, including those sponsored at future
TFN events. www.iliumproductions.com
- The Helen Bamber Foundation - a UK-based human rights
organisation formed in April 2005, aims to develop and co-ordinate
a dedicated Women's Programme which will provide practical help,
care and treatment for women who have suffered human rights violations,
have been traumatized by their experiences and face barriers accessing
appropriate forms of support. Funds raised will enable The Women's
Programme (a) to create a safe space in which a therapeutic relationship
capable of withstanding and confronting experiences of atrocity
and loss is possible; and (b) to assist women with personal and
social/cultural integration, fostering a renewed sense of self
and an ability to adjust to the complexities of every-day living
in what is often seen as an alien culture. www.helenbamber.org
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