The ARC-Addington Fund started in 2001 as the churches’ response to FMD, distributing £10.3m to 22,000 applicants. It now provides housing for those leaving a rural business, keeping families within their communities. It responds to changing needs and is currently running a Flood Relief Fund. No donation goes into administration.
Bees ensure the maintenance of biodiversity and enable people to improve their livelihoods. Bees for Development Trust ensures beekeepers working in poor countries have access to the information and advice they need. For example, how to market honey, manage indigenous bees sustainably, or plant trees that are useful for bees.
CPRE promotes long-term solutions for protecting the beauty, tranquillity and diversity of rural England, ensuring changes value the natural and built environment through effective local and powerful national campaigning. Our major successes include the formation of the first English National Parks and the Green Belt, all thanks to public donations.
The Countryside Restoration Trust is a farming and conservation charity dedicated to restoring and protecting the countryside. The Trust demonstrates profitable farming which blends historic wisdom and sustainable modern methods to restore wildlife and maintain rural culture.
The aim of the Fairtrade Foundation is to encourage fairer, more sustainable trade for disadvantaged farmers in developing countries. It awards the FAIRTRADE Mark, an independent consumer label, to products as a guarantee that workers and farmers get a better deal.
FARM-Africa is a charity that helps some of the poorest farmers in eastern and South Africa grow more food, keep their animals healthy and manage the environment sustainably. FARM-Africa provides the skills and knowledge required so farmers do not need to depend on handouts to survive. Your donations make this possible.
Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world’s longest established international conservation body, founded 100 years ago. Renowned for its science-based approach, FFI has pioneered sustainable conservation work that tackles problems holistically, providing solutions that simultaneously help wildlife, humans and the environment.
The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens exists to support, represent and promote community-managed farms, gardens, allotment sites and school farms. The Federation provides direct support to members across the UK and gives them a voice at national level.
Feedback helps the poor in Madagascar to improve their livelihoods and their environment, sustainably and on their terms. It operates community development programmes focussing on health, education and natural resource management (especially in the areas of farming and forest conservation).
The charity helps to reduce extreme poverty in the rural areas by increasing the productivity of working horses and donkeys through welfare and management training. It provides basic veterinary assistance, teaches in schools and to farmers groups, and provides scholarships for paravets at college level.
GardenAfrica establishes training gardens in schools and hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa. These gardens are used to teach people affected by poverty and disease to grow nutritious food and medicinal plants, using sustainable farming methods, to improve health and generate income. More than 90% of your donation will go directly to projects in the field
The Haller Foundation works at the grassroots, helping people, helping the environment, helping Africa.
Nutrition plays a pivotal role in health. HETN aims to research and apply appropriate nutritional intervention in the prevention and management of disease. • Long Term - Soil replenishment • Medium Term - Food fortification • Short Term - Dietary supplements HETN’s first project is with HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.
Izara Khom Loy Trust helps ethnic minorities and stateless people in SE Asia by providing kindergarten education, food and running income producing projects such as producing handicrafts. Currently it is running projects in the mountains between Thailand and Myanmar/Burma.
JNF is an apolitical organisation benefiting all races and religions in Israel. It raises money for water projects, reservoirs and water conservation and has recently expanded its scope to run diverse projects for underprivileged people such as a hospital, a riding school for the disabled and a youth village.
Joliba Trust supports grassroots development work with farming and cattle-raising communities in some of the poorest areas of Mali. Our particular focus is on projects to help women, and environmental work to sustain rural livelihoods.
It enables students, especially girls, and students who cannot afford school fees to recieve a primary and secondary education. Now based in Western Province, which is the poorest part of Kenya. The Nairobi school was destroyed in the recent riots and is being built from sctratch on the new site.
The national charity dedicated to assisting members of the farming community who are suffering hardship. RABI provides assistance and support to those from the farming community who are in need.
SOS Sahel aims to improve the lives and environment of poor, marginal herders and farmers in Africa's Sahel region. Over 20 years, it has demonstrated that when communities are given the right support, they can lift their families out of poverty while regenerating the natural resources upon which they depend.
SUNARMA's vision is for rural Ethiopians to be able to produce adequate food and improve their quality of life in a protected and well-preserved natural environment. It does this by working with communities to minimise land degradation while enhancing agricultural production and diversifying their income.
Traidcraft Exchange - Traidcraft's charity - works to enable poor producers in Africa and Asia to grow their businesses, find markets and engage effectively in trade. We passionately believe that trade can provide opportunities for people to work their way out of poverty.
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