Transrural Trust is a dynamic registered charity that stimulates creative ways of empowering remote rural communities, often in mountain areas, to achieve self-reliance, to stem rural exodus and to articulate their concerns vis-a-vis government authorities.
Much of our work takes place in cross-border regions, bringing together ethnic groups split by the forces of history, such as Albania and Kosovo, Romania and Moldova, Romania and southern Ukraine. We are also active in areas suffering from recent or current conflict or suppression, including Nepal and Tibet. We are instigating a special programme to help victims of the Asian tsunami, initially in Thailand and Sri Lanka.
Our income shows steady, sustainable growth year on year since our foundation in 1997.
We are committed to maintaining a lightweight, cost-effective structure with low overheads. The organization consists of five trustees, two development practitioners, a part-time administrator and an Advisory Council. We implement the major part of our activities through local personnel and partners in the countries where we work and through volunteers in the UK.
We are funded by grant-making agencies, trusts and foundations, and private donations. All funds are channelled directly to our projects, never through government ministries or other bureaucracies.
We are based in the United Kingdom and occupy part of a 400-year old building on the site of a former woollen mill in the village of Crawley in rural west Oxfordshire.
Transrural Trust is registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales no. 1085765