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How You Can Help Financially

We welcome support from grant-making bodies. We are able to allocate donations to specific activities, so that contributors know what they are contributing towards. Some grant-makers prefer not to respond to unsolicited requests, and so may prefer to contact us directly, or invite us to submit a proposal.

The strategy adopted by our Trustees for the five year period 2009-2013 is to focus resources on poverty pockets in two distinct areas: the remote rural areas of the Everest region; and coastal regions within zones affected by the tsunami of December 2004. In addition, we plan to launch a new, broader initiative that will link producer groups with designers and artists on the one hand, and with market opportunities on the other. At the time of going to print, we are raising funds for the following programmes:

Everest programme – funding target, £50,000.

We are now seeking co-funding of £12,500 per year over 4 years to cover the cost of building a network of women’s groups that will produce high-quality hand-made items such as shawls, scarves and bags, using combinations of nettle, wool, cotton and silk fibres from the region. These groups will be linked up to designers and markets.

Post-tsunami programme – funding target £50,000.

We are now seeking co-funding of at least £12,500 per year over 4 years to pay for budget items such as materials and equipment to help get women’s groups started, and facilities to help the producers to access supplies, design ideas, and markets.

Development Hub programme – funding target £100,000.

Over the next four years, we plan to develop an exciting new programme that will link community-based enterprises in a number of developing countries in Asia and Africa with artists and designers on the “input” side of the equation and market opportunities (including via ethical and fairly traded channels) on the “output” side. This programme will open up opportunities for collaboration with other like-minded development organisations, supported by a dedicated website.

Legacy Fund – funding target £300,000.

The total of the above funding targets is £500,000. Using the leverage principle, we aim to dovetail this with £500,000 in larger agency grants.

Donations

We are delighted to receive donations by cheque (payable to Transrural Trust), by credit card via the phone, by bank transfer or online via the Just Giving website.

If you wish your donation to be used for a specific programme or country, please let us know and we will “ring-fence” your contribution for that purpose. However, general donations that we can use at our discretion for whichever need is most pressing at the time are also very much appreciated.

All donations are acknowledged personally by a member of staff or a Trustee.

Become a “Friend of Transrural”

If you would like to join, complete and return the “Friends” form, the standing order mandate and the Gift Aid declaration (if appropriate) to our postal address.

Do You Want to Volunteer?

Volunteer for Fair Trade sales!

We supply you with stock sourced directly from our projects. All the products make delightful and unusual gifts and come with their own story.

Sell them through your own networks of family, friends, school, work, church and leisure, or through stands and stalls at Fair Trade events, church, school and village fairs.

Janet Payne ... Janet Payne, left, from Swacliffe, Oxfordshire, sells decorated eggs and other Fair Trade handicrafts from Transrural's Romania and south Asia programmes at Banbury's first Fair Trade event in March 2006. Promoting and selling craftwork produced by the beneficiaries of Transrural's projects is another way in which individuals can help Transrural to further its aim of fostering self-reliance in the communities where we work.

Over the years, Transrural has taken part in numerous Fair Trade events, both locally and nationally, and we would like to thank all those supporters who gave their time freely to help us. New volunteers are always welcome!