Rotary is one of the world’s largest and most successful global membership and humanitarian service organisations, with 1.2 million members in over 200 countries. Ethical practice is encouraged, and members drawn from all walks of life. District 1100 acts in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Bristol, Swindon and parts of Monmouthshire, Somerset and Wiltshire. Bristol Rotary has access to finance from Rotary International and has supported a number of BLB projects, most recently “Social Protection through the Arts” dance programme at Casa de Cultura in Beira.
Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) is a campaigning organisation that works for rights, equality and development across Southern Africa. This includes supporting BLB projects on a regular basis.
The Guild of Guardians is a charity which aims to enhance the good name of the City of Bristol – its traditions, trade and commerce. The Guild of Guardians aims to improve the quality of the civic life of the City of Bristol and supports and enhances the Mansion House and Office of Lord Mayor. Outside the Mansion House, the Guardians have been responsible for and given their support to a number of local projects in Bristol including setting up the Beira Room in City Hall.
The Coles-Medlock Foundation is a grant making organisation focused on alleviating poverty and hardship by supporting charitable projects across the developing world. Working with UK registered charities and their international partners, they focus on funding sustainable development in education, food provision, infrastructure, healthcare and independent financial progress. Coles-Medlock financed the BLB’s projects for women and girls with ADS in Beira: Promotion of Sexual & Reproductive Health, Human Rights & Citizenship, and now Life Skills.
The Hilden Charitable Fund is an endowed grant-making foundation and a registered charity. It funds smaller UK-based organisations delivering projects within the UK to support social justice and to tackle disadvantage in specific areas of focus. They provide unrestricted, core and project funding. Hilden financed the BLB project Women and Girls Promoting Change, carried out in Beira by AMPDC.
The money we raise is fed directly to the smallest charities.The one thing they have in common is that whatever money they have is spent in the local area on the people most in need. KTCT believe that charity is about individuals helping other individuals with the minimum of bureaucracy and needless expense. KTCT part financed the BLB project Economic Empowerment for Vulnerable Women, carried out in Beira by ADEL Sofala.