Support our work
Every penny is accounted for.
We publish audited accounts every year and we have never once been asked to explain them twice.
What your gift buys
| £12 | A month of clean water for a household, and the maintenance that keeps the well working after the photographers have gone. |
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| £30 | A full course of vaccinations, delivered cold, to somewhere the cold chain does not usually reach. |
| £75 | A week of emergency shelter, blankets and hot food for a family displaced overnight. |
| £200 | A year of schooling, uniform and meals for one child at a Foundation home. |
| £450 | A year of memory care for one person: a settled address, a routine, and company at every hour. |
Costings are per beneficiary, averaged across programmes, and independently verified. They have not changed in some years.
Give monthly
A regular gift is worth considerably more to us than the same amount given once, because it lets us promise things to people years ahead of being able to pay for them. Nearly everything the Foundation does is a promise of that kind.
Monthly donors receive the staff newsletter, which is not the usual glossy thing — it is the same edition our colleagues at Providence read, and we send it unedited.
A gift in your will
Legacies fund the parts of our work that have no natural end: the wells that need maintaining for forty years, the homes that must still be there when a child is grown, and the memory care programme, which nobody ever completes.
Our legacy team will sit with you and your family for as long as it takes. Colleagues say the conversation is easier than people expect. Most of the difficulty, they find, is in deciding what one wants to be remembered for — and we are unusually good at helping with that.
Where the rest goes
Administration, campus upkeep, staff welfare and reserves. We keep the reserve deliberately large. A charity that runs out of money stops being able to keep its promises, and our promises are longer than most.
Nobody has ever asked us to itemise it further. We would, of course, if anyone did.
The fifth tier funds the memory care programme, which is the least visible thing we do. Memory care →