Acorn will be supporting this charity with donations, office supplies and admin time, and helping at fundraising events along with doing our bit to raise the profile of this small but effective charity.
COAT is a small Cumbrian-based charity that uses all money donated towards helping others in some of the poorest regions of the world. Using a set of fixed criteria, they support projects within communities with grants up to £2,000.
In addition, since 2019, Acorn have been sponsoring Josepha from Kigali in Rwanda.
We will be contributing to Josepha’s education through the Kinamba Community Project (www.kinambaproject.org.uk) and our sponsorship will cover teacher’s salaries, school uniform, materials and food, ensuring that she gets at least one good meal per day whilst she is at school.
Acorn will be supporting this charity with donations, office supplies and admin time, and helping at fundraising events along with doing our bit to raise the profile of this small but effective charity.
COAT is a small Cumbrian-based charity that uses all money donated towards helping others in some of the poorest regions of the world. Using a set of fixed criteria, they support projects within communities with grants up to £2,000.
In addition, since 2019, Acorn have been sponsoring Josepha from Kigali in Rwanda.
We will be contributing to Josepha’s education through the Kinamba Community Project (www.kinambaproject.org.uk) and our sponsorship will cover teacher’s salaries, school uniform, materials and food, ensuring that she gets at least one good meal per day whilst she is at school.
Fundraising for COAT is carried out by a small team of dedicated individuals through such activities as garden parties, craft sales, BBQs and quizzes run in various locations throughout the county. In 2023, the following donations were made:
£606
Disability adaptations and refurbishments for latrines at Sanhantunzi School – Mozambique
£520
Four sewing machines for young mothers graduating from a tailoring course – Bo District, Sierra Leone
£500
Transportation of prosthetic limbs from Cumbria to Africa (Legs4Africa) – Sub-Saharan Africa
£1,000
To provide a motorbike for project staff – Democratic Republic of Congo
£500
Disaster relief following the earthquake – Turkey / Syria
£150
For project costs of a sports program for disadvantaged children – Sri Lanka
£500
For ‘pocket dippers’ for local people to monitor groundwater in villages – Bangladesh & Yemen
£150
For footballs and other equipment for running sports clubs in a school – Senegal
£520
For providing 6 months’ food for the emergency shelter for homeless women and children – Nairobi, Kenya
£1,000
Providing sustainable livelihoods for people in the Dhaka slums – Bangladesh
£1,000
Towards a solar-powered water point, hand washing stations, showers and toilets at Tsuanda School – Mozambique
£350
To provide equipment for a school to take part in online link up activities with children around the world – Gaza
£500
To send surplus prosthetic limbs from the UK for re-use in Africa – Sub Saharan Africa
£350
To buy a cow to start a dairy farm enterprise to support the children – Ethiopia
£250
Ongoing support for children and their families at the Kinamba Community Project – Rwanda
£300
To buy materials to make sanitary kits for Days For Girls
Funding Criteria
Projects presented for funding are considered flexibly against the following criteria:
- Projects which contribute in some way to the relief of poverty and which will have some long-term and sustainable benefits to a local community.
- Projects where it is possible to get some feedback following expenditure of the grant so this feedback could be used to educate and better inform both trustees and the local Cumbrian population where appropriate through talks etc.
- Projects where there is some local Cumbrian connection, either through individuals involved or the origins of the organisation.
- Projects where COAT’s contribution can be clearly identified in costed proposals and/or trustees can be confident as to the viability and integrity of the project.
- Projects should be non-party in politics and non-sectarian in religion.
- Funds for young people from Cumbria travelling abroad to work on a project which contributes to the relief of poverty and which will have some long-term and sustainable benefits to a local community.
- The usual ceiling for a COAT grant would be £2000, subject to trustees discretion. However, most grants given are for less than £1000.
For more information please visit www.cumbriaoverseasaidtrust.org.uk