Our 2020 donation of £10,000 will cover the purchase of 2 Medical Profiling beds. The TUUT Charitable Trust have always been happy to support the work of React with donations for various items of equipment to make the lives of life limited children easier.
The TUUT Charitable Trust were pleased to support the work of Quinton & Oldbury Foodbank in May with a donation of £1,250. This donation was one of four foodbanks signposted to us for help by the Birmingham & West Midlands Region of the GMB.
The TUUT Charitable Trust were pleased to support the work of Coventry Foodbank in May with a donation of £1,250. This donation was one of four foodbanks signposted to us for help by the Birmingham & West Midlands Region of the GMB. A volunteer selects items for a food parcel Hugh McNeill project manager of the Coventry Foodbank told us that more and more people are approaching them for help, finding themselves simply unable to make ends meet due to being furloughed, lack of working hours and low levels of pay. Most worrying is the long-term impact of Covid-19 on the most vulnerable in our society once we move beyond
Bolton is one of the areas in the North West receiving the highest number of asylum seekers with numbers comparable to the large cities of Manchester and Liverpool. The Destitution Project seeks to provide a safe environment in Bolton where asylum seekers and refugees can find friendship, food and practical help. Currently 40 volunteers and 3 part-time paid staff serve the needs of over 135 asylum seekers and refugees each week. The project was most grateful for our donation of £7,000 which arrived in time to support the Projects work at the height of the Corona Virus Crisis. This application for funding was supported by the Bolton branch of UNISON.
The TUUT Charitable Trust in association with local Labour MP Charlotte Nichols were pleased to offer a donation of £5,000 to support the work of the Warrington Foodbank. Treasurer Paul Crane thanked the charity for this timely donation in March 2020 as they were starting to see a reduction in food donations when they anticipated an increase in demand over the next few months.
In January 2020 the TUUT Charitable Trust in association with Dai Hudd (retired Deputy General Secretary of Prospect trade union) presented long term organiser and team member of Shoreham Foodbank with a cheque for £5,000. Many may think that Shoreham and its surrounding area should not need a foodbank, but it does. Its clients have a number of challenges, many are working but on a very low income.
People living in the Lebanon refugee camps lack access to the most basic facilities and health services. The camps are recognised as having some of the most deplorable conditions in the world, with a much higher maternal mortality rate of 42.1 per 100,000 live births than those residing in camps in other countries. We recently received a request for funding from the organisation MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians) which was supported by the Fire Brigade Union. Our donation of £10,000 will support one midwife for 6 months, providing comprehensive treatment. For more information about the work of MAP go to www.MAP.org
“Bexley foodbank does a great job in feeding local residents and their children who would otherwise go hungry” The TUUT Charitable Trust in association with Old Bexley & Sidcup Labour Party were pleased to offer a donation of £5,000 to support the work of the Bexley Foodbank. Since it was set up in 2012 requests from those in crisis have increased nearly seven-fold to 7,833 including 3,151 children. The sadness is that its existence should not be necessary, the benefits system should be made fit for purpose, more social housing made available and there should be secure, reasonable paid jobs rather than minimum wage zero hour contracts. Main Image: Paul Noon
“Would you like to give birth here? NO! nor should anyone!” The TUUT Charitable Trust received a request from Ashanti Development (a UK based charity set up by Ghanaians living in London to improve the lives of those left in their home villages) for £6,000 to support their project to renovate the Mampong Maternity Hospital in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The hospital was established in 1954, has 55 beds catering for 2,000 deliveries a year, and is the principal point of referral for maternity cases in several neighbouring districts. Furniture is cracked and old, essential equipment outmoded or unusable. Our donation should supply them with an ECG scanner, Ultrasound
David Gordon founder of The Book Bus Foundation along with Monica Mulenga the Book Bus administrator in Zambia were delighted to accept an invitation to tea at the House of Lords with Baroness Prosser OBE a trustee of the TUUT Charitable Trust where they presented their report on the success of the first year of their “I am a Reader” campaign, and gratefully received another donation of £35,000 to support the second year of their programme. The application for funding was supported by the University and College Union. The Book Bus “I am a Reader” Campaign is a response to the low levels of literacy in the primary schools o
