Over the last 6 years, the Brampton Charitable Trust is pleased to have donated a grand total in excess of £707,000 not including matched funding of around £98,000.
In the year ending 31st July 2024 BCT donations totalling approximately £100,000 were given to 27 different charities across a broad range of categories. This includes environmental, health and wellbeing (which also covers mental health), the local community and spiritual organisations.
The Trust has continued to be an advocate of environmental issues, supporting a number of climate charities that have been proven to be making an impact around the world and within the UK. The situation in Ukraine remains high on the BCT agenda along with other projects such as our commitment to help fund a school in Nepal as well as charities closer to home. Below is a list of the charities we have supported in the last year.
ENVIRONMENTAL CHARITIES
One Percent For The Planet https://onepercentfortheplanet.org/
1% for the Planet represents a global network of businesses, individuals and non-profit organizations tackling our planet’s most pressing environmental issues. It was founded to prevent greenwashing, certify reputable giving and provide accountability. The 1% for the Planet certification is given to businesses and individuals that meet their high-bar commitment – donate 1% of annual sales or salary to environmental causes.
The BCT is committed to giving 1% of Brampton College’s annual turnover to environmental causes. We are pleased to say that we succeeded in doing that again.
ClientEarth https://clientearth.org
ClientEarth is one of the world’s most ambitious environmental organisations. They work in partnership across borders, systems and sectors, using the power of the law to change, inform and implement measures to protect life on earth and to enable the planet and its people to thrive together and not destroy each other.
Blue Marine Foundation https://Blue Marine Foundation | Marine Conservation Charity
Blue Marine Foundation’s mission is to curb the industrial scale fishing in order to maintain the health of the oceans and in turn the earth. They have achieved some areas of ocean where no fishing is allowed but aim to increase the area over the planet. They support and educate local people in sustainable fishing. They ‘rewild the sea’ by restoring habitats encouraging the growth of seagrasses which eat up carbon faster than rainforests.
Trillion Trees https://trilliontrees.org
Trillion Trees is a joint project with Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF and Bird Life International. Their collaborative mission is to protect forests, end deforestation and to restore natural forests. They engage with governments and local communities who are motivated as they benefit directly. They take a science based approach so that they have a full understanding of what is needed for a specific area.
Global Canopy https://globalcanopy.org/
Global Canopy target the market forces destroying nature. They focus on gathering data and insights that can aid companies, financial institutions and governments to tackle their hidden sustainability risks and enabling those failing to act to be brought to account. The global markets are alert to the risks of climate change but the complexity and opacity of supply chains and finance can be a major barrier to change.
Cool Earth https://www.coolerth.org
Cool Earth is a charity that works alongside rainforest communities to halt deforestation and its impact on climate change. Cool Earth shares the most effective conservation methods around the world and invests in those with the potential for best outcomes for people and rainforest. Innovation is the key to scaling up rapid rainforest protection and the lessons learned in one partnership can often be applied to benefit another. Cool Earth work with communities who want to protect their forest. From setting up an in-country team to working directly with communities and local NGOs to develop their capacity, all partnerships are community-led and adaptable to each location.
Rewilding Europe https://rewildingeurope.com
Rewilding Europe is a not for profit foundation registered in the Netherlands. So far, they have nine areas of rewilding, one of which is the Affric Highlands in Scotland. In Scotland they aim (over a thirty year plan) to allow nature and the bare hillsides to recover, becoming forests once more. They are restoring ancient Caledonian pinewood, replacing plantations with native forests, linking unfragmented land (creating wildlife corridors) and remapping and rewetting peatland.
Woodland Trust https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk
The Woodland Trust is the largest woodland conservation charity in the United Kingdom concerned with the creation, protection, and restoration of native woodland heritage. It has planted over 43 million trees since 1972.
Wilderness Foundation https://wildernessfoundation.org.uk/
Through the Wilderness Foundation education and therapy programmes help young people and adults to reconnect with society and themselves. Their programmes highlight the positive impact of wild nature on personal and social wellbeing. Their mission is to preserve wild places and change lives through outreach programmes that educate, inspire and reconnect people facing a number of challenges in their lives. They create opportunities for those wishing to learn more about their relationship with the natural world and what they can do to protect it.
Compassion in World Farming https://www.ciwf.org.uk/
Compassion in World Farming is a campaigning and lobbying animal welfare organisation. It campaigns against the live export of animals, certain methods of livestock slaughter, and all systems of factory farming. It believes that the biggest cause of cruelty on the planet deserves a focused, specialised approach – so are relentlessly focused on ending factory farming.
Rivers Trust https://theriverstrust.org
The Rivers Trust are the umbrella organisation for 65 member Rivers Trusts in the UK and Ireland. The Rivers Trust are conservation experts with a wealth of data and expertise at their fingertips, working with member trusts to make a shared vision a reality: wild, healthy, natural rivers, valued by all.
COMMUNITY/LOCAL CHARITIES
The Brampton Charitable Trust is committed to supporting those in need in the community with a donation to the following charities, amongst others:
Family Action https://www.family-action.org.uk/
Family Action, a long-standing charity formed in 1869, transforms lives by providing practical, emotional, and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation across the country. Today they work with over 45,000 families through over 140 community-based services. Thousands more are supported with financial assistance through education and welfare grants programmes. Their innovative services reach out to those in need, strengthen families and communities, build skills and resilience, and improve the life chances of children and adults.
WORLDWIDE CHARITIES
The Charitable Trust also looks at the wider international community, helping to provide one off and regular donations to particular charities and projects.
Chance for Nepal https://www.chancefornepal.org/
UK charity, Chance for Nepal works tirelessly to provide access to education, food supplies and healthcare in Nepal’s poorest regions. They work closely with established and trusted organisations, schools & hospitals in Nepal to guarantee aid & support to those families in need, and to offer education & training opportunities. Through Chance for Nepal, the Charitable Trust. has made a commitment to provide ongoing support to the Yangchenma Academy in rural Nepal, where they are in desperate need of improved facilities and equipment. We’re pleased to have been able to provide desks and other basic equipment.
MENTAL HEALTH CHARITIES
As part of our ongoing commitment to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people in the community, the Charitable Trust has supported the following charities in the last year:
Charlie Waller Trust https://www.charliewaller.org
The college has had the privilege of hosting two inspiring speakers from the Charlie Waller Trust in recent years, both with an incredibly powerful message and clear practical advice. Charlie Waller was a talented and popular boy who appeared to have everything going for him. Yet at the age of 28 Charlie, suffering depression, took his own life. His family set up the charity in his memory in order to help other young people in a similar situation. Their mission is to open up that conversation around depression so as to help young people understand and look after their own mental health. Most of their work is delivered to those responsible for young people in schools, families, colleges, universities, the workplace and primary care.
WORLD / DISASTER RELIEF
We are pleased to have been able to support the plight of people in dire need globally, whether as a result of natural disasters or the unspeakable horror of the war in Ukraine.
Water Aid https://www.wateraid.org/uk/
WaterAid is an international charity, determined to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation. Tackling these three basic essentials, that we take for granted, can have an enormous impact on people’s lives.
KHARPP https://kharpp
KHARPP is a UK registered charity that began its work in March 2022 providing emergency accommodation and other help to Ukrainian refugees. It has now extended its mission to rebuilding homes, hospitals and schools in Eastern Ukraine. Additionally, it provides generators, internet systems and makes regular fuel runs to help keep communities going.
Razom – Together we are Ukraine https://:Razom – Together we are Ukraine (razomforukraine.org)
Razom was formed in 2014 as a way to raise awareness about Ukraine. Following the invasion in 2022 Razom has grown exponentially steering its mission towards providing support and relief to its civilians and fighters with provision of such things as vehicles, medical supplies, psychological support and engaging with policy makers to work for Ukraine’s future.
SPIRITUAL
As part of its commitment to promoting and enabling wellbeing and mindfulness, the Charitable Trust supports a range of spiritually based charities.
Or Halev: Center for Jewish Spiritualty and Meditation https://www.orhalev.org
Or Halev organise mindfulness meditation retreats throughout the world, teaching spiritual practices including mindfulness as a means of bringing about self-transformation and developing wisdom, understanding and insight.
HaMakom http://www.hamakom.org.uk/
HaMakom is a place to experience, develop and practise compassion, wisdom, generosity, gratitude, awe, kindness and love. They have been involved in organising leading-edge, pioneering and transformative events including meditation retreats over the past ten years – touching thousands of lives.
POLITICAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS
We are keen to support political and human rights charities.
Campaign Against Antisemitism https://antisemitism.org
Campaign Against Antisemitism is a volunteer-led charity dedicated to exposing and countering antisemitism through education and zero-tolerance law enforcement.
OTHERS
Other charities that have been helped by the Charitable Trust in the last year include:
Friends of the Bereaved Families (Israeli and Palestinian bereaved families supporting each other)
Kibbutz Be’eri (A Kibbutz devastated in the October 7th attack)
Camp Simcha (Support for Jewish families with seriously ill children)
The staff and students of Brampton College often raise money for their own chosen charities and the Charitable Trust matches the funds raised. Among the charities supported in this way over the last year are:
Young Minds, Mental Health Foundation, Cancer Research, Ninos de los Andes and, at Mike Wheeldon’s instigation, Sending Love to Ukraine, who deliver aid directly via convoys of vans loaded with the supplies that Ukrainians themselves have identified as being of most immediate need.
