Development
This page groups together a broad category of development projects. This includes projects in the areas of health, education, capacity building and overseas development.
Jubilee 2000 Coalition: Drop the Debt campaign
Network seed funding brought together the group of organisations whose campaign resulted in historic commitments by the G8 Group to forgive $36B in unpayable debts of developing countries. 1994-2003: £513,265
Basic needs: Pilot for a Social Franchising System
Basic Needs works alongside local healers in benefiting people with mental health problems in developing countries, and has developed a social franchising system which has doubled its reach. 2009: £15,000
World Development Movement: EU Global Trade Strategy
WDM campaigns to end poverty and global inequality. In 2008-9 it highlighted injustices woven into the EU’s Global Europe trade strategy, and promoted better policies. 2008: £13,455
Kid’s Company: Leadership Training
An early NSC beneficiary, Kids Company does whatever it takes to return exceptionally vulnerable children to a safer childhood and positive future. 2006: £11,296
Partnership for children: Zippy's Friends
Partnership for Children promotes the mental health and emotional wellbeing of young children. Its programme is now running in 19 countries, helping more than 100,000 children a year. 2010: £10,000
Rural Solar Lighting: Uganda, Household Solar Lights
Replacing kerosene with rechargeable lamps improves health and safety in homes with no direct access to electricity, helps create a local energy economy, and cuts the use of carbon fuels. 2009: £6,698
Children of the Forest: Stateless Children in Thailand
This home and school for 500 stateless children, near the Burma-Thailand border, now has better facilities and a more effective campaign voice. 2008: £4,526
Sheila McKechnie Foundation: Supporting Campaigners
SMK works to support campaigners, especially young and emerging activists, with training and workshop events, an online community and promotion of their rights. 2007: £3,900
This group of historians brings the history of activism into the public domain, and encourages research by ethnically and politically diverse writers in the North-West. 2008: £3,104