Donations

Nhung is 38 years old, married, and has two school-aged children, one in 9th grade and one in 6th grade. She lives with her family in a rural area of Thieu Hoa district, Thanh Hoa province of Vietnam. Her husband works as a construction labourer, earning a modest income that varies with local demand. Nhung has experienced many financial hardships, and we've donated £50 to support her via Care International, to assist her in stocking her small household appliance store. We believe in the Care International model where they help small microbusinesses and entrepreneurs to help themselves. The funding will help Nhung to increase stock ahead of the busy lunar New Year holiday when sales are high - and we wish her and her family a stable and prosperous future.

December 29, 2025

Today we've been able to support Devon based charity The Pipal Tree again with a donation of £100, assisting their work in Nepal. Their Christmas Appeal raises funds to support three groups of women: 1. Rape survivors at a refuge they operate in south Nepal 2. Rural women who are often victims of child marriage, caught in a poverty trap as day labourers 3. Deaf and vulnerable women at the Lily's Leaves social enterprise in Kathmandu. We've been really impressed by this charity, its structured spend and reporting, and wish them well with their continued good wok.

December 11, 2025

Today we've donated £50 to Fetcher Dog charity, who rescue, neuter and rehome dogs in the UK and Bosnia. The funds will go towards their 2026 aim to rescue 150 dogs (100 in UK, 50 in Bosnia), many of whom would be euthanised if they didn't receive this help. Most of the funding goes towards neutering programmes, as well as vaccinations, travel and accommodation. We wish them well with their project. Photo shown is Kathani - currently available fro rehoming! She was rescued from the streets of Bosnia with her Mother and her siblings. They were living beside a busy road and needed to be rescued immediately before someone was hit by a car or taken by the dog catchers. The family were taken to safety and Kathani is now at the rescue centre in Kent waiting for a home of her own.

December 07, 2025

Today we've donated £50 to the DEC Middle East Disasters Emergency Committee's humanitarian appeal - to assist the people of Palestine this winter. That's enough money to give five families food for a week. This week, Jamil Sawalmeh, Country Director of ActionAid Palestine said: “Children are sleeping in flooded tents, parents are burning scraps of plastic to stay warm, and entire communities are being washed into the mud. Our partners and staff are watching their shelters collapse in the rain, no one in Gaza is safe from this storm. No one can survive a winter like this without proper shelter". The UK government will double our donation. We're very aware of the irony of this - as the situation in Gaza was certainly exacerbated by the reticence, ignorance and general 'willingness to turn a blind eye' to the war crimes committed there over an extended period by the UK government. The fact that the UK government is now providing aid 'if the public also donate' also makes our eyes roll in disdain. However, all charity at this point is needed, and we urge everyone to support the cause - Gaza looks like hell on earth at the moment, and if I was having to burn plastic bags to keep my kids warm, I'd take any charity offered, even if it was from those like the UK government who were complicit in the causation of the situation.

December 03, 2025

We believe that one of the best ways to rebuild Palestine is by supporting small entrepreneurs and farming families, keeping the money in the hands of the people that live there. To that end we've today made a small donation of £50 to support young farmer Ahmad with a no-obligation 'loan' to purchase irrigation equipment to help his small palm plantation. Ahmad, 26 lives with his wife and young child in a home they built in Zubeidat. We hope for a brighter future for Palestine, and wish him well. In the past we've written off our Palestinian loans to support families during the recent invasion, but if Ahmad is able to make a success of his farm and repay the loan then we'll ensure that at least 110% is given to others to assist them with their projects.

November 25, 2025

Patrick is a small shopkeeper in Rwanda, and we've supported him with a small donation (£50) to help develop the business, via a project organised by NGO Care International. He's single, age 31, and supporting his parents from his small stall that stocks things like rice, beans, maize, sorghum, cooking oil, detergents, and other non-perishable food items. The cash boost from Care and the local Microfinance partner will allow him to expand stock and better support his family - we wish him well.

October 29, 2025

Happy to support the Pipal Tree again today - this UK-based charity supports disadvantaged women in the poorest communities of Nepal. The current project that we're supporting is a project to train and employ deaf women in an urban tree-planting project in Kathmandu. Deaf people are marginalised in most societies, and we wholeheartedly support this project which assists them, and helps add green spaces to one of the most polluted cities on the planet. If you'd also care to support the project, then the Big Give currently has a match funding project open where corporate sponsors will match donations made by individuals.

October 09, 2025

Happy to help Linda in Lusaka, Zambia, today, with £100 to develop her small grocery stall. Linda uses the profits from her stall to support the family and keep her three children in education. She sells household staples and some fresh produce to local families and passing travellers. She'll use the money to expand stock and hopefully develop the business, providing a secure future for her family. We wish her well.

October 06, 2025

If you're familiar with UTT then you'll be aware that we're long-term supporters of the Palestinian people. We came under attack ourselves for this from some militant Zionistic emailers and customers, but we remain steadfast in our support for the people of Palestine. We've donated to various charities, and it's sometimes difficult to know which is the best avenue to get aid to the people that need it, especially when Israel controls the food and medical aid that is allowed into the country. In the past we've supported several small business owners in Palestine with interest-free loans through the charity Care International, and when the Israeli invasion began we wrote off all debts - it'd hardly be appropriate to ask for a shopkeeper to repay a loan we'd helped them with when the shop may, alas, have been destroyed during the Israeli attacks. A minority of small businesses are (currently) able to survive in Palestine, and they need our support. Today we've given £100 (and paid costs) to Mahed, a smallholder farmer in Zeita, near Tulkarm in the north of the State. He grows cucumbers and tomatoes, and as you can imagine the food supply chains have been devastated by the Israeli war. With millions starving, it's more important than ever to support an on-the-ground domestic food producer, so we're very happy to assist Maher with seedling and irrigation costs. We wish him well and hope that everyone will work to end the genocide, and bring those responsible to justice.

September 18, 2025

Dung is 43 and lives with her husband and one school-aged child in Tho Phu Commune, Trieu Son district, Vietnam. For the past eight years, she and her husband have been dedicated to collecting recyclable waste from local households, sorting it, and delivering it to nearby recycling factories. Although the work is often carried out in polluted environments, Dung remains committed and hardworking, driven by the desire to improve her family’s income and contribute to a cleaner community. We've long been interested in recycling and waste - in our renovation work (cutting skip usage down by 90%+ on projects) and good recycling rates at UTT rentals etc. A small financial donation by UTT (£50) via Care International will assist Dung with a project to purchase, process and package (and sell on) more waste. It's an important part of the cycle of life of the products that we use, and particularly important in developing countries that often get Western rubbish (literally) dumped on them by unscrupulous 'recycling' companies. We wish Dung and her family well, a prosperous business, and that they're able to make enough savings to secure their future.

August 22, 2025

Happy to be able to support UK charity The Pipal Tree again today in their projects assisting the education of 'Dalit' ('Untouchable') children in south Nepal. The poorest members of Nepalese society face deep-rooted exclusion from education. Pipal Tree is building 3 Community Learning Centres to support 700 children - c60% girls - with non-formal education, homework help, and tuition, giving them the confidence and tools to thrive in mainstream school. We wish them well - you can find short videos about exactly how the money is spent on their website.

August 21, 2025

Novelito runs a small street stall on Cebu island in the Philippines. He's 42, unmarried and lives with his parents. He works 6 days a week from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. and provides services like His store offers a variety of products and services, including a Wi-Fi machine, GCash cash-in and cash-out services (essential in such an area), frozen foods, school supplies, and other essentials for students. On his day off he travels to the city to restock. We've helped him re-stock with the fastest-selling items to help him keep afloat and keep his small business profitable. If he's able to pay money back from his 'loan' then we'll give at least 110% to another small entrepreneur. If he runs into difficult times he's under no obligation to repay. We admire his work ethic and wish him well.

August 19, 2025

Happy to support the British Heart Foundation again today with a donation, having seen the good work that they do in Wales. We wish them well

August 13, 2025

Jacquelyn, 29, is a single mother of two sons, and they live in the province of Cebu in the Philippines. Jacquelyn is the only provider for her boys. Since July last year, she has been managing her sister’s ukay-ukay (second-hand clothing) store while her sister works abroad. The store not only provides her with a livelihood but also serves as a vital source of support. We're very aware of the impact of the 'throw away' fashion trends of the UK and other countries, and people like Jaquelyn are an essential part of dealing with the issues that we (and other developed) countries create. She works 7 days a week from 8>5 and we've provided a day's income to help give her some support and enable her to buy further clothes bales for resale. We wish her well.

July 28, 2025

We've been impressed by the care and service provided by the charity Tenovus Cancer Care, and are happy to support them again today with a donation. They do good work.

July 27, 2025

Today we gave Neresa in the Philippines £50 to help support her new market stall cafe - approximately a day's gross income for the cafe, to help it get established. Neresa is 50 years old and lives in Cebu with her partner, Henry who works as a farmer. They have four children, all of whom are in school—ranging from primary to college level. Neresa previously ran a small grocery shop in front of their home, but she was forced to close it due to operational challenges and unpaid customer credit. Recently, she found an opportunity to open a food stall in the town’s public market, which she launched in June using £500 in start-up capital, funded through a loan from Lendwithcare partner, LAMAC. Her eatery serves a variety of silog (Filipino) meals. he eatery provides a much-needed additional income stream alongside Henry’s work as a farmer - we wish the family well.

July 20, 2025

We've supported many Filipino street-vendors over the years, and today's entrepreneur is Angelie from Cebu island, which we know and visit. She is 26, married to Teodoro (a welder) and she runs a small, licenced street stall selling drinks and snacks. She gave up work as an employed nail technician to establish her own small business, and is now hoping to open a further stall to save money on the bulk purchasing of stock etc. We support her entrepreneurial spirit and have given her £50 (approximately the total of a day's total daily gross income) to help take the pressure off as she establishes the new stall. If she's successful she'll pay back some or all of that sum (we also cover costs) and we'll give more than 100% of any proceeds to somebody else in a similar situation via Care International.

July 02, 2025

Roth lives in the Bovel district of Battambang Province of Cambodia, that we know and have visited. He's 30 and supports his family as a rice and cassava farmer. Through Care International's local partner we've assisted him to install a solar panel system that will power a well pump. This will allow him to increase his water supply and farm rice twice a year (rather than only in wet season), thereby doubling his ability to better support his family. We wish him well - not least because we've recently moved our office over to 100% solar generation/battery.

June 04, 2025

Mubeen Bibi, 19, is a skilled Salma Sitara embroidery artist in Pakistan. She lives with (working) husband and toddler son. She has built a reputation for high-quality work over four years. Shopkeepers commission her to create in-demand pieces, which she expertly crafts at home with intricate designs. We've given her a month's income via Care International's local partner to allow her to purchase various embroidery materials and accessories such as coloured stones, beads, artificial pearls/diamonds, threads, assorted fabrics, and frames. She is confident that with these essential tools, she can fulfil bulk orders promptly and increase her income. We admire her skills and that she's continuing an important handcraft tradition, and wish her well.

May 27, 2025

Happy to be able to support the Abertawe Festival for Young Musicians today with a small donation (£30). Recent cutbacks have ravaged the classical music scene in Wales, with fewer and fewer opportunities for young musicians to practice and perform - we're happy to support this worthwhile project.

April 09, 2025

Happy to support RSPCA Aberconwy today with a small donation (£30) after learning of their work to provide subsidised veterinary surgery options for those on the lowest incomes in North Wales - helping 2500 animals a year via their Llanndudno Junction base, near several UTT properties. We wish them well in their good work.

March 22, 2025

Hapus i'w cefnogi un o'r perchennog UTT gyda'i prosiect codi arian at elusen dda Crohns & Colit Research UK. Adnewyddodd Ed (a Hedydd) Bwthyn a Hafan Tresinwen ac Awel Deg (yn Abergwaun). "Am wthnos ar ddechre mis Chwefror, nes i reidio fy meic o Ben Strwmbwl i Lundain, gan joio’r daith a chwrdd â llawer o bobl hyfryd. Wen i wastad wedi bod ishe teithio hen lwybr y porthmyn. Gwisgais fy nghrys ‘Crohns & Colitis’ yr holl ffordd. Rwy’n gobeithio y bydd eraill efallai am fy helpu i gefnogi’r elusen ragorol hon. Dwi’n teimlo'n ffodus iawn o fedru cwblhau yr her. Diolch arbennig i'r NHS a'r Nutrition Detectives (Yr Ark, Hwlffordd) am eu help." Happy to have sponsored UTT owner Ed (of Hafan & Bwthyn Tresinwen) with his sponsored bike ride to raise funds for Crohns & Colitis Research UK (from Ed) "For a week at the beginning of February, I rode my bike from Strumble Head to London, via the old drovers route, seeing all the sites along the way and meeting lots of lovely people. I wore my ‘Crohns & Colitis UK’ shirt to fly their flag and hope that others might want to help me support the charity's great research and work. I feel very lucky that I was able to complete my challenge. Special thanks to the NHS and the Nutrition Detectives at the Ark, Haverfordwest for their help."

March 07, 2025

Sales are strong, so we've been able to give £50 today to the “Emprendedoras de Ruta 1” women's co-operative in Delgado area of Asuncion, Paraguay (managed via Care International). They were formed by a group of entrepreneurial women who are friends, neighbours, and in some cases, relatives who share the common goal of improving their quality of life through hard work and commitment to their respective small businesses. Together they’ve built a supportive community that values teamwork, responsibility and mutual success. The funds will assist Armina, one of the members, in buying ingredients to produce the sweets that she sells. The investment will help her maintain a steady supply and expand her customer base, which she hopes will result in greater profitability and sustainability for her business and family. If you'd like to support this/ or other projects managed by Care International then follow the link above and Care will donate £15 to start your account.

February 09, 2025

Ana Lou, 35, runs a small streetside stall in Cebu, Philippines, an area that we know and visit. She's married to Jeffrey, a mechanic, and the couple have two daughters in school. Ana runs her grocery stall from 6am to 6pm, 7 days a week, selling items such as rice, canned goods, energy drinks, and animal feed. We've given her £50 to buy stock in bulk and improve her profit and ability to support her family. This was our 200th loan to entrepreneurs via Care International - each entrepreneur has no commitment to repay, and if they are able then we invest at least 110% of their repayments to others (as well as covering administration costs through the local microloan charity). If the small business owner experiences difficulty we write off the loan - as, for example, we have done with all our Gaza and West Bank loans on principle. The system is also completely open to accepting delays and re-sheduling of payments, unlike loans from banks and traditional lending institutions - and we've found that our default rate is as low as 2% - which just goes to show how banks should be supporting the people that they often refuse to assist.

February 07, 2025

We've given £100 via Care International at the 'La Esperanza' women's' co-opertive organised by Fundación Paraguaya de Cooperación y Desarrollo in Paraguay. The funds will help member Sophia set up a small cosmetics retail business via a stall in front of her home. The money will help with renovations and stock, so that she can better support her family. We wish Sophia and the co-operative well with their projects in Asuncion. Photo - the La Esperanza Co-Operative.

February 05, 2025

Today you've helped Faisal Ali - a 22 years old craftsman who lives in Kasur, Pakistan with his aged parents, three brothers and a sister. His mother and sister manage the household duties, while two of his brothers are looking for jobs and one works in the private sector, earning £57 monthly. Faisal Ali has been creating high-quality shoe uppers from vegan/ artificial leather for the past three years, earning around £39 monthly. He supplies these uppers to local shoemakers, who value his reliable and precise work. His quality and consistency has earned him a loyal customer base, and we've helped him buy more artificial leather to meet the growing demand from shoemakers. We wish him well in his small business.

December 18, 2024

The Children's Society work in Wales and England with young people who have suffered abuse, who have run away from home or are struggling with mental health issues. They look out for young carers and those who are at risk of being groomed by criminal groups. They help refugees who have no one else to turn to in this country. We've donated £50 to support their good work this Christmas.

December 06, 2024

To mark us crossing the £30 000 donation point we've donated £100 today to UK charity ShelterBox that is providing emergency accommodation in Gaza. In many cases they're providing family tents for the displaced and hundreds of thousands who have had their homes destroyed by the Israeli invasion. In other cases they're providing heavy duty tarpaulins, ropes and fixings so that people can temporarily repair partially damaged homes, helping make roofless bombed structures semi-habitable. They also provide mosquito nets, water filters and basic cooking equipment for people to survive. We look forwards to an end to the destruction of Gaza, and the day when those responsible are brought to justice for their crimes against humanity and war crimes. We condemn the UK and other governments for continuing to allow the supply of weapons from UK (and other) manufacturers that allow those war crimes to be meted out, even after condemnation from the neutral International Criminal Court. In the interim thousands of homeless families need rudimentary shelter, and we're happy to be able to support ShelterBox provide refuge.

December 03, 2024

We've given Raing £50 in Battambang province of Cambodia (that we know and have visited) to help with her family small-holding. She'll use the money (along with other funds) to purchase extra land for wet season rice production. Raing is a 29-year-old farmer from Morng Russey district and has been farming rice for over a decade. Together with her husband and two sons, she has built a livelihood growing wet season rice on five hectares of land, yielding about 3 tonnes of rice per hectare each harvest. She sells her rice to a local merchant who purchases directly from her village. Scaling up by adding a field can really help small-holders like this, and we wish her and the family well.

November 29, 2024

We regularly support small businesses in the countries that we have contacts with in SE Asia. Most of them are street-stall holders or tiny village shops. Today we've given £50 to Tinh in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam. She runs a small stall/ shop selling everyday groceries. She's 44, has 3 kids in education and her husband works as a labourer. As a small grocery store owner, Tinh faces challenges as she does not have sufficient working capital to invest in her store. Through Care International we're helping her increase her stock, including items such as cakes, biscuits, oil, milk, and sweets to attract more customers and improve her sales and profits to support her family. By helping these small family businesses we help the whole community.

November 26, 2024

We've donated £100 today to the UK Disasters Emergency Committee appeal for the people of Gaza and Lebanon. We're appalled daily by the war crimes in both countries, and the suffering inflicted by the Israeli attacks. With over 16 000 children killed in Gaza alone, schools, hospitals and and refugee camps being bombed daily, and horrific scenes that shouldn't be seen anywhere. The UK & USA governments continue to fund and provide weapons that are used to kill thousands of innocent people. £100 could provide emergency shelter for five families - yet over a million people in Lebanon alone have been forced from their homes. Our assistance is but a drop in the ocean of what is required, and we make it in full knowledge that it can be little more than a token gesture of our support for the many innocent people suffering there.

October 17, 2024

We've donated £100 to the Alsama Project, to help fund a project to bring education to girls in refugee camps in Lebanon. Like everyone we've been appalled by the recent attacks on refugee camps in Lebanon, places which already had hugely challenging living conditions. Alsama is refugee-run, and provides an essential education to children who would otherwise receive none. Fewer than 3% of the refugee children in these camps complete secondary education, and many are pressured into work or even to marry during childhood. We've been impressed by the Alsama project and wish them, and all the people of Lebanon well in these difficult times.

October 15, 2024

We've donated £100 to Pipal Tree, a UK based charity helping educate vulnerable girls in South Nepal. They're currently raising funds for three educational purposes: 1. To provide bursaries to girls from low-caste families to advance in education 2. To pay for female tutors at our non-formal education centres 3. To fund the manufacture and free distribution of reusable sanitary pads and school rucksacks. Girls from low-caste families and marginalised ethnic groups in south Nepal have difficulty in completing even a basic education. Schools are under-resourced and parents, who are often illiterate and impoverished, are unable to offer domestic support. Dropout rates are high, particularly when girls reach puberty as schools have no provision for them when they are having their periods. These dropouts feed into child marriage, which is endemic within the region, perpetuating a cycle of poverty. We're happy to support them in their good work, and wish them well with the project.

October 11, 2024

Merlinda is 48-year-old and runs a flower stall in the Balamban market (Cebu province, Philippines) 7 days a week from 4 am to 8 pm with her husband. We know and visit this area ourselves. We've given her an average month's income in order to be able to purchase stock (as well as wrappings and items for decorative flower arrangements) so that she can increase sales. She's supported through the local microfinance group of Care International. Merlinda's daughter is currently in grade 11, and support such as this means that the family can afford to continue to keep their child in education. We wish her continued good health and success for her family and business.

September 14, 2024

Ruth, 37-years old, is married with two children and runs a clothing stall/ stand in Zambia. She started her 'boutique' with the goal of securing her children's education and building a brighter future for her family. We've given her £50 to help with purchasing more stock and continue her path towards greater business success. Our support is via the Microloan Foundation, Lend With Care's local partner in Zambia which specialises in lending to female entrepreneurs. If Ruth's business is successful and she repays her loan then we'll give all of that money (and at least 10% more) to another small business owner, If the business struggles then she's under no obligation, or if there are losses due to currency exchange rate fluctuations then we'll write off any loss - and in any event she is only committed to repay in small instalments as and whenever funds allow. If you'd like to support people like Ruth then Lend With Care (part of charity Care International) will give you £15 credit to loan to entrepreneurs in developing countries. With an incredible community of over 80,000 lenders, Lend With Care is about having a positive impact together.

September 11, 2024

Happy to be able to support a small stallholder entrepreneur in Cebu, the Philippines today. Ma. Diana Rose (32) runs a couple of street stalls with her husband. One supplies general foods (pictured), and the other sells 'ukay-ukay' - which tend to be second-hand clothes imported from other countries (including the UK). It's one of the places where our charity shop clothes donations end up, after they're sold by the kilo if unsaleable in the UK shops. Having a relatively sustainable 'full life' system for the use of what are otherwise 'disposable' fast fashion from the UK high street is essential if we're to minimise the impact of Western buying (and disposing) habits. It's a problem that needs to be tackled head-on - but in the interim, having a secondhand clothing sales system around the globs is at least helping to minimise the impact. These clothes are sold at how lost to low income people in developing countries, and the unsaleable pieces are sold on to rug makers who use the textiles. We wish Diana Rose well with her small business and the good work that she does.

August 11, 2024

Happy to be able to help East Anglia's Children's Hospices today with a donation of £100. Many of our customer donations come with bookings for Trehilyn properties - the West Wales estate renovated by broadcaster and writer Griff Rhys Jones and family. Griff is patron to this charity and closely involved with their good work - we're very happy to be able to support their project with a donation.

July 24, 2024

Happy to be able to support Bristol-based charity Pipal Tree again, with their latest project in Nepal. For 2024> 2026 they have a project in the Kamala river basin of south Nepal, an area that has suffered extreme poverty linked to flooding that is likely associated with climate change. The charity is helping plant rapid-growth forests to help act as flood barriers (as future floods remain likely), and providing tutors in local schools to help with the education of children of the lowest castes. Our donation this time will benefit the charity £100 , and we encourage others to support this excellent charity in their work.

July 23, 2024

Mai is 51 years old and lives with her husband in Quang Thanh commune, a suburban area of Thanh Hoa city in Vietnam. She and her husband are workers in local factory. We've given them £50 towards the costs of materials for their project to build a new toilet, replacing the unhygienic facilities that the family have been using. The pair bring home a monthly combined income of around £466, and although they've renovated much of their home the economic downturn has led to a decrease in orders at the factory where they work, adversely affecting their family’s income, and has left them without the funds to address their deteriorating bathroom, which has become unsafe and unsanitary for daily use.

July 10, 2024

We're avid consumers of current affairs and news (Radio 4 is on in our office nearly all day and evening), and like you, we're alarmed by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. We're also dismayed by how little we've heard about the situation from UK politicians in the run up to this week's election. To their credit the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats mentioned Gaza on their leaflets/ media output, but it seems like the two much larger parties (Labour, Conservatives) are deliberately avoiding the issue in their continued project to appear to be 'all things to all men'. Yet infants are dying of dehydration daily, children are having to have limbs amputated with anesthesia and antibiotics. It's utterly horrific, and our small donation of £60 today is but a drop in the ocean of what is required to assist the desperate situation.

July 01, 2024

We're generally cautious of charities that are informally associated with religious groups, but lately have noticed that Vincent's have been undertaking excellent work with refugees, migrants and people seeking asylum, promoting inclusion and integration, including via their Colwyn Bay office. During the UK, French and US election campaigns we've heard so much mis-information (and bile) against immigrants that it felt like the right charity today to make a small donation (just £30 this time, but we'll follow them with interest). We wish them well.

June 30, 2024

Today we've been happy to support Muhammad Shafique and his family in Pakistan, via Care International. Muhammad is a 38-year-old Salma Sitara hand embroiderer, working from home. His income (around £100 a month) supports his wife and five children. Using specialized embroidery frames he meticulously crafts designs on a variety of fabrics, including bridal and formal wear. We've donated £50 to enable him to buy embroidery materials in order for him to help support the business. If he is successful, and able to pay us back next year then we'll donate more than 100% of the sum to another working family. It's great to see these handcraft traditions survive.

June 28, 2024

Uzma Ghafoor is a 39 years old resident of Lahore. She is unmarried and lives with her six brothers. She manages to earn around £40 monthly, through her home-based clothing business. She sources various seasonal fabrics and sells them to customers from her home. We've given her the equivalent of a month's income via Care international/ LendWithCare to help her source new fabrics and stay competitive, hopefully to help her increase sales and develop her small business. We wish her well.

June 05, 2024

We've donated £100 to UK charity 'Just like Us' that supports LGBTQ+ teens in schools, through their Pride Groups network. We've been dismayed by the thinly veiled anti-Transgender language coming from both the Conservatives and Labour in their electioneering of late, and want to help counteract the general trend against the rights of and support for young Transgender and non binary students.

May 28, 2024

Happy to give a £90 to Hosbis Dewi Sant to help support their good work in giving palliative care in communities across North Wales. They work across Conwy, Ynys Mon and Gwynedd supporting people and their families in one of the most challenging phases of life.

May 19, 2024

We've donated £100 to Cerebral Palsy Cymru to help them with their support project for families whose children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy. The charity supports around 300 children a year in Wales, providing 1:1 advice and counselling for parents and play sessions for the kids. A great charity, that deserves our support!

May 14, 2024

You know when you donated sweaters and woollen good to UK/ Irish charity shops, they often get exported to developing countries. Some get purchased by the kilo and sold 'as is'. Damaged ones get dumped, or the 'lucky ones' get sold off cheaply to yarn extractors, or (more rarely) machine processed. Razzaq Sahib is a 43-year-old resident of Kasur in Pakistan. He lives with his wife, three sons and a daughter and works as a yarn extractor to support his family. Razzaq acquires old and discarded sweaters as well as woollen garments and uses a specialised tool to manually extract yarn from them - unwinding the knitted goods we discard. He buys these items from thrift shops or factory outlets where damaged and used products are available at low cost. The extracted yarn is then sold to factories and manufacturing plants to be reused for making rugs, carpets, scarves, and sweaters. He earns approximately £70 per month - and we've given him a month's income via Care International to enable him to increase his stock of sweaters and woollen items, which he can extract yarn from and sell later when the demand for wool is high next winter.

April 25, 2024

Happy to have been able to assist Ceiniogi'r Coed / Stump Up for Trees with a £100 donation. This community-led charity in the Bannau Brycheiniog / Brecon Beacons works with landowners to help plant native woodland, and to help diversify farms with mosaic planting, field corner planting etc. A recent project has been to install a solar-powered water pump for their tree nursery that helps nurture the local seedlings for later planting across the National Park. We wish them well!

April 24, 2024

We've donated £100 to the British Heart Foundation. They support people living with heart disease across Wales and the UK, and have invested over £4million in research grants to Welsh Universities including Cardiff and Swansea where they've been undertaking detailed research into heart health of babies in prenatal and neonatal environments under Dr Lisa Hurt

April 21, 2024

We've donated £100 to Buglife Cymru to help them in their project to help save rare invertebrates from extinction in Wales. Their current project will raise awareness of the plight and importance of our invertebrates to communities, carrying out research to better understand their needs, and restoring habitats to provide safe havens for threatened species. This project will benefit four species, including Fen Raft Spider (in Wales only found near Swansea) and the stonefly Scarce Yellow Sally (in the UK only found in the north of Wales). We love bugs (we've kept a few as pets over the years!) and wish them well in the project.

April 19, 2024