thank yous

We are extremely grateful to all the individuals and organisations who have supported us. As a small charity your donations and support make a huge and direct difference to so many children and communities.

African Minerals Uganda

Sponsored us to set up a Play Centre in Acholi Inn, Karamoja. Director Justin Mayhew has also provided an enormous amount of personal support and advice.

Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust

Their generous grant at an early stage in our development helped kick off our programmes.

British Airways

Generously donated complimentary flights to Africa so we can monitor, and ensure, our projects are running smoothly and where they are needed most.

CMS Cameron McKenna Foundation

Gave generous grants for the past two years. In addition, we would also like to thank staff who raised over £600 on a dress-down day. And a special big thanks to Emily King, our champion at CMS, for making this all happen.

Davies Arnold Cooper LLP

Made a generous donation of games and books for our projects in Uganda.

Ford

Held a global competition as part of their “start something more” campaign. We were chosen as one of the winners and they kindly donated $10,000.

The Foundation for Social Improvement

An organisation working to help strengthen small charities in the UK. We were delighted to have been selected by the FSI as one of their affiliate charities in 2010. They provided us with bespoke training, mentoring and workshops throughout the year.

Gibbs Charitable Trust

Their kind grant helped us expand our programmes in Ghana.

Heat Design

We are hugely grateful to Stephen Taylor at Heat Design for designing our fantastic website pro bono.

Jephcott Charitable Trust

Gave us a generous donation to expand our Play Centre programme.

Kinked

Thank you so much to Nicola Dillon at Kinked for designing our stunning annual report and hard hitting child sacrifice prevention poster pro bono. You are amazing!

Legal and General

As part of an innovative CSR programme, they’ve placed one of their rising stars – Mike Smith – with us on our Board of Trustees to give us strategic advice. They’ve also made generous financial contributions to our programmes. We would also like to thank staff at L&G who, forgoing their Secret Santa, donated to Lively Minds.

St John’s College, Oxford

The founder of Lively Minds as well as many of the trustees of Lively Minds studied at St John’s College. We are delighted that the college has made two generous donations to our work.

The Waterloo Foundation

Generously gave us a grant to set up Play Centres in Ghana and Uganda.

The WFH Foundation

Gave us a generous donation to help expand our activities in 2011.

Quiz Quiz Quiz

We are very fortunate to have their support as hosts for our fantastic charity quiz nights which have raised over £4,000 over the last three years.

Just some of our Volunteers…

We are very fortunate that so many talented people have shared their time and expertise with us. In particular thanks to:

Kyra Craig – edited “Saving Little Viola” and helped out in many other ways.

Adam Grant – a Marketing Academy Scholar with a career that has taken him all the way to Singapore as a brand and marketing leader. As part of an initiative organised by Donate 28 he has been helping us with our marketing strategy.

Sarah Jane Johnson – public relations consultant. She helped us build a PR strategy and campaign.

Alexandra MacKenzie – planning events, designing our website and promotional material.

Krishna Maroo – a child rights campaigner, she volunteered in Ghana for 3 weeks and carried out a child rights programme with our volunteers.

Juliet Michaelson – developed monitoring and evaluation tools for our Child Sacrifice Prevention programme.

Mark Naftalin – Photographer for the launch of our Play Centre in Gukpegu Tua. Many of his beautiful photos are displayed on this website.

Thea Robson – a strategy consultation we are delighted she volunteered with us in Uganda for 3 months. She also helped implement and fund our Child Sacrifice Prevention programme.

Trevor Steeples – helped enormously with our data analysis for our Child Sacrifice Prevention programme.

Joe Hall – Communications and branding.

Fiona Hurst – Putting together marketing materials.

Pete Ward – Financial planning and strategy.

Could this be you?

Lively Minds wanted – Find out about our exciting volunteer opportunities