October 2025 -FOUR PAWS
Four Paws is the global animal welfare organisation for animals under direct human influence, which reveals suffering, rescues animals in need and protects them.
Founded in 1988 in Vienna by Heli Dungler and friends, the organisation advocates for a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. Today, with offices in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Kosovo, the Netherlands, Switzerland, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, the UK, the USA and Vietnam as well as sanctuaries for rescued animals in eleven countries, Four Paws provides rapid help and long-term solutions.
Four Paws sustainable campaigns and projects focus on companion animals including stray dogs and cats, farm animals and wild animals – such as bears, big cats, orangutans and elephants – kept in inappropriate conditions as well as in disaster and conflict zones.
November 2025 - AFRICAN CHILD TRUST
African Child Trust (ACT) is a UK registered charity with the vision to support the education of disadvantaged children and orphans in women led households in Africa. Its aim is to enable them to reach their potential in life by empowering women and widows in need, through training, to generate income to sustain their families. Its aim is to break the cycle of poverty among poor people in Africa.
The community in Africa is central to its approach, working alongside partners that are best placed to recognise the households with the most need in their community. Typically, well established Christian churches and community-based organisations that share the vision of supporting people in need and have the capacity to operate well managed and comprehensively monitored projects.
Volunteering is at the core of how ACT operates and carries out its work both in the UK and in Africa. Its model is based on minimising costs, so that it can spend more of the money on educating the children and empowering the widows.
Every child has the right to, and deserves, an education. Irrespective of that child’s background or gender, all children should be supported to go to school and acquire the skills and qualifications necessary for a healthy and prosperous life. The education of disadvantaged children and orphans is at the core of the work of the African Child Trust.
St George’s supports the education of three children through ACT
Four Paws is actively committed to the humane treatment of stray dogs and cats as well as to better keeping conditions for companion and farm animals. We establish and operate sanctuaries worldwide, in which wild animals rescued from abusive captivity find a species-appropriate home.
Four Paws takes a problem-solving approach and offers animals in distress swift and direct aid. Our aim is to achieve and establish changes in politics, society and the economy that will benefit animals – through projects, campaigns and education. Our work is based on scientific expertise, sound research and intensive national and international lobbying.
The Children’s Society provide specialist support that empowers young people to make positive changes and rediscover their hope. They want a future they can look forward to and we’re here to make sure they get it. Working alongside young people, their families and community, we will not rest until together, step-by-step, we've created a society built for all children.
We see young people get on, get up and achieve great things. We love being part of that determination to not let anything get them down. So we don’t let them down.
Young people come to us when they need someone to talk to, for therapy, sometimes just a bite to eat. To help with their court case, to talk to their mum, social services, their teacher, to sometimes not talk at all. We work with young people for as long as it takes and we’re with them no matter what.
We also listen to their needs and campaign and lobby on their behalf. We want to make sure they are heard at local and national government level. They know better than anyone what will make all the difference.
They’re happy to start over again and try something new to reach their goals and we’re there to give them the encouragement they need. We take inspiration from the courage and hope we see in young people every day, fuelling our belief that a good childhood is something every young person deserves.
