So often you hear the very valid comment “If only charities could collaborate and pool their resources towards achieving common goals rather than competing with one another.”
That’s what we’re already doing!
The Maiden Factor is a UK-registered charity that works towards the empowerment of girls through education. The charity is a key funder of the Lily’s Leaves workshop, including the funding of the production of school rucksacks and dignity pads for distribution to the community schools in Madhesh Province.
Check out their websiteVICTVS is a Leeds-based company that provides awarding bodies all over the world with exam management and invigilation services that supports candidates and preserves the highest standards of exam integrity. VICTVS sponsors our annual Big Give dinner, the launch pad to our main fundraising event of the year.
Check out their websiteTeacher Horizons is an international teacher recruitment agency that has selected Pipal Tree as its Charity of the Year for 2023. Its donations will of course be supporting our education programme in Madhesh Province.
Check out their websiteCommunity Beyond Construction is a London-based non-profit that aims to improve access to education by building safe, well designed schools and learning spaces in a low-resource environment. We have benefited from their expert design and engineering advice alongside project management services in the construction of our new Community Learning Centres in Madhesh Province.
Check out their websiteChildren of the Mountain is a UK registered charity, founded by Irishman John Matthews, that aims to support the poorest children in rural and urban Nepal, providing them with opportunity through access to education and personal development. The charity actively campaigns against gender and caste bias and promotes education as a practical alternative to rampant child labour. It advocates for investment and directly invests in child centred education as a critical and effective tool in the fight against extreme poverty in rural hill communities. In January 2023, John visited our work in Madhesh Province for the first time and was very impressed. We look forward to collaborating with him in future joint education projects.
Check out their websiteRestor is a free platform that connects people and projects to scientific data, monitoring tools, funding, and each other to increase the impact, scale, and sustainability of reforestation efforts. All of our projects can be found and followed, including through satellite imagery.
Check out their websiteThe Gurkha Museum in Winchester is a registered charity that provides us with a historical input and imagery for our Gurkha Memorial Forest programme. Its shop provides a sales outlet for Lily’s Leaves jewellery in the UK.
Check out their websiteThe Mountain Company is an award-winning adventure travel operator that specialises in cultural tours, treks and expeditions to the Himalaya and Karakoram. It is based in Devon, not far from Pipal Tree, and it contributes regularly towards our Gurkha Memorial Forest tree-planting programme.
Check out their websiteRecruiters is Ireland’s leading recruitment services company with offices in Dublin and Kildare. The company is supporting our Dhanusha Bird Park forest tree-planting programme through regular donations.
Check out their websiteA London-based media company that specialises in large-format digital out-of-home (OOH) advertising with screens in iconic locations across Britain, including Piccadilly Lights. The company has donated air time to Pipal Tree its Drops in the Ocean programme.
Check out their websiteLittle Feet provides financial assistance to the families of individual children whom we identify and prioritise in southeast Nepal.
Check out their websiteThe Gemma and Chris McGough Charitable Foundation is our major donor in a 2.5-year reforestation project in southeast Nepal.
Check out their websiteNepal Carbon Offset help mitigate the impact of climate change by making a flight carbon offset payment today. They helped fund our environmental projects.
Check out their websiteGerman nonprofit (“Stiftung”) Hatemalo invests in our educational and mental health capital projects.
Check out their websiteHer Future Coalition is a really special U.S. non-profit that provides silver jewellery training to trafficking survivors at its workshop in India and to the Lily’s Leaves workshop through grants and visiting volunteer silversmiths, including the wonderful Nancy Edwards. Her Future Coalition’s founder is the charismatic Sarah Symons who is herself a regular and enthusiastic visitor to the projects.
Check out their websiteFashion with Heart Creations (FHC) is a UK-registered faith-based charity where the prime mover, Brenda Sheil, and her colleague, Molly Board, are providing voluntary consultancy support to Lily’s Leaves in product design for the tailoring production centre.
Check out their websiteLast Night a DJ Saved My Life provided us with life-saving support in 2020 and now supports our educational projects.
Check out their websiteOur Sansar is our operational partner in operating children’s refuge and rehabilitation centres in southeast Nepal. They are our key partner in the operation of the Janakpur girls’ refuge that we set up together in March 2021. We have an open-ended agreement to co-fund the shelter on a 50:50 basis.
Check out their websiteEleos Compliance is a UK corporate provinding us generous monthly support for all our projects. Eleos Compliance is a sustainable, values-based business that specialises in RF, EMC, Safety and Green certifications for communications products. It has supported our Lily’s Leaves silver jewellery workshop and the construction of CLCs in Madhesh Province.
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