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The Property Race Day has to date raised over £375,000 for children’s charities around the world
LandAid is the charity of the UK property sector. For over twenty years it has raised funds from within the sector and, as a charitable trust, has supported a variety of projects, primarily connected to UK homelessness. Over the last two years, the charity has grown dramatically now boasting a Board consisting of senior figures within the industry, a permanent office and professional staff. It now looks not only to raise support for, and awareness of, the plight of homeless people, but also promotes the charitable giving of the property industry to a wider audience, undertakes sector-wide research into that support and encourages best practice in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility. Most importantly, in addition to its traditional small grants programme, it has entered into a four year partnership with Centrepoint, the UK's leading youth homelessness charity, entitled Foundations for Life, which aims to give over 8,000 young homeless people the facilities and resources to enable them to become fully-functional members of mainstream society. These include life-skills training, continued academic and vocational education and training, employment and accommodation. The work of the Foundations for Life programme will be centred on a number of nationwide hubs, complemented with a network of satellite mini-centres. The cost, over four years, of this programme will be £4.5m and LandAid has committed itself to raising this sum from within the property sector. The Property Race Day 2009 is pleased to support this exciting partnership whose ultimate aim is to help young homeless people achieve independence and find a job and a home of their own. Hope and Homes is a charity which the committee has taken very much to heart. As a direct result of the £50,000 donation made in 2008 the event directly saved 50 children from the clutches of the desperate Maygoma Baby Institution in Sudan. So impressed were we with the direct results of the monies donated, the committee decided once again to support this exceptional charity in 2009 to try and edge ever closer to the ultimate goal of closing the Institute for ever. 40,000 children live on the streets of Sudan’s capital city. Research showed that in the five years preceding 2003, of the 2,500 babies that were sent to the Maygoma institution, only 400 survived. Daktari is a wildlife orphanage which uses orphaned wild animals as an education medium. Volunteers and staff teach children within the school curriculum, raising awareness of the local ecology and the animal life therein. The goals of the organization include learning through working together and improving the quality of life of all participants, including the animals. Daktari Bush School used the money raised on the day to bring constant electricity and refrigeration to the school through the installation of environmentally friendly solar power. |
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