Projects we've supported

With support from PWCF, ZOA-UK supported 60 orphans to remain in education in Zambia.

A small grant from PWCF enabled the Prison Phoenix Trust to provide yoga and meditation for young people in prison.

PWCF funded Tools for Solidarity to support people with disabilities and mental health issues, as well as refugees and asylum seekers, to learn new skills.

PWCF awarded a small grant to Families United Network (FUN) to support Youth and Young Adult Clubs for disabled young people and young adults in Bedfordshire.

BIGKID Foundation’s Football and Breaking Barriers Programme funded by PWCF, supports young people aged 11 to 19 at Larkhall Park in Stockwell.

With PWCF’s funding, Hearts and Minds has supported over 500 elderly people and their families at Findlay House, a dementia unit in Edinburgh.

PWCF’s grant supported Streetwise Opera’s weekly performing arts workshops for those who have experienced, or are at risk of, facing homelessness.

Friends for Life Bedfordshire is a Bedford-based local charity, which works to reduce the social isolation of people in Bedfordshire’s care homes. PWCF supported the organisation to equip new volunteer befrienders who offer company and friendship to care home residents.

PWCF supported Soft Touch Arts in 2016 and 2018 to deliver Symphonize, an urban/classical music fusion project in Leicester delivered with the Philharmonia Orchestra. Symphonize aims to engage disadvantaged young people in composing, producing, recording and performing original cross-genre music.