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27 April 2017

Awards for All – Big Lottery Funding for Cross Border Stitchers UK

We are pleased to confirm that we were successful in receiving a grant from Awards for All (Big Lottery) to fund our Cross Border Stitching project in Southampton. This project enables us to support 17 female asylum seekers and migrants develop new skills and gain qualifications. Although our ...

27 April 2017

Garden Opening for PCF

We would like to extend our thanks to Mary Cooper of the Inner Wheel of Crewkeme who as well as being a PPS (Purple Product Seller) for us will also be opening her garden to raise funds for PCF under the Hardy Plant Society 60th Anniversary Gardens Open scheme. Mary as International Service ...

27 April 2017

Inner Wheel Club of Redditch’s Pudding Club for PCF

Pat Pritchard has kindly written a few words for us about the evening... The Ladies of the Inner Wheel Club of Redditch decided to hold a Pudding Evening to aim to raise £1000 for the PCF. On the evening we had 60 people;my husband who is a retired headmaster MC'd the evening for us! I started by ...

30 March 2017

Join the Purple Movement by becoming a member of the PPS Team

We really need more of you lovely lot to join us and help us sell our beautiful upcycled handcrafted products. Being a Purple Product Seller or as we like to call them PPS is easy, fun and changes lives. Even if you don't think you have time to become a PPS perhaps you know someone else ...

30 March 2017

Purple Upcycling Scheme

upcycle ˈʌpsʌɪk(ə)l/ verb gerund or present participle: upcycling reuse (discarded objects or material) in such a way as to create a product of higher quality or value than the original. As many of you know we have an ongoing recycling scheme which we now prefer ...

30 March 2017

Celebrity Endorsement for PCF

Jane was thrilled to meet Nicki Chapman at the Southport Rotary conference. Nicki was so impressed with our work she described it as an "outstanding project, beautiful products that you can see are made with so much pride and love and are giving women and their families a chance to live dignified ...

28 February 2017

Recent Overseas Livelihood Appeal Update

In 2010 we moved into our beautiful purpose built school, providing a clean, safe, environment to educate the children. Ron and Jo Domingo who ran our youth programmes stayed behind and formed their own charity called Kalayaan Community Ministries and continued to serve the wider community. Jane ...

28 February 2017

UK Projects Update

February has been a very exciting month for our UK projects! Our Cross Border Stitching (CBS) project in Southampton now has 17 women asylum seekers and migrants, speaking 7 different languages, all are either developing new skills, sharing existing skills or gaining ...

31 January 2017

Christmas Gift for All Day 2016

Thank YOU so much for helping us give the gift of food again this Christmas. Thanks to your generous donations we were able to give each of the 779 children currently receiving our educational support a bag of food to take home and share with their families at Christmas. It is such a blessing to ...