Past Elections

Charities Review 2009

These pages give an overview of what the charities achieved in 2008 our what our money would be spent on in 2009, were they to continue to receive our support.

Domestic 

Headway, East London - review 2009 A local charity providing a better quality of life and rehabilitation to those affected by brain injury.

International charities

Seeds of Hope, Peru - review 2009 Based in a rural part of Peru, Seeds of Hope provides support and education to enable disadvantaged children to attend school.

Salaam Balak Trust - review 2009 A charity based in Delhi providing a home and education for street children.

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, Sierra Leone - review 2009 Supporting rehablitation efforts for young girls affected by conflict in the Democratic Rep of Congo.

Election 2008

As with last year we would like to support 4 charities in 2008; 1 domestic, and 3 international ones. Now it looks like Headway is going to have a fairly easy time of it. But we think that Headways proposal for this year is good enough to merit a bye! See below.

To decide between the international charities please email trustees@onepercentscheme.org with your 3 choices, given in rank order. i.e. First is your most fovourite, third is your least favourite. (Voting this way leaves less chance of a tie)

Your votes must be in by Sunday 10th February.

Domestic charities

Headway, East London 2008 A local charity providing a better quality of life and rehabilitation to those affected by brain injury.

International charities

Seeds of Hope, Peru 2008 Based in a rural part of Peru, Seeds of Hope provides support and education to enable disadvantaged children to attend school.

Salaam Balaak Trust, Delhi 2008 A charity based in Delhi providing a home and education for street children.

Organisation for the Regeneration of the Environment, Haiti 2008 More than its title suggests, our money would be supporting a community primary school in financial difficulty.

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, Sierra Leone 2008 Supporting rehablitation efforts for young girls affected by conflict in the Democratic Rep of Congo.

View all our past nominated and elected charities in our past elections.

Election 2007

January 2006 saw a very close election with VGlob, White Cross Mission and Fareshare elected - see for more details. Inevitably, several causes were nominated but were unsuccessful. These are listed below:

Salaam Balak Trust A charity based in Delhi providing a home and education for street children.

Seeds of Hope Based in a rural part of Peru, Seeds of Hope provides support and education to enable disadvantaged children to attend school.

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers Supporting rehablitation efforts for young girls affected by conflict in the Democratic Rep of Congo.

The White Cross Mission Mission A charity that provides support to children's orphanages in Romania. We have been supporting WCM and in particular the Casa St Nicholas orphanage since 2004.

Volontaire Globalisation An NGO working in Togo in West Africa where our money is being channelled into the building of a health centre in a small rural village called Nyitoe-Zukpe . We have been supporting VGlob since 2006.

Chernobyl Childrens' Project Enabling children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to spend summer, a time when radiation levels are at there worst, outside the region.

Headway (East London) A local charity providing a better quality of life and rehabilitation to those affected by brain injury.

Skylight Activity Centre A homeless shelter in East London where our money will fund training courses for the long term unemployed.

FareShare (London) A local charity redistributing surplus supermarket food to homeless shelters and others in need. We have been supporting Fareshare since 2006.

Election 2006

Headway (East London) A local charity providing a better quality of life to those affected by brain injury.

PEPAIDS A highly original and community led anti-AIDS initiative in Zambia. OPS supported PEPAIDS from 2004-5.

Porters Progress A Nepalese NGO improving the standard of living for trekking porters and their families.

Rwanda Development Trust A local development organisation in Rwanda, helping those affected by the genocide rebuild their lives. OPS has been supporting RDT since 2004-5.

Surfers Against Sewage A Cornish charity fighting to keep our coasts clean.