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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£2.4M
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Spending
£2.4M
Public benefits
Fields of Life Trust collaborates with local communities in Africa and the developing world to bring about positive and lasting change to the lives of people living in poverty (its beneficiaries) by focussing on three key areas. Fields of Life Trust upholds the Christian faith in both word and deed, working with other charities or organisations in
partnership on projects and initiatives. Purpose 1: To relieve and prevent poverty for people in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world. The direct benefits include promoting self-reliance, entrepreneurship, the provision of grants, loans and training and relief of the poor by empowering people in need to become financially self-sufficient. These benefits are evidenced by the improved financial circumstances of people in need and demonstrated by feedback from people who are in receipt of grants, loans and training and monitoring and evaluation through beneficiary surveys and interviews. There is no private benefit, except for the potential value of any business, flowing from this purpose. This private benefit is incidental and is outweighed by the benefit to the beneficiaries. Purpose 2: To advance education for people in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world. The direct benefits include the advancement of a quality education by improving access to education including vocational, developing learning capacity through teacher, management and governance training and improving school facilities and resources. These benefits are evidenced through monitoring and evaluation, feedback from the beneficiaries and local authorities, increased school attendance, improved pupil performance, quality of teaching and improved school management and governance. The only private benefit from this purpose could be the increase in value of buildings and land. Therefore, any direct private benefit is incidental and is outweighed by the benefit to the beneficiaries. Purpose 3: To relieve sickness and promote health for people in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world including providing clean sources of drinking water. The direct benefits include the improvement of health and wellbeing of rural under resourced schools and communities, the provision of safe water sources, sanitation and hygiene facilities, user and maintenance training and through addressing Menstrual Hygiene Management and Gender Based Violence. These benefits are evidenced by feedback from beneficiaries through monitoring and evaluation, surveys and interviews. There is no private benefit flowing from this purpose. Purpose 4: To advance the Christian Faith through education and training for people in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world. The direct benefits which flow from this include increasing standards of behaviour and life skills in accordance with the Christian Faith, regular worship, preparation of bible study materials and to allow individuals to lead a more fulfilled and purposeful life with better moral standards. These benefits are evidenced through peace and love being demonstrated in the schools and in the communities in which the charity operates and through changed life styles. There is no private benefit flowing from this purpose. There is no harm flowing from any of our purposes. The charity’s beneficiaries are people in Africa and other developing countries who are in need as a result of poverty and lack of resources.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Fields of Life works with local partners to deliver the following programmes: - 1. Quality education, investing in young people. We see education as a catalyst for change, and actively seek to support quality education through capacity building programmes, by constructing and refurbishing schools, providing teacher, management and governance
training and teaching a Christian ethos. This is implemented through school visits, regional workshops and an annual head teachers conference. 2. Promoting health and well-being through our Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) programme using our own drilling rigs, we drill boreholes, we also provide rain water harvesting, filter and gravity-fed water systems. Sanitation provision is also part of our WASH programme and we implement a school’s health and hygiene education programme and focus on girls’ school retention, Menstrual Hygiene Management, Gender Based Violence, Child Protection and health and hygiene training. 3. Creating opportunities through enterprise initiatives for individuals and groups as well as skills-based training within rural under-resourced communities.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of religion
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- General public
- Overseas/developing countries
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Education/training
- General charitable purposes
- Grant making
- Relief of poverty
- Religious activities
