Lloyd's - Lloyd's unveils new partner charities

 
Lloyd’s Charities Trust (LCT), the grant making charity for the Lloyd’s market, today announced its three new partner charities for 2007-2010.

Coram, the oldest children’s charity in the UK, FARM-Africa which works with some of the poorest rural communities in Africa and Samaritans were chosen because of the work they do with families, children and communities at ‘risk’. Lloyd’s has over 300 years experience of working with risk and for over half a century has been providing charitable support to a range of national and international charities on behalf of the Lloyd’s market.

Each charity will receive £150,000 of funding over a three-year period to fund a range of projects.

Coram is using the grant to develop and extend the pioneering Concurrent Planning Adoption Programme, which seeks to place vulnerable babies with carers when their birth parents are unable to look after them.

FARM-Africa will use the grant to support the Household Recovery Programme in Southern Sudan, which aims to lift over 90,000 people out of extreme poverty. The programme will provide households with access to clean water, high yield seed, agricultural tools, livestock restocking and knowledge of how to care for animals.

The LCT will also be supporting the Samaritans “Skills for Life” project, to help young people struggling with emotional and mental health issues.  A Suicide and Self Harm Response Toolkit and a Self Harm Training programme will be developed, to support the school community after an attempted or completed suicide, or self harm.

Nick Gooding, Chairman Lloyd's Charities Trust and Senior Cargo Underwriter, XL London Markets:

“We are delighted to announce that Coram, FARM-Africa and Samaritans are Lloyd's Charities Trust's three new partner charities for 2007-2010.  A donation totalling £450,000 will be provided to the charities over three years with the money to be used by the charities to develop specific projects with the theme of supporting those at risk."

Dr Carol Homden, CEO, Coram:

“Thanks to the visionary support of Lloyd’s Charities Trust for the work of Coram’s Concurrent Planning Adoption Programme, some of the most vulnerable babies in our society will have a better chance in life.”

Dr Christie Peacock, CEO, FARM-Africa:

“Thanks to this exciting new partnership between FARM-Africa and Lloyd’s thousands of families in Southern Sudan who face uncertain future now have the potential to improve their own lives. With the dedication and support of the Lloyd’s market, FARM-Africa can help give vulnerable families the skills to feed, clothe and educate themselves and provide their children with a more secure future.” 

“Samaritans aims to protect young people from risk as well as being there for them in a crisis – it is therefore particularly appropriate that Lloyd’s Charities Trust is funding our outreach work in schools, where it is vitally needed and where it can have the greatest effect."

Notes to Editors

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Lloyd's is the world's leading specialist insurance market and has the capacity to write approximately £16.1bn of business in 2007. It is the world's third largest non-life reinsurer, and is the second largest surplus lines insurer in the US. As of January 2007, 72 syndicates are underwriting insurance at Lloyd's, covering all classes of business from more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Lloyd's is regulated by the Financial Service Authority.

Lloyd’s Charities Trust

Lloyd’s Charities Trust is the grant making charity for the Lloyd’s market.  Established over fifty years ago, Lloyd’s Charities Trust has a long tradition of providing charitable support to a wide range of national and international charities on behalf of the Lloyd’s market.  The Trust works with and supports three partner charities, which change every three years. The current partner charities are: Coram, FARM-Africa and the Samaritans.

Coram - www.coram.org.uk

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Coram is a leading children's charity that aims to develop and promote best practice in the care of vulnerable children and their families. Our work currently supports children and young people in the care system and families and children in local communities. We run projects in and around London for disadvantaged children and their families, providing services to diverse communities, often working in partnership with other organisations. These services promote self-esteem, resilience, parent education/training and community involvement. 
For media enquiries please contact Roberta Goldstein, Communications Manager, on +44 (0)20 7520 0346 or email roberta@coram.org.uk

FARM-Africa - www.farmafrica.org.uk

FARM-Africa (Food and Agricultural Research Management) is an international charity that aims to reduce poverty through developing innovative approaches to natural resource management in Africa. Through our projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Southern Sudan and Uganda we work in partnership with marginal small-scale farmers and herders to improve the ways in which they farm their land. Working with a wide range of rural communities, we concentrate on three priority areas – Pastoral Development, Community Forest Management and Smallholder Development and Land Reform.

For media enquiries please contact Ngaio Bowthorpe, PR and Press Manager, on +44 (0)20 7067 1252 or email ngaiob@farmafrica.org.uk

Samaritans - www.samaritans.org

It is the aim of Samaritans to make emotional health a mainstream issue.  Samaritans' vision is for a society where fewer people die by suicide because people are able to share feelings of emotional distress openly without fear of being judged.  Samaritans believes that offering people the opportunity to be listened to in confidence, and accepted without prejudice, can alleviate despair and suicidal feelings.

For media enquiries please contact Michael Cobb, PR Manager on +44 (0)20 8394 8358 or email M.cobb@samaritans.org