HR Director’s Charity of the Season is the Randal Charitable Foundation, which has an aspiration to directly save over 1 million lives in the UK and globally.
The Foundation was established by entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr Nik Kotecha OBE and his wife Moni in 2017. Its mission is to directly save and significantly improve people’s lives in the UK and globally by providing significant grant funding to charities and good causes that share the same ambitions.
These causes include focusing on the prevention and relief of poverty, preservation of good physical and mental health, as well as the advancement of education for the most vulnerable. So far more than 80 grants have been made, which have saved over 145,000 lives and significantly improved 240,000 lives in 15 countries, spanning five continents.
As part of HR Director’s support for the Foundation this season, subscription donations are being made directly to charity Village Water, which received grant funding to enable the provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene education to a large rural school and its neighbouring village, as well as funded the restoration of water pumps for 20 villages.
Your support this season will help the charity continue its work with vulnerable communities in rural and poor areas of Uganda, Zambia and Mozambique.
In the UK, the Foundation supports a wide-range of causes, a number of which received significant funding during the first UK Covid-19 lockdowns. During this challenging time one of the social groups hardest hit by the pandemic were older people, many of which rely on the vital community services provided by charities like Age UK.
However, due to the closure of all charity shops, the vital income streams required to provide these services stopped overnight. To help Age UK maintain their key support for isolated older people, the Foundation stepped in and provided funding to maintain a seven day-a-week dedicated Covid-19 helpline and emergency care packages and deliveries of food and toiletries. In total, the funding paid for almost 25,000 befriending visits and calls; and enabled 53,400 contacts and interventions with vulnerable older people and their families.
Another notable charity to receive a significant grant is Hope Against Cancer, which is using the funding to double the size of Leicester Royal Infirmary’s Clinical Trials Facility, which is targeted to save 1,200 lives over 120 months.
The Foundation is also working to invoke change through Government and has provided grants to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), which has helped enable the think-tank to secure an extra £80 million in funding from the Government for drug treatment services in England, this year.
Perhaps the Foundation’s most significant partnership has been with the British Asian Trust. During the first lockdown funding was provided for free emergency kits over a 4 month period to help over 137,000 of the most vulnerable people, and their families in India, leaving the cities penniless – most travelling on foot – to their rural homes, with little or no chance of finding work or accessing government support.
In 2021 during the height of India’s second wave, the Foundation also funded an on-site oxygen generator for a 550 bed hospital, so sustainable oxygen could be provided during the pandemic and beyond.
To find out more visit www.randalfoundation.org.uk
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