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The Santon Group has also been instrumental in award-winning residential developments, particularly the conversion of listed buildings not currently in residential use, for almost 20 years.
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As members of Childhood Circle, The Sandhu Charitable Foundation, by way of an ongoing 3 year commitment with Magic Bus UK, donated £15,000. The Childhood Circle directly funds Magic Bus’s Adolescent Programme which transforms the lives of India’s most disadvantaged children between the years of 11 and 18. Magic Bus has a unique approach by using sports and activities, which they believe is the universal language of play, to enable the children/young adults to develop crucial life skills and to provide academic support.
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Open Ealing received a donation from The Sandhu Charitable Foundation in the sum of £5,000. The donation was to provide teaching support, materials and exhibition set up fees in connection with their Summer Exhibition 2024.
Open Ealing is an arts organisation which is based in Ealing, West London. Their aim is to introduce a cultural space and arts programmes to the community by bringing artists, performers, art groups and local residents together to promote creativity and create new opportunities.
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As an ongoing commitment, The Sandhu Charitable Foundation donated £15,000 to Variety, the Children’s Charity. Amongst other things, Variety provide practical help for over 1.5 million children who are living with disabilities and over 4 million children living in poverty.
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The Sandhu Charitable Foundation donated £10,000 to Young Enterprise’s 2024-2030 Transforming Futures Programme. The programme aims to increase young people’s engagement in education, improve preparedness for the world of work and helps increase mobility.
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The Sandhu Charitable Foundation receive an up-date from Sightsavers surrounding their work helping to reach marginalised communities in desperate need of eye health services and treatments for debilitating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – at the same time sharing their plans for 2024. To this end, Sightsavers aims to perform over 499,000 sight-saving surgeries, distribute millions of treatments for blinding and debilitating NTDs, and provide over 1.2 million pairs of glasses.
They appreciate their plans are ambitious, but they believe that, with the right investment in health care, they can reduce poverty and disease, as well as improve school attendance and employment rates.
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The Sandhu Charity has approved a pledge of £10,000 to The Akshaya Patra Foundation by way of a Big Give Match Funding Campaign (“Beat Hunger in London’s Children with Nutrition”) they are running for the period 4th June 2024 to 18th June, 2024. The raised funds will be used not only towards feeding children in London through the Foundation’s existing Holiday Hunger programme, but also an exciting new initiative called ‘Hot Meals and Homework’. The Foundation are working with schools in disadvantaged areas to set up after-school clubs where Akshaya Patra provides a hot and nutritious vegetarian meal and the school provides teachers to stay behind and help children complete their homework.
The Foundation believe this programme, in time, may be their way to reach scale in a cost-efficient way across the United Kingdom.