Toilet twinning at New Wine…

One of the most innovative charities that I came across at New Wine was Toilet Twinning. They are a charity that looks to provide safe sanitation around the world.

Five Talents – help them to raise money for some of the poorest in the world

Five Talents is a great microfinance organisation that Springfield supports. It provides small affordable loans to people who can’t otherwise access credit in some of the poorest parts of the world enabling them to start small sustainable businesses.

Out of touch government advisor resigns

Lord Young of Graffham (picture left) has just resigned as a government advisor. Quite right too. What he said was not only deeply offensive but showed how unaware he is of so many people’s plight. Here is what he said: “For the vast majority of people in the country today, they have never had it […]

Helping the poor

There is a great article in this morning’s Telegraph by Ian Birrell on helping the homeless and the poor. It’s based on a Joseph Rowntree Foundation study  that looked at helping some of the hardest homelessness cases. Instead of dictating to those on the streets what they needed to do – they asked them. The […]