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A Night at Ramsbury Races
A NIGHT AT RAMSBURY RACES! In aid of Action Through Enterprise. Saturday 13th May at the Ramsbury Memorial Hall, from 7:30pm “Ride” or “Own” a horse to win prizes, have a flutter on a race and enjoy a night of merriment with friends. Tickets include cheese, biscuits...
ATE’s new Community Fundraising and Relationship Manager springs into action!
We are delighted to welcome our newest staff member, Jonathan Hall. Jonathan starts today as our Community Fundraiser and Relationship Manager working 7 hours a week to help develop and strengthen relationships in our local community. However, Jonathan has long since...
Celebrating International Women’s Day
An important day to celebrate, promote and fight for the equal rights of women across the world! Here at Action Through Enterprise we deliver programmes that work with and for the people of Upper West Ghana helping to reduce barriers to education or access to a...
To Ghana with Love…. An invitation to Aldbourne Memorial Hall
BizATE: The Sub-Saharan Incubator by Asif Noorani
The technology boom has seen a huge rise in the number of business incubators in the UK, Europe and United States. Incubators exist to accelerate the successful development of entrepreneurial companies, through an array of business support resources and services. A...
A Case Study on Teresa by Stephen Hodgson
Teresa the Seamstress Teresa is a young lady who works in Lawra. She was awarded a grant by ATE to develop her seamstress business in a steel container unit on one of the main roads in the town. She qualified as a seamstress two years ago and now has...
A Case Study on Dakura Kyalepuo by Stephen Hodgson
Dakura Kyalepuo the subsistence farmer It was inspiring to meet Dakura a year ago. He is a subsistence farmer, in his seventies, living in a very remote area south of Lawra. Last year he applied for a grant from ATE in order to buy sheep with a view to rearing...
A Case Study of Comfort by Stephen Hodgson
Comfort the Weaver I had the privilege of meeting Comfort a year ago when she was applying for a grant from ATE. She was delighted to receive the gift of a framed photo of her taken during that visit. Comfort is a young lady who lives (with her family) in a...
Reflections on CET Funded Business Training in Lawra – By Charles Gardner
I spent 2 weeks in Lawra in mid-January – my 6th visit to Lawra. My focus was to lead the training of the ATE staff, 23 consultants and 55 of the small businesses (SBO's) that ATE has granted, mentors and trains. The objective was to make them profitable enough to...
Jonathan’s Creative Arts In Lawra – Week 1
A long distance bus journey in Ghana is an insight into the resourcefulness of the Ghanaian people and also the limitations of their bureaucratic systems. First up are the frustrations of buying a bus ticket from Accra to Lawra (a 14 hour overnight trip): you must...
The most brilliant week at ATE, delivering wonderful work across Lawra and Nandom, and putting plans in place for so much more! From teaching the next generation to code to cooking eggs for our 1100 children as they finish their school year. Our work brings us joy every day.
And to top it all off, our wonderful supporter base have come through with funding for ALL of the girls in Gombile to go to school in September. Donations that will completely change lives.
We love our work, we love everyone who helps make it happen.
Bring on next week! Hopefully it'll be even better....
Thank you everyone ❤️
Impactful project
Can you help us give these girls a chance?
Blessing, Nancy and their 13 friends have just finished junior high school in the remote village of Gombile – and we would desperately like to support them to go on to Senior High School.
If they don’t go, they could end up migrating south and working in illegal mines – or staying at home, where they could become pregnant or married while still teenagers. The thought of it fills us with dread.
But if we can keep them in school, they can be safe, educated and become independent, self-sufficient young women. If we don’t raise the funds needed by August, it will be too late for them.
It costs £700 to change the trajectory of a girl’s life, and provide everything she needs for her three years at senior high school. Please get in touch with us ASAP if you’d like to help – you could make a one-off donation of £700 or a set up a monthly payment of £20 for three years. We’d be delighted with either!
Thank you in advance to anyone who can help.
Sarah Annable-Gardner I will Support one of these girls 👍
Thank you so much to the 4 amazing people who have already been in touch about this project, and funded 5 girls to go to SHS in September ❤
Just 4 girls to go now ♥️ thank you to everyone who’s got in touch. If anyone else can help please let us know x
8 girls now funded ❤ 7 to go x
⭐️ Our 2025 Annual Report is here ⭐️
What a year! 2025 was truly a year of switching on hope. Across Lawra and Nandom, through a million small but thoughtful acts - a school lunch, a book, a wheelchair, a bag of fertiliser, an IT session, a business grant - we are enabling people to change their lives, to support their families and uplift their communities.
In the hardest of places, we are making miracles happen.
Thank you to everyone who made 2025 our best year ever. We couldn't have done it without you.
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