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Upcoming fundraisers for ATE
2nd May: 10am-2pm, Highworth Street Fair Visit ATE’s stall at the Highworth Street Fair to learn more about and support our projects, and to take part in our fun Game. 9th May: 11am - 3pm, Ramsbury Street Fair Visit ATE’s stall at the Ramsbury Street Fair to...
Rotary organise concert fundraiser for ATE – featuring Pegasus Brass
On Saturday evening, Luke attended a concert organised by the North Swindon Rotary club at St Michaels Church in Highworth, to raise money for ATE. Pegasus Brass Band, Swindon School of Brass, and a selection of soloists were tasked with entertaining an 80+ strong...
A message to all donors from Lucy, aged 13
'I thank you for helping me and my family, I thank you for helping me in school, I think you for buying me a uniform, I thank you for giving me a bicycle, I thank you for giving a me food in our school, Last year I went to school hungry, but now you have stopped me...
Newbury Soroptimist’s Support ATE
CHILDREN in a poverty-stricken community in Ghana were left "smiling with delight" following the donation of handmade dresses, crafted from pillowcases by Newbury and District Soroptimists recently. The group donated 50 of the dresses to children in Lawra, upper-west...
Susan’s Visit to Lawra
Recently returned from a visit to Lawra in North West Ghana.. my first since becoming a Trustee just over a year ago. What an experience…challenging in many ways, but very interesting and inspiring to see ATE’s work on the ground. So what did we do? On the education...
A Personal Letter from Sarah Gardner
Dear Friends of ATE, On Saturday morning at 5.30am, tired from a 40 hour journey to Heathrow, I returned from Lawra. It was freezing cold (it had been 38C in Ghana and was snowing in London), my feet were rather dirty, I was dying for my bed, and I was feeling...
Funds needed more than ever as Ramsbury charity extends Ghana feeding programme
We are extremely excited to announce that from January 2015, ATE is expanding to feed a second school. Thank you so much to everybody who is supporting ATE. We wouldn't be able to do this without you. We are changing the lives, enabling children like Lucy and Nancy to...
SNAP Christmas Party
Yesterday, at the December workshop, our SNAP group celebrated Christmas together. Seeing these incredible families dancing, singing and enjoying life is absolutely wonderful. Through our advocacy and support program, stigma is dramatically reduced, children are...
Recruitment of Assistant to the Chief Executive
Recruitment of Assistant to the Chief Executive ATE is a young, dynamic charity which is making a significant impact in Lawra, Ghana. As a result of considerable growth, we are looking for an Assistant to the Chief Executive. This is a 14 hour per week role which will...
ATE Christmas Quiz
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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