Charitable projects funded by Virtual College
We actively aim to be part of the solution to the problems we train our customers to solve. To tackle these issues, we’ve conducted projects to raise awareness around sensitive topics, such as child sexual exploitation and female genital mutilation.
As leaders in education on safeguarding children, we’re actively involved with a number of children’s charities. Since 2008, we’ve given over £270,000 to children’s charities worldwide, in both smaller and larger donations.
Here are just some of our donations:
Feb 2016
Virtual College is supporting four e-community centres run by Complitkenya in Kenya and the Children’s Entrepreneurial Training Village (CETV) in Malawi. Our donation will provide each of the community centres and the CETV with an e-learning capsule and between 15-20 android tablets. Whilst the Capsule cannot provide the internet, it will be able to allow connected users to benefit from elearning and other resources which, at the moment they don’t have. Both of the projects in Kenya and Malawi recognise that poverty migration is a real risk to their local economies. If people leave to earn a living and obtain skills elsewhere, it will have a detrimental effect on the local economy, which in turn will make life even more difficult for those who remain.
June 2015
Virtual College donated £2,500 to Leeds-based charity, The Works Skatepark, to enable them to establish a young people business (YPB) which aims to give disadvantaged children a valuable taste of what it is like to run an enterprise.
May 2015
Virtual College donated £5,000 to help Hive, a community arts charity, to fund a combined woodwork and technology project. Hive uses creativity to promote personal development and well-being amongst the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the Bradford District.
Feb 2015
Virtual College donated £1,500 to Streetlife, a youth work charity established in 1982 with the aim of assisting vulnerable young people in the Blackpool area.
Dec 2014
Virtual College donated 55 Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene courses, worth nearly £1,000, to help charity Homeless and Rootless at Christmas (HARC). HARC provides homeless and rootless people with 3 hot meals a day and this accumulated into over 2,200 meals over the Christmas period last year. To deliver this service all food handlers must be trained in food hygiene to the appropriate standards.
Oct 2013
Virtual College sponsored a ground-breaking Global Online Counter Child Trafficking Conference, which aims to bring together the global community of those who are working to end the trafficking and exploitation of children.
March 2013
Virtual College donated £2000 to help the Freedom Charity develop their potentially lifesaving forced marriage app for the BlackBerry platform, which was popular among school children. The app contains information for victims, their friends and professionals about the signs of forced marriage and dishonour based violence.
May 2012
Virtual College donated £2,000 to Together Trusts Woodlands School to fund a new sensory garden for autistic children. Sue Nichols, of Coronation Street fame, attended the opening.
May 2012
Virtual College marked their attendance at the 8th British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Congress, this year held at Queens University, Belfast in Northern Ireland by supporting The Lighthouse Trust Summer School for sufferers of cerebral palsy with a donation of £2,000.
Oct 2010
A £2,000 donation was made to HENRY, which stands for Health Exercise Nutrition for the Really Young. The money is being used to support a research project designed to measure the effectiveness of a course aimed at parents with preschool children.
June 2009
Virtual College donated £2,000 to Daisy Chain, a unique charity established to address the needs of both children with autism and their families. The money went towards a new day care centre and specifically a sensory play room, which will be used by children with special needs and provide part of the respite services at the farm.
June 2009
Virtual College donated £2,000 to the Elizabeth Foundation, who work tirelessly in the field of early diagnosis and education of deaf children.
June 2008
A West Yorkshire solicitor, who dedicated her life to supporting and protecting children and young people across the UK, has been honoured by Virtual College's Safeguarding e-Academy. A cheque for £5,000 in memory of Lynne White, was presented to Martin House Hospice for Children and Young People.
