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31 January 2017

Christmas Gift for All Day 2016

Thank YOU so much for helping us give the gift of food again this Christmas. Thanks to your generous donations we were able to give each of the 779 children currently receiving our educational support a bag of food to take home and share with their families at Christmas. It is such a blessing to ...

18 January 2017

PCF’s Livelihood Projects in the Philippines and Asia need your help!

PCF urgently needs your help; we are setting up new Cross Border Stitching Livelihood projects in the Philippines and Asia. Many of the women we want to help have been sexually exploited and abused by their previous employers. These women are particularly at risk and were warned if they reported ...

20 December 2016

PCF in Huffington Post article

A fantastic feature on PCF founder Jane Walker for the Huffington Post: "Purple Community Fund’s Jane Walker MBE On How She Wants To Solve Britain’s Reoffending Rates Problem" by George Bowden. ...

15 November 2016

Oh What a Night

Last night we had our UK launch in the Westbury Hotel in London in partnership with Bronzegate, the leading head-hunters and advisors for financial firms, and what a fantastic evening it was. With over 60 people in attendance from a selection of high powered companies, we told them about our new ...

3 November 2016

Can Liz Truss reform with her White Paper?

With violence in prison reaching record highs, it’s reassuring to see Justice Secretary Liz Truss committing to recruit 2,500 more prison officers. But with pay being £9 an hour, only 10 weeks of training and no requirement of minimum qualifications, fears are that it won’t be enough and according ...

20 October 2016

Cross Border Stitching in Pakistan

A small group of desperately poor women in Faisalabad Pakistan heard about our Cross Border Stitching group in Hampshire and asked for our help. It is difficult for uneducated women to find sustainable employment. Sadly some of the women have been raped by their employers and are fearful to alert ...

20 October 2016

Coca Cola 5by20 programme

The Coca Cola Corporation has asked Jane Walker to be one of their Ambassadors for their 5by20 programme. This programme is committed to empowering five million women entrepreneurs by 2020. To date, over 1 million artisans in 60 countries have benefited from the 5by20 programme through access to ...