Get involved with the INCH Charity and change lives

We do not accept online donations, but please get involved with INCH and help us to raise funds!

email Val Stacey (Chair of Trustees): inchcharity@gmail.com

Putting up mosquito nets

Putting up new mosquito nets in girls’ dorms, Ramakrishna Vivekenanda Ashram

 
 

1. Who we are

INCH (INdianCHildren) became a registered UK charity in summer 2016.

REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER:    1170121

All of our Trustees have visited India, and are:

Margaret Billington, Sale, Manchester
Mike Hegarty, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Ken Ivatt, South Wingfield, Derbyshire
Heather Lounds, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Val Stacey (Chair), South Wingfield, Derbyshire

The Charity’s registered address is:

29 Coldwell Street

Wirksworth

DE4 4FB

inchcharity@gmail.com

 

2. What we do

Our purpose is ‘to relieve the needs of children in poverty in India by the provision of funds and services for their education and health, and more specifically:
‘To provide for the funding of projects in support of all aspects the education and life chances of children in north-east India : these projects include the building and/or improvement of school facilities, and support for individual learning and training; the improvement of the accommodation and facilities in children's homes; the provision of sustenance and clean water.

We do this through raising funds in the UK, and sending 100% of all money raised to our trusted partner NGOs (non-government organisations) in India.
The Trustees have known and been supporting these Indian organisations for over 20 years, through various UK charities, and have now set up INCH to ensure our goal of ensuring that 100% of all monies raised in the UK benefits the children and their families in India.

Our two partner organisations in India are both in West Bengal, based in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), and are;

All Bengal Women’s Union (ABWU), which was founded in 1947/8 for ‘Suppression of Immoral Traffic’ and continues to work with trafficked, exploited and destitute girls and women, and

Ramakrishna Vivekenanda Mission (RkVM), registered in 1976/7 as ‘dedicated to the welfare of the poorest of poor of India’.

For more information about these two wonderful organisations, visit their websites:

www.abwu.org.in
www.rkvmbarrackpore.org


3. How we do it

  • INCH does not directly carry out any activities overseas, instead we fund the activities of our Indian partners. 

  • INCH Raises and allocates funds.

  • INCH meets regularly to discuss the needs identified by our partners in India, and to make decisions re funding.

  • INCH allocates funds according to our criteria.

  • INCH works closely with partner organisations in India, including Trustees making annual (self-funded) field trips to India to monitor projects and maintain our understanding of needs and to view outcomes.

 

4.  What projects we support/fund

  • INCH benefits particular groups of children either directly or by support to their school, family, or village, by;

  • Improvement of accommodation in children’s homes, including the provision of water purification, mosquito nets, learning aids

  • Funding the provision of school places for girls who would not otherwise access school places

  • Provision of solar lanterns to families, enabling children to do their homework, and reducing the use of fossil fuels in small dwellings

  • Provision of tiffin to schools, or to families in villages in extreme poverty

  • Provision of heavy-duty sewing machines, plus tailoring training, to single parent families

  • Provision and maintenance of bore-wells in rural villages in remote areas of West Bengal

  • Support to girls rescued from trafficking and prostitution, providing safe shelter, education, counselling

 

5.  How we decide which projects          to fund

Our criteria:

  • Is the child/children/family/village experiencing extreme poverty and/or modern slavery?

  • Is the need within our stated location of West Bengal, India?

  • Will the funding benefit children and young people?

  • Are we able to identify specific outcomes?

  • Are we able to monitor the outcomes?

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‘Already the women have learnt to make a few Ladies garments and they are becoming Confident of their own earning. I think it is a Great achievement for all of us.

Thank you very much.

With the best regards.

Mohit ‘

(Mohit Garai, Beldih Ideal School, Purulia)


inchcharity@gmail.com