In October 2016, two Directors of Black Isle volunteered for a community project in southern Kenya with a UK charity, the Camps Foundation. They were moved by their experiences and particularly struck by the motivation of the people they met to improve their lives through education. As a result, they set up the Black Isle Group (BIG) Foundation in January 2017.
Aim
The aim of the BIG Foundation is to provide charitable support to selected community and educational projects and organisations in Africa, in partnership with the Camps Foundation.
Target
The first project is to build, from the bricks up, a nursery for the Itinyi Primary School where 70 youngsters currently learn outside. The school is in a remote, semi-arid area of the Tsavo region where over 65% of the population live below the poverty line. The BIG Foundation is fundraising and providing hands-on support to improve the infrastructure and facilities at the school.
The BIG Challenge
Every year, as part of the fundraising effort, we will organise a BIG Challenge. Directors and staff, suppliers and clients will join together to raise funds for the Foundation and then travel to Africa to work on the projects.
80% of people agree that giving up some of the time to volunteer fosters skills that a degree or postgraduate qualification simply cannot.
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Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Barack Obama
What next?
For anyone who wants to learn more, contribute or get involved with the BIG Foundation then please read an overview of what we have planned for 2019.
The BIG Corporate Challenge 2019