Tag: One World Centre
Overseas Aid Committee pledges support to One World Charity Challenge
The One World Centre is pleased to announce the Isle of Man Overseas Aid Committee has pledged £10,000 to this year’s One World Charity Challenge. The funding will be added to a grant of £11,500 from the H&S Davidson Trust giving a total of £21,500 to be distributed between the 28 charities being represented by [...]
One small insignificant life changing step
The all Island Christmas Stamp Appeal has been launched again this year, with churches, chapels and schools across the Island offering to act as local collecting stations for your stamps. The first step is just to remember to cut the stamps off the envelopes with a 5cm surround as they start dropping through your letter [...]
Competition heats up with record number of entries for One World Charity Challenge
The 2013 One World Charity Challenge is set to be the most hotly contested yet with a record number of entries received from schools around the Island. The Challenge invites Year 12 students to speak out for people living in the developing world by creating a presentation examining the work of a particular charity. Over [...]
St Lucian banana farmer to tour Island schools
The One World Centre is hosting a Fairtrade banana farmer on his first visit to the Isle of Man this week. Nicholas Faisal is a smallholder from the south of St Lucia who grows bananas for export to the UK. He will be touring six primary schools around the Island to talk about how bananas [...]
Art from the heart: St John’s students produce new mural for One World Centre
The One World Centre at St Johns has a resplendent new mural at its entrance thanks to the talented children of St John’s Primary School. Each class at the school was given a theme to illustrate different aspects of sustainability, with some classes portraying positive images and some negative ones. The result is a highly [...]
Almost £3,000 raised for East Africa Appeal
The Island’s generosity was demonstrated by last month’s DEC collection for the East Africa appeal, with a grand total of £2,947.89 raised. The One World Centre co-ordinated volunteers to make street collections in Castletown, Douglas, Peel, Port Erin and Ramsey, while shoppers at Co-op stores donated via counter containers. The total bucket collection was £2,288.42 [...]
One World Centre goes central – and appoints new Director
It’s all change for the One World Centre. Having relocated from Castletown to the old DAFF headquarters at St Johns, the charity has just appointed a new Director, Rosemary Clarke. For the last 12 years Rosemary has run a similar development education centre in Milton Keynes. Her working life began in a Hertfordshire comprehensive where [...]
One World Centre sets Africa-sized challenge for Tynwald Day
On Tynwald Day the One World Centre set a deceptively simple challenge: how big is Africa? People visiting the Centre’s stall on the Fairfield were given an outline map of Africa and told that it has the same area as the following countries combined: Belgium, China, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Greece, India, Isle of Man, [...]
UK YPI director impressed by One World Charity Challenge
Among the guests at this year’s One World Charity Challenge (OWCC) finals was Alex Reynolds, director of the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) at the Institute for Philanthropy in London. Mr Reynolds attended the event at the invitation of Hugh Davidson, chairman of the H&S Davidson Trust, sponsor of the challenge that has been running [...]
’1.4 Billion Reasons’
The One World Centre is coordinating the IoM launch of the ground breaking presentation ‘1.4 billion reasons’ from The Global Poverty Project (GPP) during Fairtrade Fortnight 2011, in association with the Manx Cooperative. The presentation will be held on Tuesday 1st March at the Manx Museum lecture theatre and will focus on the simple yet [...]
