TIC Connects Children to Chances
TiC enables deprived children to access education by issuing grants to projects that most organisations overlook.
Where a need is found that no other charity is attending, we instigate and manage our own projects.
Can TiC support you?
Email info@trustinchildren.org for our Grant Application Form.
History
TiC was founded in 1964 by Colin Murray. It exclusively issued grants to needy children in the UK for 40 years.In 2004 responsibility for the charity was handed to a new board of energetic trustees, recent graduates in their twenties, headed by Chair Leonora Borg. In 2008 Iain Forbes became Chairman.
Trustees
TiC is managed by an Executive Committee of six trustees and has no paid staff at this time.
Iain Forbes (Chair)
Iain Forbes works in the public sector, providing project and programme management advice to central Government Departments. He has experience in corporate finance, strategic planning and policy design.
Chloe Darlington (Secretary)
Chloe currently manages a children's charity encouraging children's creativity and social interaction. Her experience is in marketing and fundraising, which she hopes to use for the benefit of children and young people through Trust in Children.
Richard Tomes (Treasurer)
Richard has been running his own technical publishing and publicity company for more than 30 years, and brings experience in a wide range of business-related activities. He lives in Sunbury on Thames, where he has been involved in a number of local fundraising projects.
Leonora Borg
Leonora has been involved in charities both in the UK and abroad for several years, including working in Japan, Bosnia and Peru. She is currently Manager of a charity supporting street children worldwide.
Kim Walker (nee Waite)
Kim works for a risk management company in London. She has worked in the finance sector since 1999 and hopes that her analytical skills and project management experience will benefit Trust in Children.
Sian Dockray
Sian is an employment law solicitor with a firm in London. Before training as a solicitor, Sian travelled extensively, and now hopes to contribute her legal and business skills to the development of TIC.
Patrons and Supporters
Dr Alan Borg CBE
Chairman of The Foundling Hospital and Librarian for the St John’s Museum, London. Former Director of the Victoria Albert Museum and the Imperial War Museum.
Joanna Lumley OBE
English actress and former model, born in India. Best known for her roles in The New Avengers, Absolutely Fabulous, Sapphire and Steel and Sensitive Skin.
Vision, Mission And Role
Vision
TiC’s vision is a world where every child perceives and values its own potential and is enabled to realise this to the fullest.
TiC aims to work particularly with children whose standards of living, education and opportunities are considered to be low by the charity.
Mission
TiC’s mission is to empower young people by creating safe, reliable and open environments for them to realise their potential.This will be done by providing resources for children whose opportunities and sense of self worth are limited by financial, social or political restraints.
The charity will always strive be sensitive to the cultural-bound realities of each child’s personal environment and individual circumstances.
Role
TiC’s role is to raise funds and allocate grants to help organisations which share the Trust’s vision and mission.
TiC will consider applications from any organisation that shares its ideals and goals.
Whilst the responsibility for the projects that are funded by TiC will always remain with the applicant, the Trust will, where possible, provide technical and logistical support to ensure its grants are applied in the most effective way possible.
Annual Reports
2004-2005 Annual Report - click here
2005-2006 Annual Report - click here
