Our two charities – how to donate
small park BIG RUN raises funds for two Sheffield based charities
- Sheffield Palestine Cultural Exchange (charity number 1198863) that looks to improve the lives of young people in Gaza and the Occupied Territories . More information below. Or donate here.
- Sheffield Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund (charity number: 1133499 ), which supports Palestinian women to go to University without having to leave Palestine. More information below. Or donate here.
Sheffield Palestine Cultural Exchange
Donation details – three methods
1. You can donate on our dedicated spBR25 event fundraising page
2. Transfer funds to the Sheffield Palestine Cultural Exchange bank account using the reference ‘#spBR25’: Sort code: 05-08-18 * Account number: 33129312.
3. Use Paypal – send money to sheffield.pace@gmail.com
(SPaCE) helps children in Gaza and the Occupied Territories by both providing funds to improve health play and cultural facilities and by raising awareness in Sheffield of the living conditions faced by young people living in Gaza and the Occupied Territories.
Since October 2023 Gaza has been in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. The scale of suffering and death, destruction of infrastructure and buildings has meant normal work has not been possible for SPaCE: the Children’s Centres no longer function.
SPaCE trustees decided that it was important to food and clothing and contribute to a Sheffield-based Gaza relief fund. You can find updates on the emergency relief provided here.
In addition, SPaCE paid for some solar panels for a young people’s media team and we are amazed to see how the money you have provided has brought some wonderful examples of resilience. Meanwhile, the workers from Never Stop Dreaming who were looking after a trauma centre funded by SPaCE , before it was destroyed, have done some amazing work. Please find out more from their Facebook page. And more updates from SPaCE here.
small park BIG RUN is proud to be able to support SPaCE’s work and hopes that we can help rebuild the projects offering such important safe play spaces for children in Khan Younis and Khuza’a in the Gaza Strip.
University education for Palestinian women – SPSWF
Donation details
Sponsor and donate to the Sheffield Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund (SPWSF) using this Give As You Live page . The scholarship fund is a charity. Charity number: 1133499
The Sheffield Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund has also faced serious difficulties in continuing its support for women’s education since October 2023. The trustees have issued this statement:
“Sheffield Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund is intent on continuing its support for Palestinian women to access education. It will work with it’s Gazan partners, when possible, to support the Gaza-based students. Sadly, it is not currently clear how access to resources can be facilitated given the wholesale destruction of education facilities in Gaza. When we know more we will update you. The Fund also supports students in the West Bank where conditions are extremely bad and universities have been closed forcing learning online. Support for these students will continue as normal.”
We have little news on our students in Gaza, though we know that at least one has been
killed. Our students in the West Bank are concerned for their sister students in Gaza and
face their own uphill struggle to be educated.
Below is a testimony from one of our students. Our latest newsletter is here
Tala Ighbaria Tala is studying medical imaging at the Arab American University in Jenin. She lives with her parents and six siblings. She was a Girl Scout at school and was the President of the Student Parliament. Below are two recent updates she sent:
October 2024: People with medical imaging skills are in demand. There are lots of job opportunities. It’s a discipline that requires you to be very precise, very thorough and careful, because you are enabling doctors to identify issues accurately and then to decide on the most appropriate treatment. Once I graduate, my aim is to study for a master’s degree. I want to travel abroad to attend courses, meetings, and seminars and I want apply the knowledge I gain to our beloved homeland, Palestine. I want to contribute to its reconstruction and eventually I hope to open my own medical-imaging lab in my city, Jenin.
January 2025: Our electricity is on and off and I can’t go to the University, even though it’s only ten minutes away by taxi, as the PA is shooting randomly. My teachers are supportive and my friends near Jenin help me. I had to buy 3G, but even this does not always work. I will postpone my mid-term exams, but I am not going to give up studying. I’ve been getting good marks and positive feedback, but now everything is dark because of the attacks on the camp. We don’t forget what the Israelis have done, raiding houses and destroying infrastructure at three or four in the morning. Two of my cousins were martyred. But since the PA came, I can’t go out. They fired at our water tank, so we now have no access to water. My father tried to go to work, but they shot at him. The PA told him to take his family out of the camp, but we have nowhere to go, and we are afraid that if we leave, the house will be burned down.
Sheffield Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund supports Palestinian women in Gaza and the West Bank to enter higher education through a yearly scholarship. It was set up in 2007 and currently supports 55 women in Gaza and 7 in the West Bank by paying their university entrance fees. One year’s university fees averages between £300-600.