Joliba
Trust – Fundraising Support
The Joliba Trust, a small charity working with rural
communities in Mali, is seeking a suitably experienced
fundraiser to support is next phase of development.
There are two principal areas for which funds need to
be secured:
*Core funding for the charity to allow the employment
of a Manager to support the Co-ordinator in the UK (target
income £150,000 over three years);
* Project funding for its programme of environmental
projects which are managed by the Trust’s project
partner ‘Joliba Environment’ which is based
in Mali (target income £360,000 over 3 years).
The Trust has set aside a budget of £5,000 to
engage a fundraiser to work part-time over the next
months to identify and progress funding bids.
Joliba Trust – Background
Joliba Trust is a UK charity established in 1992, supporting
rural livelihoods programmes in the Sahel. Our focus
is on natural resource management, microcredit, and
women’s projects. We have been working with partner
organisations in Mali and Burkina Faso since 1984. Our
achievements include:
* building 26 village wells and 3 maternity centres;
* training over 800 Village Birth Attendants;
* establishing a microcredit fund of £400,000,
which has circulated c£3-4m in the last decade;
* stabilizing 90 hectares of sand dunes that were moving
onto fertile valley farming land;
* planting and regenerating 2-3m trees; and
* regenerating pasture and natural resources in 5 districts.
Our grassroots fieldwork is well-respected in Mali,
both locally and regionally. Our work has so far run
with very little fundraising input and ‘word of
mouth’ funding. Our initial natural resource management
programme in 5 districts has been completed and we are
now looking to fund carefully-researched natural resource
management work and a pastoralist development programme
in two further districts. Our track record and achievements
should attract large donors.
The charity has so far been run by one person, its Founder,
Caroline Hart. We are now looking to develop the scope
of the charity within the UK, and to take our exciting
new programme forward. The Trust which is based in the
UK has established 3 project partners as shown in the
organizational chart below.
Joliba Trust – Organisational
Chart
Fundraiser
– Role and Responsibilities
The fundraiser will work closely with the Trust’s
Co-ordinator to:
* Identify suitable grant funding
bodies eg DIFID, Charitable Trusts, Lottery etc;
* Develop proposals for:
o core funding for the Charity to allow for the employment
of a Project Manager to support the existing Co-ordinator
and assist in the development of new programmes of work
and monitoring and evaluation of existing work. The
work will involve close liaison with project staff based
in Mali;
o project funding for the Trusts environmental work
in Mali. This includes dune stablisation, natural resource
management and pastoralists development programme.
* Prepare and submit
grant applications and liaise with funding bodies as
appropriate.
Fundraiser – Person Specification
Skills Essential/Desirable
Excellent communications skills (written and verbal)
E
Good listening skills E
Research and gathering information E
Synthesising information from various sources and preparation
of succinct proposals E
French speaking D
Experience
Proven fundraising experience E
Consultancy/short term contract work E
Working for/with small charities/NGOs D
Development work experience D
Practical experience of working on practical grassroots
projects D
Personal attributes
Ability to work on your own with minimal support/supervision
E
Self-motivated E
Task orientated and willing to take initaitive E
An interest in development/sustainability/climate change
issues D
How to apply
Please send:
o a short CV;
o details of how your skills and past experience would
equip you to undertake this role; and
o a description of how you would conduct this piece
of work including an assessment of the number of days
you would be able to commit to the task within the stated
budget of £5,000.
This should be sent to info@jolibatrust.com Caroline
Hart, Co-ordinator, Joliba Trust, 8 Nattadon Road, Chagford,
Newton Abbot, Devon TQ13 8BE by 31 October. Tel 01647
432018.
Interviews will
be held in November – Date and venue to be agreed.
How to give
You can set
up a standing order or donate by sterling cheque by
downloading this donation form
or for credit
card donations (pounds sterling, Euros and US Dollars)
see bottom of this page.
* £1.00 per month over a year means a woman who
has nothing could raise 2 pigs, and plant a field of
peanuts to bring more security to her family.
*
£2.00 per month over a year would plant 150 trees
which would make the soil and land richer and less vulnerable
to drought, or provide valuable income resources to
women such as fruit and nuts.
*
£6.00 per month over a year would train a Village
Birth Attendant to greatly improve the health and safety
of women giving birth, help children to be healthier,
and reduce the incidence of female genital mutilation.
*
£12 per month over a year would buy a donkey cart
for an extended family so that they can transport many
essential materials and reach new markets.
*
£20 per month over a year would provide literacy
and management training for 10 villages to run their
own Credit Unions and Cereal Banks to overcome hardship
and alleviate problems of drought years.
A percentage of sales
of the book below will be donated to us:
Support
us with a text!
You can also now donate to us via text message! Through
JustTextGiving you can give money to Joliba Trust via
your mobile phone bill or by deducting credit from your
pay as you go balance. There are no fees and Joliba
Trust receives the full donation plus GiftAid. Just
text the amount you would like to donate (£1,
£2, £3, £4, £5 or £10)
and then 'JOLT44' to 70070. Click here
to find out more.
Laptop
computers
We are always in need of laptop computers for our 3
field offices, for our staff and for local community
organisations. If you can let us have one when you upgrade,
this would be extremely useful. There is no electricity
in our area, but we can operate laptops from locally
available solar panels.
Sponsor a Well!
If you would like to transform the life of a whole village,
or if a business or group would like to fund a well
as a memorial, we are able to do this. A particular
name can be inscribed into the well, and photos can
be provided. The wells we build are substantial, allowing
6 women to draw water at once, and are very durable.
As the water table in our area is so deep (50-80m) and
the geology is variable, building costs are high and
range from £1,500-9,000 for the materials only.
All labour is given voluntarily by men in the village.
If
you would like more details about our work, please email
jolibatrust@hotmail.com with your address.
Why
not leave us a legacy.
THANK
YOU!
Marisa Lassman dressed up as a lion for the day
and raised £371 for our literacy training.
A
very big thankyou to everyone who has supported our
work. It is wonderful to see the transformation taking
place: how much healthier and brighter so many women
and children look from when we started, and the many
ways that living conditions are improving. We are very
grateful to everyone, and especially to those who make
standing orders, or who leave us a legacy, and to the
remarkable individuals, as well as family trusts and
Churches who give us such key support.
Thank
you to all of you who chose to sponsor specific projects
such as the training of a Village Birth Attendant, a
family donkey cart, tree planting, to increase our Women's
Credit, or to sponsor a well.
We
are also very grateful to people who have donated to
Joliba through organised events, such as open gardens,
garage and car boot sales, auction sales, coffee mornings,
sponsored events, people who have replaced Christmas
or birthday presents with a gift to one of our projects,
or encouraged funds to be donated to our work by organisations
or businesses you know.
Ruth
Mapes, who raised an astonishing £2,307 through making
and selling jam and plants in a local art gallery and
on a table outside her house in Clun, Shropshire.
Joliba
is a small charity and so not so many people have heard
of it, so its need is great. I like the fact that the
people in the villages are consulted in which projects
are to be funded and that less money used in administration
and it's unlikely that money will be wasted. I also
like the type of project that Joliba funds such as the
microcredit and all the smaller ways in which the lives
of the villagers can be improved.
