Protecting Threatened Lemur Habitat in Madagascar 
In Madagascar, 90% of the original littoral forests have been lost due to human activities, which continues to endanger the survival of numerous endemic species, including lemurs. Project Ala aims to increase the viable habitat for these species, including three nocturnal lemurs, through corridor reforestation coupled with strengthening local and regional conservation knowledge and capacity to reduce the human impact on these threatened habitats.
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Planting 15000 trees in Madagascar
Zahana is in the process of planting 10 trees for each woman, child and man in our villages. The villagers as active re-foresters and caretakers took on an ambitious goal: planting 15,000 trees over the next few years. Drawing on our gardeners' years of experience growing seedlings and planting trees successfully, it is time to scale up our efforts and plant a new forest. To meet increased demand for tree seedlings we moved the tree nursery in both villages to the school grounds in 2019.
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Help Us Recycle 5,250 Pounds of Plastic Wastes 
Guatemala has a plastic pollution problem and Eco-Stores are the solution. Eco-Stores are the world's first stores where people can buy essential pantry items and household supplies in exchange for eco-bricks (empty plastic bottles filled with inorganic wastes) they produce themselves. This project motivates people to recycle plastics where recycling plastics is difficult. By supporting this project, you will help prevent plastic wastes from being burned or thrown into streets or rivers!
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Seeds and Skills for Women to Grow Vegetables 
We provide vegetable seeds and support so women can grow food! Women farmers produce more than half the developing world's food, yet own less than 2% of land and receive little support - such as seeds, tools, and knowledge. We join with women's gardening efforts in the most impoverished countries worldwide including Madagascar, Guatemala, Liberia, and Kenya. By providing top-quality vegetable seeds and locally-driven support, women can access a path to empowerment, income, and nutrition.
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Fund Jamaican Farmers in Climate-Smart Aquaponics 
Climate change in Jamaica is forcing small-scale food producers out of business, leading to rising unemployment, poverty and food insecurity. INMED's Financing for Climate-Smart Agriculture program helps resolve this crisis by empowering struggling farmers, women, youth and people with disabilities to start aquaponics (hydroponics/fish farming) enterprises. This program will provide access to financing, aquaponics technology, training, technical assistance and secure markets.
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10000 Children - 10000 Trees - For You 
15,000 will fund the involvement of 2000 more children to complete 2 more year's tree planting and initiate an outreach programme to other communities. A tree planting experience provides both an emotional connection to and hands-on practical learning about caring for our natural environment. The wood we plant will provide a space that inspires a love of nature, teaches about the role of trees in mitigating climate change and demonstrates what can be achieved when we take action together.
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Silver Garden at Thorpe Hall
The Grade II listed gardens at Thorpe Hall have brought pleasure and comfort to over 7,500 patients cared for at the hospice over the last 20 years. There is a wealth of evidence to support the many benefits that hospice gardens provide for patients living with an incurable illness; they can serve as a restorative resource, helping patients, visitors, and staff alike to cope better with stress experienced in connection with their own or others� illness.
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Growing Healthy Families
Fresh food is healthy food. Unfortunately, access to fresh vegetables and fruits has grown out of reach for many people, especially low-income families with children and seniors to care for. Every year, Hidden Villa's Sustainable Agriculture program donates over 12,000 lbs of fresh produce to our neighbors in need. That's 48,000 servings of fruits and vegetables a year!
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Urban Farming and Gardening 
Individuals in poor communities are trained and supported to tackle
hunger and environmental degradation by growing organic vegetable
gardens with indigenous floral windbreaks and herbs. The project
targets individuals (mostly unemployed women) living in
South Africa�s poverty-stricken Cape Flats townships. People
living in the densely populated Cape Flats experience high
unemployment (50-90%), hunger, environmental degradation,
lack of education and skills, a high HIV/AIDS infection
rate and limited resources.
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School Market Gardens 
Hundreds of thousands of Niger's nomadic peoples live in this desert
country's most arid regions. It rains, sparsely, only three months of the
year; with not a drop falling for 9 - 10 months. Parents move, seeking
pasture and water for their herds of sheep and goats. For many, these
animals provide their only nourishment and income. To be educated,
nomadic children must live at state-run schools which often have
little or no food. Without food, school is untenable.. School
market gardens provide that nourishment, increasing enrolments.
Each school market garden provides food to 50 - 200 children. They
and their parents learn drip-irrigation and other
environment-friendly techniques. School enrollments increase by
about 25%. and the agricultural techniques learned augment herding,
and increase food security.
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Incubator for the Maternity Hospital, Fier, Albania 
This year we have supported a different type of project - on the basis that, if you don't survive childbirth you cannot plant trees, or grow vegetables. So this year we donated a badly needed incubator to the Fier hospital - as part of a much bigger ongoing prenatal and midwife education project. At this point so many people have helped, and are continuing to help make this happen: Peace Corps volunteers in Fier, Albania, Dr's Mirela Metaj and Ana Koxhaku in the neonatal unit, Dr Ermela Duda and Suela Spaho and the director in the Regional Public Health Directorate Fier, Antoneta Dhima the hospital director, the Queen Geraldine University Maternity Hospital Foundation in Tirana and so many others - if we did not include your names, please know you are appreciated.
The day after the incubator arrived a 33 week baby was born at the hospital - how serendipitous was that!
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Global Brigades Self Help Clinic 
This year we contributed funds to Global Brigades, and their healthcare self help project in Veraguas province in Panama. The brigades serve poor rural people with little access to healthcare by bringing in teams of healthcare professionals to set up temporary clinics to treat diseases and advise on healthier lifestyles. Some of the people walk all night to get to the clinic at dawn���.
The Winifred Trust made a grant for travel costs and medications for one of these community projects.
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Church Teen Garden
Cliff Jackson, the minister, sent us this letter:
�We started the youth club 2 years ago & now have a regular attendance of 30 each Wednesday evening. The youth club garden began last summer as a tiny plot of ground in one of the church's fields, where we grew a few runner beans, potatoes & beetroot, just enough for each young person to take some home.
Now we�ve extended the plot and have begun to erect a 20 feet-long poly-tunnel, which will enable us to grow a variety of fruit & vegetables throughout the spring and summer, and even into autumn. We have the materials for building the tunnel, but not the benches, soil improver, compost, seeds, pots, labels and tools."
The Winifred Trust made an initial small grant for the benches, plants etc. and has just made another, larger, grant to enable the group to buy a ride on mower for the orchard.
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Tarporley Parish Council Garden of Remembrance
The churchyard at St Helens church in Tarporley was filled a few years ago, and the parish council has a new cemetery area. They propose a small garden, seating area and path to be constructed in the north east corner of the cemetery.
The Winifred Trust awarded the parish council a financial contribution towards establishing this area.
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Tarporley War Memorial Hospital Trust (TWMHP)
Formerly Tarporley Cottage Hospital, this is the local hospital which serves the medical and hospice needs of the local community. They rely heavily on donations and are trying to upgrade all their beds. The Winifred Trust was delighted to help them in this endeavor and buy two electric Huntleigh beds for them.
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The Done Room Pre-school Playgroup Garden
Minister Keith Hine, of St Helens church in Tarporley has been very supportive of the building of a garden on church land for the nearby pre-school. Once the parish agreed to the use of the land for the playgroup garden, Keith approached The Winifred Trust for help establishing the garden. It includes a bog garden, to encourage plant and water insects, a wild-garden corner, and a log garden to encourage insects and therefore birds.
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