Survivors Fund (SURF) (company limited by guarantee) Annual report and audited accounts for the year ending 31 December 2009 Registered as a company in England and Wales, number 04311565 Registered as a charity with the Charity Commission for England and … Continue Reading »
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Annual Report 2010
We are proud to announce the publication of the SURF Annual Report 2010, which presents an overview of our work over the past year. For the first time in three years that we have printed in hard copy our Annual Report, which … Continue Reading »
On the Up
Rob and Nikki Wilson are currently travelling through Africa from Cape Town to Cairo, meeting Africa’s most inspirational social entrepreneurs as part of their new project, On the Up. On passing through Rwanda, they took the opportunity to learn further … Continue Reading »
National Social Protection Strategy
Last week, SURF’s partner organisations had the opportunity to meet and question the Right Honourable Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State for International Development on the policy of the UK Department for International Development. In preparing for that meeting, we discussed … Continue Reading »
Project Umubano 2011
Over the past two weeks, Survivors Fund (SURF) has been working with the community group of Project Umubano, the two week international social action programme of the UK Conservative Party. A group of 10 members of the 100-strong delegation in … Continue Reading »
Denying denialism
The comment of Edward Herman and David Peterson (Rwanda and Srebrenica, 19 July) in the Guardian that “the standard account of the “Rwandan genocide” is monumentally flawed” ranks alongside the parallel claim of that other discredited revisionist historian, David Irving … Continue Reading »
Restorative Justice
Survivors Fund (SURF), in partnership with LSE Arts, will be presenting a new exhibition in the Atrium Gallery of the Old Building at the London School of Economics from Monday 18th July to Friday 26th August. An online version of … Continue Reading »
On fundraising
Survivors Fund (SURF) is featured in an article in the Guardian on “Why small charities need to work to break through the £1m barrier”. Anne Nicholls writes: The story of the Survivors Fund shows the importance of securing sustainable funding … Continue Reading »
A Tribute to Christopher Shale
The tragic news of the death of Christopher Shale is a great loss to Survivors Fund (SURF), as well as all the survivors that his work has helped in Rwanda. Christopher was a modest man who never sought credit or praise … Continue Reading »
AVEGA wins Gruber Prize
Left without the legal protection of husbands after the ugly bloodletting of 1994, fifty women stood together in Rwanda to form AVEGA Agahzo, the Association of Widows of the Genocide, and 17 years later they are still helping one another … Continue Reading »
