Update on registering as a charity

After quite a bit of research, some phone calls and meetings, I am sorry to report that I feel it is unlikely that Trust Sulha will be able to apply to be registered by the Charity Commission - yet!
The reason for this, is that you have to have an annual income of £5,000 to apply.
Of course if anyone reading this has had a different experience and has applied successfully without reaching this threshold then I would love to hear from you via info@trustsulha.org.uk
I thought we just had to cross that £5,000 threshold once, hence my optimism! Sadly not.
Looking on the bright side though, this gives us a new goal - we have to get up to this amount. we have to raise £5,000 a year! And we all like goals don't we!
So I'm contacting our friends and supporters today to see if we can create a committee that can start looking into new avenues of funding.
One avenue which I feel is worth exploring would be that of getting UK schools involved and raising funds for specific classes - a sort of twinning between students here and students there.
I'm always shied away from this as I felt schools wouldn't want to get involved if we weren't a registered charity, but I'm throwing caution to the wind now. The worst that can happen is that they all say no - and then we'll only be in the same position as we are now, and no worse off...
After all, Jamilla and Rahema didn't know if it would work when they opened their schools, they just went for it. So in that spirit we shall do the same.
So! Onwards and upwards and if you know of a school that you think might like to get involved then please do contact us.
Also, please do contact us if you think you can undertake a monthly Standing Order to Trust Sulha. Just £2 per month would, over the course of a year, pay a teacher's salary for a month.