The Charities
Aberdeen Foyer
Aberdeen Foyer is a successful local charitable organisation working to prevent and alleviate youth homelessness and unemployment in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. We provide supported accommodation to young people who are homeless or at risk where they live, access to a range of learning, training, employment opportunities and community health services for young people and their communities.
Aberdeen Foyer provides supported tenancies for young people aged 16 - 25 across 6 sites; Aberdeen (2), Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Banchory and Stonehaven working with over 80 tenants at any one time.
Aberdeen Foyer's holistic approach recognises that homelessness and disadvantage is not just a matter of providing a home but necessitates addressing many of the underlying causes and critically providing the individual with the means of gaining and sustaining employment. This integrated approach allows tenants and programme participants to take the next steps towards independent living, learning and work.
In addition we have a trading company, Foyer Enterprise that consists of the Foyer Restaurant Gallery, the Foyer Restaurant Café Bar at His Majesty's Theatre, Foyer Graphics, Roadwise Driver Training and Foyer Works, a property maintenance initiative. These businesses generate income to support the work of Aberdeen Foyer, provide an interface with the wider community and offer training employment opportunities for young people.
Rotary International
Rotary is a worldwide organisation of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 clubs in more than 160 countries.
Founded in Chicago in 1905 as the world’s first volunteer service organisation Rotary quickly expanded round the globe and is now the world's largest service organisation for business and professional people of any age, sex and ethnic background.
The Rotary Foundation is the charitable trust fund of Rotary International. Its mission is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education and the alleviation of poverty. The Rotary Foundation is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.
On 21st January 2009 Rotary International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the British and German governments committed more than $630 million in new funds to fight polio, a crippling and sometimes fatal disease that still paralyzes children in parts of Africa and Asia and threatens children everywhere. The Gates Foundation is awarding a $255 million challenge grant to Rotary, which Rotary will match with $100 million raised by its members over the next three years. As a spearheading partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), Rotary’s chief role is fundraising, advocacy and mobilizing volunteers.
