Thank you to our supporters
KRAN works with a host of partner organisations, individuals as well as statutory sector agencies and Universities. We are extremely grateful to all those who fundraise for us from doing sponsored walks across Europe or Kent, to a collection at an event or a one off donation towards our destitution fund. We ensure that these donations are always used directly for activities and resources that benefit our young people.
We also have a number of grant funders, including philanthropic givers who support our core work to ensure that we can be flexible and responsive in what we do to meet the needs of our young people.
OUR PATRONS
Lord Mereworth inherited his peerage of Lord Mereworth, also the title 5th Baron Oranmore and Browne.
He is a poet and playwright and has been internationally published. As well as KRAN, he is involved with several other charities, including The Oranmore Trend (TOT), Celtic Vision, Rapid Ireland, Veterans in Europe, and Monte Cassino Federation for Remembrance and Reconciliation.
Lord Mereworth
Lord Dubs is a Labour politician and leading refugee rights advocate. He was MP for Battersea 1979-1987, during which time he served for four years as a shadow Home Office Minister.
After leaving the Commons in 1987, he became the Director of the Refugee Council and was appointed as a Labour life peer in 1994.
In 1997, after Labour’s election victory, he was appointed as a Minister in Northern Ireland where he served until the establishment of a new devolved administration following the Good Friday Agreement.
In 2016, he sponsored an amendment (which later became known as the “Dubs Amendment”) to the Immigration Act 2016, to offer some unaccompanied refugee children stranded in camps in Europe safe passage to Britain, having himself arrived in Britain in 1939 as a six-year-old refugee fleeing the Nazis in Czechoslovakia.
He currently serves on the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly and on the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly. He continues to campaign on human rights and specifically on behalf of refugees.
lord Dubs
GAVIN ESLER
A journalist, author and broadcaster, Mr Esler is best known as the long-time anchor of the BBC’s Newsnight (2003-14). Before that, he was the BBC’s chief correspondent in North America (1990-98), and has also worked on Dateline London and other BBC programmes.
Mr Esler is the author of five novels and four works of non-fiction, including Britain is Better Than This (2023). He has won a Royal Television Society Award and a Sony Gold.
Mr Esler is a BAFTA member and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is an alumni of the University of Kent, and was awarded an honorary MA in 1995 and an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law in 2005. He is currently UKC Chancellor.
Our funders
Main Funders 2022/23
AB Charitable Trust
Acts for Change Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Blagrave Trust Listening Fund
Blue Thread
Children in Need
Community Lottery
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust
Kent Community Foundation
Lloyds Bank Foundation
Nationwide Building Society Grant
NPT Transatlantic
Tolkien Trust
Tudor Trust
Virtual Schools Kent
Other Grants and Donation in 2022/23
Bell Foundation
Canterbury City Council
Deal Area Refugee Aid
Dover, Folkestone and Thanet Coop Party
Edward Vinson 1957 Charity Settlement
Folkestone District Council
French Hugeunot Church of London Charitable Trust
G&E Pollitzer Charitable Settlement
Global Giving Foundation (Cummins)
KCC Reconnect Grant
Lawson Trust
Leach Fourteenth Trust
The Philip and Connie Phillips Foundation
SAGA
Stephen Clark Charitable Settlement
Main Funders 2020/21
AB Charitable Trust
Acts for Change Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Aurum Charitable Trust
Barrow Cadbury Trust
Blagrave Trust Listening Fund
Children in Need
Community Lottery
Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust
DCMS
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Kent Community Foundation
Lloyds Bank Foundation
Nationwide Building Society Grants
Oak Foundation
Tudor Trust
Virtual Schools Kent
Other Grants and Donation in 2020/21
Bell Foundation
French Hugeunot Church of London Charitable Trust
Global Giving Foundation (Cummins)
Gulbeinkian University of Kent Refugee Week
John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust
KCC Reconnect Grant
Lawson Trust
NPT Transatlantic
Refugee Action
Streetgames
Sports England
The Tolkien Trust
University of Lincoln EU Project
Main Funders 2019
Awards for All
AB Charitable Trust
Aviva Community Fund
Blagrave Trust Listening Fund
Children in Need
Coop Foundation
Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Kent Community Foundation
Lloyds Bank Foundation
Private philanthropists
Roger De Haan Charitable Trust
Virtual Schools Kent
Group Donations in 2018/19
Ashford Quakers
Bethersden Church Donation
Broadstairs and Deal Quakers
Canterbury Christ Church University Gospel Choir
Dr Legumes Folkestone
Dioceses of Canterbury
David Family Foundation
Faversham Literary Festival
Folkestone Quakers
French Hugeunot Church of London Charitable Trust
Gulbeinkian University of Kent Refugee Week
Highstead Grammar School
Kent Kindness
Landmark Trust 50 for Free Residential
Sainsbury’s Family Charitable Trust
The Kings School
Whitstable Calais Solidarity Group
LEARNING FOR LIFE
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Canterbury regular partners
University of Kent
Canterbury College
Canterbury Christ Church University
Kent Police
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Trips/Talks Partners
NHS
Kent Fire Service
Natural England
Canterbury Library
Canterbury Cathedral
Dover Castle
ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT
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Activity Partners
Rising Sun
The Gulbenkian
Kent Cricket Community Trust
People United
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Other KEY PARTNERS
Diocese of Canterbury
Cummins
UK Trauma Council
Imix
Refugee Action
Refugee Council ‘My VIew’
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Case work
KCC Social Services
Refugee Council
British Red Cross
Refugees at home
Room for Refugees
Kent Law Clinic
Migrant Law Project
NLS Solicitors
RKB Law