Moonlight Trust is a humanitarian charity based in Dewsbury providing much needed aid and educational projects for refugees across the globe. Founded to eradicate poverty and promote peace, justice and equality, Moonlight projects provide necessities such as food, clothing, sanitation and emergency aid to refugees in Bangladesh, Syria, Greece, Turkey and Pakistan, as well as hosting a variety of projects in the UK. Locally, the charity campaigns around refugee issues as well as delivering hands on work to develop employability skills amongst female refugees.

What Corecom do

Corecom has worked in partnership with Moonlight Trust providing monetary donations, strategic business advice to the management team, hands on practical support to the women the trust works with in Yorkshire.

As Business Advisor and Patriot to Moonlight Trust, our Managing Director, Jonathan Sanderson, has been instrumental in delivering workshops and masterclasses for refugee women and those from ethnic minority backgrounds, as part of ‘Coffee, Cake and Careers’, a European Social Fund project to build confidence and resilience, and challenge societal inequality.

Drawing on his long-standing work around equality and diversity, Jonathan’s ‘Raising Women Leaders’ masterclasses span career advice, tips for staying motivated, career planning and goal and ambition setting. His work is highly regarded by the trust and his continued commitment to raising awareness of the ongoing global crisis and empowering refugee women won him the “Excellence Award in Business” and recognition by MPs in the region.

Statistics

The ‘Coffee, Cake and Careers’ project has proven immensely successful with 95% of participants taking up employment, training or volunteering upon completion. This high level of success has resulted in the project continuing with a third cohort now underway.

£1,000 donated to feed refugees displaced on the Syrian-Turkish border.

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“Jonathan’s input to Moonlight Trust as Patriot and Business Advisor over recent years has been instrumental in helping to strengthen mindsets and inspire the women we work with to overcome barriers and begin their journey to work.  His immense knowledge and understanding of the issues confronting women when seeking to take up IT and leadership roles and his passion for facilitating more vulnerable women through this, really shines through.”

Noushin Raja, Founder, Moonlight Trust