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Community
enterprise to help the unemployed:
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Computer
re-use
in the community:
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Collaborative
IT
wastestream for the North Staffordshire area:
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The
registered
charity:
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PC
Technician Training:
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Does your
organisation need to dispose of computer equipment?
Then do it through TECC –
The Ethical Computer Centre
(and
help the
community locally and in developing countries …. especially the
unemployed)
The
registered
charity:
Burslem Ethical Trust
Registered
as a company limited by guarantee, No. 4004129, 30 May 2000.
Registered as a charity,
No. 1082990, 23 Oct 2000.
Charitable objects:
(In company memorandum of
association:) To provide education and
training opportunities. To create and sustain community
enterprise
in order to relieve poverty and social disadvantage.
(On registration as a
charity:) The advancement of education and
training, in particular of unemployed individuals in Staffordshire, for
the public benefit.
Burslem Ethical
Trust's proper concerns are:
- Fundraising (including
receiving any surpluses from TECC Ltd and TERC Ltd).
- Trusteeship of premises.
- Provision of funding
and other support in furtherance of its objects.
- Shaping and realising
the potential of Burslem Ethical Trust from its fragile beginnings in
furtherance of its objects.
Burslem
Ethical Trust
Aims of the Trust
Wanting for everyone, both locally and globally, relief from:
*
ill-health
*
addictions
*
homelessness
* fear
and insecurity
*
poverty and debt
*
loneliness and isolation
*
prejudice
*
family breakdown
* lack
of purpose in life
* need
for education and training
*
unemployment and lack of occupation
and wanting for everyone
the liberty, means and opportunity to live a productive life:
* in
the best possible health of body and mind
* with
the love and support of community and family
* with
opportunity for
o education and training
o suitable employment or occupation
o a purposeful life
o maximum fulfilment
Burslem Ethical Trust was
founded to play its part in fulfilling this aspiration,
and will work to advance
education and training,
in particular of
unemployed individuals in Staffordshire and the surrounding areas.
The
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
We are pleased to agree in our aims with those of The United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed on 10
December 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Following this historic
act the Assembly called upon all member countries to publicize the text
of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read
and expounded principally in schools and other educational
institutions, without distinction based on the political status of
countries or territories."
Here are a few "tasters"
from the Preamble to the Declaration:
"Whereas recognition of
the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all
members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and
peace in the world,
"Whereas disregard and
contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have
outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which
human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from
fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the
common people,
....
"Whereas the peoples of
the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in
fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person
and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote
social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
....
Now, therefore,
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
proclaims
THIS UNIVERSAL
DECLARATIONAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for
all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every
organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall
strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights
and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international,
to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance,"
....
30 Articles ensue:
Article 1.: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and
human rights. ...."
Burslem
Ethical Trust will play its part ".... by teaching and education to
promote respect for these rights and freedoms ....".
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TECC
started in 1999.
A project of
Burslem Ethical Trust,
registered
charity no. 1082990
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