About CTG-UK

Background

The Community of Tigrayan in the United Kingdom (CTG-UK) is a registered charity (charity no 1158762) based at 13 -15 Stockwell Road, London SW9 7AU.

Objects

The Charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are:

(1) The relief of poverty, sickness and distress and the advancement of education, particularly among persons of the community of Tigrayan now living in the UK.

(2)  To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the object of improving their conditions of life.

(3) To promote social inclusion of persons of the community of Tigrayan now living in the UK by preventing them from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate in society.

(4) To act as a resource for young people, particular from the community of Tigrayan, by providing advice, assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities as a means of advancing in life and helping such young people by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to fully participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals.

 

 

Mission

the mission of the CTG-UK is to ensure that Tigrayan people are ‘empowered’ and have ‘equal rights’ in society which will enable them to gain equal opportunities to access services and jobs which become available as well as equipping them to foster self-help, mobilise the community, identify and solve their own issues.

Independent:

We will always act in the interests of our service users; without influence from any outside bodies

Impartial:

We don’t judge our service users or make any assumptions about them. Our service is open to all Ethiopians in general and Tigrayans in particular, and we treat everyone equally

Confidential:

We won’t pass on anything a service user tells us – or even the fact that they have visited us – without their permission

Free:

No one has to pay for any part of the services we provide

Vision

by 2018 [5 years], CTG-UK will be firmly re-established acting as a crucial medium to benefit all Tigrayan people and collaborating with groups which support Tigrayan organisations in the UK whether dedicated as Tigrayan groups or those that deliver services in the mainstream.