F.A.Q.

We are a UK charity based in Hertfordshire in the South East of the United Kingdom. We usually hold our meetings at the Jim McDonald Centre, Hatfield. Hertfordshire, but during the co-vid period we have held our meetings online.

The Gaza team have their centre in Nusierat, which is in the central area of Gaza.

No. We are a wholly independent UK charitable organisation, which has no political affiliation with any group or organisation in the UK or the Middle East.
While our mission is to respond to the needs of children and their families who live in and around Gaza. Our trauma centre is not aligned with any faith or faith group and offers its support and services to children from any background under our independent, multi-cultural and secular remit.

We:
- provide training and supervision, either by itself or in conjunction with other individuals and organisations.
- provide ongoing research into psycho-social programmes designed to alleviate trauma caused by war, conflict or occupation
- encourage the sharing of good therapeutic practice with other groups.

In some cases we can give advice to groups similar to our own throughout the world, if our resources allow.

Yes, please visit our Donate page and click on the Donate button. You will have the option of donating directly using a credit/debit card or via PayPal during the secure online donation process.

Yes. You can setup a Standing Order using the information on our Donate page.

Less than 1% will be spent in the UK. This is to cover costs for insurance, audit and the time needed by the UK supervisor to manage the projects. All the rest goes to pay the team and project costs in Gaza. Administration in the UK is done by volunteers.

Over 90% of all donations goes to support vulnerable families in Gaza. All of our trustees are volunteers and they receive no payment. However, we do have some overheads such as administrative costs including our annual accounts and the cost of running our website. We will always endeavour to keep our overheads to a minimum to ensure that the majority of your donation is used to support trauma in Gaza.

Please e-mail us at hello@palestinetraumacentre.uk and we will respond to you as soon as we can.

We have received our funding from a variety of sources all of which enables us to:

• provide training and supervision, either by itself or in conjunction with other individuals and organisations

• provide ongoing research into psycho-social programmes designed to alleviate trauma
  caused by war, conflict or occupation

• encourage the sharing of good therapeutic practice with other groups.

Examples of our funding sources are:

• personal donations (either as one-offs via PayPal or regular via bank standing order transfers).

• We also receive donations from: 13 Rivers Trust, Art into Heart, Blossom Fitness, Brent Friends of Palestine, British Shalom/Salaam Trust, The Gendin Centre, Irish Quakers Faith in Action, Muntada Aid, Muslim Community Association, North Herts PSC, Norwich Stop the War, St. Albans Friends of Palestine, Waqf and Relief Foundation and Worcester Friends of Palestine.

We are grateful to all of our donors however small or large your donation is. Without your help and support we would not be able to undertake the work that we do.

You should contact your bank or building society and request to setup a standing order. Most banks and building societies allow you to setup a standing order online or by telephone. However, some banks prefer you to complete a paper form.

The details you will have to give your bank or building society will include the name of our charity, our bank account number and sort code.

These are our details:
Palestine Trauma Centre UK
National Westminster Bank, Hertford, Hertfordshire, SG14 1YY
Account Number: 14203200
Sort Code: 60-10-39

You should note that banks and building societies do not usually charge you anything for the setting up or the using of standing orders. Also, you can amend or cancel your standing order at any time.

We are grateful for any donation that you can give us, even the smallest amount will help our work enormously. The more you can give us the more you will be able to support our work and improve the lives of those who are suffering trauma in Gaza. As an example, a donation of £5 per month will make an enormous and vital difference to the children and families of Gaza. Please support us and be comfortable with the amount of your donation. Over 90% of all donations goes to support vulnerable families in Gaza.

Gift Aid is a very generous scheme provided by the government of the UK. If you are a UK taxpayer it means we can reclaim tax on all of the donations you make to us. This means we can your donation is worth 28% more us at no extra cost to you. However, before we can reclaim this generous tax aid you must be paying at least 25p in tax for every £1 that you donate to us.
For us to make use of Gift Aid, please let us know at the point of your donation that you are an eligible UK tax payer.

Yes. We have a number of talks that we give to promote our work and to also receive donations.
If you wish us to give a talk to your organisation please contact our Chair of the Board of Trustees.

As much as we would like to sponsor you to visit Gaza and help with our trauma work, we are unable to do so. Instead, we offer support and training on the ground in Gaza both in-person by a team based in Gaza or via technology (usually online), which ensures that help is never too far away.