Project Trust

WFT has invested £300,000, over a three year period, to develop the operational capacity of Project Trust to increase the number of young people Project Trust can send to volunteer in Developing Countries to 240 every year.

Project Trust was founded in 1967 as an educational charity on the Herbridean Isle of Coll in North West Scotland. Since then they have sent over 5,500 volunteers overseas. Currently, Project Trust sends about two hundred volunteers to twenty-five countries annually and is widely respected as one of the most experienced and professional gap year organisations in Britain.

Project Trust's main philosophy is to provide young people with an opportunity to understand a community overseas by immersing themselves in it; living and working there for a year. All of the projects are vetted for their suitability for volunteers, and none deprive local people of work.