SRI LANKAN LAWYERS (U.K.) TSUNAMI APPEAL

Registered charity 1108341 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASLUK

Social Justice and Environmental Justice in Sri Lanka. Raise awareness, funds and make grants to protect poor communitiess, children, disabled, the environment and endangered animals in Sri Lanka. Run entirely by unpaid trustees and volunteers since 31. 1. 05.

Objects

(A) THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND WILDLIFE, INCLUDING ELEPHANT CONSERVATION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN SRI LANKA, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF RESOURCES TO ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, AND TO PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE. (B) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ERADICATION OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AMONG CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY IN SRI LANKA, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL AID, FOOD, CLOTHING, HOMES AND MEDICAL AID. (C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AMONG CHILDREN IN SRI LANKA, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF RESOURCES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE THEIR EDUCATION. (D) TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN SRI LANKA, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS ENGAGED IN HUMAN RIGHTS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, CHILD PROTECTION, PEACE AND RECONCILIATION, PENAL REFORM, LEGAL EDUCATION, LEGAL REPRESENTATION AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE.IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT OBJECT BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER:TO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE CHARITY CARRIES OUT ITS OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: SRI LANKA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

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Policies the charity declares

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• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Risk management
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Azize Chelliah
• Dilishi Isora Dhanapala
• KUMUDU AMARADASA
• LALITH CHRISTOPHER DE KAUWE
• Lilangi Cooke
• SELVANAYAGAM SATHANANTHAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• SHAHUL HAMEED ABUL HASSAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• UPALI JAYATILAKA

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Sri Lanka · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending