1st October 2026 

It is with sadness that the trustees of the charity have decided to cease operations with immediate effect. Please visit our NEWS page for details.

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The Charity’s objects were to advance the education and training of young people living in rural Mozambique through the provision of grants and services to enable them to make a sustainable living and provide active support within their communities.

 

The trustees of the Charity and a group of generous donors and volunteers organised fundraising events to help to achieve the objects of the charity by the provision of funding to assist in the purchase of basic necessities to support learning and training as well as transport to enable the students to reach the schools. The fund also assisted the poorest students to access these facilities.

 

Our thoughts were constantly with the young people in Mozambique where political troubles in the Cabo Delgado region in the north of the country are regularly reported. Fortunately we made a decision when we set up the charity to concentrate our efforts on the southern part of the country.

 

A Portuguese colony until 1975, Mozambique developed as two separate entities divided by the Zambezi river.

 

The north relied on agriculture and, along the coast, was influenced by Swahili culture. Now it is also the location of gas projects worth more than sixty billion dollars. The south depended on South Africa and the gold trade.

 

Many in Maputo, in the south, have little grasp of what life is like in the troubled, poorer northern provinces. Mozambique’s capital is about 1,700km from Pemba, the capital of Cabo Delgado - farther than London is from Lisbon.

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At the Thomas Marshall Education Fund we were constantly looking for ways to generate much needed funding for improving the future of young people in Mozambique during these strange and challenging times.

 

Despite the restrictions during the Covid pandemic, our LockdownT4Thomas in June 2020 was a tremendous success and we continued to organise events and details of some of on these were published on the EVENTS page of this website.

 

However, there were other ways in which supporters were helping us raise funds. Our arrangement with People’s Fundraising provided an online platform for donating directly to the fund with Gift Aid being automatically recovered.

 

An increase in the popularity of online shopping also helped to provide funds through Give as you Live, a free and easy way to raise funds for Thomas Marshall Education Fund, simply by shopping online. 

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Please take a little time and navigate through our website to learn about the background to the Charity, how we raised funds and how those funds helped to improve the lives of young people in Mozambique.