About us | Who we are | What we do
‘Sharing Life Trust’ is a UK registered charity, set up by a small group of people in South East Oxfordshire who have a passion for community where those who have and can will share their time, energy skills and resources with those who have little and could use some help.
Our vision has both a local and global dimension. Our local expression is called Sharing Life Network, and our global connections are facilitated through Sharing Life International. More background on these can be found on the Who we are and What we do sections below. For a better idea of what Sharing Life is doing, click on the Projects link above.
We are a group of volunteers and supporters who provide help for people who are struggling with life. We believe that everyone is of equal value, and so Sharing Life Trust acts as a facilitator and catalyst for change by linking those who have a need with those who are able to help meet it. Through this we are helping to build community and improve the quality of life for all those involved. So really, ‘we’ is all of us: helper and helped, together.
These community relationships are our life-blood, and although they clearly have a local relevance, we are finding that as we encounter people from other countries and cultures who often have more obvious needs, we are drawn into their extended communities.
In the local area, our values are expressed through ‘Sharing Life Network’.
This support takes many forms: we can provide a range of counselling services, we offer a furniture and appliance exchange service, help with transport through ‘Sharing Life Lifts’, home support through cooking meals or doing maintenance work. Anything that we would wish someone would do for us if or when we are in need. You can see more about ‘Sharing Life Network’ by following this link: Sharing Life Network.
Going global, ‘Sharing Life International’ reflects our more extended community relationships. We have friends working in parts of the world where people are living on less than a dollar a day. Working through these friends, we are able to identify various community projects and raise funding for them through our local network. We currently are involved in East Africa and in Calcutta, India; we also have an opportunity in West Africa which we hope to develop shortly. More details via this link: Sharing Life International.