VTCT is a charitable organisation and its main activity as an awarding body is also its first charitable objective; to develop and provide high quality education and qualifications in the field of health and beauty and related disciplines.
However, VTCT also supports the health and beauty sector and under its charitable remit aims:
- to advance research and public knowledge in the fields of health and beauty and related disciplines and the impact and treatment of physical disfigurement;
- to aid the relief of sickness or poor health caused by physical disfigurement;
- to assist those with physical disfigurements, their families and carers to overcome any social, physical, emotional or other disadvantage.
VTCT has so far helped many charities and projects with grants ranging from £5,000 up to £2million that meet these charitable aims.
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SHAIR is an innovative project designed to train disadvantaged young people in Nairobi in Hairdressing. The Revlon Professional East Africa Academy teaches VTCT qualifications to young adults up to the equivalent of NVQ Level 2 in Hairdressing during the first year, and following 9 months are spent in a salon gaining practical experience. There is also the opportunity to progress to the equivalent of NVQ Level 3 on a day release basis.
This opportunity provides young people with a path out of poverty and a chance to obtain a life long career.
Association of Skin Camouflage
VTCT provided the British Association of Skin Camouflage with a grant to part-fund the republication its textbook “Cover, the principles and art of para-medical skin camouflage”. Published in October 2010, this book offers support for those with skin blemishes and also helps our centres teaching make-up and skin camouflage.
Facing the World
VTCT sponsors children from Vietnam, suffering from severe facial abnormalities to undergo radical craniofacial surgery in the UK. The families are so grateful for the opportunity for their child to have surgery to enable them to live a ‘normal’ life in Vietnam.
Over a four year period, VTCT has provided further funding so Facing the World can carry out training of personnel in the plastic surgery unit in Da Nang hospital in Vietnam.
VTCT also provided funding for surgical instruments.
WorldSkills UK and WorldSkills
VTCT is the sector sponsor, organises the beauty and related therapies competitions and provides additional training for WorldSkills UK. We also support the beauty and related therapies contenders for the international WorldSkills competitions.
WorldSkills UK competitions raise industry standards and encourage learners to perform to the best of their ability.
VTCT’s Charitable Giving will consider for grants.
Educational Giving
Educational Giving is broadly applied for by sponsoring organisations for use in supporting practitioners and student practitioners who without access to funding would be unable to access these experiences.
- Enhance the student experience;
- Raise aspirations and standards of practice;
- Retrain, either as a returner to the workforce or as a result of injury, illness or other circumstance resultant in the practitioner needing to leave the workforce;
- Support student practitioners who are ‘stranded’ part way through their qualification.
Disfigurement
The concept of disfigurement may be understood to include such areas as: burns; cleft lips and palates; skin cancers and melanomas; skin complaints such as eczema and psoriasis; scarring due to injuries; birth marks and other birth defects. This is not an exhaustive list.
- appointments for teaching and research in higher education;
- medical positions involved in the treatment and training of others in the specified fields
- training of other practitioners from the UK and abroad to enable the wider dissemination of therapies and treatments of those suffering disfigurement;
- provision of buildings in which dedicated work on disfigurement will be conducted;
- provision of non- clinical support; psycho-social type research into the effects of disfigurement and its treatment.
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