Our History
How did it start?
In 2015 Tess and the then named ‘Dream Team’ were out in Romania distributing aid. Over dinner and a few drinks at the end of the trip it was decided a charity could be started offering grants to young uk students to volunteer overseas in Europe’s poorest country, Moldova. We named it our Youth Development Project believing by providing them the opportunity to “give back”, they could develop key skills that would prepare them for the working world. It was a success and our youth volunteers also benefited from improved relationships with peers and adults, improved behaviour and management of emotions, increase in their self-esteem and empathy.
On the outbreak of Covid 19, The Little Edi Foundation had to move all projects to the UK and our Chelmsford, Essex based projects were born.
To this day with the help of very dedicated Trustees and Volunteers the charity grows and goes from strength to strength.
Why the name Little Edi Foundation
Many ago the Founder and President Tess Giggs when to Romania with local missionaries from her church to hand out Christmas Shoeboxes to poor families in the village of Gilau, while she was there she was introduced to a family with a very sick little boy called Edi, he had meningitis and the family could not afford to keep him in hospital and he would have to return home. Tess who had suffered with Meningitis herself offered to sponsor the family and pay their medical fees to help save Edi’s life.
Teresa Griggs
Sarah Bonaney
Joshua Brown
Sheryl Perry
Joe Land
The Trustees
The Little Edi Team are a team of unpaid Volunteers, their time and knowledge comes at no expense to the charity, all the donations and funds raised go straight to the charity.
They take responsibility for using the resources efficiently, achieving measurable results and being accountable to the supporters, partners, people, and most of all, the children and communities with whom the charity work with.
