The Peter Trust

The Peter Trust was formally registered by the Charity Commission for England and Wales on March 31st 2000. Its Declaration of Trust had been made in the December of 1999, the year when the people of East Timor became an Independent nation following upon a Referendum supervised by the United Nations in which the great majority had voted for this outcome.

The Trust was established to raise funds in support of projects in health, education, capacity building. and income generation in one of poorest countries in the world, and the poorest in SE Asia. The name of the Trust evokes this purpose - Provision for East Timorese Education and Relief (P.E.T.E.R).

The Trust has several agents in full time residence in East Timor who facilitate applications for funding and disbursals to projects according to the decisions of the Trustees.

The Trustees are kept abreast of developments by information accessible through:
The Non-Governmental Organisation East Timor Action Network (ETAN) - see >https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/east-timor< ;
East Timorese expatriates resident in the UK;
Email correspondence and the use of other digital media undertaken by the Secretary with Trust Agents and Beneficiaries in East Timor;
Via Reports presented to the Trustees on the visits of their Members to the Territory.

The Trustees engage in disseminating information about the impoverished circumstances of the people of East Timor by addressing public gatherings to which they have been invited and via the Peter Trust Newsletter East Timor Update which is published twice yearly.

The Peter Trust website >thepetertrust.org.uk< is updated whenever necessary to include the wide-ranging and ongoing work which is currently being supported for the benefit of the people of East Timor in their home country and abroad.

An Annual Report is submitted to the Charities Commission and is accessible on its website > https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/charity-commission.