Read on to find out about the impact of your donations in 2025! The Uphill Trust celebrated its 10th birthday at the start of his year and we hired a drone to capture the infrastructure developments of the past decade. Since this picture was taken in February 2025, a vocational skills classroom has been added […]
Even though I’m now a retired dentist, after a career spanning 40 years it is quite difficult not to find myself thinking of teeth and oral hygiene. In 2019, before I stepped away from the chair, I was part of the Dentaid team of volunteer dental professionals on the first of my three professional visits […]
Read on to hear about the impact of your donations in 2024! It’s been a good year for Uphill Junior School. After 10 years of building, box ticking, and official inspection visits, the school has been awarded fully registered status as a Private Educational Institution in Uganda. As you can see below, Headteacher Michael and […]
As the 2024 Paralympics burst into life in Paris, Uphill minds and memories turn to the Trust’s very own Paralympic athlete, Danny Furey. Danny competed in the Seoul games in 1988, and was a supporter of the Trust from the very start. Though he passed away in 2021 aged 71, he comes to mind regularly […]
Though we’re not the only species on earth to use tools, you can’t deny that we’re better at it than any of the others. Our modern life would be impossible without them. So, if you are a young Ugandan, access to tools and the training in how to use them will be a necessity for […]
A BIG UPHILL THANK YOU TO ALL OUR DONORS! 2023 has been a more ‘normal’ year for the staff, children and parents of Uphill Junior School, although the cost of living crisis that is biting the world over has hit rural Ugandans hard. The price of food staples such as maize, beans, matoke (savoury banana) […]
Our early visits to Uphill revealed the poor sanitation and lack of reliable clean water that are common across rural areas of Uganda. With a dentist as one of our trustees, improving health and hygiene arrangements for the school were high on our agenda. Goal 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable […]
It was fantastic to be ‘back to normal’ in 2022, with two trustee visits to Uganda and plenty of in person fundraising. Our Annual Report has been completed and you can find it, along with all the reports from 2015 onwards, here: Our Mission. For those who prefer a visual overview, you can click on […]
A Big Uphill Thank You to All Our Donors! It’s been back to business at Uphill Junior School in 2022, much to the relief of all of us, both in Uganda and at the Trust’s HQ in Scotland. The school roll rapidly climbed to over 300 children and, when we visited in February, it was […]
Partnerships between business and charity can be very beneficial for both parties. Meet some of our business partners and find out why they were inspired to help. Coach Cat Cripps “The story of the Uphill Trust is truly remarkable – from a series of chance encounters to the incredible progress that has been made to […]
At the end of January each year we pinch ourselves to check that we are not dreaming – has another year gone past already? Oh yes, it has! The past 12 months have zoomed by and now The Uphill Trust is six years old! 2020 was a very odd year for everyone involved in the […]
COVID 19 Food Crisis Uphill Junior School has been closed due to the COVID 19 pandemic since 20 March 2020 and, as in the UK, the Ugandan lockdown has been extended – with a strict travel restrictions and a night-time curfew in place. This is causing great hardship across Uganda. Even those who can are […]
With COVID 19 lockdown measures firmly in place in the UK and now also in Uganda, we feel it is important to let you know what is happening at The Uphill Trust and Uphill Junior School. Trust News You may have heard that many charities have been badly affected by the huge downturn in income […]
Around the world, girls and women resort to using rags, mattress stuffing, banana leaves, feathers, and even cow dung to manage their menstruation. Having access to washable sanitary pads, along with private washing facilities and targeted education for both girls and boys, is essential for the dignity of girls and women and helps to keep […]
Round and round, slowly, one tooth at a time… the oral hygiene message given to the kids at Uphill during my Dentaid trip in late October 2019 to make sure that they all have gleaming smiles. More than 30 children with toothache were seen by the Dentaid team on the day we visited the school […]
Do you remember learning how to knit? Knit one, purl one, drop several and invent a few… As an avid knitter since a child, having learnt to knit from my Mum, I couldn’t resist the chance to share my knowledge of knitting with the kids and teachers at Uphill. A request on Facebook at the […]
Whenever I say I am going to visit Uganda for the Uphill Trust, those who know my profession immediately say, “Ah, you’ll be going to look after their teeth.” In fact, as we have a school to build, the pupils’ dental health is only a very small part of my role as a charity trustee […]
Sometimes it’s the simple things that bring the greatest rewards. As there is no electrical power at Uphill (yet) and it was the rainy season, the kids have very little to do during break times. It was a great fun to show them a few of the “low tech games” of my childhood. When I […]
We were very privileged to introduce independent film maker and photographer Geraint Hill to Uphill Junior School during our recent trustee visit. By happy coincidence Geraint was staying in Fort Portal whilst we were there over the Easter period and an exchange of emails resulted in a meeting over coffee, a day at the Uphill, […]
We are hugely grateful to Phil Horne of Edinburgh-based e-business promotion for donating the considerable time and expertise of his team that has resulted in the new website for The Uphill Trust that you see today. As with so much of the support we receive, personal contacts and networking were key to the offer to […]
