Impact you can feel.

Trade over aid.

Skills, enterprise and income. Not charity. Here's where it's happening, and where it started.

Our work, on the map.

Tap a place. We add every new project here as it happens.

Ghana · Past + active

Water, food, education and makers

  • 5Mgallons of water the filters we distributed can clean, for marginalised communities
  • 1student funded through nursing school. Emmanuel is now a nurse
  • ✦Laptops for a school, and entrepreneurship training for women through Amaya for Africa
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Kenya · Active

Maasai digital hub

  • 20computers, plus a projector, sound system and a year of internet
  • 750+students at the school with the IT hut, plus the local Maasai community
  • 6months of daily meals before and after school, through a club run by Beatrice, a local entrepreneur
  • ✦Youth and artisans now learning to sell online
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Funamos · Active

Funamos, Ovejas

  • 200+children in the Funamos football and education programme
  • 300Christmas presents over two years
  • £1,000towards joining the Liga de Fútbol de Sucre, the first community club from Ovejas ever to get there. Their digital products are being built to keep them there
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Palenque · Active

San Basilio de Palenque

  • ✦Recipes and stories with the Simarra family kitchen
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Atánquez · Active

Atánquez, Sierra Nevada

  • ✦Sierra Nevada weaving: an online course with real fique, being made with the weavers
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Ecuador · Active

Amarun Pakcha

  • ✦Water distribution for birds
  • ✦Camera traps to watch over the forest
  • ✦Community-led tourism, food and a recipe book with Kichwa families
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United Kingdom · Base

Home of Elev-Eight

  • ✦Headquarters of Elev-Eight Life CIC and the School of Elevation
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Spain · Partners

Partners and mentors

  • ✦Partner organisations, interns and mentors helping design and develop our projects
Canada · Partners

Interns and partners

  • 10interns gaining experience through real global projects
5M

gallons of water our filters can clean, Ghana

300+

children fed for six months

750+

students with an IT hut, Kenya

11+

communities engaged

Historical figures from our early projects, not an audited total. From 2027 we report sales and income per community.

Ghana, 2023

Where it started.

We started by giving. Water, food and a school in Ghana, the charity way. We also picked some of the wrong partners. Some of it worked, some of it didn't, and we learned why.

So in 2026 we launched the School of Elevation. We only invest in people who invest in themselves, and the School is the process: learn the skills, build something real, and keep showing up for it.

Now it's community-led startups, so a whole community can back itself.

How the circle works.

01

Find

Communities with purpose, drive and their own idea. We don't parachute in.

02

Build

Built together: the product, the journey, the shop, the bookings.

03

Amplify

Customers, partners and markets. What works gets taken further.

04

Hand over

Skills through the School of Elevation. They run it. They own it.

Theirs.

Income they own

Every journey, gift and product builds income the community owns, and they decide how to use it.

Next.

The next community

What we earn trains and launches the next community business.

When one person gains access, a whole community elevates.

Shop. Travel. Partner. Fund. Every action builds skills, income and opportunity.

Follow the thread

  1. See the impact
  2. Fund the next startup
  3. Watch it walk on its own