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About The Bentham Foundation

The Bentham Foundation was inspired by Mick Bentham’s initial visit to Nepal in 2010. Seeing the underprivileged conditions of the local children and the lack of fresh drinking water throughout the country, Mick became passionate about wanting to make a difference.

The Bentham Foundation is a not-for-profit, public ancillary fund, deductible gift recipient (DGR) and is registered with the Office of Fair Trading. The foundation has also been granted income tax exemption as a charitable institution by the Australian Tax Office.

It was established in 2012 by Michael Bentham, owner and director of Certified Roofing Pty Ltd. The establishment of the Bentham Foundation was inspired by Mick’s initial visit to Nepal in 2010. Seeing the underprivileged conditions of the local children and the lack of fresh drinking water throughout the country, Mick became passionate about wanting to make a difference.

The Bentham Foundation has three major objectives in Nepal:

Provide clean water: We build wells to give villages clean drinking water through our partnership with the SkyJuice Foundation. SkyJuice is an Australian based foundation that's a world leader in providing low-cost, sustainable safe water solutions for humanitarian projects. It utilises a unique and proven ultra filtration technology that makes otherwise undrinkable water clean and safe.

Provide funding to meet the costs of sponsoring 29 children of the Chepang community. These children have been chosen from those at risk or orphaned with the aim of assisting with education, food and emotional wellbeing.

Our Humanitarian Objectives:

  • To provide safe drinking water to disadvantaged communities
  • To build a relationship and partner with the local communities
  • To provide training and employment to local Nepalese to install these filtration systems
  • To help prevent skin diseases and other water born medical conditions including helping to reduce the infant mortality rate by reducing infant diarrhoea in these villages.

Meet our Team of Directors

Mick Bentham: Founder and CEO

Mick Bentham is the founder of “The Bentham Foundation” and Managing Director for Certified Roofing & Makesafe Tarping. Both companies well known for its excellence and Biblical approach in doing business.

Mick has a real passion for kingdom businesses. He coaches and mentors people on how to implement biblical principles into their business and speaks at venues encouraging all business owners to dedicate their business to glorify God.

Back in 2010 Mick visited several areas of Nepal and saw first-hand how the people lived. With very poor water quality, poor living conditions and malnourished children Mick was compelled to do something and make a difference in some way.

Mick and his wife Ruth have 4 children Chloe, Jamie, Rachel and Jeremiah.

Jake Smith

Jake-SmithJake Smith is a Marriage Celebrant and ordained pastor. He annually leads over 200 weddings and funerals.
He has previously owned and managed several businesses and a ministry to people in business. He has also overseen an overseas rescue home funded by Australian sponsorship programs.
Jake is married to Leone and they have been blessed with two beautiful daughters.

Lynne Gread

Lynne is an experienced accountant and tax agent having worked in the accounting industry assisting all types of businesses for over 30 years. Lynne has been associated with the not for profit sector for many years and being family minded, is dedicated to improving the quality of life for families in poverty stricken communities. She is married to her wonderful husband John, has 2 children and 4 grandchildren.

Wes Leake

Wes-LeakeWes Leake’s passion is to see kingdom businesses raised up, established and supported in Australia and worldwide. He is very conscious that a new day has dawned in terms of God’s people being equipped to serve God where they are, the marketplace.

Professionally Wes is a CPA and has held positions with Guide Dogs Queensland, Scripture Union Queensland and was the founding Australian Director for Crown Financial Ministries, Willow Creek Australia and Scripture Union.

Wes is the CEO of Business Blessings which offers mentorship and coaching though all aspects of business. He is married to Pam and has four children, Johanna, Bethany, Samuel & Elijah.