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The Humanitarian Aid
side of the charity survives solely on
fundraising and donations; convoys
always have to be self funded. Our
supporters work tirelessly to raise
money through ‘bucket collections’, quiz
nights, boot sales and all manner of
sponsored events. So many people and
groups from all ages and walks of life
help us raise money. We cannot name them
all but the following is a very small
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Children, staff,
families and friends of
St
Catherine’s Catholic School in
Littlehampton, West Sussex, raised
£500 in December 2005 to buy
Christmas presents for the children
living in the orphanages in Belarus. The
children raised the money by donating £3
for a paper present which they
decorated; the glittering, colourful and
eye-catching ‘presents’ were then
displayed on a tree at the school and
prizes given for the best entries. |
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Catherine Kelly
took part in the 5K
Christmas Cracker Chase to raise
money for the Prevention
Project. ”
Including Gift
Aid Catherine raised
£500”
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Andrew Bamford ran the
Bristol half marathon and raised
£750
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Newport Council
employee,
Brian Lovett ran the
London Marathon
and raised
£565. |
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Dave Proctor from Cardiff
ran the Cardiff
Marathon and Liz Wright
from Plymouth ran the
Cardiff half-marathon raising
£452 and £533. Liz
ran especially for equipping the
newly decorated
orphans’ unit in Borovliani. |
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A
sponsored abseil raised over
£1,200. One of the
participants was a youthful 59
year old teacher,
Paulette Hanscombe! |
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Clairvoyants,
Kay
Harding and
Jan Lewis
have raised a total of
£3,205.53
from their ‘entertainment evenings’. |
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Cardiff Council's
Community Learning Service collected
pretty outfits for the girls at
Dzhordina orphanage to wear on special
occasions while Adult and Community
Centres raised funds by selling amber
jewellery and Matryoshkas (dolls). |
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The Ladies' Group at St
Michael's Church, Tongwynlais,
continues to fund raise and to collect
toiletries, underwear, hats scarves and
gloves and Christmas presents for the
children in ‘our’ orphanages. |
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Val Burt has
almost developed a Plymouth
'branch' of the charity through
her efforts. She has raised over
£1600 through selling
Matryoshkas and amber jewellery
and has collected party dresses
as well as clothes for our
Borovliani Centre. |
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A talk to
Coryton
Ladies Group raised
£456
in just over an hour. We are sure that
this was due to the excellent impression
made by
David
Jones and
Ashley
Molloy, 2 of the boys from
Llanrumney High School who assisted in
giving the talk. |
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Ashley and
David have also raised funds
by cleaning cars and by
decorating an office for the
local
Healthy Living Centre for
which they were paid
£500. |
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During their
trip to Germany the six boys did
a
presentation to members of the
Royal Army Medical Corps and
the result of this was a
donation of
£546.67. |
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Pensioner
Vi Sainty of Countisbury
Residential Home shaved her head
and raised
£253.66. |
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Joan Mears, a
pensioner in her eighties, has been
sponsoring a child since 2001.
Joan’s
£10 per
month has added up over the years.
Joan also sends presents bringing joy to
many. |
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Sixteen year
olds
Karl Sprason and David
Wright ‘persuaded charity
director,
Val Cousins to join them on
a sponsored parachute jump. The
team raised
£1,700. As well as
fundraising, Val found it
hair-raising and has refused to
ever again join the young people
on any event that involves going
more than 6 inches off the
floor! |
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Pupils at
Pen-y-Bryn Primary School,
Llanrumney, Cardiff adopted ‘Leaves of
Hope’ as it’s charity for the year. As
well as raising enough money to buy
every child at the Zhordina
Orphanage a personal Christmas present,
which they then wrapped, they went on to
raise a further £1,000 |
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Over
£2,000
from collections and events
organised by
church
congregations in West Sussex |
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Visit our Web site
http://www.leaves-of-hope.co.uk
where
you can make a donation on line
or log on to
www.justgiving.com/leavesofhope/donate
where
you can
organise a fundraising event of your
own. |
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