Christian
Fund Raising, Breaks & Gap Year
Ideas
Christian
projects at home and abroad. For the
young and young at heart 16 -70 (and more).
You may
find it helpful to read the talk given by Liz
Tilley
Sophie
Revess undertook a project (2005) with Soap Box in
Jack Lewis,
shall we say of more mature years, is an enthusiastic supporter of Task Force Romania,
and each year in London helps with Crisis
at Christmas.
Barbara
Barter recently visited
Charlotte
Richards can help you look at spending time as a Gap Year with World
Horizons, or for a shorter period.
One of the
previous Gap Year students was Alex Ewart, who tragically drowned in Nepal,
whose Fund (The
Alexander Ewart Memorial Fund) is now doing great things in that
country. You may wish to read the The Alex
Diaries, copies of which are available from our Bookstall. It is planned for U-†urn to undertake a two week trip to
Craig Taylor has been part of U-†urn and led the music at
youth services; he is currently studying at a University in
You may like to try DNA, which is a year of Christian discipleship and service. It includes serving at events such as Spring Harvest with the children and has an optional mission track where students can go away for 3 months overseas. Jon Noble did it last year and it was an amazing experience. It was also part of how he was led to work with the young people in Wonersh. The address is http://www.dna-uk.org/
Mission
Direct is enables mission volunteers to travel and bring practical help to
areas of desperate need. It is supported
by Harriet & Molly Foges who have both spent time with the charity recently
in
Retrak
helps street children in Africa, including
SPONSORSHIP
Church members are often happy to sponsor & support
individuals who raise money for charity, especially those which are Christian
based. If you are considering looking
for sponsorship you may wish to consider using www.justgiving.com to take out all the
hassle of gathering up the money and getting the tax back; they automatically
add 28% to the donation when it is eligible for Gift Aid. They are a
Al and Bex Metcalfe are having another go at the 2008 Keswich ½ marathon.: If you want to see how they got on in 2007 or want to support them this year check out http://www.justgiving.com:80/alandbex. They really appreciate all those who have sent money/gone online. Afrinspire use the money in a number of ways which they really hope to get out next year to visit... one is a women's enterprise development scheme where a loan would be made to women who will be trained in skills so they are able to build a business and thus make money for their family.... in time their loan will be repaid back to Afrinspire - who can then look at other initiatives to employ the funds. Another use is that there is a really great training centre (that Al visited last year) who want to put on more training for local people/projects (in areas such as budget management, funding proposal writing etc) and our funds will be used to fund local individuals who run projects locally in Uganda and Rwanda - these skills will benefit their projects and their communities. If you would like to know more - have a look at www.afrinspire.org.uk for more information on the organisation. As for these proposals - there may be more specific projects that may be able to use the money - however these are the top of the list at the moment.
On 25th May 2008 Mandy
MacVean is undertaking the YMCA Y2½
Sponsored Walk in aid if The Life Change Fund. Join a group from
Consider
sponsoring a child trough Compassion
; Anne Heini-Charmichael who now works for Compassion has just returned from