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10 April 2010
Why not hold a fundraising event of your own? We'd love to help you organise your event and we can provide you with posters, sponsorship forms, a justgiving website and ideas for challenges.
For some fundraising ideas click here. Call Amy or Emma on 0115 958 48 76 for a helping hand.
Carol Halton and Jon Newby
Carol, who works in the charity's UK office, and Jon, along with some friends, are running the Robin Hood Half Marathon around Nottingham on Sunday 12th September 2010. We hope that the training is going well for them and wish them luck for the run.
If you want to help motivate them, sponsor them on their Justgiving page by clicking here.
Tara Mallet
Tara participated in the London Triathlon in August 2010 and raised a fantastic £590 for EFTC! A big thank you from everyone at EFTC for your achievement. Tara has been a child sponsor and a supporter of EFTC for several years. After completing the event, Tara said "I actually really enjoyed it!! Apart from the run, I had nothing left for it and basically crawled 10k, but I did it!"
To sponsor her go to her Justgiving page at http://www.justgiving.com/Tara-Mallett
Tim Lloyd
Tim was part of a team that cycled an enduring 1,000 miles from Bilbao, Northern Spain to Boughton, Chester during July 2010. Tim, a professional photographer, is a friend of Amy Holly, who works for the charity, and he finally made it to Guatemala during the disruption caused by the Icelandic volcano in April 2010, as his flight home from Los Angeles was cancelled. Visiting the project inspired Tim to take on this challenge and raise money for EFTC - fantastic news!
Click on http://www.fourbikesandabaguette.com/2010/07/31/normandy/ to read a blog of their trip.
His Justgiving page is http://www.justgiving.com/bilbaotoboughton.
Claire Bramley
Claire is planning to cycle Coast to Coast in the UK during the Summer of 2010. Claire became involved with the Foundation in 2009 when she first became a sponsor and she was inspired to arrange her own physical challenge after hearing about the 2010 Volcano trip.
Ian & Caroline Burgess and Beth Emmence
In May 2010, Ian, Caroline and Beth walked the South Downs Way - a 100 mile walk from Winchester to Eastbourne. They raised in the region of £1,750 and our thanks go to them for this excellent effort. They got involved with the Foundation after Ian's son, Dan, volunteered at the project in Guatemala in 2009 and are incredibly keen to visit the project themselves. Click here to read about their walk.
Janet Smith and Clare McMenamin
Janet and Clare held a fundraising girls' night in March 2010. Janet opened up her house to friends and supporters of the charity and provided delicious food, champagne and great company! Each of the attendees put £15 in the pot and also bought raffle tickets. The event raised £750 and everyone had a great evening.
Sandra Matz
In June 2009, Sandra Matz volunteered for a couple of weeks at our project in Guatemala and was so taken with the children she decided to go home and try and raise some money.
Sandra, who is a psychology student, visited a school over in Germany (Markgräfler Gymnasium Müllheim) and along with 14 students; held a lottery, walked through their local town collecting money and also sold cakes!! Whilst over in Guatemala Sandra also bought a few bags, bookmarks, balls etc from the local Antigua market and sold these and has since donated a total of €1,300 to EFTC!!
Kevin McMenamin's Coast to Coast Bike Ride
Charity Trustee 'Kev Mac' completed an arduous 3 day bicycle journey across the UK to raise much needed funds for the charity in June 2009. This was a massive challenge and we can't thank Kevin enough for taking this on.
Nikki McKay's Arts Evening
EFTC supporter and local artist Nikki McKay showcased her most recent paintings at Newark Town Hall and provided an evening of live dance performance and live music on June 18th 2009. One of Nikki's fabulous paintings was auctioned on the night and the proceeds went to EFTC. Thanks Nikki!
Laura Bunt & Iain Macrury tie the knot...
Laura Bunt has been helping EFTC with translating some of our children's letters for a while now. Laura and Iain, instead of having a wedding gift list have very kindly asked for donations to EFTC.
They got married on Saturday, 22nd of August 2009 at Achnargairn House, a stunning Victorian-era mansion in the Scottish Highlands. For more information click on the link below;
http://iainandlaura.com/index.cfm?fa=gift
Our heartfelt thanks go to Laura and Iain for this incredibly generous gesture and we wish them all happiness in the world for their future together.
Keith Berry's Annual 10k Run
Keith Berry successfully ran the Whitstable 10k again in 2009 and raised £550 for EFTC.
Keith's time of 56 minutes was two minutes faster than the year before!!
Keith said "from the photo which was taken near the end, you can see what an effort it was and I might consider organising a golf day next year instead! I trained especially hard this year and was determined to beat both the time and the £400 raised in 2008. All through the training I had it in my mind that the work Education for the Children does makes such a difference to lives that I just had to keep going.”
Keith along with his church group, St Alphege Seasalter, are huge supporters of the charity. Not only do they organise regular fundraisers and sponsor 2 children, they have also raised enough money to build 3 houses for 3 of our poorest family's. Keith and Vince Campbell visited our project in Guatemala in October 2009 and were able to see the houses they so generously raised money to build, both are keen to go back!Thank you again to Keith and St Alphege Seasalter Church for their support and kindness.
Helen's Fundraising Dinner
Helen Malanaphy got involved with the Foundation when she visited the project as a long term volunteer in September 2008. Helen has been a passionate supporter and fundraiser ever since! On Sunday 26th April 2009, Helen organised a fundraising dinner at the fantastic Marloes Restaurant in Newcastle under Lyme, near Stoke on Trent. All of the staff worked for free, while Helen, her brother Paul (Head Chef at Marloes) and his wife Claire (Head of Marloes Restaurant) paid for the food out of their own pockets... the guests all paid full price for a delicious 3 course Christmas style dinner and all of the money went directly to the charity.
This was a brilliant effort and raised a huge £813.50 for the Foundation.
Thank you to Helen, Paul, Claire, Ann, Ben, Natalie and Fran for all their hard work.
Raúl's Birthday Bash
It was Raúl Webb's 1st birthday party on 13th September 2008 and his parents Richard and Mandy Webb asked his guests to donate to EFTC instead of buying him birthday presents.
We loved this idea and can't thank the Webb's enough for their generosity.
Happy Birthday Raúl and thanks for helping the children of Guatemala.
Jason's Marathon
On Sunday 14th September 2008 Jason Campbell ran the Nottingham Half Marathon for the second year running.
This time he raised over £600! Well done Jason!
The Big Ben Nevis Challenge
On May 25th 2008 Amy Holly, Christine Holly and Dan McKay embarked on a trek up Ben Nevis to raise money for EFTC. The group travelled up to Ben Nevis, in the North West of Scotland due to its fame as the UK’s highest mountain. With great weather, determination, and no expertise whatsoever, they reached the 1344 metre summit after around five hours of hiking. After three and a half more hours to get back down, the Ben Nevis Inn was a welcome sight, and the whisky was well deserved. The group raised a brilliant £700.
The Tour de France Challenge
On June 28th 2007 four mad fools left Nottingham to ride the entire route of the 2007 Tour de France in the same number of days as the professionals. Matt Denman, Mark Wakeling, Amy Smith & Kyle Yost all cycled over 2000 miles in 3 weeks. On Sunday 22nd July Letour2007 was completed safely and with no failed doping controls, missed tests or any other form of suspicion swirling around the riders. They almost certainly would have failed tests for excessive levels of fresh baguette sandwiches, pain-au-chocolate and coke, but luckily the UCI don't test for these yet!!
Matt and Mark between them managed to raise £10,715 for Education For The Children, you can read all about their efforts here.