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August 2010 Two Reading Supervets Prepare for Feed The Children’s Peppard 10K Roy MacNeil and Dr Peter White are two outstanding local athletes who share several things in common. Worried about getting unfit and putting on weight, both took up running relatively late in life, when they were aged 48... |
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August 2010 Book Sale Bucks for Feed The Children (UK) The open-air books sale outside the Feed The Children (UK)’s warehouse and office last Friday (30th July) brought much-needed funds to the Twyford-based charity... |
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August 2010 Unexpected Treasure? Now’s the time to start searching for antiques in your attic, house, or even your shed and garage, for you could soon be in for a surprise Autumn windfall! Experts from the famous auction house Bonhams are inviting people to a charity antiques valuation day. Each item can be valued for only £2 with proceeds being donated to children’s charity Feed The Children (UK) based in Twyford, Berks... |
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June 2010 DIGGING DEEP FOR CHARITY 29-year-old Daniel Brinkies from Shinfield is doing bucket loads of training in his bid to achieve a life’s time ambition to run in next year’s Virgin London Marathon for Feed The Children (UK). Danny, the owner of locally based Solid Construction Groundworks, is training hard to build a firm foundation for the marathon... |
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June 2010 HELP RAISE MUCH NEEDED CASH FOR FEED THE CHILDREN IN THIS YEAR’S PEPPARD RUN/RACE Keen runners, father and son, Tom and 13-year old Harvey Jensen, from Reading are taking part again in this year’s Feed The Children (UK)’s Samuel Hood Memorial 10K Peppard Fun Run/7K Walk in Rotherfield, Peppard, Oxon.... |
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May 2010 BABY GOAT FOR AN OLD GOAT?Fathers are wonderful but coming up with something different to give them for Fathers’ Day can test even the most devoted children. Feed The Children (UK) has some novel, worthwhile presents to give Dad on his special day. Two of the most unusual are a goat or a piglet and what’s more, Dad doesn’t even have to look after them... |
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May 2010 SAVING BABY ALLEN Just £2.50 was enough to save the life of baby Allen who lives in the Kiandutu slum, north of Nairobi. Allen was discovered on a visit by Feed The Children (UK)’s, CEO, Brian Main to Kenya, who immediately got aid to him. Without Brian’s intervention Allen would not have lasted two weeks. Instead within two weeks Allen was a healthy, bouncy baby, with a lovely smile and sparkly eyes... |
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May 2010
ENTER THE PEPPARD WALK/RUN AND RAISE MUCH NEEDED CASH FOR FEED THE CHILDREN
Belinda Tull (39) from South Stoke, Oxfordshire is encouraging everyone to join her in this year’s Feed The Children (UK)’s Samuel Hood Memorial 10K Peppard Fun Run/7K Walk in Rotherfield, Peppard, Oxon. The annual event takes place on Sunday 5th September... |
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April 2010
GROCERIES DONATED TO FEED THE CHILDREN (UK) HELPS LADIES LOSE WEIGHT AND KEEP FITA fantastic 64 stone and 7lbs of non-perishable groceries have been donated to Feed The Children (UK) as part of a novel membership drive by Curves Gyms in Hall Green and Bromsgrove. Owner, David Yli-Juuti, decided to waive the new member signing up fee to his ladies gym clubs in Bromsgrove and Hall Green in return for a donation of a bag of non-perishable groceries to Feed The Children.... |
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March 2010
Help Beat the Jigger with Feed The Children! The female sand flea (Tunga Penetrans), which is also known as a jigger in Uganda, is causing untold suffering to children. You have a chance to help Feed The Children (UK) stamp out this pain in the foot simply by taking a stroll in the country... |
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March 2010
Wellie Walk at Westonbirt for Feed The Children!
The grounds of the beautiful Westonbirt National Arboretum, Near Tetbury, Gloucestershire is the location for a 5km sponsored walk on Sunday 25th April 2010 at 11.30 a.m. So put some wellie into it, pull on your Wellingtons, and join in the fun to raise money for Feed The Children (UK). As well as getting some fresh air and exercise among the trees, you can even donate your boots (or any wellies) to a good cause! |
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March 2010
Let’s Get Quacking!
Thousands of ducks will be racing along the River Severn at the Lenchford Inn at Shrawley, Worcestershire (WR6 6TB) on Monday 5th April 2010 to raise money for Feed The Children (UK). The children’s charity is inviting people to join in the Duck Race at 3pm on Easter Monday by sponsoring a duck for just £2 to support the charity and be in with a chance of winning some great prizes. |
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February 2010
COLESHILL HEATH SCHOOL SUPPORT BREAKFAST2LIVE
Pupils and staff at Coleshill Heath School (Infant School Kitchen), Marlene Croft took part in this year’s Feed The Children (UK)’s Breakfast2Live campaign in a big way. Starting at 8.20am and finishing at 10am on Friday 26th February they enhanced their normal breakfast club by putting on extra choices of egg toasties, bacon sandwiches, breakfast slice, toast, orange juice, apple juice and milk so that the whole school could enter into the spirit of the event... |
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February 2010
READING HOTELS SUPPORT BREAKFAST2LIVE
Four major Reading town centre venues have signed up to support Twyford-based Feed The Children (UK) in their Breakfast2Live campaign. The four, all owned by Nilvip Holdings Limited, are:
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February 2010
PANDILLA’S BREAKFAST2LIVE
Customers of Pandilla Café, Crockhamwell Road in Woodley (0118 969 7897) are really entering into the spirit of this year’s Feed The Children (UK)’s Breakfast2Live campaign. All during the week Monday 22nd February to Sunday 28th February the café will be donating 20% of their breakfast sales to the charity. Each breakfast costs £4.35 and so 87 pence from each will go to help feed the vulnerable children that Feed The Children supports... |
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February 2010
BREAKFAST2LIVE AT NEWTOWN PRIMARY SCHOOL
Pupils at Newtown Primary School in Anne Close, West Bromwich really entered into the spirit of this year’s Feed The Children (UK)’s Breakfast2Live campaign in a big way. The culmination of their fundraising was on Thursday 25th February when they held an all day Breakfast Event in the Community Learning Centre adjacent to the school... |
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February 2010
BOWLED OVER FOR BREAKFAST2LIVE
The Hollywood Bowl in Bracknell is looking to strike it lucky for children’s charity Feed The Children (UK) with their Breakfast2Live campaign. The Bracknell based Bowling is going to hold not one but two Breakfast2Live events to support the Twyford-based charity... |
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November 2009
“Breakfast2Live” has gone Live
Feed The Children (UK)’s new Breakfast2Live website will help you save lives. The website has been specially created so that all the information concerning the appeal, which runs from Monday 22nd February to Sunday 28th February 2010, can be found in one place... |
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November 2009
Wellie Competition Winners
Congratulations to Solomon & Seren (3-5 years), Libby, Amy & Lily (6-8 years), Kirsten, Bryce and Hannah (9-11 years) for winning Feed The Children (UK)’s Primary Schools’ Wellie Competition. Our collage shows some of the wonderful entries that we received...
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October 2009Wonderful Feed The Children (UK) VolunteersBattle through the Storms and raise £400
When Feed The Children (UK) regional manager, Gill Edwards, booked a place at the recent Celtic Winter Fayre in Llandudno she had no idea what the elements would have in store. Although prepared for it to be a little cold, as it was an outdoor event held in November, no one could have foreseen the torrential rain and gale force winds that battered the coastal resort throughout the whole five days of the event. |
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October 2009
FEED THE CHILDREN’S SHOEBOX APPEAL
Cubs and Beavers from St. James’ Church Wollaston, got their Christmas shopping off to an early start this year, when they supported Feed The Children (UK)’s Education Shoebox Appeal. The charity is sending education aid to some of the World’s poorest children by making up Education Shoe Boxes and they need lots of help... |
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October 2009
GARDEN CENTRE SUPPORT FOR FEED THE CHILDREN
Feed The Children (UK) volunteers, Pat Bowcroft and Claire Edwards, supported the charity’s fundraising manager, Gill Edwards, when the Caerphilly Garden Centre invited the charity to attend their Wildlife Weekend on 24th/25th October... |
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October 2009
HARVEST FESTIVAL AT GREAT KINGSHILL SCHOOL
BIG-hearted pupils at Great Kingshill School in Cryers Hill Road, High Wycombe have donated dozens of packets of food to help poor and hungry children in the world this harvest. Kind youngsters at the school handed over pasta, rice and dried fruit to support Feed The Children (UK) on Friday, 16th October... |
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October 2009
GINNY WINS THE CUP
Ginny Foley from Earley is celebrating having won the BookRabbit.com trophy for raising the most sponsorship money for Feed The Children (UK) when she took part in the Samuel Hood Memorial 10K Peppard Fun Run/7K Walk in Rotherfield, Peppard, Oxon recently. Over 300 people registered to run or walk in the annual event and Ginny raised £150... |
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October 2009
How Eating Breakfast Can Save Another’s Life
Fancy eating a hearty breakfast to save someone else’s life? That’s just what UK charity Feed The Children (UK) is asking people to sign up to in their ‘Breakfast2Live’ campaign. Cafes, restaurants, schools, colleges, businesses and people at home are being asked to get involved by staging breakfast events during the week Monday 22nd February to Sunday 28th February 2010 to raise money for the charity’s life saving projects in developing countries and breakfast clubs in this country.
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October 2009 ALDRYNGTON PRIMARY SCHOOL’S HARVEST FESTIVAL
Starving children in Africa will be able to enjoy plenty of food thanks to the generosity of pupils at Aldryngton Primary School in Silverdale Road, Earley. Youngsters kindly donated packs of food to help support Feed The Children (UK) and the Churches in Reading Drop-in Centre. They handed over the goods at a special harvest assembly where they heard about the work of both good causes on Tuesday, October 15... |
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October 2009
HARVEST FESTIVAL IN TILEHURST
Kind-hearted children have donated hundreds of pounds worth of food to help the charity Feed The Children (UK). Pupils at Westwood Farm Infant School in Tilehurst made the generous gift during their harvest festival on Friday, October 2. They handed over boxes packed with pasta, rice, tins and dried fruit to feed poor and hungry children around the world ... |
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October 2009
Tribal Fancy Dress Night @ Reading Venue!
Wednesday 14th October! Calling all Reading students!
Feed The Children (UK) are hosting a range of fancy dress themed DJ nights at The Venue, Reading, kicking off with a tribal night on Wednesday 14th October 2009! With London DJ and top MC!
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October 2009
Silver Bond Place!
Feed The Children (UK) have been lucky enough to secure their first ever Silver Bond Place in The Virgin London Marathon on Sunday 25th April 2010 Would you like to apply?
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September 2009PERFECT DAY FOR RUN AND WALK RAISES MUCH NEEDED CASH FOR FEED THE CHILDREN
Over 300 registered runners and walkers, 50% increase on last year, from cross country racers to dog walkers and weekend ramblers, raised over £2,500 (a 50% increase on last year) for Feed The Children (UK) on Sunday 6th September when they strode out to take part in the Samuel Hood Memorial 10K Peppard Fun Run/7K Walk in Rotherfield, Peppard, Oxon. ..
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August 2009 How Eating Breakfast Can Save Another’s Life
Fancy eating a hearty breakfast to save someone else’s life? That’s just what UK charity Feed The Children (UK) is asking people to sign up to in their ‘Eat A Breakfast – Save A Life’ appeal. Cafes, restaurants, schools, colleges, businesses and people at home are being asked to get involved by staging breakfast events during the week Monday 22nd February to Sunday 28th February 2010... |
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August 2009What a load of pants… and pads!
Girl Guides in the Newport area of Wales are helping to make a big difference to girls’ education in Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe - by collecting sanitary towels and knickers so that Feed The Children (UK) can ship them out to Africa. |
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August 2009 BOOKRABBIT.COM SUPPORT FOR PEPPARD RUN/WALK
The new website for booklovers, www.bookrabbit.com, is supporting Twyford-based Feed The Children (UK)’s Peppard walk and run. The event starts at Grey’s Green Golf Course, Rotherfield Peppard on Sunday 6th September and www.bookrabbit.com is sponsoring the winners’ trophies. |
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July 2009 INNER WHEEL LADIES LOAD A LORRY
Ladies from District 18 Inner Wheel, which includes clubs from Southport in the north of the district down to Llanidloes in the south, have completed their annual Load A Lorry for Feed The Children (UK). |
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July 2009 Help Feed The Children with a Family Day Out
The Jones family from Sonning Common are inviting everyone to join them on a sponsored family walk to raise money for families that Twyford based Feed The Children (UK) supports in this country and around the world. The Peppard walk and run starts at Grey’s Green Golf Course, Rotherfield Peppard on Sunday 6th September. |
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July 2009 Michael Jackson Event to support Feed The Children (UK)
Michael Jackson fan, Priya Gehlot, is staging ‘A Tribute to Michael Jackson’ on 30th July at Reading’s night club, Bar Risa. From the proceeds of the event Priya plans to donate a generous sum to Feed The Children (UK)’s charity in support of work in Kenya... |
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June 2009 AUTUMN IS NATURE’S NATURAL TIME FOR PLANTING
Feed The Children (UK) is looking to promote tree planting this autumn and in doing so raise funds for its life saving work in Africa. We are asking garden centres to take part in our ‘Saplings Project’, which aims to get more trees planted both here in the UK and in Africa... |
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June 2009 Easy Peasy, Grab A Squeezy!!
Children’s charity Feed The Children (UK), wants local schools, colleges and organisations to help them raise funds by holding a Fundraising Charity Car Wash Day before the end of the summer term. The funds are desperately needed so the charity can keep on track over the summer with its major offensive to eradicate ‘Jiggers’ in some of the poorest areas in Africa... |
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June 2009 FEED THE CHILDREN NEEDS YOUR HELP
A smiling happy child is a joy to see. Thanks to the generous donations in kind from Feed The Children (UK)’s supporters the charity has a warehouse full of aid just waiting to be shipped to where it is truly needed... |
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May 2009 Run, walk or toddle to help Feed The Children!
Serious or fun runners and enthusiastic leisure walkers are being asked to help raise money for Feed The Children UK, in Twyford, by taking part in a walk starting at Grey’s Green Golf Course, Peppard on Sunday 6th September. There is something for everyone, for keen athletes and fun runners alike... |
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February 2009 IAN TO CONQUER EVEREST AND FEED THE CHILDREN TO BENEFIT
Ever since he was a youngster, 40-year-old IT support consultant, Ian Spalding from Lower Earley, has dreamed of conquering Everest. As he scales the world’s tallest mountain (29,029 feet) in mid May this year he also aims to raise much needed funds to help Feed The Children (UK) undertake its valuable work around the world. |
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February 2009 Join Local Businesses to Eat Breakfast and Save Lives Business owners in Hook and the surrounding area are helping to feed children in Africa, by tucking in to a hearty breakfast! Join them at a special meeting of Hart Business Referral Exchange on Friday 27th February, The Hogget, London Road, Hook Common, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 9JJ... |
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February 2009 Join Local Businesses to Eat Breakfast and Save Lives Business folk in Wokingham are inviting others to join them helping to feed children in Africa by tucking in to a hearty breakfast towards the end of the month. Join them at a special meeting of Wokingham and Bracknell Business Referral Exchange on 26th February, at Easthampstead Park Conference Centre, Off Peacock Lane, Wokingham, RG40 3DF... |
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February 2009 SPECIAL CHILDREN’S BREAKFAST COMPETITION Teaching children the importance of breakfast is the subject of Feed The Children (UK)’s new schools competition, sponsored by www.homeandkitchen.net, all part of their 24th February ‘Eat A Breakfast – Save A Life’ appeal, aimed at raising money to feed hungry children at home and abroad... |
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January 2009 What a load of pants… and pads! Members of women’s only gyms Curves in Bromsgrove and Hall Green, are helping to make a big difference to girls’ education in Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe - by donating sanitary towels and knickers. If the African girls do not have these basic materials they have to miss one week in four of their education, putting them at a great disadvantage... |
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January 2009 Ducks Go Quackers This Easter! Fancy witnessing 5,000 ducks racing along the river to win prizes for their ‘owners’ this Easter Monday 13th April 2009? Then the Lenchford Inn, Shrawley in Worcestershire is playing host to a huge charity duck race for Feed The Children (UK). The ‘quack off’ is at 3.00 pm and ducks cost just £2 each... |
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January 2009Don’t cop out! Let’s stamp out jiggers! Top pop rock band, The Hoosiers, communications company 3 and www.sunglassesforsport.com have all donated prizes for a new internet campaign, believed to be one of the first of its kind, to help children’s charity Feed The Children (UK) stamp out jiggers...
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January 2009Put Some Wellie Into It For Feed The Children (UK)!Pull on your wellie boots and join in the fun with a 5km sponsored walk in the grounds of the beautiful Westonbirt National Arboretum, Near Tetbury, Gloucestershire on Sunday 26th April 2009 at 11.30 a.m. |
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2008 Releases |
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December 2008How Eating Breakfast Can Save Another’s LifeTeaching children the importance of breakfast is the subject of Feed The Children (UK)’s new schools competition, sponsored by www.homeandkitchen.net, all part of their 24th February ‘Eat A Breakfast – Save A Life’ appeal, aimed at raising money to feed hungry children at home and abroad.
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December 2008We ARE Saving Lives in Zimbabwe! Please Help“We are hungry” – is the phrase that reaches in to your soul everywhere you travel through strife torn Zimbabwe. That’s the report from Michael Alemu of Christian Horizons to Feed The Children (UK)’s chief executive Brian Main, who has been so moved by the report that he has issued a personal plea for funds.
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December 2008WHAT MAKES A FEED THE CHILDREN (UK) VOLUNTEER?For Claire and Gemma Edwards volunteering is a way of life. But then when your Mum, Gill Edwards, is Feed The Children’s area fundraising manager for Wales and has always worked in the voluntary sector, you do find yourself drawn in to help! It is a wonderful grounding for life. |
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November 2008WE DO FEED THE CHILDREN – NOT THE GOVERNMENT Following the BBC’s Panorama report on TV on Monday (24th November), the chief executive of children’s charity Feed The Children (UK), Brian Main, says, “The BBC has vindicated the way we work. The money and goods donated to us go direct to the communities that need them and not through government agencies.” |
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November 2008How Eating Breakfast Can Save Another’s LifeFancy eating a hearty breakfast to save someone else’s life? That’s just what UK charity Feed The Children (UK) is asking people to sign up to in their ‘Eat A Breakfast – Save A Life’ appeal. Cafes, restaurants, schools, colleges, businesses and people at home... |
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November 2008FEED THE CHILDREN’S CONCERT OF SACRED GOSPEL AND CHRISTIAN MUSIC Lovers of faith based and gospel music can indulge in a beautiful evening of wonderful songs in a special performance at St. Philip’s Cathedral, Birmingham on Saturday November 22nd 2008. The evening is in aid of children’s charity Feed The Children (UK)... |
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October 2008BE A STARFeed The Children wants you to be a star or make one! Their 2008 Christmas campaign hangs on a star theme, encouraging you to decorate a star and add a message to send with a box of aid to a needy child or family or to make star-themed Christmas decorations to sell at Christmas Fairs... |
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October 2008SPIN ME A YARNFollowing the sell out of its first knitting book, Best Yarn Forward, Feed The Children (UK) has produced a worthy follow up, Next Best Yarn, with patterns from top designers... |
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October 2008DETERMINED PUPILS BATTLE ON WHEN BIG BIKE BUCKLES Pupils from Castle High School, Dudley showed great drive and dedication on Friday (10th October) when their efforts to raise money for Feed the Children (UK) were seemingly thwarted. Their sponsored big bike ride, on one of the world's largest bikes, hit a big problem... |
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September 2008YOU NEED TO PLANT OVER 200 TREESEveryone is talking about energy and carbon offset, but what does it all mean – in real terms – and what can you really do about it? Feed the Children (UK) now has answers to both of these questions. |
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September 2008PERFECT AUTUMN RUN AND WALK RAISES MUCH NEEDED CHARITY CASHOver 200 runners and walkers, from cross country racers to dog walkers and weekend ramblers, raised over £1,600 for Feed the Children (UK) last Sunday (28th September) when they strode out to sample the fresh, crisp autumn air in the 10K Peppard Fun Run/7K Walk in Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire. |
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August 2008 PADS, PANTS AND A POUND ARE KEY TO EDUCATION Young girls in Kenya and Zimbabwe are missing out on their education due to a huge shortage of women’s sanitary pads and underwear. Every four weeks, they have to absent themselves from school during their period, missing 25% of their education and placing them at a huge disadvantage. |
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August 2008FEED THE CHILDREN OPEN FOR BUSINESSWorldwide football coach, 23-year-old Sarah Banfill, from Clifton, is looking to score goals galore for her new winning team at Feed The Children (UK) in Bristol. Sarah’s first goal has been to re-open the office in Stokes Croft, Bristol... |
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August 2008Blanket Appeal for MoldovaThe worst floods to hit Eastern Europe in 200 years have driven children's charity Feed The Children (UK) to appeal for blankets to help the thousands of people to keep warm... |
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August 2008Run, walk or toddle to help Feed The Children!Serious or fun runners and enthusiastic leisure walkers are being asked to help raise money for Feed The Children (UK), in Twyford, by taking part in the Peppard 10K run/7K walk, which takes place in beautiful south Oxfordshire countryside... |
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August 2008
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July 2008Eat A Breakfast Save A Life! in 2009Fancy eating a hearty breakfast to save someone else's life? That's what children's charity Feed The Children (UK) is asking people to sign up to in their 'Eat A Breakfast - Save A Life' appeal... |
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July 2008Kamillosan donation helps Ugandan childrenKamillosan, the mother and baby brand which has been trusted and recommended by mothers and midwives for 75 years, is donating 6m tablets of the anti-diarrhoea medication Dymotil to UK charity Feed The Children (UK).... |
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July 2008"Feed Every Child" - Harvest festival 2008 campaignA children's charity has issued a plea for monetary and food donations from schools' harvest festivals so they can deliver a vital lifeline to children in Africa...
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June 2008
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June 2008 -Is Phyllis Donaldson our oldest knitter?Ninety-nine year old Phyllis Donaldson from East Ardsley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, is still producing beautiful blankets and knitted jumpers in her centenary year to support Feed The Children (UK)'s humanitarian work around the world... |
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February 2008 -Wear the Tree Ribbon!Trees are essential for the planet's well-being, but just like our own natural resources, trees in parts of Africa are under pressure. Now Feed The Children (UK) is looking for partners to help its new 'Saplings' project, which educates children to protect this vital natural resource... |
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February 2008 -Eat A Breakfast Save a Life DaySchools, companies, churches and clubs across the country held a fundraising breakfast for Feed The Children (UK) on and around 26 February 2008. |
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December 2007 - New Zimbabwe aid programmeWe are delighted to announce a new partnership supporting 13 schools
for children with special needs in Gweru, Zimbabwe.
December 2007 - New Moldova aid programme We are delighted to announce a new partnership, supporting children
in Moldova, eastern Europe (between Romania and the Ukraine), and our
first container of aid donated in the UK has already been sent.
December 2007 - New Ethiopia aid programme Our new programme in Ethiopia will bring much needed work skills to
500 young people, when a new technical and vocational training school is
built.
8 September - 24 November 2007Cast offsKnitting
enthusiasts from across Aberdeen have collaborated to create an artwork
and aid package as part of the city's commemoration of the abolition of
slavery.
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