We are 4 friends, Joanne, Alex, Russell and Chris. Over the coming year we will be working with 2 charities (Health the Gambia, Pageant) to raise £10k for 2 projects in The Gambia. We want your support for our attempt to drive 3,600 miles across deserts, rivers and mountains to meet the people we are helping. Easy you think? Well maybe not...

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Website: It's Alive!

The Website is now up and running, with details of pledges, flyers to download, photos and much more... will be included. Check back regularly for updates. This blog will remain the 'news' section as it's easy to update and you can link your own blogs to it, but links, resources and so on will appear on the website. Proper job! - Phil.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Fundraising Update 1



Chris writes:

Well we have begun our fund-raising. Steve Barlow, a colleague, started the ball rolling with a sale of plants raising £51. Whilst Steve was busy growing and selling his plants we have been agreeing the team logo and developing the flyer. These have been developed with the help of our backroom team, Phil the web wizard and Martin the graphics guru.

Last Saturday we took XTCold along to the Milton Fete. Milton Fete is a traditional celebration of village life complete with Morris Dancers and Pony rides. On our stall we had more plants to sell and a lollipop lucky dip, which the kids loved. The stall was managed by the rest of the back room team, Debbie and Tristan. By the end of the day we had raised a further £72 and many promises of help.

So what next? Well we are hopeful of doing more fetes and two different bands have offered to play charity gigs. There is of course the pledges which have started to come in. And we are hopefully of raising some corporate sponsorship. So with another £9,877 still to go I guess we had better start writing…….

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Blog goes live...


Here's a picture of the first vehicle purchased by the team: a Suzuki SJ413 [wikipedia]. Hopefully, they'll remove the ropey paintjob to avoid being targetted by over zealous American forces or local warlords... Presumably you're here because of the flyer: we haven't quite got the website sorted yet but when we have we'll put it here in the links (on the right) with maps etc. Check back soon!