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Fri, 11 Jul 2008
New Member of the MEP Team! Wed, 02 Jul 2008 Support from New York! Wed, 02 Jul 2008 Back to the LOCAL Fri, 20 Jun 2008 Glastonbury Silent Auction Fri, 23 May 2008 Silent Auction Tue, 20 May 2008 Silent Auction goes to Glastonbury! See the old news page |
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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 New Member of the MEP Team! We are very pleased to welcome a new member of staff to the project. Allow us to introduce Ally Schooler, who will be taking charge of all aspects of the MEP fundraising. Ally is from Bristol and has two lovely children that we?re all looking forward to meeting. She runs her own Fundraising and Project Development Consultancy. Ally will be devising, implementing and developing our fundraising strategy as we move forward, and we are looking forward to spending time with her. We are grateful to Ally for the enthusiasm she has for the work we do, and for giving us her time, energy, knowledge and experience. Welcome to the team, Ally! ?I am really delighted to be part of the MEP team supporting the invaluable work taking place in Malawi. I am looking forward to the challenge of building a sustainable fundraising strategy for the organisation to enable the work to continue and where possible to increase Please keep your eyes peeled for appeals we are launching in the media to get the outstanding £10,000 needed to make this year?s trip viable.? Wed, 02 Jul 2008 Support from New York! Its? been an amazing few weeks for the project in terms of funding. Talent musician Joe Driscoll, a New Yorker the MEP befriended in Malawi when he played at the Lake of Stars festival last year, nominated us to be the recipients of a very special gig he played at a High School in New York! We were staggered to receive a cheque for over £900 from the school, which we have put towards our ?Sponsor a Box? Appeal. This means that Fayetteville-Manlius High School have funded 21 whole boxes of books, that?s very nearly an entire library! We are enormously grateful to Shane O?Connor and the Class of 2011 for organising the event, as well as to Joe Driscoll for putting us forward and being such a damn nice chap. Many, many thanks to all involved. You can hear Joe?s music on his myspace page, http://www.myspace.com/joedriscoll Wed, 02 Jul 2008 Back to the LOCAL Ellen travelled back to her country roots on Monday to represent the project at a Pub Quiz and Raffle organised by Viv and Gareth Nutt. A great night was had by all, and £100 was raised for the Project. Gareth has also offered to source some football kits for the project, which would go down very well indeed. Big MEP love goes out to Viv and Gareth, Mary the Quiz master, the Landlady and all the lovely locals at the Crown Inn in Lea, near Ross-on-Wye. Thanks guys! Fri, 20 Jun 2008 Glastonbury Silent Auction The Malawi Education Project team escaped from Bristol for a night! Five of us squeezed into Lou's van, packed with boxes of prizes and camping equipment, and laughed all the way down to Pilton. It was here that we hosted a Silent Auction for the crew of the 2008 Glastonbury Festival. We had our own usual weird and wonderful mix of prizes to offer, but we are completely indebted to John Sherlaw for donating us loads of amazing bobbins?. A Sony PSP, a fancy bag, loads of cool CDs and clothes, Ellen's body weight in cheese, artwork, small elephants, you name it folks, we had it. It was a hectic and highly enjoyable night and we raised very close to £1000! Amazing. Afterwards we all slept in Chris's massive tent on a very quiet festival site. It was all a massive ball of fun. A big thank you must go to project friends Emily and Michael Eavis for allowing the MEP to be the beneficiary of their annual fundraiser once again. Cheers! Fri, 23 May 2008 Silent Auction Thanks to everyone who came down to bid on the prizes at the Silent Auction last week. It was a little quieter than usual, but we raised more than ever, so go figure... A little short of £900!!! Must be due to the fantastic prizes that were on offer yet again. OH YES. Thanks to all the people and organisations who donated the prizes, and of course thanks to all our friends, old and new, who came down to bid on them. Some of the stars of the night were a week in a cave house apartment in Spain, a pair of tickets to the Big Chill festival, gym membership, reflexology sessions and lot's of gorgeous artwork and carvings from Africa. Keep your eyes out for the next one coming soon. Love from all at the M.E.P. x Tue, 20 May 2008 Silent Auction goes to Glastonbury! The MEP have been asked by Festival organiser Emily Eavis to bring their brand of Auction excitement down the muddy lanes to Pilton Working Mens Club on the 11th June, as they have decided that the project will be the beneficiaries of the crew fund raiser for the second year in a row! Its shaping up to be the biggest and best one yet, and spurred on by the success of this months Auction, we are heading for the top and some really exciting prizes. We are extremely grateful to Emily and all the Glastonbury crew for supporting us. Thanks guys! More info to follow soon... |