BOOM!

Start Time: Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 7:00pm
End Time: Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 12:00am
Location: The Bristol  Hotel, Princes Street
City/Town: Bristol, United Kingdom

There will be a three course meal, wine and entertainment. There will also be an auction and raffle – all for an easy 40 nicker.

Dress Code: Black Tie & Traditional Dress. Costumes and Masks are preferred. Masks will be available to buy on the night.

Every shiny penny will go to our projects in Ghana, Cambodia, Uganda and India, and help our kids to get educated and healthy.

Tickets:
£40 per person
Tables of 10 – £375

Tickets are now available to purchase online at stubmatic.
Please follow the link http://www.stubmatic.com/thesafefoundation/event/5158

Tel: Kristian – 07773683070
kristian@thesafefoundation.co.uk

Ok, I might have to keep this short and sweet (Asia t’internet connection being the reason), but its all good in The S.A.F.E. Foundation Cambodia project, where I am now with SAFE photog extroadinaire – Dan Green.

I have met with the director of our partner charity, the CCAHA and toured the schools that we support with your help. The schools are FAB! The kids are mega attentive and learning well. The teachers that we support are also doing great, teaching with big smiles on their faces and a lot of love in their heart!

There is still much to do here, and the next few days will consist of lots of meetings with Kourosh, our fantastic project manager, to fine tune elements of the project that need improving. The social issues that the CCAHA and SAFE are addressing are important in long term responses to disadvantage and with your help we really can do a lot to improve them.

Cambodia as a whole is unbelievable! The people are friendly, the scenery staggering and the culture historic and interesting.

For now, I’m signing off, I will try to write again and pictures from Dan will follow shortly!

Lucy x

Wanna know another fact? Oxfam think SAFE supporters are brill. Fact.

So they asked us to ask you if you want to do something different and get involved in campaigning – here’s what they’re offering…

“Each year Oxfam runs a free residential course for keen young activists to give them knowledge, confidence and drive to engage in campaigning activities. This year the training is taking place between the 10th and 13th of September in Birmingham. If you might be interested in applying to participate in this training. Please see the following link for further information http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/activists/change“

Please contact Bethan Harper at bharper@oxfam.org.uk if you want to have a chat about the training or application processes.

Thanks Guys, you saved us a lot and were very lovely to boot.

If anyone needs to get any PAT testing done, here’s their website www.cardiffpat-test.co.uk

The S.A.F.E. Foundation is looking for volunteers to work overseas and help make a difference to the lives of impoverished people around the world!

Volunteers will be placed in one of our projects in Africa and will have a choice of a range of duties including construction, teaching, health outreach and cultural exchange. Placement dates and times vary and interested parties should get in touch for more information.

We are also looking for project leaders, who should have experience of volunteering abroad and be over 18.

Volunteers should be members of The S.A.F.E. Foundation

For more information or to request an application form, please contact info@thesafefoundation.co.uk

Membership will get you lots of blummin’ good stuff, including;

• SAFER pack and merchandise
• Invitation to SAFE meetings
• Entitlement to vote at AGM
• Monthly newsletter
• Volunteer opportunities
• Opportunity to participate in pilot projects
• Discounts to SAFE events when applicable
• Regular opportunities to feedback and give suggestions at group forums
• Lots of SAFE love.

There are a few ways you can become members – You can pay us £15 a year if you’ve got a job, or £12 if you haven’t, OR you can throw your own fundraising event and become a member for free!

Failing all that you can recruit 10 new paying members! Easy as lush pies!

Membership is also free for those who have been regular donors to The S.A.F.E. Foundation for six months or over.

Becoming a SAFER will mean you will become part of a large family of SAFE people who meet regularly at different events that help the charity to raise funds whilst having a whole lot of fun!

For more information or to request an application form, please contact info@thesafefoundation.co.uk

A grant from them will help our projects in Africa and Asia, so we want to send out a massive big up! We haven’t got any rooftops to shout out from, but we’ll gladly shout out on this here tinternet!

Thank you, Waterloo Foundation! Even though we’ve now got that hideous ABBA song floating round our brains, we’re very grateful!

Big love x

A large number of children in Ghana will soon be the first to enjoy a mobile playground, which has been donated by Sutcliffe Play. The company were contacted by The SAFE Foundation, a charity set up in the UK to help implement sustainable development projects to marginalised people in developing countries.

Almost two years ago, in Kumasi, Ghana, the charity teamed up with a local organisation, Teens Net Foundation, to combine efforts to help marginalised communities have access to health care in a ‘Centre of Hope’. The mutual aims of both charities are to especially help children suffering from HIV and AIDS who require ongoing medical treatment. A team of volunteers has recently returned from a trip which saw them build a new school.

“The SNUG play equipment donated by Sutcliffe Play, will give a new lease of life to underprivileged children who have no access to the very basic of human rights – happiness,” explains Lucy Dickenson, Managing Director of The SAFE Foundation. “There are no recreation facilities at all in Kumasi, and the introduction of this innovative type of playground will combine fun, education, physical activity and social engagement to children contributing to an overall improvement in their quality of life.”

With the help of TeensNet, the charity plan for the play equipment to be transported around the region, so that they can reach children in more remote areas. The SNUG play equipment, which is exclusive to Sutcliffe Play, is fully modular and can be packed up and shipped around. This will also benefit the children as it will encourage them to make their own structures, and stimulate creativity. TeensNet in Ghana will employ local people to drive the equipment around the region and they will receive payment from The SAFE Foundation through their ongoing fundraising activities.

Rob Whitelock, SNUG Creative Advisor in the UK says: “We believe that play is crucially important to the intellectual, social, emotional and physical development of children.  It helps them to develop their own sense of risk and teaches them how to work independently and as part of a team.

“Play for plays sake should be an essential part of childhood, wherever you live in the world, so we’re delighted to be working with SAFE on such a worthy project that will introduce play, and its benefits, to children across Ghana.

Having recently passed the twentieth anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this donation from SAFE and Sutcliffe Play is a fantastic opportunity for children in the poorest communities in Kumasi to experience the freedom, fun and access to play that every child is entitled to. It will also motivate adults of the community to take action in child development and to be more proactive in securing a bright future for their families.