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We try and attend an event at least once a month from April through to December. This event may be over one or up to three days. We try to have our stand at events where the organisers give us an area for our tent for nothing but sometimes we have to pay but usually at a reduced fee. We would like to take this opportunity of thanking organisers of events who have helped us fund raise. We would also like to say a big thank you to our supporters, many of those actually make a point of coming to a particular event to see us and support us in any way they can . Are you an organiser of an event and are willing for us to come? If so please contact us.

We hold Tombolas with quality prizes, Lucky dip, Support Sri Lanka Foundation Merchandise, Quality gifts, Children's novelties and Soft Toys. Our tent also has a display board showing photos of the work we do.

We will also come out and do a presentation (for a fee) locally. Our powerpoint presentation can last for up to an hour. We have promotional material, artifacts from Sri Lanka and can bring along food samples. Our talks are ideal for W.I., church groups, youth organisations in fact anyone who is interested!

We have to thank Phil & Jenny Pennant at AbraCARDabra based in Kenilworth, Warwickshire who have donated most of the gift and novelty items. What would we have done without them. Thank you so much.

Simon at the Signworks in Leamington needs a thank you for providing and updating our signs. He gives up his time for free and provides us with very professional signs. What a star!

Pam Fletcher and staff at Leamington branch of Save the Children have supported us non stop. Items they are unable to sell find their way to us, courtesy of them. We make a lot of money from these items and its good to know that donated items still raise money even if not through their shop. Thanks a bunch girls!

If visiting us please bring us any unwanted gifts you may have that can be used on our Tombolas. (no bric a brac) Thank You.

Fundraising Events 2008

Below is a list of events planned for 2008. This list is updated regularly so please keep watching.

HATTON DOG SHOW - 8th June

LEAMINGTON PEACE FESTIVAL - 14th and 15th June

GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ANNUAL SHOW - 5th July

BISHOPS TACHBROOK HORTICULTURAL SHOW - 16th August

INTERNATIONAL CARAVAN & MOTORHOME SHOW - 18th & 19th October

LEAMINGTON SPA STREET FAIR - sometime in November TBC

YULETIDE FAIR, LEAMINGTON SPA - December TBC

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FUNDRAISING 2008

£110 was raised a The National Boat, Caravan and Leisure Show from the sales of calendars and soft toys.

WHITNASH FUN DAY on 19th May was a great success and thank goodness the weather was kind. We raised £360 in total but was charged £20 for the space so banked £340. Grateful thanks to Jenny Pately, Steve Turner, Derrick Farthing for their help on the day.

The sale of T shirts by Leamington Scuba Club raised £60 - well done and thanks to everyone who supported us. Special thanks to Miles and Hilary for their efforts.

Fundraising 2007

It has been a disastrous year for us and for many other organisations who travel around the country raising money. The bad weather has caused many events to be cancelled. We have spent several nights/early hours in our nightwear trying to stop our fund raising tent from either blowing away or drowning in rain water! Mud! We have seen enough mud to last a life time!

To add injury to insult our fund raising trailer died on us in June as we traveled to a show - the wheel nuts sheared off of one of the wheels rendering the trailer useless (single axle trailer)! We had to hire a transit van and have to thank Caravan Accessories C.A.K. Tanks Ltd for donating the hire fee. We have to say a huge thank you to David Boardman of Pegasus Trailers who has provided replacement parts to upgrade our trailer and help repair it. Another very kind person we have met on our charity journey. Thank you David.

Ray at CCS Storage is a magician! With no trailer we had to store our exhibition equipment somewhere and Ray found us the space we needed at no extra charge - thanks Ray.

Thank you to our volunteers who come and help us - Kay, Steve, Rowan, Clive, Jenny, Derrick, Hayley and Emma (apologies if I have missed your name!)

Foot and Mouth has also affected our fund raising as we like to go to countryside events. Sadly these events have also been cancelled. We really need to get in some money so we appeal to you for support.

Please see Our Projects for an insight into our work.

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Thank you to Market Bosworth High School, Leicester.

Head Master Robert Turnell and his students dedicated a morning to fund raise for us. Students did their bit and by various means raised £313.75! The most money was made by a student bringing in her chocolate fountain and charging for a taste and another successful student made pop corn. The children were very keen to help raise money for us and plan an out of uniform day later on in the year. Well done to everyone. Money raised will go towards nursery and school equipment.

Above picture shows Headmaster Robert Turnell in centre with two students who raised the most money presenting cheque to Nicki and Jonathan from Support Sri Lanka Foundation

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Some of the many events we have attended to raise funds

The above photos were taken at Leamington Peace Festival in June 2007. The bottom left photo is one of me on the stage giving a short talk about our work. The talk was called 'Making a difference'

The above four photos were taken at Whitnash Fun Day April 2007. A cold day which put off a lot of people but we still made £290

We were very lucky to be given a stand at the International Caravan and Motorhome show 2006. We managed to cram an awful lot into 10' x 10'. We raised an amazing £1071 which paid for the container shipment.