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VESL’s 2012 Overseas Visits…

I am very lucky as I am off on an adventure this summer with VESL. I am spending seven weeks overseas visiting VESL projects, I will spend a week in both Sri Lanka and Thailand and I am also a Student Leader for the India programme. I leave on Sunday and have just got back from […]

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Every little helps...

5 Fundraising Tips to Socialise your fundraising strategy

If you have been watching The Apprentice recently you might be bored of hearing the word ‘strategy’, however there is some truth in their insistence of having a STRATEGY!! So here is some advice to get you started… Since 2005 Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools have increased in popularity rapidly, this is great news […]

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Fundraising Inspiration

Not sure if you will be able to fundraise your contribution? It is not as hard as you might think and there are lots of different opportunities and ideas that will help you reach your target. A couple of past and current volunteers explain what they did to raise money: Eve Hadshar, India 2011 To […]

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Fundraising Idea: Dinner Party

Here’s a great tip for fundraising beginners : I found that hosting a dinner party at home for friends and family was a great way to help me raise a little money and also helped to build confidence in talking to people about where I’d be going, what I hoped to achieve, and crucially – […]

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Maltby Academy raise over £700 for Active Global Citizens Project

The students of Maltby Academy, near Rotherham, have raised over £700 for our partner charity (VeSSS) in India.  The Year 10 students organised a non uniform day and cake sale to raise the money.  The students were inspired to raise the funds after attending a VESL ‘Active Global Citizens‘ workshop (backed by Global Community Links) which was […]

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MOSQUITO NETS FOR HILL TRIBE SCHOOL

During Tom Harrison’s (VESL Programme Director) project visit to Chiang Rai in Northern Thailand he was able to deliver nearly £350 to one of the rural hill tribe schools to which we send volunteers. The money was raised by Keele University to buy much needed mosquito nets for all the students from the surrounding tribes […]

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PAST VOLUNTEERS HELP RAISE MONEY FOR PROJECTS

We would like to thank Elizabeth Munns (VESL Volunteer 2007) for all her fundraising efforts over the last year to help raise money towards a project working in rural communities within Andhra Pradesh. The project is ran by Mr Bharavi (VESL in-country Manager) and his wife and aims to educate and support Jogini women and their children […]

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CANNING TRUST GRANT for INDIAN PROJECT

VESL recently presented an application to the Canning Trust to help secure a school house for an orphanage that we work with in Northern Andhra Pradesh in India. We are overjoyed to announce that the Canning Trust have kindly granted £4000 to the project and purchase of the school house can now go ahead. We would like […]

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VESL SPONSORED WALK

VESL would like to say a massive thank you to all of the volunteers that joined us over the weekend for this year’s sponsored walk and volunteer reunion. It was an amazing effort made by everyone and it was great to see you all smiling through the howling wind and rain! All the fundraising is […]

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MAKING THE MOST OF DONATIONS

We would firstly like to send an enormous thank you to Janet and Stuart Wild who have been able to successfully raise more than £1100 for VESL through their justgiving.com fundraising page. Family and friends helped to raise this fantastic donation as part of Janet and Stuart’s 25th wedding anniversary celebration and thanks must also go out […]

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JUSTGIVING SUCCESS

The new fundraising pages with justgiving.com have proved to be a fantastic success. A few volunteers have raised well over their target; Millicent Scott in particular deserves an extra special thanks for successfully raising over £1500 and counting! We’d also like to send a huge thank you to Janet & Stuart Wild who’ve very kindly set up a fundraising page for […]

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RENEWED SPONSORSHIP FROM LIFECYLCE FUNDRAISING

Lifecycle Fundraising have agreed to help subsidise the teacher training workshop programme in 2007. This fantastic donation will allow us to offer subsidised placements on the teacher workshop team for qualified teachers. If you are a qualified teacher (PGCE, NQT or TEFL) and you are interested in receiving more information about joining our teacher training workshop […]

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BATLEY GIRL’S HIGH SCHOOL DONATION

VESL would like to say a big thank you to Batley Girl’s High School in Yorkshire for all their fundraising efforts after they successfully raised over £600.

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