Fundraising

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TARGET="_top" TITLE="How to Help"><U><B>please click here</B></U></A><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> Read on for other ways in which you could support us!</div> <div>  </div> <div> <B> <A NAME="thepromise_charity_ball"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B><U>T</U></B><B><U>hePromise Charity Ball</U></B></div> <div> Every other year, <B>ThePromise</B> holds a fundraising ball which raises much needed funds for our projects.  If you speak to anyone who has attended any of these events, you will know that they are gathering quite a reputation, not just for their great atmosphere, but also for their creativity and imagination.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3378d6e0.jpg" border=0 width="397" height="110" ALT="Crystal Ball" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="353d6450.jpg" border=0 width="470" height="325" ALT="Your Table" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">      <IMG SRC="360a3450.jpg" border=0 width="163" height="325" ALT="Angel" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    </B></div> <bR> <div> Over 240 guests enjoyed a fabulous, fun evening in the St. George's Suite at Twickenham Rugby Stadium on Saturday March 8th.  The <B>Covent Garden String Quartet</B> played to welcome guests to the sparkling reception where some of them had a close encounter with our <B>"living statue" Angel</B>!</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="355531c0.jpg" border=0 width="851" height="284" ALT="The Crystal Ball in Full Flow" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>The Crystal  Ball  in  Full  Flow</B></div> <bR> <div> The room looked stunning with black tablecloths crowned by bejewelled crystal candelabra whilst the specially-designed lighting created the atmosphere of a private dinner party.  <B>Chris Sheasby</B>, from the world of rugby, did a fantastic job as our MC for the second time, introducing Heads and Tails and keeping guests in order.  </div> <bR> <div> Our star performers were the<B> Bar Wizards</B>, Neil Garner and Neil Lowrey who wowed everyone with their high-octane, spectacular cocktail flairing act.  A couple of brave guests even had a go juggling the bottles to everyone else's amusement!</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="35a3c570.jpg" border=0 width="572" height="343" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>The  Bar Wizards</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Chris Sheasby </B>also conducted our main auction  - prizes included golf at Wentworth, a rugby hospitality package, concert tickets, an exclusive package to Goodwood Racing, a Spanish wine and food tasting evening in the City and two holidays.</div> <bR> <div> We were delighted that our new Patron, <B>Barbara Flynn</B>, created a set of rock crystal and silver bead jewellery especially for the event. </div> <bR> <div> A special guest at the Ball was <B>Jo Wooster</B>, our <B>Star Volunteer</B>, a trained physiotherapist who has done so much to help our Portage children in Russia.  The Ball raised <B>£27,000</B>  -  a fantastic amount which will enable us to support Jo and our <B>Volunteer Programme</B> for two years.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="35c03030.jpg" border=0 width="259" height="259" ALT="Jo Wooster" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Jo  Wooster</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="crystalspeech.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chrystal Ball Speech Video"><U><B>Click here to watch </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="crystalspeech.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chrystal Ball Speech Video"><U><B>Sarah Settelen's Crystal Ball speech showing the recent work at Yelatma Orphanage</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Ball, donated prizes or gave their time as a volunteer.  </B></div> <div> <B>Here's to our next fabulous event!</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#444444" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>For information on our previous balls, click on the links below:</B></div> <div> <A HREF="redhot.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Red Hot Russian Ball"><U>The Red Hot Russian Ball</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://thepromise.org.uk/HTMLobj-575/Ice_Ball_Special.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://thepromise.org.uk/HTMLobj-575/Ice"><U>The Russian Ice Ball (pdf)</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Russian Cycle Ride</U></B></div> <div> How do you fancy blowing the cobwebs away with a sponsored cycle ride from <B>St Petersburg to Moscow</B> in September 2008? It's only 500km.....and through a Russia rarely seen by foreigners.</div> <div>  </div> <div> We’re delighted that two hardy supporters will be cycling from St Petersburg to Moscow to raise money for ThePromise. George Watson, a student at Trinity College, Cambridge and June Thompson,  from West London, are joining the Cycle Russia expedition from 5th to 14th September and they hope to visit our projects at Ryazan and Yelatma afterwards. George and June are hoping to raise £2500. </div> <div> They’d love you to support them...</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>   <A HREF="http://www.justgiving/junethompson1" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.justgiving/junethompson1"><U><B>www.justgiving/junethompson1</B></U></A>      <A HREF="http://www.justgiving/georgewatson" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.justgiving/georgewatson"><U><B>www.justgiving/georgewatson</B></U></A>                     </div> <div> <B><U>Charity Challenge</U></B></div> <div> For other intrepid supporters, can we guide you to the<B> </B><A HREF="http://www.charitychallenge.com/cc/charitychallenge/index.jsp" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.charitychallenge.com/cc/chari"><U><B>Charity Challenge Website</B></U></A>, the UK's leading adventure travel company. With more than 100 inspirational challenges each year for around 2000 participants, they have so far helped to raise around £15 million for over 750 charities. Expeditions include treks, mountain bike rides, mountain climbs, white water rafting, sailing, horse riding and Community Challenges and take place all over the world, with four different levels of ability. </div> <div> We are now registered as one of their charities, so if you, or anyone you know is interested, please have a look at their website - <B> </B>sounds great for "gap" years and those who just need a challenge.......</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>eBay for charity</U></B></div> <div> All you net traders can now sell items on eBay and make a donation to <B>ThePromise</B> at the same time by nominating us as your chosen charity. Or you might have items which you could sell on eBay on our behalf. Either way, <B>ThePromise</B> can benefit from your on-line trading.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sharegift</U></B></div> <div> This is a charity share donation scheme, which makes it easy for people to give any number of shares to charity. they specialise in accepting small holdings of shares, particularly those which are not worth selling, because that would cost more than they are worth.</div> <div> They also help people with larger gifts of shares for their favourite charities. For details go to<B> </B><A HREF="http://www.sharegift.org.uk" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.sharegift.org.uk"><U><B>www.sharegift.org.uk</B></U></A></div> <div> We can't nominate ourselves, but anyone who donates shares in this way can say which organisation they want the money to go to.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Reduce your Phonebill with ThePromise</U></B></div> <div> We are now registered with telephone service <B>Affinicom</B>, which offers subscribers telephone calls at much lower rates than BT and donates a percentage of the saving to the <B>ThePromise</B><B>. </B>So you get cheaper bills, and the ThePromise receives a donation… </div> <div> Click here to download the pdf leaflet to find out how. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="http://thepromise.org.uk/HTMLobj-736/Affinicom_leaflet.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://thepromise.org.uk/HTMLobj-736/Aff"><U><B>Affinicom Leaflet.pdf</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div>  </div> <div> <B><U>Give As You Earn</U></B></div> <div> Donating directly from your monthly salary is a tax efficient way of donating to <B>ThePromise</B>, and it happens automatically once you have set it up so you never need to think about it! Please get in touch with us if you would like to donate in this way.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Individual Fundraising</U></B></div> <div> We have individuals all over the country who are engaging in all sorts of weird and wonderful fundraising activities to raise money for us! If you or a group of friends would like to support us but don't know where to start, please just get in touch with us at <B>post@thepromise.org.uk</B></div> <div> For some fundraising ideas to get you going, click here to download: <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="http://thepromise.org.uk/HTMLobj-737/ThePromise_Fundraising_Ideas.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://thepromise.org.uk/HTMLobj-737/The"><U><B>ThePromise Fundraising Ideas Page</B></U></A><A HREF="http://thepromise.org.uk/HTMLobj-737/ThePromise_Fundraising_Ideas.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://thepromise.org.uk/HTMLobj-737/The"><U><B>.pdf</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> If you need sponsorship forms we can help you with that too. </div> <div> Just let us know if there is anything else we can do to help.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Schools Fundraising</U></B></div> <div> We are delighted to have already been nominated by various schools as their chosen charity and are very happy to come  and present to assemblies in the UK. Again, please contact us at <B>post@thepromise.org.uk</B> if you would like to introduce this idea to your school.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2a8201d0.jpg" border=0 width="32" height="29" ALT="Ellie's hand" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Registered Office: 181 Jersey Road, Isleworth, Middlesex TW7 4QJ  UK  Tel: +44 (0) 20 8737 2987</B></div> <div> <B>Registered Charity No:1098771    Registered Company No: 4751873</B></div> <div> <B>Email: post@thepromise.org.uk</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>