News
A fundraising round up
Sat, 20th Mar 2010The big news for Hazels Footprints is some wonderful fundraising ideas which are being planned, are works in progress and have been completed against all odds. Starting with the last…
The Hurlingham and other summer fundraisers
Sun, 20th Sep 2009Highland Fling at the Hurlingham Club THE big event this summer has been the HFT London Ceilidh held in the Hurlingham club on the 1st of August. Not only was…
Funding report: Eramba School by Sophie Rodgers
Sun, 20th Sep 2009During the two months of July and August 2009, I spent my time at Eramba Mixed Secondary School in the Kisii region of Kenya working on a sustainable resource investment…
Hazel Five Years On by Peter Moore
Thu, 20th Aug 2009In the middle of a warm afternoon in July 2005, I walked into one of the charity shops that line Ludlows jumbled Tudor high street, and emerged ten minutes later…
George Matts cycling to Cape Town
Mon, 20th Jul 2009It has come to our attention that George Matts is about to embark on a fantastic cycle trip and will raise funds for Hazels Footprints as he bikes from Northamptonshire…
Hazels Dramtastic 4
Mon, 20th Jul 2009This will cost you nothing but a couple of minutes of your time, but give our team the chance to compete in a fantastic challenge. Hazels Dramtastic 4 are taking…
Cameroon Library Update
Sat, 20th Jun 2009Joe Abel has sent us another few photos of the Lycee de Lara Library in the Cameroons we built last year. Maybe Ben and his merry gang on Rally Africa…
Good fortune
Mon, 20th Apr 2009This email came in from Ben Newman a while back:- “I’m not a very superstitious person, but yesterday I went to take some cash out from a cashpoint outside work.…
Time is running out applications 2009
Sun, 1st Mar 2009We have many applications for funding to sift through before the meeting in mid-May to decide whom we are going to support and if anyone out there is planning a…
Loretto Fashion Evening
Fri, 20th Feb 2009Last week we received the following letter completely out of the blue from Harriet Wood who is at Hazels old school, Loretto. I am a member of the sixth form…
Funding Report: Action for Children in Conflict by Jo Bayley
Fri, 20th Feb 2009In October 2008 I began a year long voluntary placement with Action for Children in Conflict, a UK based charity which works in Thika, Kenya to prevent and rehabilitate street…
Grant to the Kenya Education Project
Fri, 20th Feb 2009Under the Third Aims we have given a small grant to Sophie Rogers from Earlston. Sophie, who is at Cambridge, is going out to a secondary school in the Kisii…
News from Hazels Footprints in London
Fri, 20th Feb 2009The London HFT Burns Night extravaganza was a great success and raised over £2,200 from about 20 different events and proved highly popular so if you missed out this year…
Spring fundraising news
Sat, 14th Feb 2009There is to be another Garden Opening in aid of Hazels Footprints this Spring at Baddingsgill, West Linton in Peeblesshire on Sunday 25th May by kind permission of Gavin and…
Musselburgh Gardens
Tue, 20th Jan 2009Margo Cochrane sent a donation of £100 from two families who wanted a piece of land near Musselburgh to grow vegetables on. Well done Margo you see the credit crunch…
Christmas fundraising round up
Tue, 30th Dec 2008Rachael Ormrod, who has recently been out on a very successful trip to Otjikondo volunteering for six weeks, decided to give us a donation of £112 at Christmas time in…
Wedding cars
Thu, 20th Nov 2008When Guy and Philly Lees daughter Emma got married earlier this month our Trustee David Watt took his Bentley along with Toby Vint in his Rolls Royce out of their…
Edinburgh Global Partnerships – New Vision School in Mugajwale
Fri, 20th Jun 2008New Vision School in Mugajwale, northwest Tanzania, is an English-medium nursery and primary school, where pupils learn in Kiswahili and English as well as the local language Kihaya. Being able…
Cameroon’s Library
Fri, 20th Jun 2008The library building for the Lycee de Lara in Cameroon was finished at the end of June 2008. The Library has a large reading room, a space for the librarian…
News from Vietnam
Fri, 20th Jun 2008Jenny Flynn is working wonders out in Viet Nam now she has returned from the USA for a further year. Below are extracts from her and Mr Viets latest news…
HFT Londons Kenya Project
Sun, 20th Jan 2008The aim for HFT London is to donate over £5,500 to the sports project with an on-going commitment to support the sports training on a three year basis as we…
