News
Stories and updates from Hazel's Footprints Trust, our Partner Schools, Educational Projects and Footprinters (volunteers).
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…
Jill Elliot takes on the Bullock Smithy Hike
Thu, 20th Sep 2007Jill Elliot, who was a friend of Hazels at Durham, has raised over £2,300 from a walk (well actually a 24 hour hike of over 50 miles!!!!) she and three…
Dave and Andys Everest Base Camp Trek
Wed, 20th Jun 2007This is to say a huge thank you to all those who sponsored myself and Andys trip to Everest. As this email suggests we have made it home safe and…
Thakurpukur Project Report
Wed, 20th Jun 2007Its no secret to the people closest to me that I loathe the country I live in, I dont hide this fact and Im not ashamed to admit to it,…
London Marathon 2007
Sun, 20th May 2007No one said it would be easy. What they didnt say was how hard it would be either! 22nd April 2007. Judgement day. Five Hazel Footprinters- with varying levels of…
Funding announcements
Fri, 20th Apr 2007Hazels Footprints Trust is delighted to announce several projects we are supporting under our Third Aims banner. Firstly, with generous financial help from the Craignish Trust in Edinburgh we are…
East Lothian Charity Football Match
Tue, 20th Feb 2007The “Allstars” under the captaincy of David Shaw-Stewart met up on Gifford’s village pitch on a frosty Sunday in December to do battle against the “Gin Slingers” presided over by…
