Archive for October, 2008
Thanks Brid!
The Musicport festival was great. An amazing weekend of music, friends and a lot of plastic-kettle shaking! I walked miles around the Spa – a beautifully refurbished seafront venue – dishing out fliers and talking (a lot). And the whole time I was clutching a silver and green kettle…
But the effort paid off as the [...]
Bridlington
I am at the amazing Musicport festival in sunny Bridlington for the weekend, prestering people with a plastic kettle and fliering the crowds. It is working well so far; providing plenty of new ideas, spreading the word and raising some money.
People are responding really positively to the work we do. I’m down to my last two [...]
Fliers
We’ve now got a couple of huge boxes of lovely fliers ready to help spread the word. They are looking good, doing good and made from good things – recycled card and veggie inks. So if you’d like some to give out at an event, send with a mailing list or put out in your [...]
The news from Bamako
Work is going well in Bamako. Amadou has been in touch to say that we are well on our way to rebuilding the workshop after it collapsed in the rains. We’ve been able to fund this thanks to money collected by Pete Coe at this summer’s music festivals.
There 32 kids now using the centre, eating [...]