Sarah Springett of the UK band The Floe has just posted an update and message about the “I hope you know campaign”. It starts: “Firstly, thank you all once again for your incredible support. Since the ‘I Hope You Know’ single campaign was launched on November 9th (a year to the day since I donated [...]
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Our Antarctic trip has taken us to unexpected places, like Brighton Town Hall on a very windy Wednesday lunchtime. “Would you like to have lunch with the Mayor of Brighton?” read the email from Anna of The Transplant Trust. “Oh, and by the way, would you mind giving your talk?” Sure we would. Now, I [...]
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This is what we’ve been working up to since coming back from Antarctica: National Transplant Week, the major awareness and fundraising focus week for our charity, Transplants in Mind. It runs from 6th – 13th July with the media launch tonight (Tuesday 8th, I know), at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden We will be [...]
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An evening of Dirty Dancing, they said. We came, ate the canapes, drank the cava and headed off down winding corridors, to hit the dance-floor, some in their fetching close-fitting dresses and high heels. The ladies were pretty smartly attired too. Dancing there was, but was it dirty? Not a yellow card all evening. And [...]
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One more day in Buenos Aires and we head home. We are very conscious that this is not the end of the odyssey and that there is more work to do in our Transplants in Mind campaign. We have some GREAT pics with our sponsorship banners, which I am desparate to post, but I can´t [...]
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Sandie Crawford, a sales manager for the Weekenders fashion catalogue, has joined our sponsors. Together with Sandie, we are holding a series of fashion shows for a strictly limited number of people. This is what Sandie says, “I’m hosting a day of Presentation’s full of fun and fashion and I’d love to see you there! [...]
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As you may have noticed from the front page, we have now linked up to Transplants in Mind as our chosen charity. Before you do anything else, please donate online on our Antarctic Odyssey fundraising page. Thank you! It’s difficult to choose a charity, but we chose Transplants in mind because it most closely matches [...]
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