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2 February 2010 - Microscopy Workshops
- The Pageant team will shortly leave for The Gambia, taking with
them virtually all of the equipment for the workshops. (more
details)
2 January 2010 - Microscopy Workshops
- Two more suppliers Edulab and
Northern Geological Supplies are supporting these workshops. (more
details)
Recent News
14 December 2009 - Chestnut Grove School
in Balham, London has strengthened their connection with Banyaka Lower Basic School
in The Gambia. They already have links between the pupils at both
schools, and have helped Banyaka LBS in many ways. They have now
decided to use Pageant to deliver the results of their regular
fundraising for Banyaka LBS, and have given us £500 for the
sponsorship of two pupils and a project at the school yet to be
decided. (more
details)
29 November 2009 - Vivace! Concert in
aid of Pageant at Southwater Church on 22 November has raised
£191.53 for Pageant. (see
details)
28 November 2009 - Sheik Hatab Memorial Nursery School
in Gunjur opened a year ago with the help of donated furniture
supplied by Pageant. We are now financing renovations to the
perimeter wall, and then we plan to provide funding for a new
kitchen. (more
details on their new webpage)
22 November 2009 - Microscopy Workshops
- We are planning to run Microscopy Workshops for teachers in The
Gambia so they can pass on practical
microscopy skills to their students. Pageant has been
awarded £3,000 by the
Royal Microscopical
Society Vice President’s fund to
help set up the first workshop in February 2010. (more
details)
15 November 2009 - Pippa and Ian's latest
Gambia trip - Pippa has posted details of their recent visit to
The Gambia on the
Pageant
News Blog. We have collected the
posts on this
web page.
14 November 2009 - Gunjur Loan Scheme
- We have started one of our loan schemes at Gunjur, with 6 local
ladies recieving a micro-loan to start a small business. (see
details)
25 October 2009 - Sarah Hayes has
completed the Marine Corps
10k race in Washington DC, with a chip time of 49 mins 18 secs,
equalling her personal best. See
Sarah's page
for more details and pictures of the race, and to make your
sponsorship donation.
19 Oct 2009 - Virgin Money Giving - We
have a new online donation facility at
Virgin Money Giving. Check out our
home page on their site. Virgin
Money Giving offers free sign-up to fundraisers and then an easy way
of creating your own fundraising page. They also charge Pageant much
less for processing donations, and get the money to us quickly.
7 Oct 2009
-
HopeFirst Foundation's
work at Jurunku - This USA based
charity is now helping the school and village, and has installed a
solar power system at the school. (further
details)
4 Oct 2009 - update on Sarah Hayes
- Sarah's latest 10km races in preparation for the Marine Corps
race
were the BUPA Great Yorkshire Run in
Sheffield, with a time of 53 mins 41 secs,
and the Marple 'Trail' run with a time of
49 mins 59 secs, followed by the 5k Manchester Tree-Athlon
in 23 mins 43 secs.
See
Sarah's page
for more details.
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