1st Chorleywood Rainbows Stay Silent for CCF

The1^st Chorleywood Rainbows (the youngest division of the Girl Guide Association) has chosen CCF as their sponsored charity, and we are pleased to announce that last month they completed a sponsored silence in aid of CCF.

They were silent for 30 minutes and raised £166.80 - no mean feat for fifteen 5-7 year old girls!

“The girls had the opportunity to choose the charity to support and they selected CCF… I think it was meaningful to them because they could relate to the children and the cause of CCF,” noted Sandra Hirschberg, group leader and current CCF child sponsor. 

We would like to sincerely thank this remarkably silent group of girls, and hope that they serve as an example to others that even the smallest people can make a big impact to help others!

News From Phnom Penh, July 2013

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Raise Money Without Trying!

Two ways to raise money for CCF UK without really doing anything at all!

 Shop

By signing up with easy fundraising you can raise money for CCF UK while you shop! How it works: when you shop at various partner sites (including amazon, eBay, lastminute and SO MANY MORE), a small percentage of your spend is donated to CCF UK. Once registered you can download a piece of software that will detect when you are shopping on a partner site and prompt you to claim your donation which can be up to 15% but is usually in the range of 0.75-3%.

Register here: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/cambodiancf/?u=3EUXIS

Partner sites: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/retailers/

Search the internet

We are also launching our own internet search page which raises money through your normal internet searching. All you need to do to start raising money is visit our site listed below. Sounds too good to be true? It really isn't - you can even find out how much you're helping raise along the way and pass this on to as many friends, family, colleagues as you like - the more people using this search page, the more money is raised for Cambodian Children's Fund UK. 

So, simply visit our website and we'll guide you into how you can set us as your homepage. You'll be raising money for us with minimal effort in no time at all. 


But if there's no cost involved - where does the money come from?

• Yahoo! search participates in a global search advertising market worth over £30 billion per annum.
• As with all search engines, companies pay an advertising fee when users click on links during their internet searches
• Yahoo! receives its share from the advertising fee, then we split the remaining value 50-50 with CCF UK.
• You MUST search through your Supporters Page in order to generate revenue for CCF UK. 

Scott as Cover Star and $1m Fundraiser!

If you are in Western Australia, make sure you pick up a copy of the Weekend West magazine. Scott is on the cover! 
Scott is currently in LA on a fundraising trip.  On Saturday he and three of the CCF children raised $1m!!!  Read all about it here

Thames Path Fundraiser

If you would like to help us raise money to contribute towards CCF’s crucial work, we would love you to join us in walking the 50km Thames Path Challenge on the 14th September. Last year eight individuals raised nearly £10,000 and this year we would like to exceed that amount.   To take part either as part of the CCF UK Team or as an individual please follow the registration instructions below.

Walking the Thames Path Challenge for CCF UK 

Thames Path Challenge, www.thamespathchallenge.com takes place on the 14th September - starting in Putney and ending in Runnymede. 

To Register:

Go to http://www.thamespathchallenge.com/register2.php. Choose Cambodian Children’s Fund UK as the charity from the dropdown list. If you wish to join the CCF UK Team, when asked if you are registering as an individual or a team choose “join an existing team” and type in CCF UK. You will need to enter the team captain’s name (Lucy Brooks) and email address (lucybrooks00@gmail.com).

Then all that’s left to do is set up a fundraising page on Just Giving and start raising funds!  www.justgiving.com/cambodianchildrensfund

Each walker will be required to raise £137.50 by August 2nd to confirm their registration. Anyone who has not raised this amount by the 2nd August will unfortunately not be able to take part and will lose the £60 registration fee.

Heather Graham, star of The Hangover Part 111, for CCF

Glamourous filmstar Heather Graham visited the UK and was a star guest on the Graham Norton show in a publicity drive for her new movie, Hangover Part 111.  In a feature which appeared in this week's Look magazine it mentions her work for a Cambodian charity - CCF! Heather has supported Scott and CCF for a number of years and is on the Board of Directors in the States.

Business Expert Joins CCF UK as Trustee

CCF UK is delighted to welcome a new Trustee, Liam Palmer who brings with him a wealth of business experience.  He is a Practice Partner in a global consulting firm and provides change and operational expertise to CCF-UK. 

Liam spent ten years as a British Army Officer, holds an MBA, lives in Geneva, Switzerland and has three sons. Adopted at birth in New Zealand, Liam’s family helped house ‘boat people’ and he attended school with refugees. Liam has had a long held ambition to find a practical way of helping those in Cambodia and, inspired by reading about Scott’s success, he first supported CCF by sponsoring a child through the CCF external education programme in 2011. He is a welcome addition to the existing core Trustees:   DI John Geden, Juliet Phillips and Liz Bolton.  Several new Trustees are to be announced shortly.

Buy a Bus and Walk 50kms!

 

While CCF UK has been busy recruiting new Trustees and Patrons, talking to Elephant Branded about a possible partnership with the Charity in Cambodia, and making presentations to Foundations, CCF in Cambodia is trying to raise funds for more buses to ferry the many hundreds of children they support with education, to their schools.  Check out the link below to see how you can help.

 

 

https://www.cambodianchildrensfund.org/funding/bus.html

 

Meanwhile, a big welcome to Lucy Brooks who is our new Administrator - contact her on enquiries@ccf-uk.org if you would like to offer your services or get involved - and to Harriette, Maria and Lydie who have already made a big impact on the work of the Trustees.  We are delighted too that The Reverend The Lord Griffiths of Pembrey and Burry Port (aka Leslie Griffiths!) has agreed to be a Patron joining our existing patrons Michael Mansfield QC, Miles Templeman, Robin Blake and Sam Taylor-Johnson.

We're also getting together another team to participate in the gruelling 50km Thames Path Walk in September - so watch this space for more information - and start getting some practice in!

 



Scott Neeson featured in Scottish Sunday Express 21.4.13

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International Women's Day at CCF

 "You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women."     

These are the words of former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru

CCF in Cambodia has put together a special video campaign around International Women's Day (which falls on 8th March 2013) to show some of the amazing women and girls involved with CCF, as well as to highlight some of CCF's programmes with a specific focus on women. 

 

Please click on the linked words above or follow the link below to view the videos:

https://www.cambodianchildrensfund.org/women