New Year - New Look

To mark the new year, the blog has had a mini makeover... hope you like the new look.  But it's also in readiness for our next trip to Sri Lanka - in 2 weeks time we'll be back in Ratmalana to catch up with what's been going on.  At last week's trustees meeting, we set ourselves some challenging objectives for the trip including:

• Checking up on the exisiting projects especially to find out if the new nets are working
• Investigating whether we could set up a women's sewing co-operative
• Research whether we could use a local community centre for projects
• Identify children who would benefit from further tuition
• Follow up on the children who left the school last summer

BYOK disco is back!

BYOK is back for the first time in 2010.

Fun for kids, just as much fun for grown ups, its a chance to raise money for kids in Sri Lanka (see www.fodad.co.uk).

A kids disco in a grown up venue, with face painting, fun and games and a chance for dads to DJ, in between dancing to our resident kids DJ Mat.

Its £4.50 for kids(0 - 8 yrs welcome) and FREE for adults

Sunday, 31 January 2010

14:30 - 17:30

The Good Ship

Help us raise funds when you shop

Have you heard about easyfundraising yet? It’s the easiest way to help raise money for Friends of Della and Don. If you already shop online with retailers such as Next, Argos, John Lewis, Comet, iTunes, eBay or HMV, then we need you to sign up to http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/dellaanddon for free to raise money while you shop!

So how does it work? You shop directly with the retailer as you would normally, but if you sign up to http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/dellaanddon for free and use the links on the easyfundraising site to take you to the retailer, then a percentage of whatever you spend comes directly to us at no extra cost to yourself. So if you spend £100 with M&S online, we get £5 cashback from your purchase. £100 spent with Amazon raises £2.50 for us, £100 with WH Smith puts £2.00 in our pocket, and so on. easyfundraising features over 2,000 retailers, and some of the donations can be as much as 15% of the cost of your purchase.

This service is FREE to use, and what’s more, joining easyfundraising will give you access to hundreds of exclusive discounts and voucher codes, so not only will you be helping us, you’ll be saving money yourself.

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http://dellaanddon.easysearch.org.uk combines the results of several search engines such as Yahoo!, Bing and Ask to ensure you can always find what you’re looking for. But the fantastic thing is that EVERY TIME you search, half a penny is raised for Friends of Della and Don. That’s right – you don’t even have to buy anything! Almost 17 million searches have been made using easyearch and each one has raised money for good causes.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/dellaanddon today and start raising money for Friends of Della and Don simply by shopping and searching online….what could be easier?