A big thank you to all of our 10K runners!

We are so grateful to those who did the London 10K for Brighter Future last Sunday. Giving their time to train, asking for donations and turning out, many of them for the first time, to join thousands of like-minded charity fundraisers. and run 7 miles through the streets of London.

Anjali has run every Brighter Future 10K, all 5 of them, traveling down from Manchester for the event.
Lucy came by bus from Shipley in Yorkshire and she has done 4 for us!

Mikaela did the run to keep a promise made to her aunt, Sue Davies, two years ago.

Pascal was pacemaker for Danny

Carl, Tom, Fani, David and Danny are now old hands at the run.

Rahul found Brighter Future on the race website and registered 30 minutes before registration closed.

So many wonderful people!

Faye's friends ran for us

 By Monday morning £3674 had already been collected by the runners using our Justgiving pages!! By 16th July this was £4836 including the gift aid! Great Team!!!!

When I looked at the Brighter Future Justgiving page on Monday 21st our wonderful runners had passed £6000 !!

Cards and Crafts

Karen and I have been making our cards again. General ones this time, including thank you, thinking of you as well as happy birthday.

 We were allowed to sell them before and after all the services at my church. Besides cards there were key rings and bag charms, bracelets of glass beads, corsages of various kinds, retro beaded and crocheted jug covers and handmade geese.

We found two other sales opportunities and are able to report a total of £444 for our efforts.This money will be put towards the college fees of Rambabu (see previous blogpost) and towards any of the other students who still need funding or topping up.
Now I can get my kitchen table back to normal but the utility room is still stacked high with things for yet another car boot sale !! The last one netted £70.

LET LOOSE WITH 300 irp!

After the 10th and Sandeep's 10+2 exam successes Victor let the boys go to Visakhapatnam on their own. Sandeep had been last year with Anjali so he knew his way around. They were given 300rupees (about £3each) for the bus fares and whatever they wanted to spend the money on. I bet they felt really grown up!  They took these photos of themselves on the town beach.

Ramesh, Sanyasi,Sandeep,Anil and Isaak

Ramesh

Sanyasi, Anil, Ramesh and Isaak