No corporate sponsor!!!

What's up with that? Aggrrhh....

Yes it is the hard truth, when you are raising fund for your own purpose, unless I want to go through setting up my own trust for this. Looking at how things work here, I won't have my hope too high.

This is what Vicky has wrote to me today.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Vicky Boughton
Date: 09-May-2007 17:40
Subject: RE: Cheque for Travellers & Re: Placements in Malaysia with Travellers &
To: Ulu Gange
Cc: Jenny Ashworth

Hi Ulu Gange,

Thanks for your email. We have placements available in March or May or July in 2009 so you can certainly swap to one of these if you would like to – please let me know which time suits you best and I’ll make the arrangements here (there will be a £15 administration fee).

With regards to fundraising – we are not a charity and so you won’t be able to get corporate sponsorship in that way unless you are able to somehow set up a trust fund yourself, although I am not sure how/whether that would work. I’m afraid that you cannot direct the money through Sepilok appeal as they are not affiliated with us in that way. Corporate donations unfortunately have these restrictions so the best thing to do would perhaps try to raise funds through alternative means (sponsored events with friends and family etc).

Best of luck and sorry I can’t be of more help.

With kind regards

Vicky


Vicky Boughton - Project Co-ordinator
Travellers Worldwide - voluntary placements overseas
7 Mulberry Close, Ferring, West Sussex, BN12 5HY
Tel: +44 (0)1903 502595
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Jazz nite at Melaka

L is full force in my fund-raising. I cant be more grateful for it. I think I just have too much in my hand now to think of what to do.

L and a couple of frens came out with the idea to do a jazz night at Melaka, this Malaysian restaurant. Kalam was right about Lau. He is just fantastic in organizing stuff!!

Ok, he has talked to the restaurant owner and would/have booked for June 10 for an evening just for my fund raising.

I would have to come out with the theme for the night and organized with his musicians friends to work out the share of proceeds and arrangement for the evening.

Hopefully we will get to meet this weekend to get this sorted out. It seems he even set me a deadline: May 21.

This guy is ON man!!

Run - Fund Raising

Last week L, K, I and I met up at Sushi Hirobo at Holborn, just like 10 min walk from my work place. Finally I get to sit down with L and talked about the fund-raising, though my system was pretty much adulterated with alcohol when we finally have dinner.

After serious consideration of the finance to fly to New York and run (now the only packages that is available with Sport Tours International is the £1000 odd that includes running pack, flight and hotel), it is far more effective to be raise the fund for the volunteer than volunteer and NY marathon (£4k for the two of us to go NY).

Well L talked me into some senses. We would do Cardiff Half marathon and next year London marathon. Berlin marathon might be too close, well at least to me. L just did his full this April in London Flora.

More programs coming up. Stay tuned!