Events
2010
There are two events which you may like to read about with a view to sponsorship. These are:
1.
Climb of Mount Kilimanjaro by Helen Rogerson and others in July. Target £5,000.
2. Prevent Connie Smith from shaving her head on 1 Aug by sponsoring a total
of £2,000 by 31 July.
Visit www.justgiving.com/hsoa
and scroll down to find out more!
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HSOA man Wesleys Coffee shop -13 March
HSOA Harpenden Street collection - 24 April
Harpenden Summer Carnival – HSOA tombola stall and procession – 23 May
Friends of HSOA Tea Party – 19 June (proposed date)
Highland Gathering Rothampsted Park – HSOA Stall – 11 July
HSOA Charity Dinner and Ball – Harpenden House Hotel - 8 October
HSOA Quiz Night - details in preparation
2009
8 Presentations were given in this year
Harpenden Christmas
Carnival - 22nd November
HSOA Stall and procession
Jump4Africa - Free-fall
parachute jump - 30th September
Aaron Wood, Katie Steed, and Graham Kewley, took
to the sky and raised more than £2000!
Harpenden Farmers
Market - 26th July
HSOA Stall
Highland Gathering
Rothampsted Park - 12th July
HSOA Stall
Harpenden Summer Carnival
- 17th May
HSOA stall with tombola, and procession
Wine & Talk by Ian
& Dillys Hemmin Park Hall 7.30 pm - 25th April
The Land of the Mayas (proceeds to HSOA)
HSOA Quiz Park Hall
8.00pm - 3rd April
Endurance Race across
Sahara Desert - 28th March
By Dr Graham Carlin
HSOA Quiz Evening - 6th Februaray
Feb 2009. Visit to Uganda by Hefin Rees (Chairman HSOA), his wife Dr Bethan Rees (a Harpenden medical practitioner) and Caroline Swanson (HSOA Secretary).
2008
We raised £112 at the Southdown Lights-Up evening on the 28th of November.
The Wine and Water Tombola raised £255 at the Harpenden Christmas Carnival on the 23rd of November.
14 presentations were given in this year.
Musoto Appeal launched 6 Feb 08 resulted in £4300.
The Town Council nominated Cllr Bert Pawle, currently Mayor of St Albans is to be the HSOA Harpenden Council representative.
In addition to regular meetings of the the Trustees, and the Fundraising Team taking place, a Sustainability sub-committee was formed to investigate the problems with transferring the sustainability of Musoto Christian School locally to Musoto.
HSOA is represented
as a member at weekly meetings of Links Harpenden, the local chapter of Business
Networking International.
2007
Following our
success at Harpenden Farmers Market (Aug 07), Harpenden
Christmas Carnival on the 25th of November featured our popular 'Water
or Wine Tombola'.
We raised over £280 for Musoto Christian School and gave away many leaflets about this project.
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Our
stall at Harpenden Farmers Market (Aug
07) was a great success, raising HSoA’s profile as well as money to support
Musoto Christian School.
Visitors
to the stall had the opportunity to win a bottle of wine (or water!), find out
information about HSoA and try their hand at African Djembe drumming!
Whilst other volunteers performed some flag dancing to the rhythm of
the drums!
We
raised over £300 on the day, and more importantly spoke to a number of people
who were interested in helping us in the future.
There
were a variety of African bracelets and other jewellery, batik paintings, table
mats, sun hats, and book marks from Uganda for sale.
Perhaps
the main attraction though was a game in which people selected a bottle hidden
within a paper bag. Each bag contained
either a bottle of wine, a bottle of pure water, or a bottle of polluted water
(in most African villages, the only type available).
The bottles of wine were kindly donated by a number of pubs and shops
within Harpenden.
We should also thank Colette and Jenny who did most of the preparation and on the day were assisted by the HSoA Trustees and other kind volunteers.
2006
Harpenden Christmas Tree Festival 2006, HSoA tree
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