Saturday 9 August - Evington Village Fete and Show
1.00 p.m. onwards… Evington Village Green, Church Road/Main Street Evington, Leicestershire LE5 6DN

Saturday 2 August & Sunday 3 August ‘In Flight’
More details here...

Sunday 11 May 2008
Linda is collecting used stamps to sell. All proceeds to Faraja Support. Your help would be appreciated.

Save all your used stamps and when you have a significant amount, send/deliver them to Linda at the address below. If delivering, please email/telephone to arrange a time. (This is not necessary if your package of stamps is small enough to fit through the letter box.) Stamps will be collected locally if there is sufficient quantity to make it worthwhile.

Please leave approximately 1 cm of envelope bordering each stamp. Thank you.

Linda Chamberlain

Morgan Gleave Art & Design, 14 Leicester Road, Fleckney, Leicestershire LE8 8BF

Tel: 0116 240 3477

email: linda@morgangleave.co.uk

Wednesday 7 May 2008
We're back! Please let us know what you think of our new website - constructive criticism is always welcome!

While we've been away, it's all been happening (see below) - and there's much more to come. Watch this space...

The 'Taking Flight' Exhibition
Thank you to everyone who visited the 'Taking Flight' exhibition - it was wonderful to meet so many interesting people face to face. We raised over £100.00 for the Children's Choice Campaign. Thank you especially to those of you who took the time to let Morgan photograph you. The finished piece of art can be see at our next exhibition, 'In Flight', which will take place at Kibworth Grammar School, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire on Saturday 2 August and Sunday 3 August. The exhibition will be open from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. on both days.

A special thank you to Julie Chapman from On the Edge Picture Framing for all her hard work for the exhibition. We highly recommend her. She can be contacted at: jules@ontheedge.co.uk

Morgan Gleave Art & Design and Faraja Support
Due to the great success of the Children's Choice Campaign, the hospital is taking responsibility for the service the fund was set up to provide' and the campaign is being wound down. Therefore, Morgan Gleave Art & Design is has adopted Faraja Support as its 'official charity'.

What is Faraja Support?
In short, Faraja Support is a charity working to care for and educate children in Tanzania.

For further information, visit www.farajasupport.org.uk (after 8 June 2008) or email: helen@farajasupport.org.uk

At the time of writing, the charity is not registered. However, Charitable Status has now been applied for, so watch this space...

Why Morgan Gleave Art & Design has chosen Faraja Support.
Firstly, we consider ourselves to be a company with a social conscience. Like everyone in business, our main focus must be on making a profit so that we can make a reasonable living. However, we feel that it is important not to lose sight of the bigger picture. Having been born in a stable western country, we are in the privileged position of being able to run a business at all. We live in a country with a developed, dependable infrastructure and have benefited from being well educated, well fed and from having lifelong access to a high standard of healthcare. For these things we are grateful. When we became aware of the children in Tanzania with next to nothing, the contrast between what we have (and have had) and what they have, was so great that it was obvious that we should do whatever we can to help.

Secondly, we have a great deal of confidence in the the charity and its administrators. You may be aware of the difficulties which may arise when aid is sent to some countries due to the prevalence of corruption. We have no such worries when it comes to giving to Faraja Support. Linda has know Helen Ross for over thirteen years, Morgan has known her for more than five. We have 100% confidence in Helen and her integrity. When Helen says that she makes sure that all the money raised goes to the children, we know that is so. Given that we pride ourselves on our integrity and decency; we would not dream of risking damaging this by associating ourselves, never mind inviting our friends and acquaintances to associate themselves, with any organisation about which we were not wholly confident.

Finally, we like being able to see exactly where the money goes; to be able to put faces to the recipients of the support; and to see real progress being made. Faraja Support provides that feedback.


How Morgan Gleave Art & Design plans to contribute
Amongst other things:

We are in the process of designing and building a Faraja Support website.

We are planning to create some greetings cards with a Tanzanian theme and to contribute a portion of the profits to Faraja Support.

We will donate the entrance fees from all our exhibitions between now and April 2009 to Faraja Support.

We will donate our graphic design skills free of charge to Faraja Support, should they require them.

Eventually, Linda and/or Morgan would like to go out to Tanzania and give direct help.


What you can do to help
Give Morgan or Linda a one off 50p contribution towards Faraja Support next time you see either of them - you probably won't miss it, but it will make a significant difference to the children.

Think! Have you any skills to contribute either here or in Tanzania? (There is an orphanage to be built...) Have you got time to fundraise?

Anything else that you can think of that may be useful!

Please contact Helen Ross at helen@farajasupport.org.uk with your suggestions, donations etc.