The Blues n Rock Garden Party was once again a huge success, with over £4,000 raised by the event for projects in Malawi. Despite torrential rainfall, revellers danced to the stunning musical acts, and continued to tuck into fabulous foods with gusto – even the power cuts didn’t stop the festival style fun at the gorgeous garden venue. BFiM aims to raise £10,000 a year, so a big thank you goes out to everyone who attended, bought a raffle ticket and of course volunteered to take part in our annual event.
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Revellers Love The Rain for BFiM
Friday, July 29th, 2011Building Futures in Malawi Gets a Charity Gift From Google!
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011Building Futures in Malawi has received a grant from search engine giant Google to get more people to donate money, volunteer to work in Africa and buy charity gifts on our website. The grant has the potential to boost the number of visitors to the site significantly, and more importantly raise more money for our many projects in Malawi. As you may be aware, 100% of any money that you donate goes towards our projects in Malawi – not one penny of your donation goes on admin costs or advertising, so this grant is going to be an enormous help to get more people involved in our projects and aware of what we have been doing in Malawi over the last 12 years. Thank you Google!
Your Donations Fund New School in Africa
Thursday, May 26th, 2011A new school in Africa, named Lingadzi Academy Library is now possible thanks to donations made to BFiM. The land has been bought, and the architects have worked their magic to produce a resource that has something for everyone in the community. As well as building a school and library, there will be a football stadium that has been specially designed to incorporate much needed storage space without using unnecessary extra resources. There are several more community football pitches, netball courts; one of which is a showpiece and boasts a small stadium – and we will be planting lots of trees. The groundwork for this project has been going on for a long time now, and it is great to have finally secured the land and have a start date for development – June 2011!
BFiM Charity Work in Africa Gets Another Boost Thanks to You
Monday, May 16th, 2011We’d like to take the opportunity to thank all of you who have supported, and continue to support Building Futures in Malawi by purchasing charity gifts, making donations and signing up for charity work in Africa. The success of the website has meant that we have just received a £500 donation, been contacted by 7 volunteers, have 50 footballs and 5 boxes of sports kit; and someone has contacted us who may potentially be donating a library! This is great news indeed, and it really does help build the futures of those in Malawi! Please keep up the wonderful support and check back to find out what else is going on with our latest project – The Lingadzi Academy in the next blog post.
Charity Cycle Ride Brought More Than Just Entertainment To Celebrity Hungry Hoards
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010It was four years ago that Little Britain comedy genius David Walliams swam the English Channel to raise money for Sport Relief. This year the 35 year old teamed up with a host of other celebrities for the same cause on a 1,000 mile cycle ride from John O’Groats to Lands End. The which took place on March 1st hoped to raise £1m which will go to ‘help people living unimaginably tough lives’ both in the UK and around the world.
Cowell’s Haiti Charity Single Gets Slot At BRITs
Friday, January 29th, 2010Charity single Everybody Hurts is set to be performed at the BRITs to maximise sales and increase funds raised for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Organisers of the famed popular music event, which is being held in London on February 17th, have reorganised the line-up to make room for a performance organised by King of pop Simon Cowell. The cover of REM’s 1993 hit is expected to raise a huge amount of money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, and looks set to meet the sensational success experienced by Live Aid’s Feed The World.