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Clarendon Marathon
| Many congratulations to our Director, Robin Shawyer, who completed the challenging Clarendon Marathon on Sunday 30th September 2007. The purpose of running the marathon was to raise awareness of the Windle Trust and to raise funds for the Wilberforce Scholarship scheme. |
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Robin has exceeded his fundraising target of £10,000. Thanks to all those who sponsored him. It is not too late to add to this amount by sending a cheque made payable to 'Windle Trust International' to our UK office.
Wilberforce Scholarships Update
As British Universities prepare for the new term Windle are pleased that the following Universities have made it possible for 7 new scholarship places for this coming academic year - Glasgow Caledonian, Liverpool University, University of Central Lancashire, the Institute of Education and Oxford Brookes. In addition Goodenough College in London is providing the accommodation for the Wilberforce Scholar studying at the Institute of Education. A number of companies and individuals have also made these scholarships possible through funding accommodation and living costs.
We are currently working with another 16 British Universities to put in place new Wilberforce scholarships for the next Academic year 2008-9. Most of these scholarships will require additional funding for students accommodation and living costs whilst studying.
If you would like more information on how you can be involved in contributing towards these scholarships please email us at info@windle.org.uk
everyclick.com
everyclick.com is a search engine that lets you search the web and benefit the charity of your choice. So far everyclick.com has raised £245,137* for charities. Windle has recently signed up to everyclick.com so all you need to do to raise money for Windle is select Windle Trust International as the charity you would like to support and then search the web as normal, there's absolutely no charge to you or the charities involved.
How it works: everyclick allocates 50% of its gross revenue to charity each month. Each active charity receives a proportion of that sum equivalent to the proportion in which its supporters use the website relative to the supporters of other active charities. All website activity by users is measured by reference to the number of searches that website users make - so go to http://www.everyclick.com/uk/windle-trust-international/366251/0 get clicking!
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This three minute video presented by Jeremy Vine gives a brief overview of what Windle does and why. (Right click on the links and select 'Save As')
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Windle Trust International is working with UNICEF to enable the teachers of Southern Sudan to rebuild the education system following decades of conflict.
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