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ColaLife

Simon Berry is raising money for Centre For Innovation In Voluntary Action
“Simon Berry's fundraising”

on 11 April 2010

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The Objects of CIVA are “to advance any purpose which is recognised as being exclusively charitable under the laws of every part of the United Kingdom”. CIVA specialises in taking good ideas and turning them into successful and sustainable programmes. The main thrust of our work at the present time is in the following areas: • The promotion of social entrepreneurship and support of social entrepreneurs. • Encouraging the participation of young people in issues that affect them as young people and in wider society. • Enabling poor communities to address issues and problems in their lives. • Addressing the needs of families and their health and wellbeing, especially young families and early years children, • Addressing the issues of environmental sustainability and climate change. • The advancement of mathematics. • Experimenting with and investigating new forms of sustainable finance in support of these objectives.

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<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US"><strong>ColaLife</strong> is an amazing new initiative for getting medicines to some of the poorest people in the world, by distributing them with bottled drinks. We are working, as volunteers, on a plan to run practical trials of <a title="The ColaLife website and blog" href="http://colalife.org">the ColaLife idea</a> in collaboration with all the necessary local partners in Zambia.</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">We are designing the plan for the pilot now and we are confident that when it's ready (target end of May 2011), and we send it to global foundations they will back us to run the pilot. We need your donation to help us keep going until then.</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">Please dig deep and donate now.</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://colalife.org/updates">You can keep up to date with the progress of ColaLife by subscribing to our blog</a>.</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">More than 4,000 children die every day in Africa alone from preventable causes yet you can buy bottled drinks - especially Coca-Cola - virtually anywhere. It was the same 20 years ago. We must do things differently - be more innovative, dare to try a new approach - ColaLife.</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving &ndash; they&rsquo;ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they&rsquo;ll send your money directly to our fundraising partner, <a title="The CIVA website" href="http://www.civa.org.uk/">CIVA</a>, and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. CIVA are providing this service free of charge pending our own charitable registration so everything CIVA receives will come directly to ColaLife.</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">Simon</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">:: Join us on Facebook: <a title="ColaLife on Facebook" href="http://facebook.com/colalife">http://facebook.com/colalife</a></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">:: Watch us on YouTube: <a title="ColaLife on YouTube" href="http://youtube.com/colalife">http://youtube.com/colalife</a> *NEW*</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">:: Follow us on Twitter: <a title="ColaLife on YouTube" href="http://twitter.com/colalife">http://twitter.com/colalife</a></span></strong></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p>&nbsp;</p> <!--EndFragment-->

Donation summary

Total
£3,529.00
+ £66.28 Gift Aid
Online
£295.00
Offline
£3,234.00

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