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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #151515; font-size: 14pt;">The Stephen Cropper Tohoku Educational Fund has been established in memory of my late husband, Stephen, to help the people of the region rebuild their lives.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #151515; font-size: 14pt;">Stephen had great affection for Japan, its people and its culture, having built up business relationships there from the early 1980s until his untimely death on 4 April 2008.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #151515; font-size: 14pt;">I have set up the fund with support from Hill Dickinson, with the aim of sponsoring educational projects for children, often through sport and play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These projects will not only improve the emotional health of the children, but will also assist in bringing together evacuee families and help in the re-building of communities.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #888888;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">More information about the Fund can be found here <a href="http://www.hilldickinson.com/japanese_tsunami_relief.aspx">http://www.hilldickinson.com/japanese_tsunami_relief.aspx</a> </span></em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #888888;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Japanese Tsunami Relief Fund In Memory of Stephen Cropper is administered by the Community Foundation for Merseyside, registered charity number 1068887</span></em></span></p>
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