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WOMAD Dance-a-thon

Joyce Kallevik is raising money for Wish
“Joyce Kallevik's fundraising”

on 5 July 2011

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Wish, founded in 1987, is a registered national charity whose mission is to provide long-term, gender-sensitive support and services to women with mental health needs in their journey through the criminal justice and mental health systems and into the community, and to support women to have their voices heard at a policy level.

Story

<p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><strong>WOMAD Dance-a-thon: 1,000 hours for a &pound;1,000!</strong></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><strong>WE DID IT!!&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><strong>71 people dancing 1030 hours to raise money for Wish. The original crew, friends and friends of friends, and unsuspecting Womaders recruited&nbsp;as they danced&nbsp;who gave up their hours to Wish.</strong></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><strong>WATCH THE VIDEO</strong></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><strong>Headlines:</strong></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><strong>Top hours: </strong>Merle at 35,&nbsp;Joyce - a close second at 28 &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; </span></span></span><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><strong>Special mention:&nbsp;</strong>Tanishi &amp; Mia can&nbsp;these&nbsp;babes&nbsp;dance!&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <strong>C</strong></span></span></span><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><strong>onclusion: </strong>At festivals most people seem to like to lounge around listening to music, nodding their heads, tapping their feet, letting their hips sway, but not the Wish crew (well most of them anyway!) &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <strong>Next year: We promise more people, more&nbsp;dancing hours, more donations.</strong></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><strong>Thanks everyone for their support&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Original&nbsp;Story</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #800080;"></span><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span>Everyone likes a boogie &ndash; but could you get on down for ONE THOUSAND HOURS STRAIGHT? That&rsquo;s exactly what the Kallevik Crew are going to do at the WOMAD Music Festival over 3 days on the 29<sup>th</sup> &ndash; 31<sup>st</sup> July 2011. Joyce and her motley gang of guys and gals want to raise &pound;1,000 for the women&rsquo;s mental health charity Wish. Working in prisons, psychiatric hospitals and the community, Wish is a lifeline for one of society&rsquo;s most vulnerable and forgotten groups of people. This is a great opportunity for YOU to make a difference to hundreds of women - and&nbsp;have a good laugh seeing the Dance-A-Thon video evidence at the same time!&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br />All pledges over &pound;50 buy you a request for specific dance moves!! So if you want to see Joyce, Merle and LIn break-dance; Tanisha and Mia break out the Beyonce bounce;&nbsp;Jo, Rachel, Jen, Ellie and Tess&nbsp;perform to some old-school rave moves; Eva, Imogen and Sarah Moshing; or Helen pirouette like Margot Fonteyn - get GIVING!</span></span></span> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #800080;"> <p> <p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Bopping and jiving, bumping and grinding, cha-cha or Cossack, ballet or ballroom&hellip;as long as the body keeps moving, it counts as dancing!</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #000000;">From&nbsp;the Dance-A-Thon Kallevik Crew :<em> Joyce, Joanne, Helen, Merle, Jen, Tanisha, Lin, Sarah, Imogen, Ellie, Rachel, Mia, Tess, Eva and </em></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Paul, James, Ruari, Dara, Marcello, Jonah and </span></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Still recruiting!</span></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> </p> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p> <p>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 the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</p> <p>So please dig deep and donate now.</p> </p>

Donation summary

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£430.00
+ £63.75 Gift Aid
Online
£305.00
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£125.00

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