YES 08 Starbucks Presentation

After working a long day at Starbucks stores around the county, we all gathered at Starbucks in Wisley in the evening for a presentation. We had been raising awareness and funds at many local Starbucks, selling raffle tickets etc. Starbucks are a big corporate sponsor for us and will be holding events throughout the months to help us raise money for the forthcoming expedition.

The evening was very eventful, emotional and enjoyable. Many people were invitied including the MD of Starbucks for the UK. After about an hour of socialising and enjoying the free coffee we started the presentation. Susan who organised the whole thing, (who wanted no claim to fame for it all) started the evening off. She was the main person on the mic introducing people etc. In turn many people came and spoke about the expedition, including myself. Many tears were shed as memories were recalled by individuals about losing family members. An powerful emotional video including myself was also played. John came up to talk about how the expedition was moving for him and a step forward for the company Txi. He then told us that our expedition would not be televised as companys could not quite grasp it. So the footage he got will be used for a pitch for the next expedition hoping to be televised.

The night ended up with Anne telling us all to take a balloon, write messages on a tag tied to it about a loved one and then let it go outside with three adults. This was a very simple but powerful event. We all then said our goodbyes and departed a great evening.

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Youth Expedition Sinai 08 Training Weekend #1

What a great weekend! Long and tiring but a good laugh all round. I managed to take 500 shots over the weekend as well!
We started off at Newlands corner, Guildford where we were filmed for the documentary for about 30 mins, we then spent about four hours hiking to Bentley Copse camp site. We then spent the weekend orienteering around the local area and really getting to know each other well. We all had a good laugh along the way. We then spent the night at the camp site. The next day we learned a few survival skills, which included me pretending to be lost and have heat stroke and dehydration! We then hiked back the next day for a few hours, and thorougly enjoyed ourselves!

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Woking Hospice Donation - 7/05/2008

To start just a quick apology for the late post on this!
Last Wednesday I went to Woking Hospice to present a donation to Chris Flemington MD of Woking and Sam Beare Hospices. The money had been raised by selling cards locally through the Church and friends and family. Five different cards were made up of different pictures I had taken during my time in the Sinai desert in the summer (07). The cards were all sold together in a pack of five. There was a total of 600 cards produced making 125 packs of cards in total. The cards sold well and together with a combined parish donation we raised £1500 for the Hospice. The donation for the cards was chosen for the hospice as the 07 trek was in aid of the Bereavement services at the Woking and Sam Beare Hospices.

I presented the cheque to Chris Flemington MD and the CEO of all the hospices in Surrey. I explained what I had done and how it was linked with the hospice. Chris asked me if I would like the money to go towards a new art class at the Woking Hospice for the patients, as it was already at Sam Beare and would be great to be at Woking too. I thought it was a great idea and because photography is a form of art thought it was perfect!

An couple of examples of the cards I sold. (above)

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