Holiday Prize offered for £1,000 Challenge
Would you like to visit one of the most beautiful countries in the world and see first hand the impact that fair trade has on craft producers and farmers?
By entering our £1,000 Challenge you will automatically be entered into a prize draw to win a Meet the People fair trade holiday to Peru, Kenya or Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Meet the People Tours are offered to Shared Interest and Traidcraft supporters as an opportunity to meet fair trade producers while enjoying a unique and authentic insight into a country’s people and culture.
As many of you already know Shared Interest Foundation does some amazing work to help people in the developing world work their way out of poverty. Whether it’s giving a small grant to pay for an organisation to attend a trade fair or running an intensive three-year training course, our work changes people’s lives.
We would love to help more craft makers and farmers achieve their true potential, however this can only be achieved with your help and this is where the £1,000 challenge comes in.
We are looking for 100 people to commit to raising £1,000 within one year. Now this may seem daunting at first, however with our help – in fundraising ideas, sponsor forms and marketing advice – and support from your family and friends it is achievable. You can help thousands of individuals to improve their livelihoods and you could win a holiday of a lifetime.
I have signed up for this challenge myself (although I will not be entered into the holiday prize draw for obvious reasons!) and will be recording my progress monthly to share ideas, challenges and hopefully successes stories. I’m being sponsored to swim the length of the English Channel in four weeks. I will swim 22 miles which equates to 35,405 metres, which is a whopping 1,416 lengths of a 25m pool. I have set up a justgiving page and only a week into the challenge I have over £250!
If you’re not one for swimming, then why not try holding a coffee morning or a sponsored silence or selling homemade cards? Whatever you do you’ll be helping disadvantaged craft makers and farmers work their way out of poverty.
If you would like to sign up to the £1,000 Challenge you can download our £1000 challenge pledge form by clicking here, or for more information please send me an email.
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[...] If you would like to meet some of Shared Interest producers the Shared Interest Foundation will soon be launching producer tours to both Kenya and Costa Rica, in conjunction with Traidcraft and SaddleSkedaddle. If you would be interested in joining one of these tours please email Andrea. To be in with a chance of winning a place on one of these tours why not enter the Foundation’s £1000 challenge? [...]