22nd June
Arranged sponsored walk today with many young people promised to attend with Mayor setting them off at 2pm from arboretum expension. Food and drinks provided free and hoepfully weather will stay dryish!.
joining in to run the mayor's fundraising this year which will include raising money for the two hospices St Giles and Acorn has got off to a very good start with about £14K raised in 2 months.
The containers have arrrived successfully in Gurjurat Pakistan and the container to Jamaica is now on the high seas due to arrive late June.
The cost of sending each container to Karachi was £2750 with the cost of moving containers from port to Gurjurat borne by Decent welfare charity in Pakistan
The cost of delivering container to Deeside in Jamaica from walsall is £5400 as this includes moving from Montego Bay to Deesdie in Jamaica.
Moses Whyte is in Jamaica ready to guide container and paperwork.
The joint fund raising efforts will continue this month with bucket collections around Twon Centre walslal where a volunteer is cleaning Sister Doar statue with a toothbrush on Friday 28th June and a fund raising dinner on Sunday 30th June. we hope these efforts by combining resources of St Giles Hospice, Acorn Hospice, MIAT, Oak Tree Trust and the Mayor's office will raise over the year £60K for the local Hospice movement and further overseas work in Pakistan and for relief in other areas of extreme poverty.
Ian Robertson
