Thursday 3rd June 2010 June promises to be an exciting month with tours coming in from Ngecho, Kenya and Pienaarsrivier, South Africa. touraid staff are looking forward to visiting the schools to offer their support and meet the children. The ISBA Bursars conference in May generated huge interest from the attending school representatives and the follow up to date has been very encouraging. We would like to thank the General Secretary Jonathan Cook for all his support and wish him well in his retirement. Plans are being finalised for the Caldy Rugby Festival and a brief trip to the Wirral confirmed that all host schools are busy fundraising to enable this amazing event to take place. Please see our new shop page on the website with fantastic 'touraid' branded Raging Bull merchandise. We'd also like to say thank you to our 3 cyclists who will be raising funds for touraid in the London to Brighton bike ride, and for the continuing efforts of Dan who is still rowing his way to the million meters award. Pienaarsrivier South Africa and West Kirby Residential School WKRS have been supporting Pienaarsrivier Primary school for a number of years and are delighted to be able to make the relationship more tangible for their wider community by bringing a group over to the UK this month. The purpose of the tour is to give pupils from both schools the opportunity to build on relationships formed prior to and during WKRS's visit to South Africa as well as enhancing understanding and empathy of other cultures. Pupils will work together during timetabled lessons as well as joining them on various tourist destinations which will include Liverpool, Wales and London. May update Flights have been booked and visas are in progress. WKRS have been busy fundraising details of which are in the attached newsletter. Click here for WKRS Newsletter Tlamelo Project, Botswana Harlequins and England U20's star Seb Stegman visited the Tlamelo Project in May where he spent two weeks coaching rugby with the children. The Tlamelo Project supports and feeds 180 orphans who would otherwise be living on the streets. In May 2008 touraid bought over 18 boys from the project who were hosted by Bishops Stortford School. This September Kingsmead School are hosting the second tour from the project who will be taking part in the Caldy Festival. Click here to read more and view photos from Seb Stegman's visit Ngecho School arriving Sunday June 13th On June 13th, 10 pupils and 2 teaching staff from Ngecho Secondary School in Kenya will arrive in Oundle for the first of what they hope will be many reciprocal visits. Working with touraid, Oundle has laid on a large range of experiences for their week with them, much of it utilising the School's facilities, but also focussing on areas where Oundle can learn as much from Ngecho as vice versa, and where ideas raised and skills learnt in the UK can be taken back to Kenya. The Ngecho group will spend days in Oundle's Art School, Scitech and the Patrick Centre, the Stahl Theatre, and finally a sports day, including a session with touraid's visiting ambassador, Serge Betsen and Erick Situma of the Kenyan RFU, who is also accompanying the trip. Click here for photos from Ngecho School touraid merchandise now available! touraid have joined forces with Raging Bull to produce leisure wear available in all sizes and rock bottom prices. Merchandise can be bought online providing a convenient service for our host schools and their families. Visit our shop page on the website for more details or click here to see touraid kit. Middlesex 7's Saturday 14th August The Middlesex Sevens is one of the best sporting party's around! This year the organisers of the sevens have opened the ticket sales so that charities can gain a "cash back" from each ticket sold using their unique code. This is a great opportunity for touraid to gain £10 for each ticket sold!!!!! Tickets are only £20 which includes free entry for 2 kids for a FULL days entertainment and as said touraid will benefit from 50% of it!!! Follow this link to buy tickets and support touraid The Twickenham Community 24 Hour Coming up this weekend 5th & 6th June 2010. the Cabbage Patch are looking for a minimum of 24 teams of 8 people to take part in this 24 hour relay run. All proceeds will be donated to touraid There are still a few slots which need to be filled so if you'd like to run with team touraid or your company or family and friends. Please click here for more details Click here for Team Sheet Click here for sponsorship forms To enter a team please phone Frank or Stuart on 0208 8923874 or email cabbagepatch@dsl.pipex.com. The Cabbage Patch, 67 London Road, Twickenham, TW1 3SZ touraid is a UK registered company by Guarantee UK Reg. Charity No 1116664 office@touraid.org www.touraid.org 01932 863388 07980 042358 This e-mail was sent by touraid. If you cannot see this e-mail correctly, please click here. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here.