The GUD Challenge
GUD has held a fundraiser every month for a year to raise money for the latest projects in Kanubeh. We set out to raise £10,000 and, following much hard work over the last year, we have smashed that target and raised over £23,000!
The GUD Challenge kicked off in October 2010 with the GUD Pub Quiz in Clapham and the events ranged from dress-down days and weekly cake sales to the GUD Dinner Party, from two GUD Pub Quizzes to a trek to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro!
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October 2011 - GUD Pub Quiz The second annual GUD Pub Quiz was another sell-out success and we raised a fantastic £2,000! |
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October 2011 - Worthing to Amsterdam George Imbert got in touch with us through the website with the idea of cycling from his hometown in Worthing all the way to Amsterdam. If you have an idea for a fundraiser, please get in touch like George did. |
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September 2011 - GB Marathons September's fundraising event was the culmination of 3 epic marathon runs by Andrew Firth, a member of the GUD Fundraising Committee. He managed the Great Manchester Run, the Great London Run and the Great Edinburgh Run! |
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August 2011 - Mt Kilimanjaro A team of GUD volunteers trekked to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro in the charity's biggest fundraiser yet! Read more about the trek. |
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July 2011 - Between The Piers GUD founders David and Janet led a group of cyclists from Bognor Regis to Brighton in the Between The Piers challenge. |
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June 2011 - Charity Lunch GUD founders David and Janet raised £1,280 by hosting a charity lunch at The Masala Gate Indian restaurant, St Pancras. Read more in the press release. |
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June 2011 - London to Amsterdam Bike Ride GUD trustee Ella and a team of volunteer cyclists travelled from London to Amsterdam by bicycle and raised £1,500! |
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May 2011 - Andrew's GB Marathons Andrew Firth has completed the Great British Run in London, the BUPA Great Manchester Run AND the BUPA Great Edinburgh Run all in aid of GUD! See the photos here. |
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April 2011 - Saint George's Church, Whyke Many thanks to Hugh Fancourt and the congregation of Saint George's Church, Whyke, Chichester for their generous donation of £969! |
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March 2011 - School Bake A cake bake fundraiser inspired by a school project on The Gambia and banana plantations raised £272. |
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February 2011 - Fitch Ratings GUD trustee Ella held a bake sale and dress-down day at Fitch Ratings. Thanks to the kind donations of everyone at Fitch, GUD managed to raise over £500! |
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January 2011 - Southern Water The Durrington and Horsham offices of Southern Water held a dress-down day for GUD. David and Janet visited the offices, talked to staff about the work of the charity and collected a very generous £523 from the staff! Thank you to everyone at Southern Water! View Southern Water's press release for this event here. |
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December 2010 - Christmas Getting into the Christmas spirit, GUD had its own stall at the Christmas fête in Chichester, West Sussex. Despite the extremely icy conditions our range of gifts, homemade cakes & cookies and handmade Christmas cards went down a treat. This event and a Christmas concert earlier in the week brought in over £100! What's more, GUD founder Janet upholstered an entire set of chairs and as thanks accepted a generous donation of £250! |
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November 2010 - GUD Dinner Party At the GUD Dinner Party, guests were treated guests to a champagne reception (OK, it was Cava!), a tasty 3-course meal (including some freshly-caught lobster from the South Coast - thank you Mr. Spencer!), plus a special cupcake for all the guests to take home. Thank you to Dan Davies who was the photographer for the evening and to everyone who came and helped us raise over £400! |
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October 2010 - The GUD Pub Quiz The GUD Pub Quiz was a resounding success with over 150 people descending on The Windmill on the Common in Clapham for a night of scrumptious food and competitive banter. Unsurprisingly, guessing the 3 unusual ingredients in each brownie pleased all, as did the modeling of the London landmark with some teams producing astonishing results from the most basic of supplies. Congratulations to "The Children of the Truth" who won a luxury champagne hamper. We raised over £,2000 for GUD so thank you everyone for your hard work and support. We look forward to seeing everyone again at the second quiz later in 2011! Thanks to… The Windmill and Mark Tulloch for agreeing to host the event and being fantastically helpful; Maithi Rajeshkumar, co-organsier, Sean Monks, compère extraordinaire; Roe Lane; Annie Couldrey; Holly Cowgill; Kelsey Spencer and Katie Lane. Our fantastic raffle and auction donors: Jon Don; Chelsea Danny; Emma Reynolds; The Windmill, Jamie's Italian, Dance Connection, Clapham Picturehouse and Roger Hooper. |
Upcoming Events
To round off a very successful year of fundraising, GUD will be hosting the second GUD Pub Quiz. If last year's sell-out evening at The Windmill, Clapham Common, is anything to go by, you definitely don't want to miss our quiz on 21 October!