The 300 Mile Bike Ride

On the 1st April 2011 myself (Roy Middup) and another member of Project Uganda, Saskia Hook, will be challenging ourselves on a 300 mile bike ride to the Ugandan High Commission in London. The ride will take place over three days and on the middle day we will have a photo opportunity with Pauline Latham, our local MP and leader of Project Uganda outside the Ugandan High Commission. As well as raising awareness of our charity in the local press, we are raising money for Project Uganda by sponsorship. The ride will challenge us in endurance and map reading, let alone avoiding the London traffic! We will be updating the blog each night hopefully so lookout for our updates! At present we have over £1000 sponsorship from family, friends, teachers and local companies namely Rolls-Royce, Actu’elle, and Smartmove. We are very grateful to all the people who have sponsored us but we are always striving for more so please sponsor us if you can, cheques or cash (we recommend a cheque) can be sent to:
Roy Middup,
29 Highfield Road,
Little Eaton,
Derby
DE21 5AG
(Please make cheques payable to "Project Uganda" and mark on the bake "Bike Ride".)

Project Uganda 2011

Project Uganda is now up and running and we are all very enthusiastic to get the project started again . This year six year ten pupils have been recently selected by their peers to travel to Uganda next summer in 2011. The three new pupils from Ecclesbourne School are Saskia Hook, Roy Middup, Robin Spurr and teacher Rachel Tordoff . The three new students from Woodlands School are Matt Powell, Dani Clamp and Phil Campbell. Each student was selected by their peers after presenting a speech on why they wanted to be chosen.

Over this period of time we will be doing various fund-raising events in order to raise as much money as possible. The money raised will go directly to Mirembe and Kiringo Secondary Schools in Uganda. Previously we raised enough money to buy school equipment such as pens, paper, textbooks, science equipment and science chemicals; all of which are vital in order for the school to function properly. We also bought enough building materials to build an examination hall for Mirembe School and three classrooms, a store room and a staff room for Kiringo School. In addition to this we were able to fund a sustainable farming project to aid the surrounding communities.

We cannot do all of this on our own and the Project Uganda team and the students in Mirembe and Chiringo School will be very grateful if you are able to donate some money to the project or participate in any fund-raising events in the future. We need your help!

Project Uganda take £12,500 to help schools!

On the 10th July 2009 the Project Uganda Team - Pauline Latham, Simon Hollingsworth, James Raynor, Ciara Nation, Amy Wicks, Fran Walker, Oli Watson, Shelley Reynolds, Becky Jepson and James Whelan - set out for Uganda at 2.30am Friday morning!

With them were the proceeds of seven months of fund raising, a staggering £12,500! The figure exceeded all expectations and is thanks to the tremendous generosity of family, friends and the people of Duffield, Allestree, Little Eaton and Derby city who supported the cake stalls and bag packing. The figure also included larger donations of cash and funds rasied from the many prizes from businesses across the country. It has been an amazing few months, culminating in this fantastic achievement.

The funds were split as follows:

£1000 to Dr Bayigga Michael P Lulume (long-time supporter of Mirembe school) for a mobile clinic
£2000 to Mirembe Secondary School (previously visited in 2007)
£9500 to Kiringo Secondary School

The largest amount was given to Kiringo as they have so little to work with. Now they have the funds to build brick class rooms and some of the buiding materials needed were purchased by the Team whilst in Uganda.

Each Project Uganda member will be writing their own accounts of the trip and these will be posted as soon as possible.

Photographs of the people, the villages, the schools and the ever present poverty have been added to the web site. Please have a look for yourself at what the team witnessed in Uganda.

Project Uganda Rocks ........

On Friday 26th June Project Uganda held its "Uganda Rocks" gig at Woodlands School at which the enthusiastic audience were entertained by five quality bands.

The evening was kick started in style by Bless'd Flap Doodle and the Hoope getting the audience on their feet and dancing.

Next on were The Stoats who kept the momentum going, their set included a memorable version of the Darkness "I believe in a thing called love". Libby and James followed their act included a soulful rendition of U2's "With or Without You".

Next on was Switzerland - Alien Ant Farm watch out these guys are good ! Last on was recently formed The Output who rocked our socks off with many popular covers, culminating with "All the small things" by Blink 182 ,the mosh pit was heaving to popular number.


The evening was co-ordinated and compared most excellently by MC Becca aka Becca Jepson and a total of £300.00 was raised for Project Uganda.









The Project Uganda would like to send out a huge thank you to to all the bands that took part and to Woodlands school for providing the venue.

More winners with Project Uganda

Today at Ecclesbourne school Mrs Lesley Underhill the Headteacher, picked out the winners of the Project Uganda Grand Prize Draw.

The prizes were donated by the following generous people and businesses Orchid IT, Mr and Mrs Jepson, Buy Mobile Phones, Russell Electrical Services, DATZ, Sassy, ALK Technologies and Sally Montague.

The Project Uganda team has been selling raffle tickets over the last 6 weeks and we have raised a staggering £1,300.00!

.......and the winners are.....

• J Paget - Netbook Computer
• Dean Walker - Signed Derby County Shirt
• Sarah Brown - Mountain Bike
• Pat Garner - Owl Wireless Energy Monitor
• Craig Cooper - Nokia Mobile Phone
• R Nathen - 3 Network Wireless Broadband USB Modem
• Tracy Wright Sassy £150 gift Token
• Simon Jenson - Sat Nav Software for Mobile Phone
• Simon Young - Sally Montague Cut & Finish

Project Uganda would like to say "a big thank you to all that bought tickets"