And the winners are........

Friday night saw around 100 happy quiz goers turn up at Woodlands School for the Project Uganda Quiz and Chips. The evening raised over £600.00 towards the project and there was some serious competition from all the teams to be crowned quiz champions of the evening.

Ben Walton the quiz master had prepared a very challenging quiz with some of the questions causing some serious head scratching from even Alan Brady the Headmaster of Woodlands school and his team of experts!

The team names were very inventive, we had Ken Dodd's dad's dog is dead, QuizTeam Aguliera and our personal favourite The clever people plus Becky !

After several quiz rounds and a break for fish and chips, the results were counted and the overall winners were the Beaver Warrior Supremo's, in second place Hal's Hero's and in third Ken Dodd's Dad's dog is dead.

The winners took away the star prize of a luxury hamper, however no team went home empty handed as the Project Uganda team provided a great range of booby prizes including a Denture Bath, a ladies shaving kit, themal socks, toe nail clippers a door mat, dish cloths etc.

Project Uganda would like to say a big thanks to all who took part and a very special thank you to Ben our quiz master.

Too see more pcitures from the quiz evening please click on the "2009 Project Pictures"

Project Uganda Presents a Quiz and Chips evening

Do you like the challenge of a quiz and are you partial to a portion of Fish & Chips. Then have we got and evening for you and your friends.

The Project Uganda Quiz and Chips night is on the 19th June at Woodlands school, Allestree.

Proceedings start at 7pm

Tickets are £5 for Adults and £3 for 10 and under, the ticket price includes Fish & Chips.

If you get thirsty we have a bar serving all manner of liquid refreshment.

Tickets are available from both Woodlands and Ecclesbourne schools or by emailing steve@projectuganda.co.uk

All proceeds will go to Project Uganda.

Here is a taster question to whet your quiz appetite

Question: How long is Three Mile Island ?

Answer: Two and a Half miles !!!

William Hague meets Project Uganda Students

Some of the Project Uganda students met the Rt Hon William Hague, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, at the Strutt Arms in Milford and were able to tell him about the Project Uganda trip.

He was so impressed by the students that he donated some money towards the trip and wished everyone a good time.

He said that it was good for students to experience a trip like this to see how other countries faced different problems from those faced by young people in this country.

Belper News was also there and their photographer took photos of the students with William so we are looking forward to reading about it in the next edition.

Belper based TBS Enterprise Mobility donate £1,000.00

Belper based company, TBS Enterprise Mobility, today handed over a cheque for £1,000.00 to Project Uganda.

Jon Poynton, Commercial Director said “Having spoken to the students about the project we were so impressed we decided to donate £1,000.00. This project is very special because ultimately there are two goals, the first being to completely renovate a secondary school in Uganda to ensure these students have a chance of a life without poverty and secondly the students at both schools will develop new communication skills through their fund raising activities and gain first-hand experience and understanding of a country in poverty, which I am sure will be a life changing event for them. It’s a pleasure to help such a worthy cause.”

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Project Uganda fund raising round up

Over the last few weekends the Project Uganda team has been busy making cakes and selling them to the congregations at Woodlands Evangelical Church, Café Church St John Allestree and Little Eaton United Reform Church. The generosity of these kind people has been overwhelming and has added £500.00 to the fund raising total.

For those of you who are not aware, our target is £15,000.00 and we are pleased to confirm that currently we have raised £8,135.27.

We still need everyone’s support and donations to reach our fund raising goal.

The Project Uganda team would like to extend a great big thank you to everyone that has supported our cause to date.

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