Another day...another run...

One last run for Selvin before we head off to Guatemala! 

Selvin's Volcano Challenge Guatemala 2012

In just over two weeks time, Vicki and Stu will be taking on the challenge of trekking over two volcanoes in 48 hours.

Acatenango stands at 3,976 meters (13,040 ft) tall, while Fuego stands at 3,763 m (12,346 ft). We will be battling altitude and both volcanoes are active, with the latter issuing smoke daily. 

Following your amazing support over the past year we are able to provide over 300 text books, a computer and a printer to local schools in Guatemala. Every penny makes a huge difference, and this is the difference you have helped us to make this year.

To help us make a difference next year, We are asking our supporters to donate £1 for our volcano challenge.

You can donate via our website using the paypal option.

http://selvin.org.uk/

As always thank you for your support!

We are Selvin

What a difference a year makes!


We have agreed that we will donate a total of £1200 to two local schools in Guatemala, which will be used to build libraries of books for both current and future generations of children to benefit from. Today we heard that this money should provide in the region of 150 books for each school, which is beyond amazing!


We have also decided that we will purchase a computer and printer to be placed in one of the schools for teachers to prepare and plan their lessons, a vital resource which we know will be put to great use. 


Stu and I very much look forward to traveling to Guatemala next month to deliver these school materials in person, and we will also be taking on the following challenge...

Roll on July!

The Edinburgh Marathon Festival

A slightly belated but hugely deserved WELL DONE and THANK YOU to our amazing friends, Stew and Sarah, who ran 40 miles for Selvin and raised over £380 in the process. 

This will make such a huge difference in Central America, helping some of the world's poorest children get an education.

Good luck!!

Just a quick note to say a huge good luck to Stew and Sarah who are running 40 miles for Selvin this weekend. 


Big thank you guys, your hard work is hugely appreciated!


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40 Miles for Selvin

Our amazing friends Stew and Sarah are running an incredible 40 miles for Selvin on Sunday 27th May when they take part in the Edinburgh Marathon and the Edinburgh Half Marathon.

We want to say a huge thank you to both for all of the time and hard work they have put into training and fundraising, and wish them lots of luck for the run itself, we know they will be fab!

You can make a huge difference and support them by donating via the Paypal link here.

An update from Selvin HQ

A warm hello to all of our friends in our first newsletter of 2012!

2012 is very much a year of firsts and milestones for the Selvin and Friends Foundation and we are thrilled that we are able to share them with you.

Selvin turns 1!

March saw us reach a pretty big milestone when we celebrated our first birthday! When we look back at our first year, from the hundreds of miles we have run, to not only reaching our £1000 fundraising target, but nearly tripling it, we are hugely proud of what we have been able to achieve.

More importantly, we couldn’t have done any of this without the support for our friends and family so a huge THANK YOU from us to you. 

Selvin’s Super Sunday

We marked our first birthday by holding two fundraising events on Sunday 25^th March, aptly titled ‘Selvin’s Super Sunday.’

Vicki headed to Lisbon to take part in the Half Marathon along with 29,999 other runners. As you can imagine, it was a bit of a free for all trying to get over the start line! Scorching hot weather and injuries made the run a little more difficult than the cold and drizzly weather we usually have here in England but Vicki managed to complete the run and made a photo diary of the event which can be seen on our blog at www.selvin.org.uk.

We were hugely honored to have five amazing girls take part in our first Selvin Swimathon at Flitwick Leisure centre. The girls set themselves the challenge of completing as many lengths as possible in an hour and completed a staggering 109 lengths. What an incredible achievement! A wonderful crowd of family and friends, who also held a cake sale to raise funds for Selvin, cheered the girls on.

Huge thanks to Aimee Titheradge, Anya Corvesor, Emma Larner, Kathleen Renwick and Molly Gough whose amazing efforts raised £450! Also a huge thank you to Ali and Pat Conway for all of their hard work and determination in making this event happen, it really is beyond appreciated!

From Schools, For Schools!

At the end of last year we decided that 2012 would be the year we launched our ‘From Schools, For Schools’ campaign where we hoped to attract schools in the UK to support and raise money for their peers in Central America.

After the many hours Stu spent making a video presentation for the schools, we were delighted to hear that Parkfields Middle School were prepared to support us by naming us as their charity for the January – April term (we must say a huge thank you at this point to Parkfields teacher Claire MacGregor, our contact at the school and Stu’s in-law!).

Over the 14 weeks that Selvin was supported at Parkfields the pupils found new and exciting ways to raise funds, alongside some tried and tested methods of fundraising. Backed by a supporting faculty, the pupils demonstrated their enthusiasm for our project in astronomical measures.

A taster of the events that have taken place at the school include; non uniform days, pancake sales, cake sales, sponsored music events, sponsored silence events (with pupils only interacting via a whiteboard all day) and movie evenings.

During a movie evening, one of the final events that took place last term, Stu took great pride in passing on our thanks to over 90 pupils from years 5 and 6 who had made, not just that event, but the whole campaign a big success.

In fact, the pupils of Parkfields demonstrated such amazing dedication to Selvin’s cause; the swimathon was actually completed by pupils from Parkfields! It was fantastic to know that they were not only keen to support us during school time but were prepared to go that extra mile and support us in their own time.

As a result of the hard work put in by everyone at Parkfields, they have raised an amazing £1641!

We really are delighted by Parkfields extraordinary efforts and everybody, from the staff to every single pupil, can be extremely proud of their achievements.

Dates for Your Selvin Diary

1. 21^st – 31^st July – Guatemala Visit

The flights have been booked! We are officially heading to Guatemala in July to deliver much needed school equipment.

During our time in Central America we will be spending a day at each of the schools in San Andrés Itzapa and Santa María de Jesús delivering the school equipment that they have told us they need the most. We will also spend two days taking on a 48-hour fundraising trek, climbing over two active volcanoes! We will be taking a huge number of photo’s to share our experience with you and hope to have a photo and video gallery up on the website later this year showing you the real difference your donations can make.

We feel it is important to say that every part of our trip, from flights and accommodation to the day-to-day costs have been paid for personally.100% of our funds are used to buy school materials only.

2. 26^th – 27^th July – Volcano Challenge

Stu and Vicki, along with some friends of Selvin, will attempt to climb two of the volcanoes that surround the town of Antigua, which are closely located to the two schools we will be visiting.

3. 22^nd September - The London Triathlon

Vicki will be taking on another challenge as she attempts to run, cycle and swim her way to the finish line.

Don’t stop me now!

We want to say one more huge thank you to all of our friends and family who have so generously supported us. We have currently raised a whopping £4964.05, which will make such a massive difference to the schools we are supporting.

And Finally...

You can keep up to date with Selvin news by visiting the website www.selvin.org.uk, by following us on Twitter (@selvin_charity) or by liking our Facebook page.

Gracias amigos de Selvin

Vicki and Stu 
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