Charities
Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading care and research charity for people with dementia and those who care for them. There are 700,000 people with dementia in the UK with numbers set to rise to one million by 2025. Alzheimer's Society is a membership organisation, which works to improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Many of our 25,000 members have personal experience of dementia, as carers, health professionals or people with dementia themselves, and their experiences help to inform our work. The Society's fight for a better world for people with all types of dementia takes a wide range of forms. Through our branches, we touch the lives of over 30,000 people every week, providing practical services and support for people with dementia and their carers. Every year, more than a million people make use of the information we provide. Through campaigning and lobbying we strive to influence government policies and raise awareness of the challenges faced by people with dementia and the people who care for them. And through our research programme we work to improve the knowledge we have about dementia and its treatment - and pursuing the ultimate goal of finding a cure.
The Lotus Children's Centre Charitable Trust is dedicated to providing care, accommodation support and education to orphaned, abused, and abandoned children in Mongolia. The Lotus Children's Centre was set up in 1993 by Australian Didi Kalika, who started simply by giving food and basic medical care to children living on the streeets of Ulaanbaatar. She soon realised that more was needed, and with the help of friends built a small home for the children in the ger district of Yarmag, on the outskirts of the capital. Harsh economic conditions in Mongolia resulted in more babies and children being abandoned, and the project grew. In 1997 Didi founded a kindergarten, and this was then followed by The Lotus Primary School. Since then Lotus has cared for and educated up to 150 children at any one time, in small family units each looked after by a housemother. As the children have grown up there has been an increasing emphasis on vocational training programmes to prepare them for adulthood. Lotus also runs a Guesthouse in Ulaanbaatar staffed almost exclusively by ex-Lotus children, which not only provides employment as the older children leave school, but also generates profits which contribute towards the running costs of the Centre. In 2009 Didi Kalika was awarded the Order of Australia for her services to the street children of Mongolia.
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The Mongol Rally
The Mongol Rally is a charitable rally run by The Adventurists. The whole purpose of the rally is to raise as much money as possible for charity while taking part in a genuinely difficult adventure. The greatest part of the journey is on unpaved roads in some of the remotest parts of Asia. There is no support and no backup team.
Our team Dances with Yaks are trying to raise money by donating our car and equipment for auction in Ulan Bator and sponsership through Virgin Money Giving. Our charities are the Lotus Children’s centre in Mongolia and in memory of a recently lost friend the Alzheimer's Society. Can you please sponsor us, your donations will be passed to our chosen charities as quickly as possible.
Virgin Money Giving is a not for profit organisation and will claim gift aid on a charity's behalf where the donor is eligible for this. We really appreciate all your support and thank you for any donations.
Recent donors
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David Stevenson £25.00 (+ £6.25 giftaid) 05.09.12 Making good the promise to double it if you succeeded. Well done, chap! |
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Marta £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 25.07.12 Good Luck! |
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Tiffany Thomas £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 11.07.12 Wishing you all the best :) Good luck |
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Vicki P £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 11.07.12 Good Luck David. Don't forget to bring us back some cake!! |
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Alex Chief Bean £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 06.07.12 Good Luck !!! |
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Tim £35.00 (+ £8.75 giftaid) 05.07.12 Go for it! |
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Lisa Cherry £30.00 (+ £7.50 giftaid) 05.07.12 Happy adventuring Doc! |
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Steph £15.00 (+ £3.75 giftaid) 05.07.12 It's a great thing you're doing! Good luck! No seriously, good luck, come back to us in one piece! |
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Jonny £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 05.07.12 Good luck mate!! |
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Mike Stratton £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 05.07.12 Good luck David! |
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Anonymous £20.00 03.07.12 Have a happy trip David! :) Cheers, Leandro |
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David Stevenson £25.00 (+ £6.25 giftaid) 29.06.12 Good luck, mate. |
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Wayne and Brenda £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 17.06.12 good luck |
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Jon Andersson £50.00 04.06.12 Fair winds & following seas, David! |
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Jane Vernon £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 31.05.12 Yak food fund! x |
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Jo Taylor £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 15.05.12 Good luck David, hope you'll be blogging along the way! |
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Rosie Jenkins £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 11.05.12 There was a grizzly bear who was huge and handsome, He devoured a man called David Roberton, Poor David Robertson is not aware, He might get eaten by a grizzly bear!! (A.E. Housman / R.A Jenkins)....good luck x |
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Annie Edmondson £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 08.04.12 Good luck and keep safe son. |
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Brendon £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 06.04.12 |
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Anna £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 02.04.12 Good luck! What an adventure, I'm very jealous... If Indiana Jones really is in your knitting circle you have nothing to fear. |
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Jim Ellis £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 06.03.12 Hope it all goes well David! Have fun. |
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David Robertson £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 09.10.11 To start me off. |
