Tuesday, February 19, 2013

We are now a registered Charity!


Hello again,

Derek and I have been away for a while visiting family in Australia, and when we arrived home we were delighted to find that our registration with HMRC had arrived.  This means that 'Smiles to Tanzania' is now a fully registered charity in the U.K.

Our son in Australia has offered to set up a website for the charity and we hope to bring you news of this at a later date.

Thank you to everyone who has helped us financially so far.  Since we have returned home we have received a donation from Northstead Methodist Church Ladies Circle in Scarborough, for which we are very grateful.

Another lovely surprise awaited our return when we were invited to the village of Wold Newton in North Yorkshire where friends had organized a Quiz evening in their village pub called The Anvil Arms.  Everyone enjoyed a fun night and a total of £145.10 was raised and donated to the charity.  Our thanks go to John and Liz Butler for arranging the quiz, and to Sheila Baker who runs The Anvil Arms for hosting the evening.



Above are Liz, Diane and Denise who are helping count the proceeds.

John and Derek with Sheila, the Landlady of The Anvil Arms.


Until the next time,

Best wishes,

Diane, Derek and the team.

4 comments:

  1. Hello,

    Once, I saw one albino child, I got so interested and did a little research about them.. I watched documentaries, read articles, watched youtube videos to gain my knowledge.

    I am a graphic designer student and I would like to do poster about albinism..I am looking for information, photos, stories that I can use in my diploma. I would like to help them, do something for them and maybe my posters could help your charity..

    I would like to know how to get to Ukerewe Island? Is Mwanza the nearest airport. I dont really have money to fly there and see, but my professor told me that he is not sure if I should do that because I am so far away from this problem, that I wasnt there and I dont know how it is there, but I hope I will convince him.
    I read your blog and I see that you are helping and you are there , so if you could help me.. I would really appreciate. Diana diianciia@yahoo.com

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    1. We tried replying to you but your email bounced back. Please email us at: smilestotanzania[at]gmail.com (replace [at] with @)

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  2. Thank you for your respond. I wrote another email :)
    Diana

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  3. Its a good news and Giving charity is always good because not only the needy people get our help but we also feel good and get benefits in tax deduction.

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